Rev. Dan C. (Brother) Barr, 84, "the grand old man of Methodism," died at a Monroe clinic Friday, November 20th. He had been seriously ill for several days. The deceased was the pastor of the Winnfield Methodist Church on several occasions during his lifetime and also pastored other churches in this parish.

Funeral services were held at Oak Ridge, La., Saturday with the Rev. H. L. Johns, presiding elder of the Monroe district of the Methodist Church, officiating.

Rev. Dr. Barr is survived by five daughters, Mrs. S. M. Able of Rochelle, Mrs. W. O. Files of Oak Ridge, Mrs. J. M. Brothers of Monroe, Mrs. Minnie Boughton of San Marcos, Texas, and Mrs. Roberta Bondy of San Antonio, Texas, and one sister, Mrs. M. A. Hunt of West Monroe.

Rev. Dr. Barr was born July 18, 1852 in DeKalb County, Alabama, and was one of ten children, having eight brothers and one sister. The family later moved to Montgomery, Winn Parish.

"Brother" Barr received what little education he had at the old Atlanta Institute, at Atlanta, Louisiana, at such times as he could be spared from farm duties.

A deep imprint, educationally and spiritually, was exerted upon the receptive mind of the lad by Rev. J. F. Marshall, who boarded with the Barr family for five years and tutored D. C. Barr.

With virtually no preparation such as is now expected of a preacher, D. C. Barr began to preach in 1879 as a "local" preacher. In 1882 he joined the Methodist Conference. From 1879 to 1926, a period of 47 years, he preached.

In his long career, starting as circuit rider, he preached in Claiborne, Winn, Grant, Jackson, and all parishes that extended through North Louisiana from the Ouachita to the Mississippi River.

At Oak Ridge he established the unusual record for a Methodist minister by remaining for 10 consecutive years.

In his work as pastor he was aided by his wife, who was Miss Lizzy Hardy of Montgomery, La., they were married in 1875. She died in 1925 only a short time before the couple had planned to observe their golden wedding.

Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise, November 26, 1936