Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 1 Col. 3 Deaths Greene, Mrs. Helena 68y 9m 15d b. 1 Aug 1852 Pendleton Co. d. 16 May 1920 home near Butler bur. IOOF Cem. Butler dau. Robert H. and Elizabeth Taylor m. W.H. Greene Jr. 1870 mother of 11 children surv. children named Herndon, Fletcher 88 d. 20 May 1920 home in Campbell Co. bur. Mt. Gilead Cem. Carthage m. Mary J. Herndon she d. Mar 1920 Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 1 Col. 5 Marriages James Franklin Rankin, 44, Falmouth m. Miss Elizabeth Cummins, 42, Brooksville pike Sunday bride dau. of Mrs. Amanda Cummins and sister of Charles Cummins of Falmouth groom brick layer Doan, Clarence m. Miss Grace Price both of Sunrise neighborhood last Wednesday parsonage of Rev. C.P. Pilow in Falmouth Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 1 Col. 5 Grant's Lick Works, Mrs. America 96 d. 15 May 1920 Campbell Co. Hosp bur. Oakland Cem. Grant's Lick m. Isaac Works Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 1 Col. 6 Good Attendance Record Cummins, Ennis N. son Wm. Cummins of Middletown, OH bro. Emma Cummins Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 1 Col. 7 Gardner, Mrs. Lou d. Friday bur. Gardnersville Cem. m. John Gardner Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 2 Col. 1 Entire page Letter from Rev. Charles L. Conrad, Missionary to India Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 3 Col. 4 Thomas Marion Barton Barton, Thomas Barton b. 29 Oct 1835 Harris Creek, near Lynn Station, Pendleton Co. KY d. bur. Odd Fellows Cem. near Butler Remarkable Life Sketch Thomas Marion Barton has passed away. He was a prominent, patriarchal patriotic and pedagogic landmark of local life. He was born October 29, 1835, on Harris Creed, near Lynn Station, Pendleton County, KY in a primitive log-house built by his father. In that early day this section of Kentucky was a dense forest, and it was necessary only to make a clearing to obtain sufficient timber to erect a house. It is interesting also to note that at that time all nails were made by hand. Thomas Marion Barton was educated at College Hill, near Cincinnati. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he was elected First Sergeant of Company D Twenty-third Kentucky Infantry, U.S. Army. The company went into encampment at Camp King, a hill eminently visible as one enters Covington along the L. & N. R. R. He was afterwards promoted to a Lieutenancy and later to acting Captain of his Company. He campaigned to Tennessee, and fought in the battle of Stone River (Murfreesboro), and many other engagements in the South. Capt. Barton was a school teacher for 40 consecutive years, teaching his first school near the present home of Joe Kidwell, when Butler was yet a mere hamlet and known as Hamilton, if indeed it was yet a village. It was the custom in that early day for the teacher to board with the parents and patrons of the school, dividing his time among them. In 1876-77 Capt. Barton was principal of the public school at Independence and about that time present of the Northern Kentucky Teachers' Association, with headquarters in Covington. He was a contemporary school teacher with the late great statesman, John G. Carlisle. In 1878-79 he was principal of the public school at Butler, and by getting many nonresident pupils to attend the school, many of whom were grown young men and women, he was enabled to have different school room, there being at least three; and as prior to this time there had never been a school taught in more than one room, he thus inaugurated the first graded school in Butler. Besides himself, a Miss Kittie Storch and a Miss Yelton (now Mrs. Wesley M. Rardin) were teachers. In 1884, he was principal of the Cold Spring Academy, in Campbell County. In 1885, he taught the Academy at Falmouth. He retired from teaching about 20 years ago, living about a mine from Butler, on Lick Creek, where his greatest pleasure was to have his children visit him. Many of his former pupils are now well-settled men and women, well and favorably known in Northern Kentucky. Capt. Barton was a prolific writer, and had contributed to newspapers in the old days under the nom de plume "Ken"; while contemporary writers W. J. A. Rardin, of Butler, and Geo. Lilly, of Boston Station, wrote under "M-Quad" and "Con" respectively. About 1886, Capt. Barton collected a number of his poems, and George F. Henry, then editor of the Falmouth Guide, published them under the book title, "Lyrics of the Licking Valley." Some of his poems were considered meritorious and copied widely. This led to an inquiry by a Barton of the same family in New England, and placed the Kentucky Bartons in a family that had lost them for more that 100 years, and further lead to an interesting genealogical and ancestral discovery developed by L. L. Barton. T. M. Barton was the son of Wm. Leland Barton, born at Providence, Rhode Island, A.D. 1796. The elder Barton came to Cincinnati at the age of 16, when that city was but a village. He later came to Kentucky and settled near Butler, where he passed away in 1865, and was buried on his farm opposite Flowertown. He was the son of Geroge Washington Barton, the son of William Barton, Major General in the Rhode Island Militia during the Revolutionary War, of whom George Washington said his capture of the British General Prescott (for whom "Light Horse Harry" Lee was exchanged), was the bravest act of the Revolution. Congress awarded Gen. Barton a sword. He was a friend of the Marquis de Lafayette, who, upon his second visit to American, in 1825, found General Barton in prison for debt. Lafayette paid the debt, and General Barton was released from prison. Upon this incident John Greenleaf Whittier wrote his immortal poem, "The Prisoner for Debt." This Ancestry is traced to Rufus and Mary Barton, who came to this country in 1648, from Scotland. Thomas M. Barton was a pioneer in the advocacy of temperance, further back than 1870. He died of old age, having been a hard worker most of his life. Capt. Barton bought the farm where he resided in 1871, and the large family of children were raised there. He married Mary Jane Beckett, of, and at Mirabile, Caldwell Co. Missouri. Following are their children, in order of age: Leslie Leland, now in U.S. Executive Civil Service, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Mattie Fryer, same service; Bernard, who died in 1889; Ed. E., lawyer, Falmouth; Charles C. in Government service, Washington DC; Mrs. Marie Bredell, in Japan; Mrs. Carrie C. Ball, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Nora Yelton, Butler; Walter W., civil engineer, in Florida; Thomas T., veterinarian, Walton, KY; Byron B., engineer, on the old home farm; Jesse J., engineer, Williamstown. The funeral service were conducted at the Butler Christian church, by the Rev. Henry Webb, of Covington. Burial was at the Odd Fellows cemetery near Butler. Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 3 Col. 6 Wyatt, Mrs. J. D. 39 d. 12 May 1920 State Hosp. Lexington KY fun. Flemingsburg bur. Elizaville Cem. beside her husband Elizabeth Rawlings m. Judge J.D. Wyatt Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 4 Col. 6 Hall, Anna Lee In Loving Memory d. 24 May 1919 Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 6 Col. 1 Neighboring Counties Bracken Co. News White, John W. d. last Thrusday Chandler, Judge M.F. d. last Wednesday Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 6 Col. 2 Grant County News Watson, Mrs. Emma d. 11 May 1920 TB Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 6 Col. 3 Harrison County McDowell, John C. d. 15 May 1920 Robertson Co. Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 8 Col. 2 Mt. Moriah Mr. & Mrs. W.P. Cummins and family entertained Sunday, Mrs. Myrtle Purdy and two children, Carrie Belle and Clyde, Mrs. Lula Cummins and children, Naomi Spaulding and Thomas Wolfe. Miss Naomi Spaulding spent Tuesday night with Misses Ida and Lillie Cummins. Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 8 Col. 3 McMchone Mr. & Mrs. Ed Davis spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. & Mrs. Bert Cummins and family. Falmouth Outlook Volume 13 Number 51 28 May 1920 Pg. 8 Col. 4 Boyd Miss Mattie Elmore of Walton is visiting Mrs. Myrtle K. 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