MRS. CLARA ENSIGN BARNEY

(Died, Dept. 19, 1886)

   In another column will be found the simple notice of the death of the accomplished and beloved young lady whose name heads this article.  It is an announcement that will bring deep sadness to all who were privileged to know her, and one that deserves more than a passing notice.

   She was the daughter of Dr. Enas L. and Aleinda Ensign and was born about twenty five years ago in McDonough, where her girlhood was passed.  A graduate of Norwich academy and for several years a resident of our village, she was especially well-known in our social and musical circles.  For some time she was a prominent member of the Congregational church choir.  Her voice, a contralto, of surpassing richness and power was often and gladly heard in local musical entertainments, and her attendance was ever welcomed at our best social gatherings.  Indeed the pure and lofty soul that shone from her beautiful eyes made her very presence a benediction.  She was married in the Congregational church in this village, September 10, 1884, to Mr. Frank N. Barney, a leading business man of Syracuse.  This union was one of unbroken happiness until so rudely severed.  During the present summer Mr. and Mrs. B. have spent their time at their summer residence on the shores of the beautiful Keuka lake.  During the season Mrs. B. has not been well and has seemed to be slowly sinking from some unknown cause, not easily diagnosed by local physicians, and about five weeks since Mr. B. took her to Rochester for medical advice.  Here she was taken with septic fever at the city hospital, and although every effort the best skilled physicians could suggest was put forth to save her, in the dawn of the quiet Sabbath she bade adieu to earth and her loved ones, and her spirit took its flight to the Angel Land.  Her remains were taken to her father's residence in Oxford, where her funeral was held at one P. M., to-day, (Tuesday), Rev. Mr. Upton of the Congregational church of this village, whom Mrs. Barney requested to do so, officiating.

   The Congregational choir with which she so sweetly sang for so long a time also attended, and accompanied her remains to the beautiful cemetery in this village for interment, where they were also met by many of our citizens who joined in parting tribute to one they loved so well, and, who sympathize so deeply with the afflicted ones.  Here she sleeps the

"Sleep that no pain shall wake,

Night that no moon shall break,

'Till joy shall overtake

Her perfect calm."

NOTE:  DATE WAS HAND-WRITTEN ON THE ARTICLE.