Belmont County, Ohio

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Belmont County Obituaries


Waldo Smith Barnes


Mr. Waldo Smith Barnes, who passed away Monday morning, October 26, 1931, at 1:05 o'clock, was born in Washington County, Ohio, April 14, 1859. He was the son of Otho and Marinda Barnes.

To his first marriage were born two children, Mr. Millard O. Barnes of Lore City, Ohio, who passed away six years ago, and Mrs. Thomas Ward of Jacksonville, Florida, who now survives him. Other survivors are his present wife, Lillian Brown Barnes of Cambridge, to whom he was married Dec. 1, 1892; one brother, Mr. Willard Barnes, his mother, Mrs. M. L. Barnes, two sisters, Mrs. A. O. C. Ahrendts and Mrs. Ray Depew all of Barnesville, Ohio; three granddaughters, Mrs. Arthur Holmes of Moundsville, W. Va.; Mrs. Edward Giles, Jacksonville, Florida; Mrs. Leroy Neil, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also leaves three great grandchildren, two nieces, one nephew and a large circle of friends in this community.

Mr. Barnes was a resident of Barnesville for a number of years and was a well known mechanic and after moving to Cambridge he became an auto mechanic, in which work he was engaged when stricken in his last illness. He was a faithful member of the First M. E. church in Cambridge.

Funeral services were held at the home on Steubenville avenue, Cambridge, Ohio, at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and interment made in Northwood cemetery in that city.


From a newspaper obituary, November 5, 1931



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