Son of George Wesley Barrier and Frances "Franky" Buster; Richard remained a single man.
November 5, 1861, Richard joined the military, a Private in the Union Army, he fought under the Union flag with the 368th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Company C, 30 Regiment, 722 Division and remained a soldier until August 1865. He returned to Wayne County, Kentucky and continued farming his families land. On March 12, 1926, at the age of 83, Richard was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio with Myocarditis and discharged March 17, 1926. He died at home twenty months later. It wasn't until June of 1940 that his grave was marked with a marble military headstone ordered and delivered by rail to Barrier, Kentucky by a relative named on the document as Ethel Bell.
Note of interest: Richard had blue eyes and approximately 5 foot 8 inches in height. His closest friends were T.S. Denney and John W. Kennedy of Monticello, Wayne, KY . He mustered out of the military August 24, 1865 at Lexington, KY with a heart condition listed a myocarditis, defective vision and partial deafness.
§ By CL Hileman
November 5, 1861, Richard joined the military, a Private in the Union Army, he fought under the Union flag with the 368th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Company C, 30 Regiment, 722 Division and remained a soldier until August 1865. He returned to Wayne County, Kentucky and continued farming his families land. On March 12, 1926, at the age of 83, Richard was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio with Myocarditis and discharged March 17, 1926. He died at home twenty months later. It wasn't until June of 1940 that his grave was marked with a marble military headstone ordered and delivered by rail to Barrier, Kentucky by a relative named on the document as Ethel Bell.
Note of interest: Richard had blue eyes and approximately 5 foot 8 inches in height. His closest friends were T.S. Denney and John W. Kennedy of Monticello, Wayne, KY . He mustered out of the military August 24, 1865 at Lexington, KY with a heart condition listed a myocarditis, defective vision and partial deafness.
§ By CL Hileman
Son of George Wesley Barrier and Frances "Franky" Buster; Richard remained a single man.
November 5, 1861, Richard joined the military, a Private in the Union Army, he fought under the Union flag with the 368th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Company C, 30 Regiment, 722 Division and remained a soldier until August 1865. He returned to Wayne County, Kentucky and continued farming his families land. On March 12, 1926, at the age of 83, Richard was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio with Myocarditis and discharged March 17, 1926. He died at home twenty months later. It wasn't until June of 1940 that his grave was marked with a marble military headstone ordered and delivered by rail to Barrier, Kentucky by a relative named on the document as Ethel Bell.
Note of interest: Richard had blue eyes and approximately 5 foot 8 inches in height. His closest friends were T.S. Denney and John W. Kennedy of Monticello, Wayne, KY . He mustered out of the military August 24, 1865 at Lexington, KY with a heart condition listed a myocarditis, defective vision and partial deafness.
§ By CL Hileman
November 5, 1861, Richard joined the military, a Private in the Union Army, he fought under the Union flag with the 368th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Company C, 30 Regiment, 722 Division and remained a soldier until August 1865. He returned to Wayne County, Kentucky and continued farming his families land. On March 12, 1926, at the age of 83, Richard was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio with Myocarditis and discharged March 17, 1926. He died at home twenty months later. It wasn't until June of 1940 that his grave was marked with a marble military headstone ordered and delivered by rail to Barrier, Kentucky by a relative named on the document as Ethel Bell.
Note of interest: Richard had blue eyes and approximately 5 foot 8 inches in height. His closest friends were T.S. Denney and John W. Kennedy of Monticello, Wayne, KY . He mustered out of the military August 24, 1865 at Lexington, KY with a heart condition listed a myocarditis, defective vision and partial deafness.
§ By CL Hileman
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