Pioneer Fort Wayne Woman Is No More
Succumbs After an Illness Extending Over Five Weeks
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bartnett, wife of Abraham Barnett, and one of the pioneer women of Fort Wayne, died at 10:40 o'clock Sunday morning at her home, 118 East Wayne Street. Mrs. Barnett had been in failing health for a long time and for five weeks before her death she was confined to her bed.
Mrs. Barnett was a native of Little Falls, N.Y. She was the eldest daughter of Orange A. Angell, who came to Fort Wayne when Mrs. Barnett was a little girl. Mr. Angell ran the first packet line on the old canal and he was the owner of a stage line between this city and Sturgis. Mrs. Barnett was married in 1858, in this city, and her husband at that time was a United States Internal revenue collector, stationed in Fort Wayne.
The decedent is survived by the husband and these children: Mrs. W.R. Beamer of Los Angeles, Cal., who is at present in this city; Miss Sue Barnett and Byron H and James W. Barnett, who, with their father, are interested in the Barnett Bus and Transfer Company. Another child, Daisy, died in infancy. There is one grandchild, Abraham Houston Barnett, the son of Byron H. Barnett.
Other relatives include a brother, Byron D. Angell, of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. W.J. Van Schuyver, and Portand, Ore., and Mrs. M.S. Zent, of Belleville, Ill. Mrs. Barnett was a member of the Episcopal church.
Arrangements for the funeral had not bee completed last night.
Published in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette of Saturday Evening, 23 February 1904
Succumbs After an Illness Extending Over Five Weeks
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bartnett, wife of Abraham Barnett, and one of the pioneer women of Fort Wayne, died at 10:40 o'clock Sunday morning at her home, 118 East Wayne Street. Mrs. Barnett had been in failing health for a long time and for five weeks before her death she was confined to her bed.
Mrs. Barnett was a native of Little Falls, N.Y. She was the eldest daughter of Orange A. Angell, who came to Fort Wayne when Mrs. Barnett was a little girl. Mr. Angell ran the first packet line on the old canal and he was the owner of a stage line between this city and Sturgis. Mrs. Barnett was married in 1858, in this city, and her husband at that time was a United States Internal revenue collector, stationed in Fort Wayne.
The decedent is survived by the husband and these children: Mrs. W.R. Beamer of Los Angeles, Cal., who is at present in this city; Miss Sue Barnett and Byron H and James W. Barnett, who, with their father, are interested in the Barnett Bus and Transfer Company. Another child, Daisy, died in infancy. There is one grandchild, Abraham Houston Barnett, the son of Byron H. Barnett.
Other relatives include a brother, Byron D. Angell, of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. W.J. Van Schuyver, and Portand, Ore., and Mrs. M.S. Zent, of Belleville, Ill. Mrs. Barnett was a member of the Episcopal church.
Arrangements for the funeral had not bee completed last night.
Published in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette of Saturday Evening, 23 February 1904
Pioneer Fort Wayne Woman Is No More
Succumbs After an Illness Extending Over Five Weeks
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bartnett, wife of Abraham Barnett, and one of the pioneer women of Fort Wayne, died at 10:40 o'clock Sunday morning at her home, 118 East Wayne Street. Mrs. Barnett had been in failing health for a long time and for five weeks before her death she was confined to her bed.
Mrs. Barnett was a native of Little Falls, N.Y. She was the eldest daughter of Orange A. Angell, who came to Fort Wayne when Mrs. Barnett was a little girl. Mr. Angell ran the first packet line on the old canal and he was the owner of a stage line between this city and Sturgis. Mrs. Barnett was married in 1858, in this city, and her husband at that time was a United States Internal revenue collector, stationed in Fort Wayne.
The decedent is survived by the husband and these children: Mrs. W.R. Beamer of Los Angeles, Cal., who is at present in this city; Miss Sue Barnett and Byron H and James W. Barnett, who, with their father, are interested in the Barnett Bus and Transfer Company. Another child, Daisy, died in infancy. There is one grandchild, Abraham Houston Barnett, the son of Byron H. Barnett.
Other relatives include a brother, Byron D. Angell, of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. W.J. Van Schuyver, and Portand, Ore., and Mrs. M.S. Zent, of Belleville, Ill. Mrs. Barnett was a member of the Episcopal church.
Arrangements for the funeral had not bee completed last night.
Published in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette of Saturday Evening, 23 February 1904
Succumbs After an Illness Extending Over Five Weeks
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bartnett, wife of Abraham Barnett, and one of the pioneer women of Fort Wayne, died at 10:40 o'clock Sunday morning at her home, 118 East Wayne Street. Mrs. Barnett had been in failing health for a long time and for five weeks before her death she was confined to her bed.
Mrs. Barnett was a native of Little Falls, N.Y. She was the eldest daughter of Orange A. Angell, who came to Fort Wayne when Mrs. Barnett was a little girl. Mr. Angell ran the first packet line on the old canal and he was the owner of a stage line between this city and Sturgis. Mrs. Barnett was married in 1858, in this city, and her husband at that time was a United States Internal revenue collector, stationed in Fort Wayne.
The decedent is survived by the husband and these children: Mrs. W.R. Beamer of Los Angeles, Cal., who is at present in this city; Miss Sue Barnett and Byron H and James W. Barnett, who, with their father, are interested in the Barnett Bus and Transfer Company. Another child, Daisy, died in infancy. There is one grandchild, Abraham Houston Barnett, the son of Byron H. Barnett.
Other relatives include a brother, Byron D. Angell, of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. W.J. Van Schuyver, and Portand, Ore., and Mrs. M.S. Zent, of Belleville, Ill. Mrs. Barnett was a member of the Episcopal church.
Arrangements for the funeral had not bee completed last night.
Published in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette of Saturday Evening, 23 February 1904
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