Wife of Ambrose D. Barnett.
Franklin Democrat, Friday, 1 December 1911, pg 4
MRS. SOPHRONIA RIGGS BARNETT
Was born January 23, 1817, at Livonia, Livingston County, New York; died November 15, 1911 at the advanced age of 94 years, 9 months and 22 days. She was the oldest child of Rev. Ransom and Sarah Tremaine Riggs, that lived to maturity, one, Louisa, having died in infancy. In the spring of 1823, when six years of age, she came with her parents from New York to Greensburg, Ind. When 17 years old they moved to Nineveh township, Johnson County, Ind., where her parents resided the remainder of their days. Both died in January 1863; grandmother the 8th and grandfather the 16th; and are sleeping side by side in the home cemetery, known as the Riggs graveyard, just across the road from where they lived, leaving seven children, viz: Samuel, Simeon, Ransom, Wilson and Harvey Riggs. Of these brothers and sisters only one survives, Simeon T. Riggs, of near Providence, who is now 88 years of age.
Sophronia Riggs was married to Ambrose D. Barnett of Edinburg, May 3rd, 1840. He was the youngest child of Rev. John P. and Elizabeth Self Barnett, and was born at Millersburg, Nicholas County, Ky., July 24, 1809, and came with his parents to Edinburg, Ind., in the year of 1822, near where his parents both died and are buried, leaving their home to Ambrose where he took his wife, Sophronia, and continued to live until 1850 when they moved to Nineveh township for two years. Then they moved to Cicero, Hamilton County, Ind. On the 8th day of March 1864, Ambrose moved back to Nineveh township, Johnson county, Ind., to the farm where he married his wife, Sophronia Riggs. After living there a few years, he bought a grist and saw mill at Nineveh, also a residence, where they resided at the time of his death, May 20th, 1885. His wife, Sophronia, survived him over a quarter of a century. After an illness of six or seven weeks she died at the home of their youngest daughter, America E. Ralston, Irvington, November 15, 1911.
Her remains were taken to the Christian church at Nineveh, November 17, 1911, of which she had been a member many years. After an impressive funeral sermon by Rev. J. M. Cross, a solo of her favorite song, "Deliverance Will Come," was sung by Paul White by request…. After the funeral she was laid to rest beside her husband in the Riggs cemetery, where her parents, her daughter, Susan, and her sister, Susanna Burton, lie. She is survived by seven of her nine children, viz: Harry of Irvington, Benjamin of near Nineveh, Mrs. Mary A. Barnett of near Trafalgar, Henry C. of Franklin, Dewitt Clinton of Harrisonville, Mo., Mrs. Lucy Jane Forsyth and Mrs. America E. Ralston of Irvington. Martha and Susan both having died when young. Besides her own children, she had three step-children, viz: John L. Barnett who came home from the Union Army February 23, 1863, and died February 24, 1863 at Cicero, Ind., Geo. T. Barnett and Sarah Elizabeth Kistler, of Cicero, survive, who loved and honored her as their mother and wept at her departure. Besides these, she leaves 34 grandchildren and 49 great grandchildren.
Being blessed with an unusually strong constitution and a corresponding amount of energy and will power she had the use of her mind and body as but few of her age did, until within the last seven years, having sustained a fall which broke her hip, which caused her much pain both mentally and physically and she had to be a cripple all the rest of her life, although she got so she could walk around in the house without her crutch. But she felt her dependence, which changed her ever mirthful disposition to a firm resignation. Her great faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ supported her unto the last. Her well-worn Bible was read through and through because she loved it and found her greatest comfort therein. We will miss her and can hardly realize that she is gone never to return to us again. Although she lived 94 years, 9 months and 22 days, yet we would have loved for our dear mother to have lived to see her 95th birthday. But her lamp of life is extinguished, her course is run. She has lived a good long noble life of service and self-sacrifice and we feel that there is laid up for her a crown of righteousness in that home of many mansions where the good of all ages shall gather around the great White Throne. And, oh, how impressive are the words penned by our dear father, a few months before he died, to his son, D. C. Barnett of Harrisonville, Mo. These were his sentiments, and how much more fully do they apply to our dear mother now, as she has lived over a quarter of a century since our beloved father wrote the following:
"Your mother and I have outlived most of the friends of our early youth. Why speak again of age in a mournful strain. It is beautiful, honorable, eloquent. Should we sigh at the proximity of death when life and the world are so full of emptiness? If any must weep, let it be the young at the long succession of cares before them. Welcome the snow of age, for it is the emblem of peace and rest. It is but a temporal crown that shall fall at the gates of Paradise to be replaced by a brighter and better one. Let the old exalt that they are old." - Mrs. Mary A. Barnett.
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Franklin Democrat, Friday, 1 December 1911, pg 4
MRS. SOPHRONIA RIGGS BARNETT
Was born January 23, 1817, at Livonia, Livingston County, New York; died November 15, 1911 at the advanced age of 94 years, 9 months and 22 days. She was the oldest child of Rev. Ransom and Sarah Tremaine Riggs, that lived to maturity, one, Louisa, having died in infancy. In the spring of 1823, when six years of age, she came with her parents from New York to Greensburg, Ind. When 17 years old they moved to Nineveh township, Johnson County, Ind., where her parents resided the remainder of their days. Both died in January 1863; grandmother the 8th and grandfather the 16th; and are sleeping side by side in the home cemetery, known as the Riggs graveyard, just across the road from where they lived, leaving seven children, viz: Samuel, Simeon, Ransom, Wilson and Harvey Riggs. Of these brothers and sisters only one survives, Simeon T. Riggs, of near Providence, who is now 88 years of age.
Sophronia Riggs was married to Ambrose D. Barnett of Edinburg, May 3rd, 1840. He was the youngest child of Rev. John P. and Elizabeth Self Barnett, and was born at Millersburg, Nicholas County, Ky., July 24, 1809, and came with his parents to Edinburg, Ind., in the year of 1822, near where his parents both died and are buried, leaving their home to Ambrose where he took his wife, Sophronia, and continued to live until 1850 when they moved to Nineveh township for two years. Then they moved to Cicero, Hamilton County, Ind. On the 8th day of March 1864, Ambrose moved back to Nineveh township, Johnson county, Ind., to the farm where he married his wife, Sophronia Riggs. After living there a few years, he bought a grist and saw mill at Nineveh, also a residence, where they resided at the time of his death, May 20th, 1885. His wife, Sophronia, survived him over a quarter of a century. After an illness of six or seven weeks she died at the home of their youngest daughter, America E. Ralston, Irvington, November 15, 1911.
Her remains were taken to the Christian church at Nineveh, November 17, 1911, of which she had been a member many years. After an impressive funeral sermon by Rev. J. M. Cross, a solo of her favorite song, "Deliverance Will Come," was sung by Paul White by request…. After the funeral she was laid to rest beside her husband in the Riggs cemetery, where her parents, her daughter, Susan, and her sister, Susanna Burton, lie. She is survived by seven of her nine children, viz: Harry of Irvington, Benjamin of near Nineveh, Mrs. Mary A. Barnett of near Trafalgar, Henry C. of Franklin, Dewitt Clinton of Harrisonville, Mo., Mrs. Lucy Jane Forsyth and Mrs. America E. Ralston of Irvington. Martha and Susan both having died when young. Besides her own children, she had three step-children, viz: John L. Barnett who came home from the Union Army February 23, 1863, and died February 24, 1863 at Cicero, Ind., Geo. T. Barnett and Sarah Elizabeth Kistler, of Cicero, survive, who loved and honored her as their mother and wept at her departure. Besides these, she leaves 34 grandchildren and 49 great grandchildren.
Being blessed with an unusually strong constitution and a corresponding amount of energy and will power she had the use of her mind and body as but few of her age did, until within the last seven years, having sustained a fall which broke her hip, which caused her much pain both mentally and physically and she had to be a cripple all the rest of her life, although she got so she could walk around in the house without her crutch. But she felt her dependence, which changed her ever mirthful disposition to a firm resignation. Her great faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ supported her unto the last. Her well-worn Bible was read through and through because she loved it and found her greatest comfort therein. We will miss her and can hardly realize that she is gone never to return to us again. Although she lived 94 years, 9 months and 22 days, yet we would have loved for our dear mother to have lived to see her 95th birthday. But her lamp of life is extinguished, her course is run. She has lived a good long noble life of service and self-sacrifice and we feel that there is laid up for her a crown of righteousness in that home of many mansions where the good of all ages shall gather around the great White Throne. And, oh, how impressive are the words penned by our dear father, a few months before he died, to his son, D. C. Barnett of Harrisonville, Mo. These were his sentiments, and how much more fully do they apply to our dear mother now, as she has lived over a quarter of a century since our beloved father wrote the following:
"Your mother and I have outlived most of the friends of our early youth. Why speak again of age in a mournful strain. It is beautiful, honorable, eloquent. Should we sigh at the proximity of death when life and the world are so full of emptiness? If any must weep, let it be the young at the long succession of cares before them. Welcome the snow of age, for it is the emblem of peace and rest. It is but a temporal crown that shall fall at the gates of Paradise to be replaced by a brighter and better one. Let the old exalt that they are old." - Mrs. Mary A. Barnett.
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Wife of Ambrose D. Barnett.
Franklin Democrat, Friday, 1 December 1911, pg 4
MRS. SOPHRONIA RIGGS BARNETT
Was born January 23, 1817, at Livonia, Livingston County, New York; died November 15, 1911 at the advanced age of 94 years, 9 months and 22 days. She was the oldest child of Rev. Ransom and Sarah Tremaine Riggs, that lived to maturity, one, Louisa, having died in infancy. In the spring of 1823, when six years of age, she came with her parents from New York to Greensburg, Ind. When 17 years old they moved to Nineveh township, Johnson County, Ind., where her parents resided the remainder of their days. Both died in January 1863; grandmother the 8th and grandfather the 16th; and are sleeping side by side in the home cemetery, known as the Riggs graveyard, just across the road from where they lived, leaving seven children, viz: Samuel, Simeon, Ransom, Wilson and Harvey Riggs. Of these brothers and sisters only one survives, Simeon T. Riggs, of near Providence, who is now 88 years of age.
Sophronia Riggs was married to Ambrose D. Barnett of Edinburg, May 3rd, 1840. He was the youngest child of Rev. John P. and Elizabeth Self Barnett, and was born at Millersburg, Nicholas County, Ky., July 24, 1809, and came with his parents to Edinburg, Ind., in the year of 1822, near where his parents both died and are buried, leaving their home to Ambrose where he took his wife, Sophronia, and continued to live until 1850 when they moved to Nineveh township for two years. Then they moved to Cicero, Hamilton County, Ind. On the 8th day of March 1864, Ambrose moved back to Nineveh township, Johnson county, Ind., to the farm where he married his wife, Sophronia Riggs. After living there a few years, he bought a grist and saw mill at Nineveh, also a residence, where they resided at the time of his death, May 20th, 1885. His wife, Sophronia, survived him over a quarter of a century. After an illness of six or seven weeks she died at the home of their youngest daughter, America E. Ralston, Irvington, November 15, 1911.
Her remains were taken to the Christian church at Nineveh, November 17, 1911, of which she had been a member many years. After an impressive funeral sermon by Rev. J. M. Cross, a solo of her favorite song, "Deliverance Will Come," was sung by Paul White by request…. After the funeral she was laid to rest beside her husband in the Riggs cemetery, where her parents, her daughter, Susan, and her sister, Susanna Burton, lie. She is survived by seven of her nine children, viz: Harry of Irvington, Benjamin of near Nineveh, Mrs. Mary A. Barnett of near Trafalgar, Henry C. of Franklin, Dewitt Clinton of Harrisonville, Mo., Mrs. Lucy Jane Forsyth and Mrs. America E. Ralston of Irvington. Martha and Susan both having died when young. Besides her own children, she had three step-children, viz: John L. Barnett who came home from the Union Army February 23, 1863, and died February 24, 1863 at Cicero, Ind., Geo. T. Barnett and Sarah Elizabeth Kistler, of Cicero, survive, who loved and honored her as their mother and wept at her departure. Besides these, she leaves 34 grandchildren and 49 great grandchildren.
Being blessed with an unusually strong constitution and a corresponding amount of energy and will power she had the use of her mind and body as but few of her age did, until within the last seven years, having sustained a fall which broke her hip, which caused her much pain both mentally and physically and she had to be a cripple all the rest of her life, although she got so she could walk around in the house without her crutch. But she felt her dependence, which changed her ever mirthful disposition to a firm resignation. Her great faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ supported her unto the last. Her well-worn Bible was read through and through because she loved it and found her greatest comfort therein. We will miss her and can hardly realize that she is gone never to return to us again. Although she lived 94 years, 9 months and 22 days, yet we would have loved for our dear mother to have lived to see her 95th birthday. But her lamp of life is extinguished, her course is run. She has lived a good long noble life of service and self-sacrifice and we feel that there is laid up for her a crown of righteousness in that home of many mansions where the good of all ages shall gather around the great White Throne. And, oh, how impressive are the words penned by our dear father, a few months before he died, to his son, D. C. Barnett of Harrisonville, Mo. These were his sentiments, and how much more fully do they apply to our dear mother now, as she has lived over a quarter of a century since our beloved father wrote the following:
"Your mother and I have outlived most of the friends of our early youth. Why speak again of age in a mournful strain. It is beautiful, honorable, eloquent. Should we sigh at the proximity of death when life and the world are so full of emptiness? If any must weep, let it be the young at the long succession of cares before them. Welcome the snow of age, for it is the emblem of peace and rest. It is but a temporal crown that shall fall at the gates of Paradise to be replaced by a brighter and better one. Let the old exalt that they are old." - Mrs. Mary A. Barnett.
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Franklin Democrat, Friday, 1 December 1911, pg 4
MRS. SOPHRONIA RIGGS BARNETT
Was born January 23, 1817, at Livonia, Livingston County, New York; died November 15, 1911 at the advanced age of 94 years, 9 months and 22 days. She was the oldest child of Rev. Ransom and Sarah Tremaine Riggs, that lived to maturity, one, Louisa, having died in infancy. In the spring of 1823, when six years of age, she came with her parents from New York to Greensburg, Ind. When 17 years old they moved to Nineveh township, Johnson County, Ind., where her parents resided the remainder of their days. Both died in January 1863; grandmother the 8th and grandfather the 16th; and are sleeping side by side in the home cemetery, known as the Riggs graveyard, just across the road from where they lived, leaving seven children, viz: Samuel, Simeon, Ransom, Wilson and Harvey Riggs. Of these brothers and sisters only one survives, Simeon T. Riggs, of near Providence, who is now 88 years of age.
Sophronia Riggs was married to Ambrose D. Barnett of Edinburg, May 3rd, 1840. He was the youngest child of Rev. John P. and Elizabeth Self Barnett, and was born at Millersburg, Nicholas County, Ky., July 24, 1809, and came with his parents to Edinburg, Ind., in the year of 1822, near where his parents both died and are buried, leaving their home to Ambrose where he took his wife, Sophronia, and continued to live until 1850 when they moved to Nineveh township for two years. Then they moved to Cicero, Hamilton County, Ind. On the 8th day of March 1864, Ambrose moved back to Nineveh township, Johnson county, Ind., to the farm where he married his wife, Sophronia Riggs. After living there a few years, he bought a grist and saw mill at Nineveh, also a residence, where they resided at the time of his death, May 20th, 1885. His wife, Sophronia, survived him over a quarter of a century. After an illness of six or seven weeks she died at the home of their youngest daughter, America E. Ralston, Irvington, November 15, 1911.
Her remains were taken to the Christian church at Nineveh, November 17, 1911, of which she had been a member many years. After an impressive funeral sermon by Rev. J. M. Cross, a solo of her favorite song, "Deliverance Will Come," was sung by Paul White by request…. After the funeral she was laid to rest beside her husband in the Riggs cemetery, where her parents, her daughter, Susan, and her sister, Susanna Burton, lie. She is survived by seven of her nine children, viz: Harry of Irvington, Benjamin of near Nineveh, Mrs. Mary A. Barnett of near Trafalgar, Henry C. of Franklin, Dewitt Clinton of Harrisonville, Mo., Mrs. Lucy Jane Forsyth and Mrs. America E. Ralston of Irvington. Martha and Susan both having died when young. Besides her own children, she had three step-children, viz: John L. Barnett who came home from the Union Army February 23, 1863, and died February 24, 1863 at Cicero, Ind., Geo. T. Barnett and Sarah Elizabeth Kistler, of Cicero, survive, who loved and honored her as their mother and wept at her departure. Besides these, she leaves 34 grandchildren and 49 great grandchildren.
Being blessed with an unusually strong constitution and a corresponding amount of energy and will power she had the use of her mind and body as but few of her age did, until within the last seven years, having sustained a fall which broke her hip, which caused her much pain both mentally and physically and she had to be a cripple all the rest of her life, although she got so she could walk around in the house without her crutch. But she felt her dependence, which changed her ever mirthful disposition to a firm resignation. Her great faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ supported her unto the last. Her well-worn Bible was read through and through because she loved it and found her greatest comfort therein. We will miss her and can hardly realize that she is gone never to return to us again. Although she lived 94 years, 9 months and 22 days, yet we would have loved for our dear mother to have lived to see her 95th birthday. But her lamp of life is extinguished, her course is run. She has lived a good long noble life of service and self-sacrifice and we feel that there is laid up for her a crown of righteousness in that home of many mansions where the good of all ages shall gather around the great White Throne. And, oh, how impressive are the words penned by our dear father, a few months before he died, to his son, D. C. Barnett of Harrisonville, Mo. These were his sentiments, and how much more fully do they apply to our dear mother now, as she has lived over a quarter of a century since our beloved father wrote the following:
"Your mother and I have outlived most of the friends of our early youth. Why speak again of age in a mournful strain. It is beautiful, honorable, eloquent. Should we sigh at the proximity of death when life and the world are so full of emptiness? If any must weep, let it be the young at the long succession of cares before them. Welcome the snow of age, for it is the emblem of peace and rest. It is but a temporal crown that shall fall at the gates of Paradise to be replaced by a brighter and better one. Let the old exalt that they are old." - Mrs. Mary A. Barnett.
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