SEBASTIAN COUNTY, ARKANSAS
UNION RIDGE CEMETERY
Ruby Opal Barton August 10, 1909/August 29, 1933
Vernon W. Barton December 21, 1912/FEbruary 23, 1996
Wilma W. Barton January 16, 1921
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001
From: Eileen Boyle <tulsaokgirl@excite.com>
My great-grandfather was Benjamin Barton a/k/a Dick Barton. He was born in Arkansas in January, 1858. He married my great-grandma Lizzie Sprall, she was born in Ohio, May 1862, both of her parents were from Germany - I do not know their names. They had four children (I am quite sure they were all born in Ft. Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas - definitely in Arkansas):
Pearl Barton - daughter born in Aug. 1887
Hutten Barton - son born in January 1890
Allie Barton - daughter born on April 9, 1892 (my Grandmother)
Myrtle Barton - daughter born April 1897
My grandmother, Allie Barton, married my grandfather, Walter Earl Lane (also born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas on February 28, 1884).
Walter and Allie Lane had three children:
Mary and Joseph Lane born on March 17, 1913 - twins - in Ft. Smith, Arkasas
Ralph Lane on August 31, 1915 in Ft. Smith, Arkansas
My grandfather, Walter Earl Lane, and my grandmother, Allie, were divorced
and he married her sister, Myrtle. Walter and Myrtle had three children:
Ruby Lane - Daughter
Opal Pauline Lane - Daughter
Oscar Brack (Sonny) Lane
Descendant of Moses Barton:
Rueben Barton md. Nancy Ethel Presson,
dau. of Jacob Little and Phoeba Almeda (Mathews) Presson. They had
14 children born in Sebastian Co., AR.
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