Margaret Barney Blake
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Margaret Barney Blake
 jgfarmer2
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Posted: 15 Dec 2004 3:25PM GMT |
Classification: Query
I am looking for info on this woman. She was the daughter of department store owner Charles E. Barney of St. Louis. She gave a lot of money to the Jesuits in 1922 for the alter to Mary in the new chapel at the St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant. She died in 1935 and was buired on the seminary grounds in the floor of the small Ava Maria chaple. Her boby was exumed and reinturned at Calvery in St. Louis when the seminary was sold in 1972. I understand she married a rich man (Blake) from New York and moved there. As far as I know, she was the only woman buried at the seminary except for the possiblity of the wives of the negro slaves that helped build the seminary building and till the farm land of the seminary. There were over 350 jesuits buried there.