Michael J. Barry Passed Away

After an illness covering several months M. J. Barry, a prosperous farmer living near Blair, died at a sanitarians in Lincoln on Saturday of Bright’s Disease.

M. J. Barry was born in Dundas, Canada, in 1851, and was married to Miss Mary Maney in 1880.

Thirteen children were born to this union, who with the widow survive to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father, and to them the sympathy of a host of friends is extended.

Services were held at the Catholic Church in Blair at 10:80 Monday morning, Father O’Driscoll in charge, and burial took place in the Blair Cemetery.

Note: Since the actual death date was not given, the news article date was used.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

Per Findagrave.com History of Dodge and Washington Counties, pg. 918: Michael Barry was born in Canada, and came to the United States in 1856, first living for a time at Omaha, Nebraska, and then going on a farm near Calhoun, his father, Thomas Barry accompanying him when he located on this farm. In 1880 he and Mrs. Barry were married and they became the parents of the following children: Thomas; Mrs. James Thompson; Mrs. Edgar Rose; Joseph; Mrs. Jim Sip; James and John, who are at home; Paul, who lives in Dodge County; Bryan, who is at home; Grace, who is a trained nurse of Chicago, Illinois; and Charles, who is also at home. Mr. Barry was a Catholic. For some years he was a member of the School Board of his district, and for many years was road overseer. He was an independent voter. Fraternally he maintained membership with the Woodmen of the World. His death occurred January 17, 1913, and in his passing his community lost a good citizen and his family a kind and loving husband and father. Since his death his widow and several of her sons are conducting a 160-acre farm, where they live, and another farm of 120 acres in the neighborhood, and are doing very well with their work. They are fine people in every respect and stand pre-eminently well with all who know them.