John G. Barton

• ========================== From FindAGrave: Mr. John G. Barton died at his home in this place last Tuesday afternoon after a long illness, at the age of seventy-eight years. Their only child died many years ago. The body was buried with the honors of the Masonic order last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Barton was as true a man as ever lived.

He was a native of Lancaster county and was the first volunteer from that county to join the Confederate army. After the war he settled in Monroe and followed the trade of a brick mason in which work he excelled. When he finished a job it was done right. It was said of him that it was not worth while to ask him the price of a job, for he would make the figure the same after it was done as if had been bargained for in advance. He followed his work with the old time love of the master workman, and after reaching the age of seventy years would go to the top of high chimneys.

Whatever cause he espoused found in him the true soldier, faithful to the last. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and was the type of christian that supplements the true faith with honest work. A brave, true, modest, four-square man has gone to his reward, leaving behind him the genuine respect and admiration of all who came in contact with him, whether rich or poor, high or low.

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