Picture courtesy of Niels Witkamp, this is a picture of Joshua Nelson Barton and Sarah Hoop Barton, per Niels:

"Hi Rick, that's sort of a funny coincidence that Roda's headstone is on that one picture and that happens to be your ancestor. My in-laws for a while owned a cabin at the camp meeting where Joshua died. They got it passed down through the generations. I'm not sure if it was the actual cabin Joshua owned (and died in), but I know it came from his daughter at least. They sold it a few years ago since they were not using it much. Camp meeting is still held at Crystal Springs for a week in August. When camp meeting is in session you HAVE to have your cabin (still called a 'tent', even though they are wood structures
now) open for the entire week and due to other obligations they were not able to fulfill that, prompting them to have to sell it.

Akersville is a pretty nice cemetery, with lots of old stones. Too bad a lot of them are leaning, it seems worse than at most other cemeteries, maybe it's the soil or a mole problem?

Included with this e-mail are pictures of Joshua Nelson Barton and Sarah Hoop Barton as well as a picture of what is assumed to be Mahlon Barton and Anna James Barton. The person who gave us a copy of this picture said that their names are not written on the picture, but he was told when he got the picture (I assume from his parents) that they were a direct relative of his (on that particular side of his family)and a possibility of who it might be. Then through researching when
the picture was made, when the clothes they were wearing would have been worn and who they resemble he said he was certain it had to be
Mahlon and Anna. Whether you want to assume the same is up to you. We have the picture on our wall as being Mahlon and Anna, but I just
wanted to let you know that at this point we might never be 100% certain it actually is them."

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Joshua and Sarah Hoop Barton had 11 children:

Rachel Ann BARTON b: 15 AUG 1851
Mary Jane BARTON b: 16 DEC 1852
Elizabeth Rebecca BARTON b: 27 MAY 1854
Amos Watson BARTON b: 14 AUG 1856
Lucinda BARTON b: 9 NOV 1857
Mahlon Emberry BARTON b: 21 NOV 1859
James Clark BARTON b: 11 OCT 1862
George H. BARTON b: 14 JUL 1865
Sarah Frances BARTON b: 9 OCT 1867
Carrie E. BARTON b: 29 OCT 1869
Henry Nelson BARTON b: 5 OCT 1871

BARTON
JOSHUA N. BARTON / APR. 28, 1827 - AUG. 25, 1901
HIS WIFE - SARAH E. HOOP / DEC. 20, 1829 - FEB. 24, 1910

Obituary of Joshua Nelson Barton, from the Fulton County News of August 29, 1901. Picture taken 2009.

Obituary of Joshua Nelson Barton, from the Everett Press August 30, 1901. Picture taken 2009.