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Obit For Martha Elizabeth "Aunt Tint" (Bayless) Reed
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Text - Outline The last to go has already appeared in county papers, on Monday, November 22 at 8 p.m. an old, lady passed away in the Barry County Hospital. I am speaking of Aunt Tint, or Martha Elizabeth Reed, her real name. Had she lived to December 5th her age would have been 99 1/2. That's a long time isn't it? She was the last of two families of Baylesses who came to this county a few years after the Civil War, that is, one generation of them, there are several of both families still living around Cassville, Butterfield and Oklahoma, among them Paulina Hankins, of our family, who is in the 90's.

The two families were cousins. One couldn't help but note Aunt Tint died on the anniversary date of John F. Kennedy's assassination. One had lived her full lifetime rich in fulfillment, the other cut down at the height of his career, young in age.

Mrs. G. G. (Bud) Bayless was buried in Carterville, MO, the same day Aunt Tint died. She was 85 years of age. Uncle Bud was our uncle. The two families of Baylesses never claimed much relationship but they were definitely from the same family tree, originating from Wales and Ireland.

Aunt Tint was born in the Antioch community just north of Cassville, not Berryville, Arkansas. Mary Paulina Bayless Messer was the only one of the seven children to be born in Arkansas. The others were Barry Countians.

Needless to say, Aunt Tint outlived all her brothers and sisters and all her children. Her long life may be attributed to right thinking, a fine philosophy of life, for she always made the best of every bad situation.

By: Maco Farwell, her niece.
Research Note: She was born to John Adam and Rebecca (Chaney) Bayless on June 5, 1866 in Cassville, MO, and died Nov. 22, 1965. She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery and shares a stone with her husband Samuel Alexander Reed.
Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Democrat
Date Nov. 1965
Death Cert Link Death Certificate
Resource Newspaper
Submitted by Donna Cooper