In memory of Squire Barrett



Beloved husband of Susan Chase - Barrett


Obituary Notices.
SQUIRE R. BARRETT. DIED. - At his home in West 53rd street, New York city, on Thursday, July 2nd, Squire R. Barrett, aged 52 years. Deceased was one of five brothers, the youngest of whom had reached the "bound' of half a century ere death came to sever the chain that held them together, an unbroken family band. The Barretts are descendants of an English family that in colonial times settled in Concord, near Boston, Mass.

At the close of the French war, two brothers named Mathuel and Absalom, near relatives of Col. James Barrett, started westward across the state of Massachusetts to seek a home in New York. The former crossed the Hudson river and settled in Otsego County. The latter established his home in Bedford, Westchester. County. He purchased a tract of land, the deed of which was a small piece of parchment that was given under the hand of King George III., of England. On the banks of a purling trout brook that bounded a part of his domain, Absalom Barrett erected the first flouring mill in the town of Bedford. A great-great-great-grandson is now the proprietor of this historic farm.

Squire R. Barrett was born in the home of his forefathers, and lived there until the death of his father in 1850. He learned the bakery business of William W. Secor, of Sing Sing. He married Miss Susan E. Chase, of Pawling, Dutchess County, who proved to be a helpmate indeed. Seldom is so perfect a union vouchsafed to mortals here below as that which marked the three brief decades of their married life ere the unexpected blow fell that has made her a mourning widow. Squire R. was generous, manly, warm-hearted, a tender, devoted husband and father, a kind brother, and withal a good business man.

A company of mourners convened at his home in West 53rd street on the evening of July 4th. Dr. E.S. MacArthur of Calvary Church, West 57th street, conducted the services.

The next morning the family accompanied the remains to Pawling, where another funeral service was held, Rev. Mr. Chipman of the Baptist Church, officiating. His discourse was a sweet restful talk, his theme the old old story of Jesus' love. The choir sang very feelingly "Jesus, lover of my soul," and of the coming "Bye and Bye."

The procession then formed, and he who in former days was the life of every gathering, was borne away forever. We laid him in a quiet sunny spot, where the murmuring evergreens and the sighing winds breathe a soft requiem over his grave. With a tearful farewell we turned from the sacred enclosure holding one so dear, and returned to the home of Mr. Chase, whence we started homeward in the evening shadows, painfully conscious that another vacant chair in our homes will never more be tilled. E.T.B. - The Recorder, Mount Kisco, N.Y., Friday July 10, 1891.













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