Wesley Barkley
BARKLEY, WESLEY
NEGRO LOSES BARN, FEED, LIVE STOCK
Plano Star-Courier, January 19, 1917
Wesley, an industrious sober and prosperous darkey living four miles north of the city, lost a barn, a large quantity of feed and several head of live stock by fire Tuesday night.
The fire, the origin of which is unknown, consumed 1000 bushels corn, 200 bushels cotton seed, eight sets leather harness and fatally burned two mares and one mule and burned three other mules so seriously that they are useless.
The mares were with foal and were worth $200 each and the mule burned was valued at the same figure. The barn was worth about $500. There was no insurance on anything burned. The fire started at 12 o’clock at night, and it is believed in the neighborhood was of incendiary origin.
Barkley owns his own farm and is quite prosperous. He earned his property entirely by the industry of himself and his wife, he is an honest, thrifty man and a good manager and everyone regrets his misfortune.
NEGRO LOSES BARN, FEED, LIVE STOCK
Plano Star-Courier, January 19, 1917
Wesley, an industrious sober and prosperous darkey living four miles north of the city, lost a barn, a large quantity of feed and several head of live stock by fire Tuesday night.
The fire, the origin of which is unknown, consumed 1000 bushels corn, 200 bushels cotton seed, eight sets leather harness and fatally burned two mares and one mule and burned three other mules so seriously that they are useless.
The mares were with foal and were worth $200 each and the mule burned was valued at the same figure. The barn was worth about $500. There was no insurance on anything burned. The fire started at 12 o’clock at night, and it is believed in the neighborhood was of incendiary origin.
Barkley owns his own farm and is quite prosperous. He earned his property entirely by the industry of himself and his wife, he is an honest, thrifty man and a good manager and everyone regrets his misfortune.
