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David W. Barnes Funeral Home is independently owned and operated by David and Carol Barnes of Coffeyville, Kansas. Our competitors, who are owned by corporations with headquarters in big cities, will oftentimes say they are family owned; however they don't mention that the family lives out of the area. This corporate environment leads to a lesser amount of revenue being reinvested in the community.
Brown also wrote a play, The Escape (1858) and several historical works including The Black Man (1863), The Negro in the American Revolution (1867), The Rising Son (1873) and another volume of his autobiography, My Southern Home (1880). William Wells Brown died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on Nov. 6, 1884. Despite his literary achievements and his contributions in the struggle for freedom and equality, he was buried in an unmarked grave in the Cambridge Massachusetts Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.