Transcribed and donated by Mona Tomlinson, 2006.  All Rights Reserved.

Starkville News 09/13/1918

 JEFFERSON DAVIS BARRON Wednesday. He had been sick only three days. 


Mr. BARRON came to Sturgis forty two years ago and entered the merchantile
 business. He married Miss MARY TUMLINSON of this place. They moved to 
Texas and lived a few years but returned to Sturgis and remained until 1898 
when they moved to Ackerman. 

After Mrs. Barron's death Mr. BARRON came back to his old home.
We heard a lifelong friend pay him this tribute: " I have known JEFF BARRON 
forty two years and his is the only man I ever knew that never complained. 
Surely affected(being blind) he was ever cheerful. In prosperity he was never 
arrogant and puffed up: In adversity he was never cast down." 

Thus his life became a monument to his memory. He made no show of 
religious profession but lived a life that manifested peace with GOD 
and man. This writer played in his home as a child and trusted and 
respected Mr.BARRON next to her own father and in this hour of 
breavement her sympathy goes out to her playmates of long ago. 

None more than she knows how great has been their loss. The remains 
were placed beside his wife in Enon Cemetery Thursday morning. 
Mr. and Mrs. FELIX BLAINE of Tupelo arrived Wednesday night, 
Mmes. SMITH and MORGAN joined them at Ackerman Thursday. 
Owing to illness Mrs. EATON could not attend the last sad rites, 
May they be removed to a better world. Peace to his ashes.