Yes I have them. /Four of the James are listed as BA and the rest Borton. Which could be important or not. Here are the James m. Sarah Biddes 1797, m. Elizabeth Van Houter 1803 M. Sarah Reynolds 1838 birth 1852 n, 1865 Raphiel Smith b. 1890 b. 1852 1890 m. 1865 Avbigail Carr m. 1873 Eliz GHaines b. 1812 That is about all. I did not check VT. Nothingthere. Dorothy ---------- > Dorothy...... > You sent me the sheets for Barton's in Pa before you went away last > month. I'm thinking that James was born in NJ.......and then moved to Pa. > after his > marriage. > Did you ever get the NJ IGI sheets? > > Barbara > > Dorothy Muirhead wrote: > > > I have the IGI sheets for all Bzrtons PA I find a James Hervey born to > > Samuek /A, & Emeline Mattson b. 1833 Deleware Co. but he marriedf in 1860 > > Srah Emma Clayton > > There are several James listed there is a skip betwen 1771e and 1827 and > > none are listed for Deleware Co. Could James have been born in another > > state? I have NY<RI, NJ, MA and PA. > > Here he is James m. 26 Jan 1756 Phil. by relative Lillie L.A. Duke b no > > spouses name is listed. This would mean he was born aprox 1736 but perhaps > > in another state. There is a James H. born 1737 in NY. Let me know if I > > can look up anything more. > > > > Dorothy MUIRHEAD@INETNEBR.COM > > > > ---------- > > > I sure hope ya'll can help me with my "brick wall"...... > > > > > > I have been searching for information on James Barton and can't find a > > > thing. Here is what I know.........he died bef. 17 Jul 1806 in Delaware > > > County, Pa. He married Mary Archer on 26 Jan 1756 at Christ Church in > > > Philadelphia, Pa. > > > > > > After reading about Col. Joseph Barton, I'm thinking that maybe Joseph > > > and James were brothers......... > > > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I appreciate your > > > help....... > > > > > > Barbara > > > > > > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send email to: > > > barton-l-request@rootsweb.com (for list mail) or barton-d-request@rootsweb > > > (for digest mail) > > > with the body message of > > > UNSUBSCRIBE > > > > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > > Please support the Rootsweb Genealogical Cooperative by becoming a member, > sponsor, or donor. For more information, visit Rootsweb at > http://www.rootsweb.com > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > Any list problems or questions can be sent to the listowner, Christi Calvert > Brogan at brogan@idworld.net >

Dorothy, Thanks, do you have any more on this Mary? Also, what do you have on the Elijahs? Thanks, Carol 'On the Barton New York IGI sheets I find a Mary born 1738 Westchester of Tarrytown submitted by relative James Daily Van Tassell/ Nothing for a m to Sirrine and no Elisha's listed. There are five Elijah's listed Dorothy Scott Muirhead MUIRHEAD@INETNEBR.COM'

I have the IGI sheets for all Bzrtons PA I find a James Hervey born to Samuek /A, & Emeline Mattson b. 1833 Deleware Co. but he marriedf in 1860 Srah Emma Clayton There are several James listed there is a skip betwen 1771e and 1827 and none are listed for Deleware Co. Could James have been born in another state? I have NY<RI, NJ, MA and PA. Here he is James m. 26 Jan 1756 Phil. by relative Lillie L.A. Duke b no spouses name is listed. This would mean he was born aprox 1736 but perhaps in another state. There is a James H. born 1737 in NY. Let me know if I can look up anything more. Dorothy MUIRHEAD@INETNEBR.COM ---------- > I sure hope ya'll can help me with my "brick wall"...... > > I have been searching for information on James Barton and can't find a > thing. Here is what I know.........he died bef. 17 Jul 1806 in Delaware > County, Pa. He married Mary Archer on 26 Jan 1756 at Christ Church in > Philadelphia, Pa. > > After reading about Col. Joseph Barton, I'm thinking that maybe Joseph > and James were brothers......... > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I appreciate your > help....... > > Barbara > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send email to: > barton-l-request@rootsweb.com (for list mail) or barton-d-request@rootsweb > (for digest mail) > with the body message of > UNSUBSCRIBE >

My gggg-grandmother, Mary Barton b abt 1740 poss in Westchester Co, NY married abt 1757 James Sirrine. Their son, James 'Canopus' Sirrine, b May 15, 1758 in Dutchess Co, NY was injured during the Revolutionary War and states that he made his way up the Hudson River to his mother's brother, Elisha Barton's home in Sing Sing, NY. Do you have anything on the parents of Mary and Elisha Barton? Thanks, Carol

I am hoping someone can help me make a connection between Peter Barton b. abt.1805 KY m. Jane Ann Wilkerson 12/23/1834 Casey Co. MO. I need to know if his father was ??? John Barton b. abt. 1785 VA M. Elizabeth ? Any information would be appreciated.....Deb

Hi Barbara, Here's what I found out about James for you: James Barton, almost certainly a brother of Lt. Col. Joseph Barton, died after 1798. He married, 20 May 1759, Elizabeth Westbrook, daughter of Richard (Dirk) Westbrook and his wife Janneke, of Sussex County, NJ. James and Elizabeth were grantors in Sussex in 1765, and he may have been the James, "late of New Jersey", who was grantee in 1791, and the James who advertised land for sale in Ulster County in 1798 (Rising Sun of Kingston, 13 Jan. 1798). The family lived at the Wallpack area and belonged to the Dutch Church there. Some of the Dutch records give the surname as "Bartron", "Barthron", etc. but there is sufficient evidence to make certain that these are misspellings of "Barton" and not another name. This James did have a daughter Sarah, b. about 1776; m. Thomas Brink. Other children are Daniel, Mary, Blandina, Lydia, David, Jane, James (bapt 8 June 1777) and Richard. I hope this helps, Bambi

Thank you, Dorothy. Dorothy Muirhead wrote: > Yes I have them. /Four of the James are listed as BA and the rest Borton. > Which could be important or not. Here are the James m. Sarah Biddes 1797, > m. Elizabeth Van Houter 1803 > M. Sarah Reynolds 1838 > birth 1852 n, 1865 Raphiel Smith > b. 1890 > b. 1852 > 1890 > m. 1865 Avbigail Carr > m. 1873 Eliz GHaines > b. 1812 > That is about all. I did not check VT. Nothingthere. Dorothy > > ---------- > > Dorothy...... > > You sent me the sheets for Barton's in Pa before you went away last > > month. I'm thinking that James was born in NJ.......and then moved to Pa. > > after his > > marriage. > > Did you ever get the NJ IGI sheets? > > > > Barbara > > > > Dorothy Muirhead wrote: > > > > > I have the IGI sheets for all Bzrtons PA I find a James Hervey born to > > > Samuek /A, & Emeline Mattson b. 1833 Deleware Co. but he marriedf in > 1860 > > > Srah Emma Clayton > > > There are several James listed there is a skip betwen 1771e and 1827 and > > > none are listed for Deleware Co. Could James have been born in another > > > state? I have NY<RI, NJ, MA and PA. > > > Here he is James m. 26 Jan 1756 Phil. by relative Lillie L.A. Duke b no > > > spouses name is listed. This would mean he was born aprox 1736 but > perhaps > > > in another state. There is a James H. born 1737 in NY. Let me know if I > > > can look up anything more. > > > > > > Dorothy MUIRHEAD@INETNEBR.COM > > > > > > ---------- > > > > I sure hope ya'll can help me with my "brick wall"...... > > > > > > > > I have been searching for information on James Barton and can't find a > > > > thing. Here is what I know.........he died bef. 17 Jul 1806 in > Delaware > > > > County, Pa. He married Mary Archer on 26 Jan 1756 at Christ Church > in > > > > Philadelphia, Pa. > > > > > > > > After reading about Col. Joseph Barton, I'm thinking that maybe Joseph > > > > and James were brothers......... > > > > > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I appreciate your > > > > help....... > > > > > > > > Barbara > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send email to: > > > > barton-l-request@rootsweb.com (for list mail) or > barton-d-request@rootsweb > > > > (for digest mail) > > > > with the body message of > > > > UNSUBSCRIBE > > > > > > > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > > > Please support the Rootsweb Genealogical Cooperative by becoming a > member, > > sponsor, or donor. For more information, visit Rootsweb at > > http://www.rootsweb.com > > > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > > Any list problems or questions can be sent to the listowner, Christi > Calvert > > Brogan at brogan@idworld.net > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > Please visit the surname mailing list homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan/barton.html > for information on this list, it's member's pages, queries and other helpful genealogy pages.

Dorothy...... You sent me the sheets for Barton's in Pa before you went away last month. I'm thinking that James was born in NJ.......and then moved to Pa. after his marriage. Did you ever get the NJ IGI sheets? Barbara Dorothy Muirhead wrote: > I have the IGI sheets for all Bzrtons PA I find a James Hervey born to > Samuek /A, & Emeline Mattson b. 1833 Deleware Co. but he marriedf in 1860 > Srah Emma Clayton > There are several James listed there is a skip betwen 1771e and 1827 and > none are listed for Deleware Co. Could James have been born in another > state? I have NY<RI, NJ, MA and PA. > Here he is James m. 26 Jan 1756 Phil. by relative Lillie L.A. Duke b no > spouses name is listed. This would mean he was born aprox 1736 but perhaps > in another state. There is a James H. born 1737 in NY. Let me know if I > can look up anything more. > > Dorothy MUIRHEAD@INETNEBR.COM > > ---------- > > I sure hope ya'll can help me with my "brick wall"...... > > > > I have been searching for information on James Barton and can't find a > > thing. Here is what I know.........he died bef. 17 Jul 1806 in Delaware > > County, Pa. He married Mary Archer on 26 Jan 1756 at Christ Church in > > Philadelphia, Pa. > > > > After reading about Col. Joseph Barton, I'm thinking that maybe Joseph > > and James were brothers......... > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I appreciate your > > help....... > > > > Barbara > > > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send email to: > > barton-l-request@rootsweb.com (for list mail) or barton-d-request@rootsweb > > (for digest mail) > > with the body message of > > UNSUBSCRIBE > > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > Please support the Rootsweb Genealogical Cooperative by becoming a member, sponsor, or donor. For more information, visit Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.com

I sure hope ya'll can help me with my "brick wall"...... I have been searching for information on James Barton and can't find a thing. Here is what I know.........he died bef. 17 Jul 1806 in Delaware County, Pa. He married Mary Archer on 26 Jan 1756 at Christ Church in Philadelphia, Pa. After reading about Col. Joseph Barton, I'm thinking that maybe Joseph and James were brothers......... Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I appreciate your help....... Barbara

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 22:06:23 EDT, Lea Barton, LCounc@aol.com wrote to me personally: Hi! I am trying to find info on Richard Barton the older half brother of William Barton. He is the son of Benjamin Barton and Mary Hale (Haile). He was born in Swansea Ma in 1738/39. At some point he moved to Vermont. This is where I lose him. I found him listed on the 1850 census in Dorset Vt when he was in his 80's. I know he is a descendent of Rufus Barton. Do you have any info or know where I could look? I would appreciate it. Thanks L Barton She added: Thanks for responding. I have Richard's ancestry but he is the missing link in my family. A copy of an old social article from a Cambridge NY newspaper lists my known ancestor Richard Barton (born in 1800 in Bennington VT) and his father Richard. I have yet to find this Richard. There is some evidence that the Richard you have may have had a son named Richard also. I have no proof. If anyone can help I will be forever in their debt. Best always Lea Barton - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have Richard's ancestry back to Rufus documented on my web page http://www.angelfire.com but don't have anything further on him. Does anyone on the Barton mailing list have any information on Richard and his descendants? Roy Leggitt, full-time RVer just starting our summer trek through NV, northern CA, OR, WA, ID, MT, and UT.

Christi, After reading your letter, I had to email you. I think the Barton List is great. But I disagree with you telling people to use the new LDS web page. I have been trying to contact them to get off their program. I too have a web page with my family history listed. The LDS indexed it and put it on this page. I now get twenty to thirty hits from people who state that they got there information from the LDS web page. All LDS gives them is hits on last names and not on first names, states or dates. I get hits wanting to know if I am their ancestor, All they have is a last name. Sorry for the complaining but if you know how to contact them please let me know. Ask the other members if they are having the same problem. Thank You Paul Barton. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christi Calvert Brogan <brogan@idworld.net> To: <BARTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:55 AM Subject: [BARTON-L] State of the list, new items, etc. (FROM THE LISTOWNER: PLEASE READ) > Hi folks, > > Well, just wanted to write and thank everyone for joining the Barton list! > We are over 250 strong today (264 to be exact) and I'm thrilled to have all > of you. Since there are so many of us, I suggest we all try posting our > lines again to see if anyone else out there may connect. I'll start it off > by posting mine a little later today. > > Rootsweb has recently introduced a new set of web pages to help make life > easier on those who use their sites. They are called the "Surname Resource" > pages and the Barton one is located at: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/b/a/Barton/ I invite everyone to > check the page out as it is a great place to jump off from in search of > Barton information. The page includes search engines for the master surname > list, transcription projects like the ship transcribers guild, Genweb > archives and other records, and an archive search engine for this list. > > For those who haven't heard, the LDS church has made part of their > genealogical databases internet capable. Many many people started their > research at the local LDS library, and now you can do it from your own home. > To log on to the LDS site, go to http://www.familysearch.org > > Also, I am in the process of updating the web pages for the list and welcome > your comments, suggestions, links and/or queries to add. If you haven't > visited the page, please do at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan/barton.html If there is something > there you don't like, now is the time to speak up! :) One of the big > changes that will be taking place is that I will be moving the guestbook > from an outside host to a local site. This will cut down on lag time > between. Also, if there are those out there on list who either don't know > how or haven't the time but would like to have their lines of research > posted to the internet, please contact me and I'll be glad to help. The > more we can share with others, the more others will share with us :) > > Again, thank all of you for being members of the Barton mailing list, and > good luck in your searches! > > Christi Calvert Brogan > Proud Rootsweb Donor > Visit our list pages at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan > Visit our personal homepage at http://users.idworld.net/brogan > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > Please do not send spam warnings, chain letters, attachements and/or html or rich text formatted email to the list. If in questions, please address the listowner at brogan@idworld.net > >

Hi folks, My husband and I will be going out of town in a few hours until Monday evening, so if any major problems arise, please ask the "person with the problem" to hold on and I'll get back with them as soon as I return. We're going to Virginia to visit my in-laws and will be back around 11pm on Monday evening, so behave yourselves while we're gone :) Thanks for being members of this list! Christi Calvert Brogan Proud Rootsweb Donor Visit our list pages at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan Visit our personal homepage at http://users.idworld.net/brogan

Published in the Garden City Telegram, Saturday April 3, 1999. Garden City, Kansas Submitted here by permission from: John Lechliter, Garden City Telegram, Garden City, Kansas A Tall Texan Thrives in ‘Desert’ Nearly 60 years before the Civil War; Zebulon Pike marched his troops up the Arkansas River across western Kansas and later dubbed the region the "Great American Desert," suitable only for buffalo, cactus and prairie grass. But by 1872,11 years after Kansas became a state, the land and the times sparked the wonder of a few pioneers in the wake of the Civil War One of them was Welborn "Doc" Barton. The Texan - and a cowboy by any definition - was the first white man to settle in Finney County finding the prairie grass tasty and good for his Longhorn herd that grew as large as 12,000 head. He prospered on the plains by bringing the herd closer to the Santa Fe Railroad that made it to Dodge City in 1872. But a raging blizzard of 1886 wiped Barton out of the cattle business. Barton became a farmer and later a lawman, serving from 1890 to 1894 as the first Gray County sheriff. When he died in 1947, Barton was the last of the 89 ranchers listed in the Brand Book from 1884. Those were the men who first saw gold on these vast prairies. Quiet and polite, Doc Barton never lost touch with his roots on the range. He slept outside until winter "snowed him out." Barton knew men of fame like Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, Dodge City characters glamorized by motion pictures and the television series, Gunsmoke," which made Garden City's cowtown neighbor known around the world. It was rumored famed outlaw Billy the Kid worked on his southwest Kansas ranch. Someone named "Slaughter Kid" worked for him three years, and Ben Hodges, reputed desperado and horse thief, was employed there several years. Barton described both as "good cow hands." "If you worked for my grand-dad, you were straight-laced," said Naoma Batman, his granddaughter who lives in Garden City Maybe the first 30 people buried in Boot Hill died with their boots on, Barton told the Kansas Historical Quarterly in 1937, but they were "mostly gamblers, toughs and desperadoes, only one cowboy among the number. Cowboys were not as bad as they were painted." Masterson, a famed lawman, was 18 when Dodge City was founded in 1872, Barton told the Quarterly He disputed the claim Masterson killed 32 men. "He certainly killed one man -possibly three," Barton said in the story "He may have had 32 gun battles, and if others were shot, they were only wounded, not killed." Barton wasn't one to bask in the limelight, but it took all kinds to give birth to this region. He happened to arrive before the Santa Fe Railroad made Dodge City a cowtown. Born Dec.22, 1852, near Austin, Texas, Barton was part of a cattle family that migrated a decade earlier from South Carolina. Doc and his brothers were reared in the cattle business, raising their herds in Texas and driving them northward to market. Seeking his own identity in the business, Doc Barton, and his brothers, Al and Henry decided the real profit for the industry lay north in Kansas, closer to the market. An article from the 1937 Kansas State Historical Quarterly reads: "Up on the Arkansas (River), in south-west Kansas, was tall grass in the bottoms, rich short grass on the uplands, plenty of water. It would be weeks closer to a shipping point -and the Santa Fe Railroad was building in that direction." Barton was 19, barely a man, but full of energy and ripe to conquer this mini-frontier He had the common-sense tools acquired in the sad-die and some business savvy courtesy of his father Decatur Barton. In his later years, Doc told the Dodge City Globe in 1939 that his father was wounded seven times from marauding Indians. "They were quick with their arrows," the story reads, "drawing them from over their shoulder out of their quivers and shooting faster than we could with cap and bail." Doc's uncles, Poinsett and David, served in the Confederate army His father was not associated with the Civil War but he had some troubles with government as a large cattle producer in Texas. Mexicans once drove off 8,000 head. Later the Confederate government appropriated 800 head, according to the book, "Kansas and Kansans." That put Decatur Barton out of business, and he lived out his career as a farmer in Burnett County Mother Nature, not the government, planned the same demise for Doc, but he was likely oblivious of weather's fury in the High Plains during the late 1860s, when the master plan was conceived for a northward migration. "It was an opportunity for a young man," said Mary Regan, local historian and director of the Finney County Historical Society Museum. "I'm sure he heard from other people in Texas of the advantages of taking your cattle to Kansas. They were already doing it." But it wasn't being done between Dodge City-the 100th meridian -and the Colorado border. Cattle sold in Texas brought $5 a head. Those same critters were worth $30 in Kansas, where they were loaded onto trains and shipped to butchers in big cities like Chicago and St. Louis. Rather than drive them to Kansas, why not raise them here? Settlers were already moving into south-central Kansas, which eliminated using the Chisholm Trail to Wichita, he told the Globe. Prairie grass in southwest Kansas had a higher salt content. The cattle gained faster. It just made sense, - -Regan said. "You could run cattle as far as you could see. Barton was one of the first men to recognize this," she said. "The range herd laws didn't come into effect until 1888." According to the book, "Across the Cimarron," Doc and his brother Al, worked their way into the cattle business beginning in 1888 while living~ in eastern Tennessee. The book didn't mention why Doc Barton was in Tennessee. They persuaded friends Ben Eubank and Tom Connell to join in a venture to "corral some wild cattle and start a ranch" in southern Texas. Pooling a few hundred dollars of their savings, they purchased an old prairie schooner; repaired it and stocked it with supplies, including salt to lure the wild cattle. They bought five horses and four mules, partially on credit. "Most of their folks had been killed in the war" the book read, "so their good-byes were few" Once in Texas, south of Austin, they camped one night by a small stream. "It was a country full of cattle and good grass. Next morning, they heard a funny noise near the camp and investigated," as written in "Across the Cimarron," "They found an old Texas steer down in a bog hole, nothing showing but his head and horns. They pulled him free and tied him to a tree." Doc said: "Here is where we stop and begin gathering cattle for our herd." The steer was branded with an "OS-Bar" on the right side. He was marked with a crop out of the right ear. The story didn't mention what the OS meant. Barton's granddaughter; Naoma Batman, said she didn't remember the brand's meaning. It has remained in the family 132 years. They found more cattle in the brush. The steer they rescued never left camp. They put out salt to attract others, "so ail they had to do was throw and brand them." But there was a glut of cattle in south Texas where herds were abandoned before the war The animals were not worth much. "We're not making our wages here," Doc said in the book. "I'm going on a trip up in Kansas, as I hear the Santa Fe is building west. If I can find a good location, we'll be near a market..." He returned in three months with a Mexican man, named Felipe. Barton had saved him from hanging for stealing $10. He also had found a place to take the herd, which had by that time grown to more than 3,000 head. With a trail crew of a dozen men, mostly Mexican, the four young men headed north sometime between the spring and summer of 1872. They left the home ranch 80 miles north of San Antonio and 20 miles west of Austin. Continued on next page Continued from previous page It was three months before they reached Finney County with 3,000 head. Nearing Indian territory in northern Texas and Oklahoma, the cattle drive was turned west along the Pesos Trail into New Mexico. Barton and his crew learned Indians were on the warpath and there were outlaws in the area. A number of massacres had been reported along the Old Santa Fe Trail. It was west of Indian settlements, he told the Dodge City Globe, and rivers would be easier to cross. From the Pesos River they drove the herd north on the Goodnight-Loving Trail through Tinker Pass to Pueblo, Coo., and then down the Arkansas River valley -- Santa Fe Trail -- into Kansas. The trek wasn't without incident. Across the Cimarron chronicled one: "One morning when they broke camp, Eubank discovered a dead Mex near where the herd was bedded that night. Doc called in all the Mexicans to learn why a dead Mex was near the herd. Felipe said: 'He came to me in the night and wanted us to help steal the cattle and murder you white folks. I refused, and he got mad. I just had to kill him."' "Well, let's plant him," Doc ordered. "We've got to get going." Heading west along the Pesos, Doc Barton ordered a two-day layover to rest the crew and herd. Felipe left to visit family that lived nearby He returned with a wife, Carlotta. They'd been married by a priest in the nearby village. The couple and other Hispanic people worked for Barton. Little was written about them, but the ranch hands also deserve credit as being first in Finney County Once into eastern New Mexico, Barton and company turned the herd north along the Goodnight-Loving Trail, referred by some Texas Rangers "the west end of no man's land." Days later after negotiating Trinchera Pass in southeast Colorado, they reached the Arkansas River near Pueblo. They crossed to the north bank and continued east, eventually reaching the present Finney County They first camped south of where Garden City's Main Street bridge spans the Arkansas River; at a popular trail stop called "Lone Tree.". Later; the ranch headquarters was in Pierceville. Other settlers got the glory of building Garden City; but as his tombstone reads in Ingalls, Doc Barton the cattle king was "First to Come and Last to Go." "You can't help but be taken up by his character;" said Regan, who researched Barton for an exhibit on the county's major industry--beef. He died in 1946, living most of his adult life in southwest Kansas. Writings from the early part of the century and from living historians, agree, the pioneer was a gentleman and proud of his place in regional history. One living person in Garden City can boast of knowing Doc Barton well is Batman. "He was a plain ol' Texas cowboy; rough and strong-headed," said Mrs. Batman, youngest of Doc's first-born son, Wilson Barton. "He was just one heck of a guy Mrs. Batman served as Barton's driver late in his life. She was a teenager reared in Finney and Gray counties during the 1920s and 1930s. Mrs. Batman once drove her grandfather in a parade down Main Street, Garden City But most of her experiences included driving Barton to a store or a restaurant in Dodge City Garden City; Cimarron. There, Doc Barton whiled away his elder days, reminiscing the very early years of southwest Kansas development. She said he was known for his calm approach to life, including conflict. Doc Barton had little trouble with Indians, although there were a number of tribes. Cheyenne Indians were camped in large bands on the Pawnee River banks in northeast Finney County. Kiowas, Comanches and Cherokees roamed to the south. Freighters and immigrants were occasionally attacked, and there were some murders, according to "Kansas and Kansans," but Barton didn't recall having a great deal of trouble with Native American tribes. "He got along with the Indians, and some were hostile," Regan said. "Doc Barton held no prejudice and he was a forgiving man. If an Indian stole a cow from his herd, he saw it more as a man trying to feed his family" Barton Brothers cattle began with headquarters near Pierceville It was the first ranch west of Fort Dodge, which is just east of Dodge City Their first cattle were driven to Great Bend in 1872 because the stockyards in Dodge City were not yet complete. "When we were driving those first steers to the Bend, a bunch of starved, bedraggled Pawnees came upon us and shot 18 of our beeves, without asking," he told the Globe "They had been mauled by Cheyennes. Barton was quoted in the Kansas Historical Quarterly; 1937, that the "Pawnees were hungry and only killed what they wanted to eat. It didn't amount to anything." The ranchers grazed their cattle on land as far as 300 miles south of Pierceville and west to the Colorado line. In a story from the May 1,1941 issue of the Garden City News, Barton told a reporter he purchased a .45 caliber Frontier Model Colt six-shooter in 1873 from John O'Loughlin's trading post in Lakin, marked before by an old telegraph station. He must've been among O'Loughlin's first customers. O'Loughlin opened the trading post in April of that year and according to the 1937 Kansas Historical Quarterly was the first white settler west of Pierceville. Barton returned to Mason County Texas, in 1877 and married Belle Vandeveer; a rancher's daughter; who brought to the marriage a dowry of 500 cattle. Her first visit to Kansas was by horseback. Her granddaughter; Batman, said it was unheard of in those days for a woman to make such a trek in a saddle. A good deed On the next trip from Texas to Finney County; the Bartons had a baby; Wilson Barton, (Naomas father). She drove a chuckwagon north, or rode horseback, while a cook manned the wagon and tended the child. The drive was just north of Laverne, Okla. when Belle got the Cchuckwagon stuck in a mud hole. Doc was on horseback, possibly scouting ahead. Before Belle and the cook could free the wagon, they were surrounded by Indians. The young mother had a barrel full of cookies she'd baked for the trip, and she gave them to the Native Americans. They responded by lifting the wagon out of the hole, and then rode away. When Doc learned of the good deed, he gave the Indians several cattle to butcher. Western Kansas was mostly uninhabited by settlers in the 1870s. Finney County; wasn't chartered until 1878. Barton told Dodge City reporter C.C. Isely in 1939 the High Plains were a "wild animal paradise." Hunters had not yet migrated south from the Union Pacific railroad and buffalo "blackened the prairies." The pioneer told of seeing packs of gray wolves a mile long, "hanging on the flank of the bison army and there were herds of wild horses. Wild fowl abounded in the Arkansas River Continued on next page Continued from previous page "Doc shot so many swans that I made a dozen swansdown bolsters," Belle was quoted in the Isely story. She told him the story before her death In 1929. Barton promoted southwest Kansas as a cattle center; and the ranchers came. A cattleman's association was formed in 1883. The group ruled a domain that Included unorganized areas of five states. The Globe wrote that "these were law abiding men. They taxed themselves to provide for their self-goverument and even discouraged carrying firearms." The Barton Brothers herd had grown and changed. About 800 of Doc's cows were registered Herefords, a different breed from those Longhorns he first drove north. To protect the stock, a fence was built from Cimarron 12 miles south, then west into Haskell County and north to Piercevifie. ‘A broken empire’ But the cattle king was dethroned In January 1886, when a tremendous blizzard swept through, killing about 11,000 of his cattle. The estimated $250,000 loss was too much to overcome. It was written in "The History of Ingalls, KS" that the two-week blizzard, with only a few breaks, produced such a blanket of snow that a man could walk along the railroad fence from Dodge City to the Colorado line "without touching foot to the ground." Temperatures were said to have dipped to 40 degrees below zero. In a June 1981 issue of "New West TV News," it was recalled that snow smothered some animals and others drowned or froze to death. "Barton searched for the remnants of his vast herd, finding carcasses ... bunched up in draws and canyons, even along the fences," the story read. His surviving cattle were "worthless, thin and stunted because of the cold. The blizzard broke the cattlemen..." Barton told his granddaughter In later years: "There were dead cattle everywhere. They were almost cast In ice." Ironically; Barton was in Dodge City before the blizzard, arranging the shipment and sale of a train load of cattle. As writer Isely wrote In 1939, Dodge City became "the capital of a broken empire." That spring, homesteaders swept In and filed on nearly all of the open range cattlemen had enjoyed. Much of the sod was broken out into farmland. Building a life Barton's brothers returned to Texas, but Doc, age 33, stayed and turned to farming on land he purchased through the years. He ran a little stock, but it was nothing like his glory years. Doc Barton built a home near the southeast corner of Ingalls and lived out his years there. Other natural perils lay ahead. There was a "great drought" in 1894 and more would follow; along with the high winds well-known in Kansas. The Ingalls History reported an earthquake Jan. 7,1906, that could be felt throughout the state. In April 1939, Barton was an honored guest at the Warner Brothers premiere in Dodge City of the film "Dodge City" starring Errol Flynn. He received a trophy for being last of the old cow kings. Writer C.C Isely described him this way: Doc Barton is tall and spare, weathered as an ancient cedar on the topmost canon crag. There is a twinkle in his old blue eyes as he sees the display of cowboy gear; for he was the first to bring Texas cattle to the new rail head at Dodge City; and now among the 89 cattlemen enrolled In the Brand Book of 1884, he is the only one living." Through it all, granddaughter Naoma Batman said, Doc Barton remained a gentleman, never gloating in his regional celebrity "He was so mannerly Never did I see him with his gloves off and he always had on a suit jacket," said Mrs. Batman, 83. But her granddad remained glued to the land, reminiscing his glory days on the range. "He was a tough hombre," she said. Many settlers followed Barton --some were just as successful, while others faced challenges that tested their staying power This chapter was written by Tim Unruh Early picture of Barton: “Welborn “Doc” Barton, pictured here around 1875, was the first pioneer to settle in Finney County.” Article contains a picture of Barton taken around 1943. “He died in 1947.” Picture of gravestone: “This is “Doc” Barton’s gravestone, which is located in Ingalls Cemetery in Gray County. Barton, A Finney County pioneer, was born in 1852, and he died in 1947.” [Information on tombstone show wife as Belle 1855-1929.]

G'day folks, I'm looking for information about Elizabeth BARTON who was the wife of Reuben ROBERTS (m. c1796). Elizabeth was supposedly the daughter of a John BARTON and was born around 1780, probably in or near Washington Co. MD. She married Reuben ROBERTS, probably in Oldtown, Allegany Co. MD in the mid 1790s. The couple moved to Ohio Co. VA (now Marshall Co. WV) around 1800 (I think). In the 1830s they moved to Iowa (their final resting place) with at least some of their dozen or so children, including James Dorsey ROBERTS - one of my gg-grandfathers. Thanks for your help. :-) Lee, in remote Tasmania

Bambi - Could you please tell me the name of the article? I also have articles from NEHGS, but from different volumes. They were written by George McCracken. I would love to give you my observations if your article is by McCracken!! John Histcreatr@aol.com wrote: > I just received a copy of an article from the NEHGS Register, Volume 106, > July 1952. For anyone who is descended from Roger Barton, there is a > wealth of information to be found in this article! Copies of the NEHGS > Register can be purchased on CD-rom and a number of people who have the > CD version are happy to do lookups. After viewing the amount of > information in one article, I would say it's well-worth the price to own > a copy, however! > > My question is: Does anyone know how accurate this article is? Are there > other, updated, articles that trace the Roger Barton family line? I'm > tracing a possible link to Col. Joseph Barton's family, from Sussex > County, New Jersey, later settling in Nova Scotia, Canada and would > appreciate any pointers to similar articles! > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me! > > Bambi Dingman - Histcreatr@aol.com > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > Please support the Rootsweb Genealogical Cooperative by becoming a member, sponsor, or donor. For more information, visit Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.com -- John Harrison San Francisco johnhsf@slip.net Home Page: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/a/r/John-Allen-Harrison/ researching: H*ARRISON, A*NDERSON, S*TEWART (S*TEUART), M*cCONNELL, B*ROWN, T*AYLOR, W*ITTER (W*IDDER), B*ARTON, T*OWER (T*OWAR), R*ANDOLPH, C*ARTER, B*ARCLAY, H*ARRIS, G*UFFY, R*AMSEY, V*AN KIRK (V*AN KERCK), M*ORGAN, S*HERA, L*EARD (L*AIRD), M*UNNS, R*OYCROFT, S*HAFER (S*HAFFER/S*CHAEFFER), K*IEHL, K*OBESSEN, H*UGHES, B*URGETT, H*EALD (H*EYLD), D*INWIDDIE, N*UTTER, G*ILBERT, H*EADY "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors" - Edmund Burke

I just received a copy of an article from the NEHGS Register, Volume 106, July 1952. For anyone who is descended from Roger Barton, there is a wealth of information to be found in this article! Copies of the NEHGS Register can be purchased on CD-rom and a number of people who have the CD version are happy to do lookups. After viewing the amount of information in one article, I would say it's well-worth the price to own a copy, however! My question is: Does anyone know how accurate this article is? Are there other, updated, articles that trace the Roger Barton family line? I'm tracing a possible link to Col. Joseph Barton's family, from Sussex County, New Jersey, later settling in Nova Scotia, Canada and would appreciate any pointers to similar articles! Thanks in advance for any help you can give me! Bambi Dingman - Histcreatr@aol.com

I am looking for my half sister Rose Marie, who was born to Robert SCISSONS and Barbara BARTON about 1955, in the state of Arizona. Robert was in the Air Force at the time and stationed at Luke AFB. Barbara's mother was Marie BARTON. Rose Marie may have been adopted by her step-father whose surname was WAKEFIELD. I would appreciate any information or leads to BARTONS living in Arizona during this time. Thanks, Robert Scissons Jr. scissons@surnameweb.org

I have a book I rec'd from Lehman Tiller, Rt. 1, Box 131, Vansant, VA 24656-9706. It starts off with Washington "Watt" BURTON m. to Comfort THOMAS and lists the children as you have them. George b. 1817; Elijah b. ca 1829; William b. ca 1831; Jacob b. ca 1836; Washington b. ca 1838; and Sarah (no date). Unfortunately it does not have any info on the parents of Washington BARTON. The book is 80+ pages of BARTON Family info. You may want to contact Mr. Tiller. GOOD LUCK!

I have a Washinton Barton, but we don't know much about him. Our Washington Barton was from Kentucky but moved to Missouri (Dunklin County). He married Nancy Barton. They had one child together, William Barton, and then Washington died and Nancy remarried. If there is a connection to your Washington Barton, I can give you more information on William Barton's family. Good luck on your search. Tracy Barton

I am looking for any information on any of the following BARTON family members. This family was living in southwestern VA in the 1800's and there are many descendants still living there. Washington "Wash" BARTON, born between 1790 and 1800, I am assuming he died between the years of 1840 and 1850 as he is listed as head of the household in the 1840 census, but not listed in the 1850 census, but his wife is listed as head of the household. I do not have his parent's names nor a proven place of birth. He married Comfort THOMAS, who is listed as being born in VA. I have the following children listed for them: John/Jayhugh born around 1818 in Grayson Co. VA. (I am not sure he is a son of theirs, but is a relative.) a daughter born between 1820 and 1825, don't have a proven name for her, possibility of "Ruth" born in North Carolina, George W. born around 1823 in South Carolina, Elijah born around 1829 in Russell County VA, William born around 1831 in Russell County VA, Washington born around 1834 in Russell County VA, Jacob born around 1836 in Russell County VA, Sarah E. born around 1843 in Russell County VA. I have the names of the spouses for most of the above children and the children's names for most of them. I am especially interested in finding the parents of Washington "Wash" BARTON. The only "lead" of any kind I have is that he was originally from South Carolina. (That information was told by older family members many years ago. Pickens SC was also mentioned.) Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1