Obituary:
On June 29th, 1880, Mrs. Anna Barton, wife of Mahlon Barton of Brush Creek township, in the 73rd year of her age, died.
The deceased was truly a mother in Israel, for sixty years she was a consistent member of the Methodist Church and has now reaped the reward of the faithful. Rev. A. S. Baldwin conducted the funeral services, taking for his text: Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. To those who know her no eulogy is necessary; the writer has often heard her say that "good was the will of the Lord." We know she is gone where sorrow never comes and Sabbaths never end.
Mrs. Barton was the mother of twelve children, eighty-eight grand-children and nineteen great grand children, all of whom except nineteen are living, and the larger portion of whom were present at her funeral. What is also remarkable, all her descendants are within fourteen miles of the old homestead, except one son who gave his life to the Republic, and sleeps in earth in the soil of Tennessee.
Weep not for her who dieth---
For she sleeps and is at rest;
And the couch wereon she lieth
Is the green earth's quiet breast.

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Right, In this picture taken by Niels Witkamp, you can see Roda Barton's gravestone on the front left, and to the right of Roda is Anna Barton's gravestone and to the right of Anna is Mahlon Barton's gravestone. Here is a link to a Mahlon and Anna Barton picture sent in by Neils Witkamp. Here is a link to another picture of Mahlon and Anna Barton.

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Cemetery Information: BARTON, Anna AKRSVL METHO b-22 Jan. 1856; d-29 June 1880; h-M. Barton

Names of Deceased in Fulton County Cemeteries

Fulton County was created on April 19, 1851 from part of Bedford County and named for inventor Robert Fulton. When Mahlon Barton was born Brush Creek Township was in Bedford County, when he died Brush Creek Township was in Fulton County.

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History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania; Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1884, pp. 656

Chapter XCI, Brush Creek:
Mahlon Barton was born and reared in the house where he now lives. The house was built by Elijah Barton about 1800. Mahlon was married in 1826, to Anna James, of Brush Creek, and has reared eight daughters and four sons, all living except one son, Asa. Three of the sons were in the army -- Asa, Co. H, 208th Penn. regt. (submitters note: this can not be the right regiment as the 208th was formed in 1864; per the soldiers of the Civil War lookup page provided by the National Parks Service, Asa Barton served with the 77th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry.), died in hospital at Nashville; James Barton served in Co. H, 158th regt. Penn. Vols., and Morgan in Co. M, 22nd Penn. Cav. Mahlon Barton was one of the pioneers of Methodism, and served as class-leader for twenty-five years. His descendants are quite numerous -- eleven children, ninety grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren, living.

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More information about Anna James' ancestors: Children of Elias James (1744-1789) and Anna Matson (1746-1827) of Loudoun County, Virginia

Anna James Barton Family Tree

Some descendants of Anna James Barton