James F. Barbarick, former Gasconade county sheriff and justice of the peace and retired blacksmith, died at 5 o'clock Monday morning, July 11, 1949, at his home in Belle. Death was caused by a heart attack. He was 90 years, 1 month and 24 days old.
Mr. Barbarick enjoyed unusally good health for a man his age up until a week before his death. He could read a newspaper without eye glasses and last Thursday he made an effort to dress and go to the postoffice after his Banner. He was a well read man and was learned to the affairs of the nation and the world.
For several years he made his home with his nephew, Harrison Benedict at St. Aubert, and returned to Belle to make his home with a son, George, and family. More recently he lived in a house built for him by a son Floyd, at the rear of his own home. Mr. Barbarick was proud of his new quarters and often spoke kindly of his son for furnishing it for him. Here he cooked his own food and lived his own life the last years of his life. He kept his whiskers and self immaculately clean and always appeared to enjoy the fullness of his life. His children remember him shaving only twice and those occasions were years ago.
Mr. Barbarick learned the blacksmith trade at Woollam and followed that trade for more than 40 years. He was a pioneer of a period when a young man learned a trade by working and learning from his employer. Room and board was about the most any young man who was wanting to learn could expect in those days. In later years he worked for Shep Ridenhour and Bill Feuers at Belle and after retirement worked for Gus Swanson at the blacksmith trade.
He was justice of the peace in Gasconade county for 16 years, was deputy sheriff , and about 1896 was elected sheriff. While sheriff he hanged the first man to be legally hanged in the county.
Mr. Barbarick was born at Bland, May 17, 1859, a son of Joseph Henry and Manerva Jane (Shockley) Barbarick.
He was the father of 13 children, five of whom survive: Mrs. Nora Milam, Kansas City, Kan; Mrs. Dora Hoelter, Beaufort; George B., John and Floyd Barbarick, Belle. Twenty-seven grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren survive with a sister, Mrs. Manerva Branson, Springfield; and a half sister, Mrs. Cassa Kilgroe, Little Rock, Ark.
Eight children preceded him in death; Cecil, Walter, Joseph, Clarence, Andrew, Rhodes, Logan and W.B. Barbarick.
He was a charter member of the Belle Christian church where funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon. Burial was in Cleavesville Cemetery.
Pallbearers were grandsons, Roy, Leo, Frank, and Ralph Barbarick, Harry Milam, and a nephew, Harrison Benedict.
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Note: Not listed among the children...Cecil b. 10 Mar 1882-- d. 4 Dec 1886.
James F. Barbarick, former Gasconade county sheriff and justice of the peace and retired blacksmith, died at 5 o'clock Monday morning, July 11, 1949, at his home in Belle. Death was caused by a heart attack. He was 90 years, 1 month and 24 days old.
Mr. Barbarick enjoyed unusally good health for a man his age up until a week before his death. He could read a newspaper without eye glasses and last Thursday he made an effort to dress and go to the postoffice after his Banner. He was a well read man and was learned to the affairs of the nation and the world.
For several years he made his home with his nephew, Harrison Benedict at St. Aubert, and returned to Belle to make his home with a son, George, and family. More recently he lived in a house built for him by a son Floyd, at the rear of his own home. Mr. Barbarick was proud of his new quarters and often spoke kindly of his son for furnishing it for him. Here he cooked his own food and lived his own life the last years of his life. He kept his whiskers and self immaculately clean and always appeared to enjoy the fullness of his life. His children remember him shaving only twice and those occasions were years ago.
Mr. Barbarick learned the blacksmith trade at Woollam and followed that trade for more than 40 years. He was a pioneer of a period when a young man learned a trade by working and learning from his employer. Room and board was about the most any young man who was wanting to learn could expect in those days. In later years he worked for Shep Ridenhour and Bill Feuers at Belle and after retirement worked for Gus Swanson at the blacksmith trade.
He was justice of the peace in Gasconade county for 16 years, was deputy sheriff , and about 1896 was elected sheriff. While sheriff he hanged the first man to be legally hanged in the county.
Mr. Barbarick was born at Bland, May 17, 1859, a son of Joseph Henry and Manerva Jane (Shockley) Barbarick.
He was the father of 13 children, five of whom survive: Mrs. Nora Milam, Kansas City, Kan; Mrs. Dora Hoelter, Beaufort; George B., John and Floyd Barbarick, Belle. Twenty-seven grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren survive with a sister, Mrs. Manerva Branson, Springfield; and a half sister, Mrs. Cassa Kilgroe, Little Rock, Ark.
Eight children preceded him in death; Cecil, Walter, Joseph, Clarence, Andrew, Rhodes, Logan and W.B. Barbarick.
He was a charter member of the Belle Christian church where funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon. Burial was in Cleavesville Cemetery.
Pallbearers were grandsons, Roy, Leo, Frank, and Ralph Barbarick, Harry Milam, and a nephew, Harrison Benedict.
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Note: Not listed among the children...Cecil b. 10 Mar 1882-- d. 4 Dec 1886.
Family Members
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Nora Belle Barbarick Milam
1883–1969
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Joseph Arthur "Joe" Barbarick
1884–1914
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James Logan Barbarick
1886–1934
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William Bransford Barbarick
1887–1942
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John Harrison Barbarick
1889–1961
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Dora Francis Barbarick Hoelter
1890–1966
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Clarence Albert Barbarick
1892–1917
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Andrew D. Barbarick
1894–1913
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George N. Barbarick
1895–1949
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Rhodes McKinley Barbarick Sr
1896–1931
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Walter A. Barbarick
1899–1902
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Floyd Nulty Barbarick
1903–1968
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