Joan, Thanks for posting your message about helping in Pueblo. I'm now in the 3rd year of searching for my BARTON ancestors and have accomplished a lot. But Pueblo still leaves me with lot of unanswered questions. My parents meet, married, and I was born in San Francisco. However, my birth certificate had my dad's birth place as Denver, Colorado. So, after a 3 month struggle to get a copy of his birth certificate from the State of Colorado, I decided to go to Denver and research his family. I took the train there in early june of 1997, spent 6 days in Denver; the Library, Courthouse, and old neighborhoods. I came away with a lot of information about his father the BARTONs and his mother the STUBENRAUCHs. However, on the last day of my research, I discovered the Pueblo connection and had no time left for a visit. So I came home, wrote to Library in Pueblo and got lots of help for the Historical Librarian. The next summer, I decided to go back to Denver again on the train, this time with my wife and a 3 day side trip to Pueblo. I ended up walking from the end of the city limits (2600 Pine) to the Mesa (Library) one day just photographing the houses my ancestors lived in. For early June it was pretty hot, my wife refers to it as the 'trail of tears walk' and vows never to return to Pueblo. As for me, I loved all the time I spent there, it wasn't enough! So, Im coming back again this June, on the train, by myself. There are too many question left unanswered about my BARTON family. The BARTONs arrived around the turn of the century, after surviving the Civil War in Virginia, moving to Tennessee and then Texas before finally settling in Pueblo. The youngest child was my grandfather who left Pueblo in 1905 and moved to Denver. He had a middle brother Norman A. who went to California and died here in San Francisco in the 1920's, his body was sent back to Pueblo and is buried next to their mother Sallie Willie BARTON. Sallie Willie died in 1929 and is buried in Mt View. Her husband Norman P. BARTON went to the Old Soldier's Home in Richmond, Virginia in 1919 and died there in 1923, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery by the Daughters of the Confederacy. But its my grandfather's three other siblings that leave me baffled as to what happen to them. The oldest brother Fred BARTON worked for Colorado Bridge Company, I lose all trace of him after 1942, the last City Directory entry. He would be 68 at this time, and could not find him buried in any of the Cemeteries. One sister Pearl BARTON married Lee CONWAY, he died in 1930. There is no trace of Pearl in the City Directories after 1939. The other sister Annie (Bessie) Elizabeth BARTON married a STEPHENSON and they disappear from the City Directories in the mid 1930's. All three families were real close as in some years they are living either in the same house or on the same block. I suspect all three families may have moved to a new city together at about the same time. Now to your offer, here are the names of their children, if you can find anything in the school records, it would be of help: Annabell June BARTON(ca1913-) Frances E. CONWAY(1915-) Florence B. CONWAY(1918-) Fred O. STEPHENSON(1908-) Clifford A. STEPHENSON(1909-) Norman S. STEPHENSON(1912-) Maggie L. STEPHENSON(1915-) Thanks for taking the time, One way or another, I will be back in pueblo this June, gary > Subject: [COPUEBLO-L] Pueblo Native > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:40:41 -0700 > From: "Joan M. Alyea" <aerohawk@rmi.net> > To: COPUEBLO-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello, Folks, > > My husband and I are both natives of Pueblo County, although our parents, > etc., were from other places originally. Our Pueblo names are ALYEA, QUIST, > SPENCER, McBRIDE, WYMAN, PRICE, HALL. We have lived in Pueblo since 1934, > retired from teaching in Pueblo schools. > > We have access to telephone directories, addresses, etc. as well as cemetery > contacts. We have the complete list of graduates and history of > Centennial High School. Have access to complete history of Pueblo from 1852 > on. > > Will be glad to help all we can. This is the main reason we have joined the > list. We will post our family lines later. > > Joan Alyea -- =================================== gbarton@pacbell.net Gary Barton "Its never too late to have a happy childhood." Tom Robbins