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(Strensburg ftandtod.A Friendly Ke-Union.Mr. Editob: You can’t ailow spade fortlie recountal of the every-day occuring birthday dinner, bat please suffer just this once, where an old pioneer was the victim. This time it is Mr. Lewis Barlow. He was born in the State ot New York 75years ago, came to Ohio in childhood, toIndiana in early boyhood, in 1821. Hia early manhood was spent in the south, after which he returued to this State, and is 1838 was married to Mias Anna Brown, «oon after which he settled down on the farm near 8t. Omer, where they still re-aide. They had five children, four of whom are living. Boy and man he has been in the county most of the time for maty years. In ’21 it was little better than a bowline: wilderness. He has seen and bfeen a factor in the marked changesaround him since that period.Mr. B.’s marked characteristic* through lile have been an equable temperament, a deep sense of religious ■ responsibility, a nice perception of the principles of right and a “conscience void of offense toward God and man.” These quaker traits have been his from hie youth up. He joined the New-light ohurch at 20; later in life the Methodist church, a faithful member of which he still is.In the multiform relations of husband, father, friend, public citizen, school teacher, temperance advocate. Sunday School worker, class leader, preacher of righteousness for nearly sixty years, he has great opportunities to do good, and in bis modest unassuming way, has used his opportunities to do good, winning the respect, confidence and esteem of all. I suppose he has not an enemy living or dsad. This is not written in a spirit of “gush,” but sober truth.We have lhtle space to say that his daughter beguiled him away to a neighbors until noon, oo the morning of Kof. 3rd, while nearly a hundred of his friends were being squeezed like sardines in a box into his house, (horses and vehicles to the rear.) Large representatives of the much doubled and twisted kinship, the Gordian knots of which no fellow can un-jnavel—of Barlows, Brownes, Jewetts, Shelhorns, Hayes and Kimbles, and alltheir collateral family branches; friends and neighbors, including the Rev. Bro. Fierce from St Paul were there. Suddenly ushered into this crowd, imagine Mr. B.’s surprise. He gracefully accepted the nice chair presented by his children, and the testimonials of other friends. The dining room had tables of thirty power •eating capacity, used three times. Nearly every body—and the majority on each occasions ib always ladies—had brought with her a nice cake. Enough to build a pyramid, and nearly everything else eatable, in proportion. One oF ray bceetting sins is that I go ior a good din-mr like this and I went. It was epidemic; I bad plenty of company. It iB superfluous to say that everybody had a good time to the end of the chapter—which ishere. Participant.T1eionholdPari15thThetedGdres ing. adu! tick to eof t dur redt boriFat t andtrodpro'tichthehelt;Pli23,MaiIiandPis a ms'ile i —aterf?ofresiWifroifouhouthiientLofeeiCselliiingho'golt;JthethjtocoiNewowhThdiecmNetivC01crlt;luthoniniboBisa( CO
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Greensburg Standard
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 11, 1881
Page 7
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USA 25 Jan 2019
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