Obituary-The Neligh News-April 28, 1960

EMMA LUCRETIA BURHAM BARR

Funeral services for Mrs Emma BARR of Tilden were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 23 at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Neligh. The Rev. A. W. MARTS of Long Pine assisted the Rev. Bernice HUBBY with the rites. Interment was in the Oakdale Cemetery. Mrs Emma Lucretia BARR was born September 14, 1866 to William and Mary BURHAM at Washington, Iowa and died April 20, 1960, at the age of 93 years, 7 months, and 6 days in a Lincoln hospital. Her childhood was spent in Iowa. June 1, 1892 she was married to Milburn Henderson BARR who preceded her death in 1942. To this union seven children were born. The family moved to Elgin in 1904. She was a charter member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Neligh. Survivors are three daughters, Mrs Maud CARTER, Gary, South Dakota, Mrs Gussie RETZLAFF, Lincoln, and Mrs Sylvia BURK, Tilden, one son, Elmer R, Madison, Wisconsin, 21 grandchildren, 40 great grandchildren, and 7 great great grandchildren.

Obituary - The Oakdale Sentinel, Thursday, April 16, 1942

MILBURN H. BARR

Milburn H. BARR was born on January 25, 1860, at Talleyrand, Iowa, and departed this life April 6, 1942, at his home in Oakdale at the age of eighty-two years, two months and twelve days. He was united in marriage to Emma L. BURHAM on June 1, 1882, at West Chester, Iowa. To this union seven children were given, two sons and five daughters, two daughters having been called in death leaving the following children, Elmer R. BARR of Madison, Wisc. Ira B. BARR of Ewing, Mrs. Maud CARTER, Gary, SD.; Mrs. Sylvia GRUNKE, Elgin; and Mrs. Gussie RETZLAFF, Neligh. All were present at the funeral. As a young man of eighteen he traveled with a wagon train to Idaho where he remained for three years, camping on the present site of Nampa, returning to Iowa in 1881. He accepted Christ and was converted in 1892 and three days later professed sanctification, never swerving from these experiences, he testified to them until his decease. He entered the ministry as an evangelist in 1893 and continued until 1899 when he took pastorate of a Weselyan Methodist church in West Union, Iowa. From there he came as pastor to Albaton, Iowa, where he remained for two years. He spent some months in Oklahoma in 1901 and in Minnesota in 1904. Moving to Elgin, Nebraska, in 1904 he worked at his trade as blacksmith and labored in the evangelistic field when possible: continuing there until 1917, except a year spent in Missouri in 1914. The years 1917-1919 were spent in California from where he returned to Elgin, Nebraska. In 1926 he moved to Newman Grove where he attended the Nazarene church and in 1930 pastored a church in Hubbard for that denomination. For the past five years he resided in Oakdale. His life has been deeply spiritual, always seeking to praise God rather than man. He leaves to mourn his departure: his wife; two sons and three daughters; one sister, Miss Clara BARR, Lincoln; twenty-one grandchildren; ten great grandchildren; and a host of friends that can hardly be numbered. Sincere sympathy is extended to the bereaved. Funeral services were held in the Oakdale United Brethren church Friday afternoon in charge of Rev. A. W. Marts of Meadow Grove, with Rev. Otto Fink of Neligh and R. A. Reger assisting. Burial was made in the Oakdale cemetery.