Sarah Elizabeth Harter

Death December 10, 1914 , Shelby County Republican

As reported in the Shelby County Republican on December 10, 1914: Was baking bread , put paper over to keep from burning, paper burst into flames. She was badly burned and died within the day.

GEDCOM Note

Our Great-grandfather, John Knisley Barber and his wife Sarah Harter Barber first lived after their marriage (1855) near Hamburg, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Later they lived in the Nippenose Valley on the Susquehanna River, not far West of Williamsport, PA in Lycoming County. Some time around 1868 to 1869, they brought their family directly from Pennsylvania to Oakfield, Audubon County, Iowa, and thence to a farm not far from Kirkman, in Shelby County, Iowa. Family lore has it that "Grandpa Wolfe" (on the matriarchal side) convinced several of them to come out to Iowa to develop land that he had acquired. John K. is said to have been a carpenter who supervised the construction of all the buildings on the farms in Iowa. Of course, like everyone of the period, he engaged in farming.

Wife of John Knisley Barber, dau of Samuel and Mary Wolf Harter of central Pennsylvania; died tragically in a kitchen fire.

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Spouse:

 John Kniseley Barber (1838 - 1921)*

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