Houston Home Journal (Georgia) 18 September 1913 – pg. 7 Death of Mrs. J. N. Barker Last Tuesday afternoon, the 9th inst, just as the sun was sinking in the west and the shades of night had began to fall, Mrs. Lizzie Pollock Barker, wife of Mr. James N. Barker, departed this life at her home in Bonaire. She had been sick for several weeks, but paralysis was the immediate cause for her death. Mrs. Barker was the daughter of the late Mrs. Annie M. Baskin of this county and was born Dec. 5th, 1854. She was married to Mr. J. N. Barker Sept. 16, 1869, having been companions for 44 years. Of this union there were born eleven children, five of which preceded her to the grave. The children, who were with her during her last days are, Mr. B. B. Barker of Unadilla, Mrs. R. S. Woodard and Mrs. W. A. King, of Macon, Mrs. S. H. Sasser, Mrs. J. H. Watson and Mrs. J. R. Hunt of Bonaire. She was an excellent and benevolent woman, a noble wife, a devoted mother to her now sorrowing c...
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