Social Security Death Index. Name: Sam Wyatt Barnum; Last Residence: 95608 Carmichael, Sacramento, California; Born: 21 Sep 1913; Died: 8 Oct 2009; State (Year) SSN issued: Arkansas (Before 1951).
From the Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith, Arkansas, Tuesday, October 27, 2009: Wyatt (Sam) Barnum was born Sept. 21, 1913, and died Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, in California. He was preceded in death by his father and mother, Anderson and Maggie Barnum of England; and four brothers and one sister, Rueben Barnum of Kalamazoo, Mich., Aretha White of Little Rock, Elisha Barnum of Little Rock and Madison Barnum of Oakland, Calif.; and one son and two daughters, James M. Barnum Sr. of Fort Smith, Sandra K. Powell of Muskogee, Okla., and Dorthea Tovar of Sacramento, Calif.
He was employed by Rim & Bow for many years as a machine operator and a blacksmith, a farmer and a musician. Mr. Wyatt (Sam) Barnum was the first of seven children born to the marriage of Anderson and Maggie Barnum.