A Mason. Fought in the Civil War with Company E, 28th North Carolina Infantry. Son of Edmund Green Lee Barringer and Sarah (Hearne) Barringer. Husband of Martha A. "Pat" (Wall) Barringer. They were married around 1853 in North Carolina. They were the parents of James C., William H., Sarah E.("Sallie"), Annie L., Alice, Martha J., Edward S., Mary, Zebulon V., Frederick and David. The family lived in North Carolina until around 1869. They then moved to Mississippi for a couple of years and then on to Texas.
OBITUARY:Rockwall, Tex., Aug. 12.--Col. W. D. BARRINGER died at his home here last night at 10:30. For the past ten years he has suffered from sciatic rheumatism in a degree that few human beings are ever called upon to endure. His case baffled all medical skill. He was a man than whom no one was more highly respected and even reverenced by his fellow citizens. He commanded a North Carolina regiment and fought bravely during the late war. He was by birth a North Carolinian, came to Texas in 1870, was district and county clerk of this county for eight years. His remains were interred according to the rites of masonry this afternoon.
OBITUARY:Rockwall, Tex., Aug. 12.--Col. W. D. BARRINGER died at his home here last night at 10:30. For the past ten years he has suffered from sciatic rheumatism in a degree that few human beings are ever called upon to endure. His case baffled all medical skill. He was a man than whom no one was more highly respected and even reverenced by his fellow citizens. He commanded a North Carolina regiment and fought bravely during the late war. He was by birth a North Carolinian, came to Texas in 1870, was district and county clerk of this county for eight years. His remains were interred according to the rites of masonry this afternoon.
A Mason. Fought in the Civil War with Company E, 28th North Carolina Infantry. Son of Edmund Green Lee Barringer and Sarah (Hearne) Barringer. Husband of Martha A. "Pat" (Wall) Barringer. They were married around 1853 in North Carolina. They were the parents of James C., William H., Sarah E.("Sallie"), Annie L., Alice, Martha J., Edward S., Mary, Zebulon V., Frederick and David. The family lived in North Carolina until around 1869. They then moved to Mississippi for a couple of years and then on to Texas.
OBITUARY:Rockwall, Tex., Aug. 12.--Col. W. D. BARRINGER died at his home here last night at 10:30. For the past ten years he has suffered from sciatic rheumatism in a degree that few human beings are ever called upon to endure. His case baffled all medical skill. He was a man than whom no one was more highly respected and even reverenced by his fellow citizens. He commanded a North Carolina regiment and fought bravely during the late war. He was by birth a North Carolinian, came to Texas in 1870, was district and county clerk of this county for eight years. His remains were interred according to the rites of masonry this afternoon.
OBITUARY:Rockwall, Tex., Aug. 12.--Col. W. D. BARRINGER died at his home here last night at 10:30. For the past ten years he has suffered from sciatic rheumatism in a degree that few human beings are ever called upon to endure. His case baffled all medical skill. He was a man than whom no one was more highly respected and even reverenced by his fellow citizens. He commanded a North Carolina regiment and fought bravely during the late war. He was by birth a North Carolinian, came to Texas in 1870, was district and county clerk of this county for eight years. His remains were interred according to the rites of masonry this afternoon.
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