BARTON, Mrs. Naomi: Died 1923

BARTON, WHITE, BOOTH, SMITH, MYERS, FRAME, WATKINS, MOUNTAIN

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Date: 8/28/2016 at 19:32:24

**Handwritten: 1923

MRS. BARTON'S BURIAL
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Death Occurred at the Home of Her Daughter, Mrs. White in This City on Monday Morning.
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SERVICES TUESDAY P.M.
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With Interment at Forrest Home Cemetery at Mt. Pleasant - Six Grand Sons Bear Remains to Last Resting Place.

Naomi White, daughter of John and Elizabeth Booth White, was born September 26th, 1846, in Polk County, Illinois, and died July 16th, 1923, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Andrew White, of this city, at the age of 76 years, 20 months and 20 days.

At the age of six months she was taken to Missouri where she made her home with her grandmother until about ten years of age, when she came to this state to make her home with an uncle, Mr. Nathan White, father of Mrs. Rachel Smith and Edd E. White, of West Highland.

Here she resided until April 26th, 1866, when she was united in marriage to Eli Barton, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, who preceded her in death forty-two years ago.

Of the ten children, three preceeded their mother in death. They were Lily May, Thomas Daniel and Clarence Edward.

Seven children are left to cherish the memory of a mother love. They are Mrs. Ellen Myers, of Fossil, Ore.; Mrs. Della White, of Stockport, Iowa; Mrs. Jemima Frame, of Glasgow, Iowa; Mrs. Teresa Watkins, of Drayton, N.Dak.; William Charles and Albert Edgar, of Burlington, Iowa, and Ernest Eli, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. She is also survived by twenty-six grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren besides one great great grandchild who preceded her in death last spring.

One half brother, John Mountain, of Arkansas, survives.

Mrs. Barton was converted in her girlhood and united with the Old Home Bethel Church of God. After the discontinuance of this church, she attended the Universalist church at Mount Pleasant, to whose services she ever remained loyal as long as her health permitted.

She lived a consistent, christian life, a life that was sacrificed to the help of others in a quiet unassuming way.

After the death of her husband she remained with her children on the old home farm. She raised them, all to young womanhood and young manhood, often times enduring many hardships and privations. When the last child was married and left the old home she broke up housekeeping and went to live with her children in the vicinity of the old homestead.

Mrs. Barton had been in failing health for the past several years, but not until the past five weeks had she been forced to give up her pleasures and remain in bed. All that loving hands and tender hearts could do was done to make her last hours as peaceful as possible, but to no avail.

She will be greatly missed among her friends and loved ones. Her cheerful loving disposition will ever remain in the memory of those who knew her. She was a faithful wife, a loving and devoted mother and a kind neighbor and friend.

Short services were held at the home at Stockport, after which the remains were taken to Mount Pleasant, where funeral services were held at the Universalists church, conducted by Rev. F.E. Weston.

Six grandsons of the deceased acted as pall bearers and were Charles, Vern and William White, Leo Barton, Clarence Frame and Thomas Barton.

Interment was made in Forest Home cemetery at Mount Pleasant.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 183, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA