Jim, I saw your message concerning Harrisonville, MO library, and your interest in updating files. Are you related to Willis Barton SC AL? Debbie Black has a nice web page about this Barton family. Willis is my ancestor as well. I live near Harrisonville, Mo. Is there any research about the Bartons in this library? Sarah JReyno6299@aol.com wrote: > The families of the Rev. Isaac Barton and the Rev. William Murphy are > interwoven. Rev. Isaac Barton married Keziah Murphy, daughter of Rev. > William Murphy and Martha Hodge(s) Murphy. After the death of Martha > Hodge(s) Murphy, Rev. William Murphy married Sarah Barton, sister of the Rev. > Isaac Barton (both children of Joshua Barton and Jane Dubart Barton). > > As a Barton/Murphy descendant, I am interested in making contact with other > Barton and Murphy descendants for the purpose of updating the family records > of our common families. > > As a member (and current President) of the Barton Family Association ("BFA"), > I have as a resource the 2-volume family history privately printed in 1988 by > the BFA entitled "The Descendants of Isaac Barton of Killaloe, County Clare, > Ireland". > > A copy of the "History of Rev. William Murphy and His Descendants 1798-1819", > written by Alice Murphy Sturgess, is in our local library (Harrisonville, > MO), as is some research done by a local community member (now deceased). > > I am hopeful that we can combine efforts to share information about our > common families. > > Please feel free to contact me at JReyno6299@aol.com. > > Jim Reynolds > > ==== 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.