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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/15/2025)
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Notes
THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, May 4, 1945: "Mrs. W. J. Barton, 95, Dies Friday At Residence Here - Mrs. W. J. Barton, 95, died Friday morning at 1:50 o'clock at home, 148-6th SE. She was the wife of the late Dr. W. J. Barton, long active here as a dentist. The Rev. Jasper Manton, D. D., of Dallas, assisted by the Rev. Lawrence Malloy, pastor of First Presbyterian Church here, will conduct the funeral Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the church, and Manton-Fry Funeral Home will make interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Grady McKee, A. E. Waters, D. B. Alexander, Capt. Robert C. Barton, Walton Marshall and M. D. Ragland. Mrs. Barton leaves these children, Maxey C. Barton, Miss Marie Barton and Miss Pauline Barton, Paris; Carl H. Barton, Fort Worth, and Cecil E. Barton of Hooks, formerly of Clarksville; three grandsons, all in service; three granddaughters and three great-grandchildren, besides one sister, Miss Hetty Hengy of California, Mo. Mrs. Barton, formerly Miss Marian Hengy, was born in Waukesha, Wisc., Sept. 27, 1849, and in childhood, moved to Holden, Mo. She was married to Dr. Barton, Nov. 8, 1876, and had lived in Paris ever since. She had been a member of First Presbyterian Church more than 50 years, and was specially interested in its home and foreign missions work."
On the same stone with husband, William Jefferson Barton.
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