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View Tree for Harriet SargeantHarriet Sargeant (b. 09 Jun 1862, d. 31 Jan 1948)

Harriet Sargeant (daughter of Jesse Sargeant and Elizabeth Barnes)249, 250 was born 09 Jun 1862 in Derby Township, Ontario250, and died 31 Jan 1948 in Owen Sound General Hospital, Owen Sound Ontario250. She married William Barber on 20 May 1905 in Owen Sound , On250.

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Harriet was born 9 June 1862, the second offspring of Jesse and Elizabeth Sargeant. She married William C Barber on the 20th May 1905. They had one son Robert (Bert).

Bert--"She was a very active church worker. She was member of Knox United Church Owen Sound, but for many years had been an adherent of Calvary Church. She was a charter member of the Women's Missionary Society of Knox Church. My mother is in a picture of the choir at Knox Church. She'd be in her middle twenties.

For eleven years she was the head cook at the Owen Sound hospital. That's where she met my Dad."

Before she married she worked for a Mr Miller, the jailer in Owen Sound for number of years. She would not, it is said, serve liquor at any of his functions. She also worked for Captain Smith as a housekeeper.

Bert--She told me one time "I went through a period of great darkness." Then she was converted. She was a member of Knox Church when Barbara Ann Scott's father was the minister there.

In 1891 she organized a small mission and Sunday School in Derby township.




History of Derby Twp , Becket and Wilkinson,
1972, Richardson Bond and Wright Ltd, private pp. 58."


"Mrs Wm Barber (Harriet Sargeant) Lot 11, Conc 3 Derby, wished to be of some help in the community. After some discussion with her parents, she was given permission to build a small mission hall on the north east corner of the farm.
Mrs Barber's ambition was to start a Sunday School for the children of the neigbourhood on Sunday afternoon and also to have some services in the evening for the grown-ups.
When the hall was completed in 1892 or 1895, other women offered their assistance and a Sunday School was organized. One woman who attended this Sunday School as a young child remembers the little flowered cards (tickets they were called then) on which were Bible verses. These they received when the attended each Sunday and during the week they memorized the verses.

(Editor's note: One of those children was Mildred Sargeant Stratton, Mrs Barber's niece, who quite clearly recalled the impact this had on her life.)

For services Sunday evening, Mrs Barber had ministers from some of the churches in Owen Sound come to speak. Also some Salvation Army Workers very willingly gave their time.
About 1932 the Mission Hall was torn down and later the lumber used to build a porch on Mrs Barber's home.


Bert-"This was on the 25 acres they call the homestead. That's where Dan used to live and where Bellroses live now. The mission was north of there on the north-east corner of the farm. A new house has been put up there. It was right at the cross roads. We have part of the mission but Dan wouldn't let it leave the farm. It continued for a number of years."

Dow--"It was a little mission she built out of her own money. It closed after a number of years and then she started a Sunday School at SS#2 Derby school. She became my teacher. She took a marvelous interest in the boys she had in that class.(See photo section). Gave us testaments for learning verses. She continually did just everything to encourage young people to go to church."

Bert--We used to go to the mission. They had a service in the afternoon. Knox was at 11 on Sunday morning. She used to go to the mission because she like their preaching and what they believed. In my time she used to go to the Mennonite Corner. That's how she got linked up with the mission in town. They closed up then opened a work in the city.That's what they called the Buelah Mission. The Mennonite church is now a community centre down at Penner's corner.

Vera-Bert was sprinkled in the Anglican Church because his father was Anglican.

Dow--Her husband was in the dairy business and went out with a horse and cart in Owen Sound. They used to buy all my father's milk. Father would put a yoke over his back and carry the two pails across the fields to their farm. That was about a mile and a half. Aunt Harriet would bottle the milk for sale in town.

Melba Croft, Growth of A County Town, (Owen Sound 1900-1920)
1pp 230 Cases of typhoid (1916 ) brought about a mild war between the Owen Sound Dairy and the Castleton Dairy under WC Barber. Pasteurized milk was the only safe beverage.
pp. 262 1917 Tested were the dairies of Owen Sound Dairy , L Kivell, R J Walters and W C Barber.

Dow--She too was an exceptional cook. She always wanted to give you the best. She made up pies, bread and cookies. Just tremendous.

She and her sister Mrs Hannah Coleman, often catered weddings and receptions.

After being bed-fast at her son's home for about a month, she died the 31 Jan 1948. She is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Owen Sound.

Vera Barber, Bert's wife, gave Lois Campbell a hooked rug she made. It has a church scene.


Roseline- "Courteous, pleasant, somewhat old fashioned, likeable, a heart for spiritual things.
Attended the Buelah Mission where I was converted.

Aunt Harriet lived not too far from our home in Derby Ont. A long lane led to her Home away back out of sight of the rest of our neighbourhood. We liked to go to Aunt Harriet's as children especially at Christmas time when she prepared a great oyster supper for all of us. A nice treat for hungry growing children. Usually only affordable once a year I suppose. She kept her home clean and there was something about Aunt Harriet that was likable. I admired her for her desire for the better things of life. She would often walk down to Owen Sound church on Sundays, a three mile walk down hills and up hills. She was the mother of one son, Bert, who was a great chum of Dow. The were known as great stone throwers together. Quite a hobby what do you say?"

23 Oct 2003



More About Harriet Sargeant:
Burial: Unknown, Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound, Ontario.250

More About Harriet Sargeant and William Barber:
Single: 20 May 1905, Owen Sound , On.250

Children of Harriet Sargeant and William Barber are:
  1. +Robert Henry Barber, b. 24 Dec 1906251, 252, d. date unknown.
  2. +Bert Barber.
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