Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 603-604 [McCracken]

     RICHARD BENJAMIN BARRY, deceased, was born in Louisville,
Kentucky, November 7, 1833, and died November 11, 1892, at Paducah,
Kentucky.  He came of an old Kentucky family, and was reared and
educated in Louisville, being the youngest of seven brothers.  He
learned the trade of blacksmithing in Louisville, and devoted
himself to steamboat blacksmithing.  While residing in Louisville he
married Mary Little, a native of that city, now residing in Memphis,
Tennessee, with her youngest son.  In 1861 he came to Paducah, and
the same year entered the Confederate army, serving until the close
of the war, after his death, being moderately successful.  In
politics he was a strong Democrat, and served as a member of the
city council for about six years.  His religious opinions made him a
member of the First Christian church.  Fraternally he was a member
of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Masonic order.
     Mr. and Mrs. Barry had six children, two of whom are deceased. 
Thomas Isaac, the eldest, was born in Louisville, September 7, 1860,
and came to Paducah in 1861 with his parents, being there reared and
educated.  From boyhood he has looked after himself, and drove the
delivery wagon for W. H. Harris, grocer, for four years.  He entered
the grocery business for himself at nineteen years of age. and for
four years carried it on with marked success, after which he sold
his interests and engaged with Captain E. Farley for two years.  He
then was with Edward P. Noble & Company, wholesale grocers, as
general clerk for nine years never losing a single hour.  At the
expiration of this time he and W. Y. Noble formed a partnership in a
coal and feed business, but soon after Mr. H. A. Henneberger
purchased the interest of Mr. Noble, and the firm became Barry &
Henneberger, dealers in coal and feed, corner Ninth and Harrison
streets, where they have met with remarkable success, and have built
up a large business.
     In 1881 Mr. Thomas Barry married Miss Clara, daughter of
Captain C. C. Bowman, and two children have been born to them,
namely: Pearl and Edward.  In politics he is a Democrat, and was
alderman for eight months, until he resigned.  He is an ex-official
member of the Methodist church, and is a very enterprising young
man, devoted to the memory of his father, and delighting to give him
honor.

Barry Little Harris Farley Noble Henneberger Bowman
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TN

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