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Show MRS. C. BARNEY PASSES AWAY Caroline Christine Holm Barney, Bar-ney, 86, early Utah pioneer and wife of John S. Barney, died at her home, 1182 East Fourth South, early Wednesday morning of ailments incident to age. Mrs. Barney and her husband have been the oldest married couple cou-ple in Springville for a number of years, celebrating their 67th wedding anniversary last June. She was born June 6, 1854, at Saby, Denmark, a daughter of Thomas and Marian Anderson Holm. She came to Utah with her parents in 1872 as converts to the L. D. S. church. Her early life was spent in Lake Shore and Spanish Fork. On June 2, 1873, she married John S. Barney in the Salt Lake Endowment house. She moved with her husband to Springville in 19 03 and has lived here for the past thirty-seven years. She had always been an active church worker, especially in the Relief Society organization. She had always been an excellent seamstress, both in Denmark and America. Until her recent illness she was always very active in taking care of her home and her husband. She was the mother of fourteen children, .eight of, whom survive, as well as her husband, as follows: fol-lows: Oliver N. Barney, Springville; Spring-ville; Sarah Henen, Salt Lake City; Tillie Burt, Moore, Idaho; Agnes Siler, Birdseye; Thomas Barney, Springville; Mrs. Laura Nelson, Salt Lake City; Amos Barney, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Andrea An-drea Bouty, Salt Lake City; 35 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Springville Spring-ville First ward, with burial in the Spanish Fork cemetery under the direction of the Claudin Funeral Fun-eral home. The body may be viewed at the family residence prior to the services. |