Barnard R. Barton

Barnard R. Barton, son of Alpheus Barton and Pollie Davis, was born Apr. 8, 1818. He married SARAH MILLER, dau. of William Miller. He died Feb. 27, 1907 in Stark Co., Illinois and is buried at Toulon Cemetery, Toulon, Stark Co., Illinois.

Children were: William A. (1848), John M. (1850), Silas H. (1853), Cordelia (1855), Albert L. (1860), and George W. (1862).

He was a native of New York. Through the period of his boyhood and youth he remained in the Empire State, and in early manhood came to the West, settling in Stark county, Illinois, where he rented land and carried on farm work. In time he erected a good farm residence, also built a large barn and outbuildings, planted an orchard and secured many modern equipments.

In Knox county, Illinois, he wedded Sarah Miller, who was born and reared in Indiana, a daughter of William Miller, an early settler of Warren county, Illinois, and afterward of Knox county. Mr. Barton was an industrious and prosperus farmer and a well-known citizen of Stark county. Here he reared his family and spent the last years of his life on the old homestead, dying Feb. 27, 1907. His wife had previously passed away, her death occuring Aug. 16, 1902. He was a member of the Toulon Baptist church.

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