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salesman. Barnes’s mother was born in
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Helen Barnes turned to traveling in the early 1920s. She spent several months between 1920 and 1921 touring
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and son of a well-to-do manufacturer from
Indiana, were traveling at a high speed when their car struck a slow moving vehicle, careened into another and then rolled over a number of times killing the two almost instantly. Friends of Griffin felt the other driver, who was later cited for driving
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Gertrude Barnes was born on July 5, 1895, in Shelton, Connecticut, the first of two daughters raised by William and Anna Barnes. Her father hailed from Pennsylvania and supported his family as a
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without a vehicle license, shared some the blame for the tragedy due to his erratic driving. Barnes and
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Helen Barnes died in the early morning hours of June 1, 1925, in an automobile accident not far from
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Helen Barnes – Steamship
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shows at the same venue. Later in 1915 Barnes played Lotta
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