A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
From 'Early Settler of Collin County', Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy Webpage, by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc.
Death Claims Miss Alice Barnum Pioneer Teacher. Newspaper, January 30, 1930. A Friend. Miss Alice , one of the early settlers of Frisco, died at the home of a niece, Mrs. Dixie Keatts, in Dallas, Sunday, January 26, at 2 o'clock. Miss Alice was born to E. S. and Martha Maria Wells Barnum, in Palmyra, Mo., November 26, 1858. She grew up in Missouri and was graduated from the public schools. Later she entered Engleside College, in Palmyra, and was graduated from there in 1882, after which she came to Texas and was one of the pioneer teachers of Collin and Denton counties. For twenty years she instructed the youth of these two counties and was considered one of the most efficient teachers.
The newspaper work attracted her and she gave up teaching and went into the business. For two years she edited the Aubrey Herald, at Aubrey, Denton county, and from there went to McCurtain, Oklahoma, where she published the first newspaper of that place. In 1910, Miss Alice sold her plant and came to Frisco to make her home with her brother, R. L. Barnum. Three weeks before her death she went to Dallas for a visit with relatives and was there when she died. She had been in failing health for more than a year, but death came suddenly and unexpected.
Two brother, H. H. Barnum, of Pilot Point; R. L. Barnum of Frisco; one sister, Mrs. W. J. Cotten of Shelbyville, Mo., and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Fannie Barnum, of Dallas, besides a host of nieces and nephews survive.
Early in life deceased was converted and joined the Baptist church. She was a consecrated Christian–she walked daily with Christ. In the dozen or more years this writer had known her, every day was begun by reading the word of God, seeking to know and do His will.
Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at Frisco, Monday, January 27, by the pastor Rev. McSpedden, of Greenville, and Rev. C. W. Ray, a former pastor. They each paid beautiful tributes to her life and character. [....]
Alice Barnum. The Passing of a Good Woman. Newspaper. Miss Alice Barnum was born in the state of Missouri about the year 1859 and came to Texas about the year 1880, taking up her residence at Lebanon, in Collin County.
She was a teacher by profession, and taught the Public School at Lebanon, Farmers School House, where Frisco is now located, at Rhea Mills and other communities in Collin county and at Little Elm and other places in Denton county.
After following her chosen profession with success and to the great satisfaction of the various communities she served for a number of years, she moved to Oklahoma where she engaged for a time in the newspaper business, returning to Collin county several years ago, and taking up her home in Frisco, where she had lived and wrought, until her death which occurred on Sunday, January 26, 1930 at the home of her relatives in Dallas where she was visiting.
Her body was brought to Frisco where her funeral was held at the First Baptist church which service was attended by a host of friends and relatives, after which her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Rowlett, Collin County.
She was a member of the Baptist church from her childhood and was faithful and attentive to all her ordinances and activities of the church going quietly about her duties to the church and community, doing services to her friends and neighbors in an untiring, cheerful, consecrated, tender-hearted spirit, being ever mindful of the rights, privileges and needs of those with whom she was associated.
Miss Alice devoted her early life to teaching and was a very efficient and successful teacher, possessing the happy faculty of endearing her pupils to her with bonds of love and affection, and at the same time instilling in the minds and lives of her pupils the great principles of justice and right, adhering sacredly to the doctrine of doing unto others as she would have them do unto her. There are many men and women, citizens of this section of Collin and Denton counties, that attended her schools 40 or more years ago, all of whom speak of her in kind and loving terms, reciting the many acts of kindness bestowed upon them as well as the patient and devoted service she rendered as their teacher, all of whom are bowed with sorrow and grief at her passing way.
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