NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11247 BOURBON CO – MRS. JANE MULHERRIN BARTON - Barton #11247 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, pp. 445-6. MRS. JANE MULHERRIN BARTON. Among the very best of nature’s noblewomen this aged and estimable lady would, in strictest justice, be a assigned a place. She was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, September 16, 1801. Here she was raised to womanhood, acquiring a thorough knowledge of all the duties, and becoming perfectly conversant with all the details, of the diverse character of work that were in after years, and in a new country, to be imposed upon her. The drill of her girlhood was the best training for her maturer years. The habits of industry acquired in her father’s family were carried with a cheerful spirit into her husband’s home. She was married August 2, 1817, when little less than sixteen years of age, and in the October following started with her husband and her father’s family to the wilds of Missouri. There were then no railroads over whose iron track the speeding trains swept with the swiftness of the wind. They came by wagon and camped at night-fall within the deep, moaning forests, or upon the broad, far-reaching prairies. After a long and wearisome journey they stood at last upon the western bank of the “Father of Waters,” and who can tell with what feelings of despondency and utter isolation they looked forward beyond the rolling river towards the home of their far distant loved ones. But they had come to work, not to mourn, and to the duties of the hour they addressed themselves without repinings. Soon the hills were dotted with their cabins; the sound of their axes were heard in the valleys; woman’s merry laughter floated out on the frost-laden air, the solitudes of a new country had again been disturbed, and another settlement planted within the limits of Pike county. For many years Mrs. Barton continued to reside in the country, and through her husband’s good judgment and persistent energy and her own good management and economy they succeeded in accumulating considerable property. Mrs. Barton is the mother of thirteen children, but five of whom live to cheer her declining years. Her husband has also passed away, having died in 1868, after they had lived happily together for almost half a century. For quite a number of years she has lived in the village of Paynesville, where she has a comfortable home, and where the entire community vie with each other in attention of considerate and affectionate regard. For almost sixty-five years she has lived in the Christian’s faith, having joined the Church of Christ at Ramsey Creek, in January, 1819. She is strictly attentive to her religious duties and attends punctually upon the preaching of the word of life. Her general health is very good, and but for a fall received several years ago, and which seriously affected one of her limbs, she would be remarkably active. She continues to ride on horseback, an exercise of which she is very fond, and rides not only over the village but also over the neighborhood. She is a very welcome guest at every home, for her presence carries with it sunshine and joy. No one in the entire community would be more seriously missed or more deeply mourned than “Aunt Jane Barton.” She has encouraged the strong, assisted the weak and dependent, ministered to the wants of the afflicted, and spoken words of consolation and hope to the despondent or the dying. With her strength and activity there are in prospect for her quite a number of useful and happy years. May she live to enjoy them and to longer bless those who know and love her with her conversation and presence. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx