Reuben is the son of Nathan Barton and Sarah Burroughs. His parents were also natives of Massachusetts where they were married and reared a family of thirteen children. In 1823 they removed to Phelps, Ontario County, New York and in that same year the father died and the mother with the unmarried portion of the family, nine in number, returned to Massachusetts.
In 1832 Reuben decided to again go West, this time to Ohio where the family, consisting of the mother and four children, arrived November 21, 1832 and settled in the town of Huntsburg, Geauga County. In the spring of 1833 Reuben purchased fifty acres of wild land with heavy timber at $2.50 per acre. He paid $30 down and prepared a home for himself, mother and a younger sister.
At some point perhaps after moving to Geauga County Reuben joined the Mormon Church. On February 24, 1836 he was ordained and elder and on March 2nd received his anointing in the Kirtland Temple. On March 31, 1836 he received his elder's license at Kirtland and in 1837 he was ordained a seventy.
In September 1837 in company with the brother-in-law, N. M. Faun, he removed to Coles County, Illinois. Here he bought 120 acres of Government land consisting mostly of prairie with a good supply of timber and again erected a log cabin and commenced the occupation of farming.
In February 11, 1838 he was married to Marcia E. Wilson who was born in St. Albans, Vermont, December 25, 1811. By Marcia he had three children, two boys and one daughter.
In the spring of 1844 he moved to Hancock County, Illinois and soon purchased a forty-acre farm. His wife died September 8, 1846, and his infant daughter died September 25, 1846.
In order to escape the impending mob violence he moved to Henderson County for a period of time. After the troubles seemed to have quieted down the family returned to their home in Hancock County only to have the house burned by agitators.
Reuben removed to Pottawattamie County Iowa in June of 1852 and in the meantime he had taken a second wife, by the name of Almera Woodward Johnson by whom he eventually had five daughters. Her family were quite numerous and conspicuous in the Mormon Church.
Later he became disillusioned with the LDS faith thereby causing problems within his marriage. Almera and the children left for Utah in the summer of 1861 in the forty-ninth year of his age, and twenty-third year of his married life, he was for the second time without a wife and sadly this time also his children.
On October 20, 1867, Reuben was married the third time, this time to Maria J. Carothers, the youngest of a large family.
Reuben was a firm believer in the Spiritual philosophy, and his wife of the Christian Church. He was a life-long Republican, and was at one time the only one who cast a Republican vote in his precinct. Although his party was generally in the minority, he was often elected Justice of the Peace, and served as such for many years, and until he positively refused to accept any longer.
In June, 1884, having arrived at an age when he could not attend properly to the care and labors of a farm and on account of the feeble state of his wife's health he was induced to sell the farm and he and Maria moved to Weston to live out their final days.
In 1832 Reuben decided to again go West, this time to Ohio where the family, consisting of the mother and four children, arrived November 21, 1832 and settled in the town of Huntsburg, Geauga County. In the spring of 1833 Reuben purchased fifty acres of wild land with heavy timber at $2.50 per acre. He paid $30 down and prepared a home for himself, mother and a younger sister.
At some point perhaps after moving to Geauga County Reuben joined the Mormon Church. On February 24, 1836 he was ordained and elder and on March 2nd received his anointing in the Kirtland Temple. On March 31, 1836 he received his elder's license at Kirtland and in 1837 he was ordained a seventy.
In September 1837 in company with the brother-in-law, N. M. Faun, he removed to Coles County, Illinois. Here he bought 120 acres of Government land consisting mostly of prairie with a good supply of timber and again erected a log cabin and commenced the occupation of farming.
In February 11, 1838 he was married to Marcia E. Wilson who was born in St. Albans, Vermont, December 25, 1811. By Marcia he had three children, two boys and one daughter.
In the spring of 1844 he moved to Hancock County, Illinois and soon purchased a forty-acre farm. His wife died September 8, 1846, and his infant daughter died September 25, 1846.
In order to escape the impending mob violence he moved to Henderson County for a period of time. After the troubles seemed to have quieted down the family returned to their home in Hancock County only to have the house burned by agitators.
Reuben removed to Pottawattamie County Iowa in June of 1852 and in the meantime he had taken a second wife, by the name of Almera Woodward Johnson by whom he eventually had five daughters. Her family were quite numerous and conspicuous in the Mormon Church.
Later he became disillusioned with the LDS faith thereby causing problems within his marriage. Almera and the children left for Utah in the summer of 1861 in the forty-ninth year of his age, and twenty-third year of his married life, he was for the second time without a wife and sadly this time also his children.
On October 20, 1867, Reuben was married the third time, this time to Maria J. Carothers, the youngest of a large family.
Reuben was a firm believer in the Spiritual philosophy, and his wife of the Christian Church. He was a life-long Republican, and was at one time the only one who cast a Republican vote in his precinct. Although his party was generally in the minority, he was often elected Justice of the Peace, and served as such for many years, and until he positively refused to accept any longer.
In June, 1884, having arrived at an age when he could not attend properly to the care and labors of a farm and on account of the feeble state of his wife's health he was induced to sell the farm and he and Maria moved to Weston to live out their final days.
Reuben is the son of Nathan Barton and Sarah Burroughs. His parents were also natives of Massachusetts where they were married and reared a family of thirteen children. In 1823 they removed to Phelps, Ontario County, New York and in that same year the father died and the mother with the unmarried portion of the family, nine in number, returned to Massachusetts.
In 1832 Reuben decided to again go West, this time to Ohio where the family, consisting of the mother and four children, arrived November 21, 1832 and settled in the town of Huntsburg, Geauga County. In the spring of 1833 Reuben purchased fifty acres of wild land with heavy timber at $2.50 per acre. He paid $30 down and prepared a home for himself, mother and a younger sister.
At some point perhaps after moving to Geauga County Reuben joined the Mormon Church. On February 24, 1836 he was ordained and elder and on March 2nd received his anointing in the Kirtland Temple. On March 31, 1836 he received his elder's license at Kirtland and in 1837 he was ordained a seventy.
In September 1837 in company with the brother-in-law, N. M. Faun, he removed to Coles County, Illinois. Here he bought 120 acres of Government land consisting mostly of prairie with a good supply of timber and again erected a log cabin and commenced the occupation of farming.
In February 11, 1838 he was married to Marcia E. Wilson who was born in St. Albans, Vermont, December 25, 1811. By Marcia he had three children, two boys and one daughter.
In the spring of 1844 he moved to Hancock County, Illinois and soon purchased a forty-acre farm. His wife died September 8, 1846, and his infant daughter died September 25, 1846.
In order to escape the impending mob violence he moved to Henderson County for a period of time. After the troubles seemed to have quieted down the family returned to their home in Hancock County only to have the house burned by agitators.
Reuben removed to Pottawattamie County Iowa in June of 1852 and in the meantime he had taken a second wife, by the name of Almera Woodward Johnson by whom he eventually had five daughters. Her family were quite numerous and conspicuous in the Mormon Church.
Later he became disillusioned with the LDS faith thereby causing problems within his marriage. Almera and the children left for Utah in the summer of 1861 in the forty-ninth year of his age, and twenty-third year of his married life, he was for the second time without a wife and sadly this time also his children.
On October 20, 1867, Reuben was married the third time, this time to Maria J. Carothers, the youngest of a large family.
Reuben was a firm believer in the Spiritual philosophy, and his wife of the Christian Church. He was a life-long Republican, and was at one time the only one who cast a Republican vote in his precinct. Although his party was generally in the minority, he was often elected Justice of the Peace, and served as such for many years, and until he positively refused to accept any longer.
In June, 1884, having arrived at an age when he could not attend properly to the care and labors of a farm and on account of the feeble state of his wife's health he was induced to sell the farm and he and Maria moved to Weston to live out their final days.
In 1832 Reuben decided to again go West, this time to Ohio where the family, consisting of the mother and four children, arrived November 21, 1832 and settled in the town of Huntsburg, Geauga County. In the spring of 1833 Reuben purchased fifty acres of wild land with heavy timber at $2.50 per acre. He paid $30 down and prepared a home for himself, mother and a younger sister.
At some point perhaps after moving to Geauga County Reuben joined the Mormon Church. On February 24, 1836 he was ordained and elder and on March 2nd received his anointing in the Kirtland Temple. On March 31, 1836 he received his elder's license at Kirtland and in 1837 he was ordained a seventy.
In September 1837 in company with the brother-in-law, N. M. Faun, he removed to Coles County, Illinois. Here he bought 120 acres of Government land consisting mostly of prairie with a good supply of timber and again erected a log cabin and commenced the occupation of farming.
In February 11, 1838 he was married to Marcia E. Wilson who was born in St. Albans, Vermont, December 25, 1811. By Marcia he had three children, two boys and one daughter.
In the spring of 1844 he moved to Hancock County, Illinois and soon purchased a forty-acre farm. His wife died September 8, 1846, and his infant daughter died September 25, 1846.
In order to escape the impending mob violence he moved to Henderson County for a period of time. After the troubles seemed to have quieted down the family returned to their home in Hancock County only to have the house burned by agitators.
Reuben removed to Pottawattamie County Iowa in June of 1852 and in the meantime he had taken a second wife, by the name of Almera Woodward Johnson by whom he eventually had five daughters. Her family were quite numerous and conspicuous in the Mormon Church.
Later he became disillusioned with the LDS faith thereby causing problems within his marriage. Almera and the children left for Utah in the summer of 1861 in the forty-ninth year of his age, and twenty-third year of his married life, he was for the second time without a wife and sadly this time also his children.
On October 20, 1867, Reuben was married the third time, this time to Maria J. Carothers, the youngest of a large family.
Reuben was a firm believer in the Spiritual philosophy, and his wife of the Christian Church. He was a life-long Republican, and was at one time the only one who cast a Republican vote in his precinct. Although his party was generally in the minority, he was often elected Justice of the Peace, and served as such for many years, and until he positively refused to accept any longer.
In June, 1884, having arrived at an age when he could not attend properly to the care and labors of a farm and on account of the feeble state of his wife's health he was induced to sell the farm and he and Maria moved to Weston to live out their final days.
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