The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-12-31
DEATH OF COL. BARNETT.

The people of Hartford were mex
pressibly shocked on Wednesday
just after noon to hear that Col
c. NJ. Barnett, editor and proprietor
of the Republican, had expired a
pital in Nashville, Tenn, where he
had gone for treatment a few
month ago. In a measure his
friends here-which included the
whole citizenship of the town and
community-were prepared for the
sad news, for they knew he was in
very serious physical condition
and that an apparently unavoidable
operation might prove fatal; but
hope in such cases is powerless to re-
sist the shock of bitter disappoint-
ment when a human life hangs in
the balances and fate casts the de-
Gliding weight against anxious solicit
tude.
For months Col. Barnett had|
been ailing, yet his friends could
see he was bearing up with stoicl
fortitude. His ailment was not|
clearly apparent and diagnosis fall
ed to reveal the exact cause. Final-|
~ it was decided that he should gol
to Nashville, Tenn, where live his|
eldest son, Allison, and married
daughter, Mrs. E. w. Cooper, and;
see what the doctors at the Forte3
Hospital could do for him. His wife,
accompanied him and within the;
past few days his youngest son, Es-
till, went to be present when theI
operation decided upon was per-
formed. For weeks past efforts had
been made to build up his weakened.
physical condition to withstand the
ordeal.
= VIXEN he was put upon the oper- I
ating table local anesthetics were1
used to deaden the pain for the
first missions of the knife, and then
the surgeons reached a point where ?
q stronger agent had to be used to
produce complete anethesia. Hey
had been under the influence of the
latter drug only about twenty min
utes when his heart collapsed and
with a few spasmodic palpitations,
ceased to beat forever. In the mean
time the surgeons had gone far
enough to locate the cause of his
ailment and had he lived long
enough to be revived, he would prob
ably have entirely recovered. The
vermiform appendiX-that strangeN
organ of the body for which the doc
tors say they have never discovered
the particular use-had become en-
larged and elongated and had wrap
ped itself around an adjacent intes-
tine, thus setting up an ailment and
condition which only a surgical OPP
Grafton could relieve and which in
this case meant death in either al
tentative. 1t seemed that fate was
against the patient from the first.
1t would be hard in this feeble
tribute and in these faulty words to
fittingly set forth the worthy life
and notable activities of Col. Barnett
He had lived the most of his life
among US and we all knew him as
one neighbor knows another. And
We knew him but to love him for
his noble character and unselfish
deeds. He knew the value OF loyal
and he practiced it. Per-
haps he had some faults which come
TO human kind-who hasn't?-but
the worthy points of his character
SO far outweighed the common
frailties of mankind that we must I
give the need of praise to one who L
the respect and esteem
Of SO many of his loyal fellowmen,U
both here and elsewhere. for Col. +
Barnett was widely known. He had "
risen from an humble farmers boy {
o stations of distinction and honor n
These were the gifts of his friends. b
Col. Cicero Maxwell Barnett was I'd
'orn in Ohio county. north of Hart b G
ord, June 4, 1864, and was there w
ore ffftY=one and a-half years old Hc
I the time OF his death. His father
yas Joe c. Barnett and his mother 10
frances ID. Bennett. He was mar Az
led February 20. 1887, to Alice Dee Il