Statler Family Obituaries
Barks, Jacob Pinkney
Jacob P. Barks, 75 years old, of Jackson, died at 7:04 o'clock Monday night at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He had been ill of a complication of ailments for several weeks and was taken th the hospital Aug. 9.
The body was removed to the Macke-Wilson-Statler undertaking establishment here and later to the family home on the Green's Ferry Road. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at New McKendree Methodist Church, of which he had been an active member for many years. Rev. J.C. Montgomery, pastor, will conduct the rites and burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery.
Jacob Pinkney Barks was born near Marble Hill. At the age of 21 years he came to this county as a farm worker, but after his marriage to Miss Laura Seabuagh of Sedgewickville on Jan. 16, 1888, he first began farming on his own account in Bollinger County. Two years later he and Mrs. Barks came to Jackson and they lived on Green's Ferry Road since that time. He continued his farming operations on a small tract he owned outside the city.
Surviving him are his widow, a foster daughter, Mrs. Leo Roloff, also of Jackson and living on Green's Ferry Road; three brothers, George Barks of Marble Hill, Marvin Barks of Burfordville, and Julius Barks of Clayton, and many other more distant relatives.
Obituary was found at the Find A Grave website and was printed in the August ??, 1939 edition of the Southeast Missourian newspaper
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