Not confirmed Hannah is interred in the Barnes Burying ground, but most likely as they were living just a mile north of her sister Keziah Barnes who was caretaking for the Barnes Mill at the time. Marker was most likely made of wood from the Mill, and is the reason no marker exists today.
June 3, 1939
I don't remember as I've told you much about My Aunt Hannah and Uncle Isaac. I don't remember seeing Aunt Hannah but once or Uncle Isaac either. Uncle Isaac had had a quite long fit of sickness and it seemed hard to get a reason to take care of him. His sister Hannah was teaching school and the board decided to stop the school and let his sister have vacation and take care of her sick brother. Then after a time uncle (Isaac) got better and aunt (Hannah) wanted to go back to her school as soon as she could so on this Monday morning a neighbor got the horse ready and they started to take his sister to her school when about one half way there was a man chopping on a big tree a few steps from the road. When the man saw them coming, he left the big tree and went to cut out some little stuff he had fallen in the road. This man said there seemed to come up a whirl wind and blew the big tree over. They were instantly killed one with the skull crushed and the other with the neck broken. My folks and others of the family lived about 40 miles from Allegan where Aunt Hannah was teaching. I then must have been between and 4 years old as I remember it. Mother had my brother Frank in her arms all day. I remember they were lain out on a bed and Uncle Isaac was in front. I asked my mother if he was asleep. She did not tell me then but afterwards she said his last long sleep. In those times people had to get a carpenter and joiner to make the coffins as they were called then as they were not in any place for sale and it was long late in the night before the men got them finished and my mother said they talked of waiting till morning to bury them but so many of the people had to go to their homes they finally decided to bury them that night almost mid night. (This was in 1848)
June 3, 1939
I don't remember as I've told you much about My Aunt Hannah and Uncle Isaac. I don't remember seeing Aunt Hannah but once or Uncle Isaac either. Uncle Isaac had had a quite long fit of sickness and it seemed hard to get a reason to take care of him. His sister Hannah was teaching school and the board decided to stop the school and let his sister have vacation and take care of her sick brother. Then after a time uncle (Isaac) got better and aunt (Hannah) wanted to go back to her school as soon as she could so on this Monday morning a neighbor got the horse ready and they started to take his sister to her school when about one half way there was a man chopping on a big tree a few steps from the road. When the man saw them coming, he left the big tree and went to cut out some little stuff he had fallen in the road. This man said there seemed to come up a whirl wind and blew the big tree over. They were instantly killed one with the skull crushed and the other with the neck broken. My folks and others of the family lived about 40 miles from Allegan where Aunt Hannah was teaching. I then must have been between and 4 years old as I remember it. Mother had my brother Frank in her arms all day. I remember they were lain out on a bed and Uncle Isaac was in front. I asked my mother if he was asleep. She did not tell me then but afterwards she said his last long sleep. In those times people had to get a carpenter and joiner to make the coffins as they were called then as they were not in any place for sale and it was long late in the night before the men got them finished and my mother said they talked of waiting till morning to bury them but so many of the people had to go to their homes they finally decided to bury them that night almost mid night. (This was in 1848)
Not confirmed Hannah is interred in the Barnes Burying ground, but most likely as they were living just a mile north of her sister Keziah Barnes who was caretaking for the Barnes Mill at the time. Marker was most likely made of wood from the Mill, and is the reason no marker exists today.
June 3, 1939
I don't remember as I've told you much about My Aunt Hannah and Uncle Isaac. I don't remember seeing Aunt Hannah but once or Uncle Isaac either. Uncle Isaac had had a quite long fit of sickness and it seemed hard to get a reason to take care of him. His sister Hannah was teaching school and the board decided to stop the school and let his sister have vacation and take care of her sick brother. Then after a time uncle (Isaac) got better and aunt (Hannah) wanted to go back to her school as soon as she could so on this Monday morning a neighbor got the horse ready and they started to take his sister to her school when about one half way there was a man chopping on a big tree a few steps from the road. When the man saw them coming, he left the big tree and went to cut out some little stuff he had fallen in the road. This man said there seemed to come up a whirl wind and blew the big tree over. They were instantly killed one with the skull crushed and the other with the neck broken. My folks and others of the family lived about 40 miles from Allegan where Aunt Hannah was teaching. I then must have been between and 4 years old as I remember it. Mother had my brother Frank in her arms all day. I remember they were lain out on a bed and Uncle Isaac was in front. I asked my mother if he was asleep. She did not tell me then but afterwards she said his last long sleep. In those times people had to get a carpenter and joiner to make the coffins as they were called then as they were not in any place for sale and it was long late in the night before the men got them finished and my mother said they talked of waiting till morning to bury them but so many of the people had to go to their homes they finally decided to bury them that night almost mid night. (This was in 1848)
June 3, 1939
I don't remember as I've told you much about My Aunt Hannah and Uncle Isaac. I don't remember seeing Aunt Hannah but once or Uncle Isaac either. Uncle Isaac had had a quite long fit of sickness and it seemed hard to get a reason to take care of him. His sister Hannah was teaching school and the board decided to stop the school and let his sister have vacation and take care of her sick brother. Then after a time uncle (Isaac) got better and aunt (Hannah) wanted to go back to her school as soon as she could so on this Monday morning a neighbor got the horse ready and they started to take his sister to her school when about one half way there was a man chopping on a big tree a few steps from the road. When the man saw them coming, he left the big tree and went to cut out some little stuff he had fallen in the road. This man said there seemed to come up a whirl wind and blew the big tree over. They were instantly killed one with the skull crushed and the other with the neck broken. My folks and others of the family lived about 40 miles from Allegan where Aunt Hannah was teaching. I then must have been between and 4 years old as I remember it. Mother had my brother Frank in her arms all day. I remember they were lain out on a bed and Uncle Isaac was in front. I asked my mother if he was asleep. She did not tell me then but afterwards she said his last long sleep. In those times people had to get a carpenter and joiner to make the coffins as they were called then as they were not in any place for sale and it was long late in the night before the men got them finished and my mother said they talked of waiting till morning to bury them but so many of the people had to go to their homes they finally decided to bury them that night almost mid night. (This was in 1848)
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