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Dorcas Ella <I>Moore</I> Barr

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Dorcas Ella Moore Barr

Birth
Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
Death
5 Sep 1915 (aged 84)
Greeley County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Wolbach, Greeley County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 4, Lot 11
Memorial ID
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From The Wolbach Messenger, Wolbach, Nebraska, Thursday, September 10, 1914, transcribed by Linda Berney:

DEATH CLAIMS MRS. R. H. BARR –

Dorcas E. Moore was born in Maine, October 27th, 1829 and died at her home 8 miles east of Wolbach, Nebraska, September 4th, 1914, age 84 years, 10 months and 7 days, she was married to Rufus H. Barr October 14, 1846, to this union was born four sons and one daughter, Henry Barr of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Geo. Barr of Red Oak Iowa and Mrs. Geo. Peck of Fresno, California.

Her husband and two sons have gone before her to give her coming a joyful welcome.

While yet in girlhood she gave god her heart and united with the Baptist church, later she moved to Sterling Ill, and again to Montgomery county Iowa and later to Nebraska to her present home. She transferred her membership from the Baptist to the United Evangelical at North Star and was a faithful member up to the time of death.

She leaves to mourn her loss, two sons, one daughter, two sisters, eighteen grand children and thirty great grand children.

Geo Barr of Ansley and G. R. Barr of Red Oak Iowa left Tuesday for their homes after being in attendance at their mother's funeral here Sunday.
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Married in Brattleboro, Vermont

From The Wolbach Messenger, Wolbach, Nebraska, Thursday, September 10, 1914, transcribed by Linda Berney:

DEATH CLAIMS MRS. R. H. BARR –

Dorcas E. Moore was born in Maine, October 27th, 1829 and died at her home 8 miles east of Wolbach, Nebraska, September 4th, 1914, age 84 years, 10 months and 7 days, she was married to Rufus H. Barr October 14, 1846, to this union was born four sons and one daughter, Henry Barr of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Geo. Barr of Red Oak Iowa and Mrs. Geo. Peck of Fresno, California.

Her husband and two sons have gone before her to give her coming a joyful welcome.

While yet in girlhood she gave god her heart and united with the Baptist church, later she moved to Sterling Ill, and again to Montgomery county Iowa and later to Nebraska to her present home. She transferred her membership from the Baptist to the United Evangelical at North Star and was a faithful member up to the time of death.

She leaves to mourn her loss, two sons, one daughter, two sisters, eighteen grand children and thirty great grand children.

Geo Barr of Ansley and G. R. Barr of Red Oak Iowa left Tuesday for their homes after being in attendance at their mother's funeral here Sunday.
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Married in Brattleboro, Vermont



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