The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
CLARA BARTON TO Be
BURIED At OLD HOME
Funeral Arrangements for the
Founder of Red Cross So
ciety Complete.

ment for the funeral of Miss Clara
Barton, founder of the Red Cross So
ciety, who died here yesterday, were
completed this morning. Miss Barton
will be buried where she was born, on
the slopes of the little cemetery in
Oxford, Mass, with father and mother,
brothers and sisters. She will be laid
to her long rest hare by the spot where
her cradle was rocked.
Brief services will be held at the
Glen Echo home Sunday afternoon. In
accordance with Miss Barton's wish,
expressed shortly before her death, her
long time friend, Mrs. John A. Logan,
will be present and will deliver a brief
eulogy. Rev. DR.. John Van Schaick
and the Rev. DR.. Curry, universities
clergymen, will also officiate. Miss
Barton leaned toward un1versaiism, but
held membership in no church.
The funeral party will leave here
Sunday evening, and further services
In Oxford will be conducted Monday at
noon by Rev. VIM. E. Barton, of Chi
cago, a cousin, and Rev. Percy III.
Elper, of Worcester, Mass, both Con-
g~regationalists.
Miss Barton was born at Oxford,
Mass, December 25, 1912, and received
an academic education. She was the
daughter of Capt. Stephen Barton, who
fought under Gen Anthony Wayne. In
her early career, she was a school
~Bordentown, N. j., which. beginning
with six pupils, quickly grew until it
numbered nearly 600. This work she
gave up to accept a place in the patent
office at Washington, which place she
held until the outbreak of the civil
war.
Starts Relief Work.
After giving up her po-
sition, Miss Barton advertised in the
paper of Worcester, Mass, that she
would receive stores and money for
wounded soldiers at the front, which
she would personally distribute. Her
appeal was literally answered and she
began her great relief work. She con-
tinued with the soldiers in Virginia
during nearly the entire period of the
war, being head nurse of the hospitals
among the armies OF the James.
Miss Barton vent to Europe in 1869
and was abroad when the Franco
Prussian wal broke out. She lost no
time in going 20 S%trasburg and begin
ming the work of nursing the wounded
soldiers. She proceeded later to Paris
and rendered assistance in relieving
distress at the time of the commune.
Pneumonia in 1911.
Miss Barton suffered an attack Of
pneumonia in February, 1911, had a
relapse and the disease became chronic.
She went last summer, as usual, to
her old home in oxford, Mass, and
to Glen Echo in feeble health
last autumn.
Muscular weakness of the heart de-
veloped, and for weeks the condition
of the venerable nurse had been such
as to grave fear among her
friends. Her bright mind was IN
dimmed almost to the last and her
ready wit and quick repartee made
her slckroom a place Of cheer to her
attendants.
With her when the end came were
her nephew, Stephen Barton, of Bos-
ton, and DR.. ]. B. Hubbell.
Autobiography Unfinished.
The great regret Of Miss Barton's
last months was that her enfeebled
condition made it necessary for her to
suspend work on the autobiography.
She had brought this work down only
to the beginning of her public career
as a civil war nurse. A woman whose
whole training had fostered habits of
precision, she has left behind practical
ly the entire correspondence of her
public career, as well as other data
bearing upon her international hos
pital work, and the work which she
herself began will be completed by
other hands. She had outlined to her
nephew, stephen Barton, what she
considered the salient points in her
public life.
The last years of the great Red
Cross nurse had been spent in retire
ment. She maintained her winter home
at Glen Echo, but passed part of each
summer at her birthplace in Massa-
chusetts.
Leaves the Society.
She retired from the presidency of
the Red Cross in 1904 and since that
time has had no affliation with the
organization of which she previously
had been the head since it's establish
ment largely through her efforts of
more h a 80 years ago. Members of
her household were reticent in dis
cuSsing Miss Barton's withdrawal from
the work in which she had long been
a leader. contenting themselves with
the statement that she retired when
more ambitious ones came forward.
They sent no notification of her pass
ing either to President Taft OF the
executive body of the Red Cross.