Son of Sidney & Elza (Nash) Barber
1850 MI Census Hillsdale Co
Sidney Barber 52 b CT
Caroline F Barber 26
Wesley A Barber 8
Sidney Barber 6
George M Barber 5
Franklin Barber 2
1860 MI Census Hillsdale Co Scipio
Benj F Stookey 43
Electa S Stookey 42
Clementine J Stookey 13
John C Estes 70
Sidney Barber 15
3 April 1865 in the Cleveland Ohio Daily Leader.
"ATTEMPTED SUICIDE - Another Union prisoner [ex-POW], Henry Barber, Co. F, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, arrived at the [Cleveland Ohio] Soldiers' Home on Saturday night, going home on furlough in charge of a soldier of the 24th Michigan. Barber had been, at the time of his exchange, a prisoner at Salisbury for seven months, where the exposure, systematic starvation and cruelty wrought their full effect on his constitution, producing, among other fruits, a state of semi-idiotcy.
He is considerably wasted and shrunken in flesh and muscle, but his mind seems to have borne the brunt of the imprisonment, and has been the severest sufferer.
In his wandering moments he talks of his own insanity, and says that his parents and friends would not wish to see him, and will give him at best a cold reception. In one of these fits of depression, yesterday morning, he started out of the Home, went to its northern end, and jumped into the water, at a place where the plank of the pier had been broken. The water was only about three feet deep there, but he would in all probability have been speedily drowned, had not his comrade, who saw him from a short distance throw himself in, rushed to his rescue. He gave the alarm, and sprang into the water, and supported the [former] prisoner until a rope was brought and adjusted, when the poor fellow was lifted out. He made no physical resistance to his rescuers, because he was too weak to offer it, but he lustily protested against their inhumanity in not letting him die peaceably.
He was put to bed, and the doctor on seeing him yesterday afternoon, thought it best for him to start for his home this morning."
1870 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Living at the asylum
Sidney Barber 26
1880 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Raney S Sagre Other M 28 New York
Henry Smith Other M 53 New York
David O Turrell Other M 77 Connecticut
Ransom W Wren Other M 29 Michigan
Amos P Ellis Other M 38 Vermont
Appolis Austin Other M 41 New York
William Aiken Other M 46 New York
George W Brown Other M 38 Ohio
Joseph Butcher Other M 39 Michigan
Demeter Buck Other M 33 Michigan
George Briscoe Other M 17 New York
Thomas Clark Other M 23 New York
Asa Day Other M 68 Massachusetts
Robert Y Groat Other M 56 New York
Alfred Eastman Other M 35 Michigan
Daniel P Shay Other M 51 Ireland
*Sydney Barber Other M 36 Michigan
Walter Sutcliff Other M 26 Michigan
James Goodrich Other M 31 Michigan
John Blackwood Other M 40 Michigan
*occupation soldier
1850 MI Census Hillsdale Co
Sidney Barber 52 b CT
Caroline F Barber 26
Wesley A Barber 8
Sidney Barber 6
George M Barber 5
Franklin Barber 2
1860 MI Census Hillsdale Co Scipio
Benj F Stookey 43
Electa S Stookey 42
Clementine J Stookey 13
John C Estes 70
Sidney Barber 15
3 April 1865 in the Cleveland Ohio Daily Leader.
"ATTEMPTED SUICIDE - Another Union prisoner [ex-POW], Henry Barber, Co. F, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, arrived at the [Cleveland Ohio] Soldiers' Home on Saturday night, going home on furlough in charge of a soldier of the 24th Michigan. Barber had been, at the time of his exchange, a prisoner at Salisbury for seven months, where the exposure, systematic starvation and cruelty wrought their full effect on his constitution, producing, among other fruits, a state of semi-idiotcy.
He is considerably wasted and shrunken in flesh and muscle, but his mind seems to have borne the brunt of the imprisonment, and has been the severest sufferer.
In his wandering moments he talks of his own insanity, and says that his parents and friends would not wish to see him, and will give him at best a cold reception. In one of these fits of depression, yesterday morning, he started out of the Home, went to its northern end, and jumped into the water, at a place where the plank of the pier had been broken. The water was only about three feet deep there, but he would in all probability have been speedily drowned, had not his comrade, who saw him from a short distance throw himself in, rushed to his rescue. He gave the alarm, and sprang into the water, and supported the [former] prisoner until a rope was brought and adjusted, when the poor fellow was lifted out. He made no physical resistance to his rescuers, because he was too weak to offer it, but he lustily protested against their inhumanity in not letting him die peaceably.
He was put to bed, and the doctor on seeing him yesterday afternoon, thought it best for him to start for his home this morning."
1870 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Living at the asylum
Sidney Barber 26
1880 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Raney S Sagre Other M 28 New York
Henry Smith Other M 53 New York
David O Turrell Other M 77 Connecticut
Ransom W Wren Other M 29 Michigan
Amos P Ellis Other M 38 Vermont
Appolis Austin Other M 41 New York
William Aiken Other M 46 New York
George W Brown Other M 38 Ohio
Joseph Butcher Other M 39 Michigan
Demeter Buck Other M 33 Michigan
George Briscoe Other M 17 New York
Thomas Clark Other M 23 New York
Asa Day Other M 68 Massachusetts
Robert Y Groat Other M 56 New York
Alfred Eastman Other M 35 Michigan
Daniel P Shay Other M 51 Ireland
*Sydney Barber Other M 36 Michigan
Walter Sutcliff Other M 26 Michigan
James Goodrich Other M 31 Michigan
John Blackwood Other M 40 Michigan
*occupation soldier
Son of Sidney & Elza (Nash) Barber
1850 MI Census Hillsdale Co
Sidney Barber 52 b CT
Caroline F Barber 26
Wesley A Barber 8
Sidney Barber 6
George M Barber 5
Franklin Barber 2
1860 MI Census Hillsdale Co Scipio
Benj F Stookey 43
Electa S Stookey 42
Clementine J Stookey 13
John C Estes 70
Sidney Barber 15
3 April 1865 in the Cleveland Ohio Daily Leader.
"ATTEMPTED SUICIDE - Another Union prisoner [ex-POW], Henry Barber, Co. F, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, arrived at the [Cleveland Ohio] Soldiers' Home on Saturday night, going home on furlough in charge of a soldier of the 24th Michigan. Barber had been, at the time of his exchange, a prisoner at Salisbury for seven months, where the exposure, systematic starvation and cruelty wrought their full effect on his constitution, producing, among other fruits, a state of semi-idiotcy.
He is considerably wasted and shrunken in flesh and muscle, but his mind seems to have borne the brunt of the imprisonment, and has been the severest sufferer.
In his wandering moments he talks of his own insanity, and says that his parents and friends would not wish to see him, and will give him at best a cold reception. In one of these fits of depression, yesterday morning, he started out of the Home, went to its northern end, and jumped into the water, at a place where the plank of the pier had been broken. The water was only about three feet deep there, but he would in all probability have been speedily drowned, had not his comrade, who saw him from a short distance throw himself in, rushed to his rescue. He gave the alarm, and sprang into the water, and supported the [former] prisoner until a rope was brought and adjusted, when the poor fellow was lifted out. He made no physical resistance to his rescuers, because he was too weak to offer it, but he lustily protested against their inhumanity in not letting him die peaceably.
He was put to bed, and the doctor on seeing him yesterday afternoon, thought it best for him to start for his home this morning."
1870 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Living at the asylum
Sidney Barber 26
1880 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Raney S Sagre Other M 28 New York
Henry Smith Other M 53 New York
David O Turrell Other M 77 Connecticut
Ransom W Wren Other M 29 Michigan
Amos P Ellis Other M 38 Vermont
Appolis Austin Other M 41 New York
William Aiken Other M 46 New York
George W Brown Other M 38 Ohio
Joseph Butcher Other M 39 Michigan
Demeter Buck Other M 33 Michigan
George Briscoe Other M 17 New York
Thomas Clark Other M 23 New York
Asa Day Other M 68 Massachusetts
Robert Y Groat Other M 56 New York
Alfred Eastman Other M 35 Michigan
Daniel P Shay Other M 51 Ireland
*Sydney Barber Other M 36 Michigan
Walter Sutcliff Other M 26 Michigan
James Goodrich Other M 31 Michigan
John Blackwood Other M 40 Michigan
*occupation soldier
1850 MI Census Hillsdale Co
Sidney Barber 52 b CT
Caroline F Barber 26
Wesley A Barber 8
Sidney Barber 6
George M Barber 5
Franklin Barber 2
1860 MI Census Hillsdale Co Scipio
Benj F Stookey 43
Electa S Stookey 42
Clementine J Stookey 13
John C Estes 70
Sidney Barber 15
3 April 1865 in the Cleveland Ohio Daily Leader.
"ATTEMPTED SUICIDE - Another Union prisoner [ex-POW], Henry Barber, Co. F, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, arrived at the [Cleveland Ohio] Soldiers' Home on Saturday night, going home on furlough in charge of a soldier of the 24th Michigan. Barber had been, at the time of his exchange, a prisoner at Salisbury for seven months, where the exposure, systematic starvation and cruelty wrought their full effect on his constitution, producing, among other fruits, a state of semi-idiotcy.
He is considerably wasted and shrunken in flesh and muscle, but his mind seems to have borne the brunt of the imprisonment, and has been the severest sufferer.
In his wandering moments he talks of his own insanity, and says that his parents and friends would not wish to see him, and will give him at best a cold reception. In one of these fits of depression, yesterday morning, he started out of the Home, went to its northern end, and jumped into the water, at a place where the plank of the pier had been broken. The water was only about three feet deep there, but he would in all probability have been speedily drowned, had not his comrade, who saw him from a short distance throw himself in, rushed to his rescue. He gave the alarm, and sprang into the water, and supported the [former] prisoner until a rope was brought and adjusted, when the poor fellow was lifted out. He made no physical resistance to his rescuers, because he was too weak to offer it, but he lustily protested against their inhumanity in not letting him die peaceably.
He was put to bed, and the doctor on seeing him yesterday afternoon, thought it best for him to start for his home this morning."
1870 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Living at the asylum
Sidney Barber 26
1880 MI Census Kalamazoo Co Kalamazoo
Raney S Sagre Other M 28 New York
Henry Smith Other M 53 New York
David O Turrell Other M 77 Connecticut
Ransom W Wren Other M 29 Michigan
Amos P Ellis Other M 38 Vermont
Appolis Austin Other M 41 New York
William Aiken Other M 46 New York
George W Brown Other M 38 Ohio
Joseph Butcher Other M 39 Michigan
Demeter Buck Other M 33 Michigan
George Briscoe Other M 17 New York
Thomas Clark Other M 23 New York
Asa Day Other M 68 Massachusetts
Robert Y Groat Other M 56 New York
Alfred Eastman Other M 35 Michigan
Daniel P Shay Other M 51 Ireland
*Sydney Barber Other M 36 Michigan
Walter Sutcliff Other M 26 Michigan
James Goodrich Other M 31 Michigan
John Blackwood Other M 40 Michigan
*occupation soldier
Inscription
Mich 7 Vol Inf Deland Sharp Shooters
Gravesite Details
Started out in Co F 1st Michigan Sharpshooters
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