Retirement and Death
Barry retired to private life after the beginning of the ascendancy of the Republican party during Reconstruction, and carried on his mercantile business at Constantine. He died just two weeks before his sixty-eighth birthday, his wife's death having occurred a year previous, on March 30. They left no children.
Barry's home in Constantine is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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