Ray Edgar Barnard

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Ray Edgar Barnard. Born 5 Dec 1884 in Louisiana. Died 22 Oct 1960 in Memphis, Tennessee. Buried at Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee His wife, Allie Haughton Barnard died 10 Sep 1969 is is buried beside him.
From Who's Who: Ray Edgar Barnard, certified public accountant, 527 Lundee St., Memphis. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on December 5, 1884, the son of Robert E. and Cora May Erion Barnard and is of English and German extraction. He attended Memphis and Shelby County High Schools; and attended Macon and Andrews Business College and has completed special correspondence courses. He received the Certified Public Accountant Certificate (Tenn) in 1925. On July 2, 1905, he was married to Allie Haughton of Spring Creek, Tennessee, and to this union have been born three children, namely: Mary Virginia (Mrs. R.B. Jones of Geneva, Switzerland), Kathleen Louise (Mrs. Richard Gorman of Miami, FL) and Carolyn (Mrs. R.J. Benson of Asheville, NC). He was an officer and chief accountant with Galloway Coal Company, Memphis, prior to 1918. During World War I, he was Chief Auditor of the U.S. Fuel Administration in Washington, D.C. He has been active in public accounting from 1919 to 1944, and has had his own practice as Certified Public Accountant 1945 to date. He has served as a director of Odd Fellows Hall and Library Association, Memphis, and as a Trustee of Chickasaw Lodge No. 8, I.O.O.F., Memphis for the past twenty years. He is a member of Angerona Lodge 168, Blue Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons. He has served as Past Grand Patriarch, I.O.O. F., Jurisdiction of Tennessee, Encampment Branch. He is a member of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Certifed Public Accountants and National Association of Accountants. He is a Democrat. He is an Ordained Deacon for Life (Baptist Church-presently inactive) and is a present member of Bellevue Baptist Church of Memphis.

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