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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 4/11/1959

BARS - Elizabeth M. of S. Transit
Rd., passed away Saturday.
April 11, at Lockport Memorial
Hospital. She leaves to daughters.
Mrs. Robert H. Bell, of Lockport,
and Mrs. Kenneth Hal!. Cincinnati.
Ohio; four sons, Roy L., of
Lockport, Warren F., Hartland,
N. Y., Lester C, of Clarence
Center, N. Y., and John Jr., of
Raymond Hill; 13 grandchildren,
and 18 great grandchildren.
Friends may call at the home of
John Bars Jr., Beattie Ave., Raymond
Hill beginning Sunday from
2 to S and 7 to 10 p.m. where
funeral Services will be held
Tuesday, April 14, at 2 p.m. In-
terment in Hartland Central
Cemetery. Arrangements by
Bream and Lange Funeral Home.

Elizabeth married BARS, John on 22 Apr 1896. John (son of BARS, Charles and KORLMINN, Rachel) was born on 5 Oct 1869 in Town of Newstead, Erie County, NY; died on 28 Apr 1956 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 4/25/1946

Mr. and Mrs. John Bars, RD 3 Lockport,^who spent their
childhoods in log cabins in Western New York. Monday marked
the 50th anniversary of their wedding. In honor ol the occa-
sion, they were entertained at a surprise iamily dinner party at
Park Hotel Saturday evening attended by 32 persons
This is the third golden wedding
observed in recent years in Mr
Bars' family.
For the past quarter of a cen-
tury the oouple has resided at
their 196-acre farm at Raymond
Hill.
Mrs. Bars, the former Elizabeth
Altro. daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Fred Altro, was born in the Town
of Clarence. When she was six
months old, she moved to a log
cabin in the Kinne Road.
At the age of 13, Mrs. bars fam-
ily settled on a neighboring farm
and she remained there until her
marriage by the Rev. S. E. Way.
Erie County Native
Mr. Bars was born in a log cab.n
in the Town of Newstead.- Erie
County, and moved to Niagara
County at the age of nine, where
he attended a district school. He
is still active as a successful
farmer.
"The log cabin was town down
shortly after we moved," Mrs. Bars
said, as she vividly recalled the
crowded conditions in the two -room
hut for the family fo four, and her
daily two-mile hike to the district
school.
"The most noticeable change I
have seen through the years is in
farm machinery. When I was a
child, I remember my father work-
ing the land with wooden imple-
ments, drawn by horses."
Farming Family
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bars parents
were lifelong farmers. Their grand-
parents were natives of Germany.
After their marriage, the couple
moved to the Town of Royalton.
They have six children: Mrs.
Robert Bell, Transit Road; Mrs.
Edward Wartman, Cincinnati, O.;
Roy and John Bars, Town of Lock-
port; Warren Bars, Gasport RD 1;
Lester Bars, Clarence Center.
Mrs. Bars had a brother, Clarence
Altro, living at Gasport RD. Her
husband has four sisters:
Mrs. William Dietz, Newstead;
Mrs. Fred Cable, 127 Spalding St.;
Mrs. William Seigler, Newfane;
Mrs. DeForest Klutts, Middleport.

1. BARS, Roy L was born on 14 Sep 1896 in Town of Royalton, Niagara County, NY; died in May 1984 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
2. BARS, Warren F was born about 1899 in New York; died on 26 Oct 1969 in Lockport Memorial Hospital, Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
3. BARS, Dorothy Amelia was born on 10 Jan 1903 in New York; died in Mar 1980 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
4. BARS, Doris May was born about 1910 in New York; and died.
5. BARS, Lester C was born on 23 Dec 1912 in New York; died on 21 Sep 1987 in Clarence Center, Erie County, NY.
6. BARS, John was born about 1919 in New York.

Fred + Amelia. Amelia died on 2 Feb 1928 in Raymond Hill, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 2/3/1928

Amelia Altro passed away at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Bars, at Raymond Hill Thursday.
February 2, 1928.
She is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. John Bars, and one son, Clarence
B. Altro, seven grand children
and five great grandchildren, also
one sister, Mrs. Peter Shafer of
Corfu, N. Y., and one niece, Mrs.
Arthur Kinney of Royalton.
Funeral services will be held from
the home of her daughter, Sunday
afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock, and two
o'clock from St. Stephan Church at
Millersport, N. Y. Interment will
be In St. stephan cemetery.