Faculty, 1888-1889

Birth: 19 Jul 1855, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 17 Oct 1926, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina

Parents:
Daniel Barrier (1809–1887)
Margaret Mariah Boger Barrier (1834-1898)

Siblings:
Lawson Whitfield Barrier (1858-1882)
Mary Ella Barrier Welsh (1861-1928)
Daniel Dixon Barrier (1863-1940)
Margaret Catherine Barrier Bowman (1865-1928)
Emma Regina Barrier Heilig (1868-1926)
George Louis Barrier (1871-1912)

Half-Siblings:
Wiley Alexander Barrier (1836-1890)
Martha J. Barrier Rose (1838-1958)
Augustus Cicero Barrier (1844-1926)

Spouse: Luther Augustus Lentz (1845-1918)
Marriage: 8 May 1873, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Children:
Charles Gilbert Lentz Sr. (1874–1964)
Louis A. Lentz (1875–1884)
John G. Lentz (1877–1878)
Ella Viola Lentz Barnhardt Chase (1881–1972)
Harry D. Lentz (1885–1885)
Paul Augustus Lentz (1887-1948)Laur
Frances C. “Fannie” Lentz (1889–1892)
George Holmes Lentz (1891-1915)
Cecil Brown Lentz (1893–1915)
Russell Barrier Lentz (1896–1959)
Laura Heilig Lentz Bowden (1897-1977)

Burial: Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, #30170540.

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Luther and Laura Barrier Lentz ran the Lentz Hotel from 1905 until Luther’s death in 1918. It was sold after the death of Laura Barrier Lentz in 1926.

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Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, NC), 18 Oct 1926, p.1.

MRS. LENTZ DIES RESULT OF SHOCK
Aged Mother Paul A. Lentz is Victim of Bad Automobile Wreck

Mrs. Laura Barrier Lentz, 71 years old, widow of the late L. A. Lentz, and mother of Mr. Paul A. Lentz, freight agent for the Southern at this place, died at 8:20 o’clock last night at the Salisbury hospital, having sustained slight bruises and severe shock in an automobile wreck on the national highway six miles south of Salisbury Saturday night about 7 o’clock. Death is attributed to severe shock.

Mrs. Lentz was a passenger in a Buick touring car belonging to her son, Mr. Paul Lentz, who was driving, and with them was Mr. Lentz’s wife and two little girls, Nancy and Bettie Scott. They were coming to Salisbury from Mt. Pleasant and their car was struck by a car driven by Mr. N. M. Wilson, of Greensboro, after his machine had sideswiped another car standing beside the road getting gas. The Lentz car was also hit by another car from the south shortly after the first wreck and this resulted in the breaking of the left leg of Mr. J. C. Bradshaw who was standing beside the Lentz car endeavoring to render aid. The last car, a Ford, was driven by Mr. Carl Carter, and his sister Margaret, who was riding with him, was also injured. It was this wreck which gave Mrs. Lentz the greater shock.

The funeral of Mrs. Lentz will take place at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at Holy Trinity Lutheran church, Mt. Pleasant, and the interment will be in the church cemetery. A number of Salisubry people will attend the funeral.

Mrs. Lentz, who had been almost an invalid for several years before marriage was Miss Laura Barrier, a daughter of the late David [Daniel] Barrier of Cabarrus county. Three sons and two daughters survive, these being Paul Lentz, of Salisbury; Russell Lentz, of Spartanburg, S. C.; Charlie Lentz, of Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Ella Chase, of Salisbury, and Mrs. George Bowen, of Straasburg, Va.

Little Nancy Lentz, who was slightly injured in the wreck, is getting along nicely.