0 HEAD
1 SOUR AncestQuest
2 NAME Ancestry Family Tree
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2 CORP Incline Software, LC
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4 CONT Provo, UT 84604
1 DEST Ancestry Family Tree
1 DATE 19 AUG 2002
2 TIME 09:51:13
1 FILE rufusbart.ged
1 GEDC
2 VERS 5.5
2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
1 CHAR ANSEL
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME Stephen /Osborn/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 NOV 1786
2 PLAC East Hampton,Suffolk,New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE Bef 1835
1 FAMS @F1@
1 NOTE All we know about the father of Cornelius Osborn is that he was 
2 CONC definitely dead by 1836 when Cornelius, Rufus, their widowed mother, and 
2 CONC their sisters moved to Calhoun County, Michigan.  He probably died before 
2 CONC 1830 because Martha Osborn is the head of household in the 1830 federal 
2 CONC census for Monroe County at Gates.
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is Darlene Osborne Leggitt's 3rd great grandfather. For further 
2 CONC information on the Osborn(e) line, go to 
2 CONC http://www.angelfire.com/tx/royc/.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 11 JUL 2002
3 TIME 09:12:12
0 @I2@ INDI
1 NAME Martha /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 JUL 1785
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 FEB 1853
1 BURI
2 PLAC Windfall Cemetary,Tekonsha,Michigan
2 SOUR @S1@
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE Martha is assumed to be the mother of Cornelius and Rufus based on land 
2 CONC records and census records that place them all near each other. (In 1835 
2 CONC and 1836 she and Rufus both owned property on Spring Street in Rochester. 
2 CONC  Spring is only a couple blocks long.)  In fact, in the 1850 census, she 
2 CONC at age 64 is living with Rufus and his family.  That census record 
2 CONC indicates she was born in Rhode Island.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Since Martha was born in Rhode Island and we know that her 
2 CONC daughter-in-law Emma Barton's grandfather Nathan S. Barton was also born 
2 CONC in Rhode Island, this may account for the statement made by Emma 
2 CONC Batchelder (in Cornelius's notes) that Cornelius Osborn and Sidney Barton 
2 CONC were second cousins.  This would follow if this Martha and Nathan S. 
2 CONC Barton were first cousins.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She must have had considerable money when she came to Calhoun County in 
2 CONC 1836. Between 1837 and 1839 she was involved in the purchase of three 
2 CONC parcels of land.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1839 and 1841 she sold two parcels of land to Rufus Osborn in Calhoun 
2 CONC County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT All of this was confirmed in 1998 when I found the 1953 edition of East 
2 CONC Hampton History and the detailed Osborn genealogy contained therein. 
2 CONC However, this book had one mistake in it that almost lead me on a wild 
2 CONC goose chase.  The Osborn genealogy indicated that Stephen Osborn married 
2 CONC Martha Baker.  To complicate things, the book also had a detailed Baker 
2 CONC genealogy in it.  Fortunately, I could not find a Martha Baker that fit 
2 CONC the time and place.  Almost immediately it dawned on me that this Martha 
2 CONC could not be a descendant of the East Hampton Baker line since, as I said 
2 CONC above, later census records indicated she had been born in Rhode Island.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I promptly checked the 1790 Rhode Island census records and found a 
2 CONC Jessee Baker listed only a few lines from Rufus Barton in Warren, Bristol 
2 CONC County.  This is where the wild goose chase would have really begun!
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fortunately, for some reason, I decided to check out an older version of 
2 CONC East Hampton History which was compiled by Judge Henry P. Hedges in 1897. 
2 CONC  The Mesa, AZ Family History Center had a microfilm copy of the text.  It 
2 CONC was dark and unreadable in spots, but its account of the Osborn genealogy 
2 CONC indicated that Stephen Osborn had moved to Lansingburgh, NY and had 
2 CONC married Martha Barton. Since Rufus and Prudence Barton had also moved to 
2 CONC Lansingburgh about this same time, I checked and they in fact had a 
2 CONC daughter named Martha born in 1895.  This matched the later census age of 
2 CONC the Martha that apparently was the mother of our Cornelius.  All of this 
2 CONC was almost immediately confirmed when I found a microfilm copy of 
2 CONC marriage notices posted in the Lansingburgh Gazette.  The September 15, 
2 CONC 1812 edition clearly indicated on page 3, column 5 that Martha Barton and 
2 CONC Stephen Osborn were married there on September 12, 1812.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Thus, after many years of searching, we have finally proved the 
2 CONC statements made in the notes prepared by Emma Batchelder in the 1960s 
2 CONC that Sidney Barton and Cornelius Osborn were second cousins and Charles 
2 CONC Osborn and Emily Barton were 3rd cousins.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In about 1839 Martha received 240 acres from the Government Land Office 
2 CONC in Tekonsha Twp Section 32.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In Calhoun County Index to Deeds, Book 1, Jan 25, 1838, sold property in 
2 CONC Section 32 to her nephew William S. Barton.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Martha's 1840 entry in the 1840 federal census for Tekonsha Twp, Calhoun 
2 CONC County, MI indicates a girl under 5, a boy 5<10, a girl 10<15, a male 
2 CONC 20<30, and apparently herself in her fifties. The adult male is probably 
2 CONC her son Rufus and the girl under 5 is Rufus's daughter Catherine. I have 
2 CONC no idea who the girl 10<15 is.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 JUL 2001
3 TIME 12:05:05
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME Harriet /Cone/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F3@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 25 APR 2002
3 TIME 16:17:17
0 @I4@ INDI
1 NAME Wilbur Fisk /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1847
2 PLAC ,,Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 JUN 1933
2 PLAC Oshtemo,MI
1 BURI
2 PLAC Windfall Cemetary,Tekonsha,Michigan
1 FAMS @F4@
1 FAMC @F5@
1 NOTE School teacher/Justice of the Peace in Burlington
2 CONT 
2 CONT Said to be well-educated
2 CONT 
2 CONT Methodist-sang tenor in the church choir.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wilbur Fisk Barton fell in love with Alice Jane Dickinson when she was 13 
2 CONC years old and he was 23.  He had to wait 5 years before her people would 
2 CONC consent to their marriage.  He waited and they had 4 children.
2 CONT I have a love letter that Wilbur wrote to Alice September 16, 1880.  In 
2 CONC the letter he also mentions his sister Emily and her husband Charley.  I 
2 CONC was told by my Aunt Eleanore (Clara's daughter) that Emily's daughter 
2 CONC visited my Grandma Clara (in Allegan, Michigan and it was said that she ( 
2 CONC the daughter) was quite a character!
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is a letter written by Wilbur Fisk Barton to his wife Alice 
2 CONC Jane Dickinson Barton.  The letter was dated September 1880.  The 
2 CONC envelope was postmarked September 16, 1880, Mason Valley Nevada.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sept, 1880
2 CONT 
2 CONT My Darling Wife:  I stradled a horse and rode 14 miles last night to mail 
2 CONC a letter to you and get one from you.  I am happy to say that I was not 
2 CONC disappointed, I received a nice, long letter.  I am real well now and not 
2 CONC so homesick & blue as I was.  I didn't calculate to write business today 
2 CONC but give you a good love letter, but your letter is before me and I shall 
2 CONC write a few things in reply.  But I must say darling girl that first, 
2 CONC last and all times I love you most truly and devotedly.  You are first 
2 CONC and last in all my thoughts and hopes and if my coming to Nevada has 
2 CONC resulted in no other good, it has shown me how truly I love you, how 
2 CONC necessary you are to my happiness.  I know I have told this same in other 
2 CONC letters before but it is a story I know will bear repeating and I hope 
2 CONC always precious wife mine that I shall be able to tell you the same story 
2 CONC time and again.  When I look back upon the seven years of our married 
2 CONC life, I feel that I have appeared too indifferent to your love that you 
2 CONC have so lavishly bestowed upon me.  But my precious wife I have loved you 
2 CONC all the time with the same love growing constantly which was set to 
2 CONC burning in my heart in that first time that I saw you 12 years ago at 
2 CONC that map meeting at Coldwater, when you were but a little dump of a girl 
2 CONC hardly knowing the meaning of love.  I can look back and see you now as I 
2 CONC saw you then not overly pre-possessing(?) perhaps to others but with that 
2 CONC ( ? ) about that took a deep hold upon my heart that time cannot 
2 CONC eradicate and then the 5 years of hope and often bitterness, how I 
2 CONC watched you grow up into womanhood, so beautiful, so good and pure (that 
2 CONC is to me) I know you never believe me when I flatter you.  I need not 
2 CONC tell you how I loved you then.  I have time now to look back upon those 
2 CONC times and up to the present, how more than worthy you have been to all 
2 CONC the love that I could give. O, my darling you have been a good wife to 
2 CONC me, faithful, true and loving and I thank God that you are my wife and 
2 CONC the mother of my two precious, beautiful children and I only have one 
2 CONC wish for my beautiful baby girl, that she may grow up as good and true 
2 CONC and noble as the mother that gave her birth and if that mother is spared 
2 CONC as I know she will.  O, my child I feel that if I could only hold you on 
2 CONC my lap with my arms around you that I could never let you go.  We shall 
2 CONC probably be always poor but let us never let poverty drive love out at 
2 CONC the door but grow in love to one another, our children and our God until 
2 CONC we are called to that home above, where there is nothing but love, no 
2 CONC cares, no trials, no poverty.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Please dear do not lay awake nights planning any more, for my mind is 
2 CONC made up, what I shall do and planning won't make it different.  I see 
2 CONC where I have failed in the past and I shall try & avoid such things in 
2 CONC the future, my coming here has given me time to stop and think.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I have just finished my love letter, perhaps you will think it silly but 
2 CONC it is the thoughts of my heart and I write to you always as I think, when 
2 CONC I am blue and sick I write so, but I am feeling so well this last week 
2 CONC and I know that I am deeply in love with a fair lady 2700 miles away and 
2 CONC take this opportunity to tell her so and I know what all lovers don't 
2 CONC know that my love is returned.  With your letter before telling me I must 
2 CONC not come home so soon but stay until I can pay my debts and C  but dear 
2 CONC will it pay me and you for me to stay here all winter doing nothing 
2 CONC waiting to get good wages in the spring.  Will the happiness arising from 
2 CONC a few dollars earned under those circumstances equal the suffering and 
2 CONC discomforts that you alone have to endure, saying nothing of myself.  I 
2 CONC believe darling that duty calls me to my family.  I know my dear wife is 
2 CONC sick most of the time and I am afraid this fretting and longing for her 
2 CONC absent husband is doing her no good and I will come home by and by and 
2 CONC love and pet her and nurse her back to health and joy once more, but then 
2 CONC yet I don't want you to be sick until then.  I want you pretty and fresh 
2 CONC as you were years ago when I thought you the most beautiful of Eve's 
2 CONC daughters.  I though I had quit writing love in my other letter but you 
2 CONC see from the abundance of the heart the pen will speak. I must say dear 
2 CONC that you do Emily injustice.  I think to a certain extent she wished me 
2 CONC here, when she was sick for she knew that Charley would worry, but I know 
2 CONC when she sent for me she thought there was an opening here for me to do 
2 CONC better than back there.  Charley in the spring was all ambition to clear 
2 CONC up his ranch and make a big thing of it and he was going to keep a man 
2 CONC all the time and he had  hard times to get one that he could depend upon 
2 CONC that she thought if I could come and get that land joining them so that I 
2 CONC would be handy when C was gone and C thought it would be a good thing for 
2 CONC them and me also, but Chas learned in one summer what it takes some men 
2 CONC all their lives to learn, that he knows nothing about farming and the 
2 CONC sooner he gives up on a large scale the better.  Still I think he would 
2 CONC like to keep me all winter to clear and smooth land if he were able, he 
2 CONC has said nothing to the contrary but I know that he will have nothing to 
2 CONC pay me with, do not blame Em altogether for she is not to blame.  I knew 
2 CONC she would be glad to do for me but they are no richer than some other 
2 CONC folk.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I did not wish to convey the idea that C and I did not get along together 
2 CONC very good.  He has never spoken an unkind or unpleasant word to me since 
2 CONC I came here, I wrote to you as I see him as a man.
2 CONT 
2 CONT He has had no bringing up which accounts for many of the unmanly 
2 CONC qualities that he possesses in such eminent degree.  Do not for anything 
2 CONC let mother know what my feelings toward him are, I shall not write about 
2 CONC him anymore but will tell you all when I come home (going home, I live 
2 CONC with that thought)  I am so glad that you are going up to mother's, I 
2 CONC know you will be better off there, I am willing to stand the extra 
2 CONC expense if you can only have it easier.  Tell our folk that I will pay 
2 CONC them for what wood you burn or I will help them cut more when I come 
2 CONC home, if you go there we will stay until spring and I get out.
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is a long letter but I have taken lots of comfort in writing it so 
2 CONC once more goodbye pet and (unreadable)?  Good night,
2 CONT 
2 CONT Note:  I typed the letter just the way that he wrote it ( and the best 
2 CONC that I could figure it out!) -Jane Townsend Antonetti
2 CONT 
2 CONT My Aunt Eleanore Claire Townsend Kemp (Wilbur's granddaughter) gave me 
2 CONC the original letter as well as the following notes:
2 CONT 
2 CONT "He didn't sign it, I used a red pen to try to show you the way he has 
2 CONC written it, sometimes going to the top of one sheet and to the other, it 
2 CONC is hard to decipher.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Emily apparently was his sister and Charley her husband, they did have a 
2 CONC ranch in Yerington, Nevada.  It is very high, cold country, the kind that 
2 CONC gets snowed in, I was through there once, at one time their daughter 
2 CONC visited my mother(Clara Barton Townsend) in Allegan, she was a character. 
2 CONC Shirley (Eleanore's sister) may remember her, I never saw her.
2 CONT 
2 CONT You will notice that your great-grandfather was well-educated, he taught 
2 CONC school at one time and was Burlington's Justice of the Peace and sang 
2 CONC tenor in the Methodist church choir.  He was one of the  sweetest people 
2 CONC that I have ever known.  I am looking forward to seeing him first thing 
2 CONC when I go to be with the Lord."
2 CONT 
2 CONT -Aunt Eleanore
2 CONT 
2 CONT *Additional note from Eleanore:  The 2 children he mentions on page 1 
2 CONC would be Bessie & Ernest.  Alice died quite young - Mother (Clara Barton) 
2 CONC was 12 at that time.
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 15 JUL 2001
3 TIME 22:11:11
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Harry /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE MAR 1860
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMC @F5@
1 NOTE Source:  See Sidney Barton's notes and statement by Alice Louisa Osborn 
2 CONC Perry.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Eben C. /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1854
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMC @F5@
1 NOTE Source:  See Sidney Barton's notes and statement by Alice Louisa Osborn 
2 CONC Perry.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Charles /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1845
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMC @F5@
1 NOTE The 1870 federal census for the Township of Burlington, Calhoun County, 
2 CONC Michigan indicates the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Barton,  Charles         25  m  Farmer          Michigan
2 CONT           Amanda          22  f  Keeping house   Michigan
2 CONT           Wilbur          23  m  Works on farm   Michigan
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Lucinda /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1842
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMC @F5@
1 NOTE Jane Antonetti found the following in the Biographical Review for Calhoun
2 CONT County (Page 574 & 575) under a heading for Seymour C. Eslow: (This is
2 CONT the last paragraph)
2 CONT 
2 CONT "The marriage of Mr. Eslow united him with Miss Anna L. Dickey, a 
2 CONC daughter of William Henry and Lucinda (Barton) Dickey, natives 
2 CONC respectively of Manchester and Marshall, Michigan.  Mrs. Dickey being a 
2 CONC daughter of William S. and Louisa (Olds) Barton.  In religious 
2 CONC affiliations both Mr. & Mrs. Eslow are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
2 CONC church of Homer."
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 14:23:23
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Susan //
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1856
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMS @F6@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I10@ INDI
1 NAME Alice Jane /Dickinson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1854
2 PLAC Tekonsha Twp.Calhoun,Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1898
1 BURI
2 PLAC Windfall Cemetary,Tekonsha,Michigan
1 FAMS @F4@
1 NOTE Alice Jane's sister, Amanda, married Wilbur Barton's Brother Charles
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 15 JUL 2001
3 TIME 22:13:13
0 @I11@ INDI
1 NAME Sidney /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1857
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMC @F5@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME George /Barton/
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1852
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMC @F5@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Ernest D. /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1874
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE I was told by my Aunt Eleanore that Ernest had two bad marriages.  
2 CONC Adopted a boy named Wallace or Wayne?  Ernest was a good man.  He 
2 CONC eventually moved out to California.  He lived with his sister Clara 
2 CONC Barton for a while.  He did not have any children of his own and I was 
2 CONC told that his adopted son did not turn out very well.  Wayne was listed 
2 CONC as being born 1908 in MI, probably Washtenaw Co.  Since Ernest did not 
2 CONC have any Barton sons, the Barton name died with him from Wilbur Barton's 
2 CONC line.
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Bessie Louise /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1877
2 PLAC Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1932
2 PLAC Michigan
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Bessie had an ex-husband named Ray.  They had one son named Leland 
2 CONC Elliott.  Leland died and he did not have children. Bessie lived in 
2 CONC Detroit; worked in a tent and awning company.Divorced in 1932.
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Amanda //
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1848
2 PLAC ,,Michigan
1 FAMS @F7@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Benjamin /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 SEP 1771
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE Bef 1850
1 FAMC @F2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 AUG 2001
3 TIME 07:33:33
0 @I17@ INDI
1 NAME Caleb /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAR 1774
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE Bef 1850
1 FAMC @F2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 AUG 2001
3 TIME 07:33:33
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME Caleb /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 JUL 1780
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAY 1809
1 FAMC @F2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME Ebenezer Cole /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 SEP 1799
2 PLAC Cambridge,Washington,New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE Aft 1850
1 FAMS @F3@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE RI IGI Batch #: C502171, Source Call #: 908271 ITEM 2.  This indicates 
2 CONC the birth as 14 Apr 1799 in Warren, Bristol, RI.  The Cole text indicates 
2 CONC Sept.
2 CONT 14, 1799 with birth in Cambridge, Washington Co., NY.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Burial Grounds of Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, New York, page 17 
2 CONC indicates Charles Barton, son of Ebenezer and Harriet Barton, born Aug 1, 
2 CONC 1832 died Feb. 23, 1842.  Mother nee Harriet Cone, Charles, grandson of 
2 CONC Prudence Barton.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 AUG 2001
3 TIME 07:34:34
0 @I20@ INDI
1 NAME Lillis Turner /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 AUG 1793
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE Aft 1850
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE RI IGI, Batch #: C502171, Source Call #: 908271 ITEM 2.  This record 
2 CONC indicates her name as Lillis TURNER BARTON.  However, The Descendants of 
2 CONC James Cole of Plymouth 1633, page 67 indicates her name as Lillis F. 
2 CONC Barton.  The Vital Records of Warren list the birth name as Lillis Turner 
2 CONC Barton.  RCL - script F and T are quite often taken for each other.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A letter from Martha Osborn, Tekonsha, Sept. 11, 1850, about her mother's 
2 CONC pension, indicated her sister was Lillis T. Ward of Warrenville, 
2 CONC Illinois.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 AUG 2001
3 TIME 07:35:35
0 @I21@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 NOV 1782
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE Bef 1850
1 FAMC @F2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 AUG 2001
3 TIME 07:34:34
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME Rufus /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUN 1788
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE Aft 1850
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE We find this in the deed books in Syracuse County Courthouse:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Deed Book X page 51 - 9 Apr 1819 from Jacob Hoffman of Lansingburgh in 
2 CONC the county of Rensselaer state of New York to Rufus Barton of the same 
2 CONC place for $100 one equal undivided part of all that certain lot piece or 
2 CONC parcel of land situate lying and being in the town of Camillus in the 
2 CONC county of Onondaga known and distinguished by the name of Lot Number 
2 CONC Forty.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Deed Book X page 52 - From Rufus Barton of Lansingburgh in the county of 
2 CONC Rensselaer for $100 to Jacob Bishop of Troy in said county land in town 
2 CONC of Camillus known by the name of lot forty.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (Camillus is about nine miles north east of Skaneateles where William 
2 CONC Sidney Barton's granddaughter Alice Louisa Osborn Perry wrote that he was 
2 CONC born in Skene Attles, New York.)
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 AUG 2001
3 TIME 07:35:35
0 @I23@ INDI
1 NAME Turner /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 MAY 1796
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1873
1 BURI
2 PLAC Lansingburgh,Rensselaer,New York
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE Son of Prudence Barton. In 1860 he is listed in Lans. as a Carriage 
2 CONC maker. Buried in the Village Cemetery.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I24@ INDI
1 NAME William /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 AUG 1777
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE Bef 1850
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 4 OCT 2001
3 TIME 16:41:41
0 @I25@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F9@
1 NOTE From: "Dorothy Muirhead" <muirhead@inebraska.com>
2 CONT Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:16:49 -0500
2 CONT 
2 CONT Prudence Cole and Rufus Barton had a son William who married Rebecca 
2 CONC Barton born 2-21-1779 d/o David & Rebecca Brightman Barton.  I have alot 
2 CONC of FGS on Rufus ancestors etc.     Dorothy
1 CHAN
2 DATE 25 APR 2002
3 TIME 16:17:17
0 @I26@ INDI
1 NAME Isabelle Jane /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUN 1883
2 PLAC Burlington Twp.,Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JAN 1962
2 PLAC Battle Creek Health Center
1 BURI
2 DATE 12 FEB 1962
2 PLAC Burlington Cemetary
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Housewife
2 CONT 
2 CONT Arteriosclerosis
2 CONT 
2 CONT Had a son named Howard who married Nevah Sutherland and they did not have 
2 CONC any children.  Had  2 daughters, Marjorie & Alice.  I was told that they  
2 CONC Isabelle & Frank) had a good marriage
2 CONT -Jane (Townsend) Antonetti
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I27@ INDI
1 NAME Frank Godfrey /Sailer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 APR 1879
2 PLAC Tekonsha Twp.Calhoun,Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 FEB 1949
2 PLAC Burlington,Calhoun,Michigan
1 BURI
2 DATE 10 FEB 1949
2 PLAC Burlington Cemetary
1 FAMS @F10@
1 NOTE Coronary Thrombosis
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I28@ INDI
1 NAME Clara /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 DEC 1889
2 PLAC Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 DEC 1963
2 PLAC Michigan
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oakwood Cemetary,Michigan
1 FAMS @F11@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Christian
2 CONT 
2 CONT Clara Barton was a hard-working, Christian woman.  She was told that she 
2 CONC was a cousin of Clara Barton of the Red Cross.  Besides being named after 
2 CONC the famous Clara, she (my grandmother) was taken to meet her when she(my 
2 CONC grandmother) was a little girl.  I did not know my Grandmother Clara 
2 CONC Barton Townsend, but her daughter (My Aunt Shirley) is still alive and 
2 CONC can verify these accounts.
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I29@ INDI
1 NAME Almon Blaine /Townsend/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 AUG 1890
2 PLAC Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 MAY 1955
1 BURI
2 PLAC White Chapel Memorial Gardens
1 FAMS @F11@
1 NOTE Muskegon, Michigan
2 CONT 
2 CONT Almon Townsend became an alcoholic and left his family.  Clara Barton 
2 CONC divorced him.  He later remarried.
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 17 JUN 2001
3 TIME 08:32:32
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Barton /Osborn/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 JAN 1847
2 PLAC Tekonsha Twp.Calhoun,Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JAN 1915
2 PLAC So. Mason Valley,Lyon,Nevada
1 BURI
2 DATE JAN 1915
2 PLAC Yerington Cem.,Lyon,Nevada
1 AFN 2035-5W
1 FAMS @F12@
1 NOTE Source of children's birth and marriage:  Family records maintained by 
2 CONC Earl Richard Osborne.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following Bits of Historical Items About the Osborn(e) Family as told 
2 CONC to Ruth Batchelder Fraias by her mother Emma Adel Osborn Batchelder:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      A man by the name of Hod Raymond owned the ranch just south of 
2 CONC Grandpa Osborn's (Charles Barton Osborn).  Fred and Mary (Allum) Dunn 
2 CONC lived on that ranch while I, Ruth, was growing up.  After Dunns left 
2 CONC there, the Fenili family lived there and two of the Fenili men died there 
2 CONC with the flu in 1918-19.  Dave Menesini now owns the ranch.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Grandpa Osborn willed his ranch to Uncle George Barton Osborn(e). It 
2 CONC was later sold to Fidel Canales and is now owned by Herman Ogle.  When 
2 CONC Charles and Emily Osborn separated and were later divorced, she took the 
2 CONC northern part of the ranch and built a two-story (story and a half) 
2 CONC house, which burned about 1930, or thereabouts.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      A Mr. Holland rented Hod Raymond's ranch.  He was a brother to Mrs. 
2 CONC Kaufman, who was the mother of Lulu Belle Kaufman Anderson, Georgianne 
2 CONC Kaufman La Baron and Chester Kaufman.  Mr. Raymond was a bachelor who 
2 CONC worked around on various ranches when needed.  About 1880 Grandpa Osborn 
2 CONC was gone somewhere, and Grandma Osborn went to a church meeting of some 
2 CONC kind.  Phelps and George were left at home with Mr. Raymond to watch out 
2 CONC for them.  Emma and Alice were left at the Bill Baker place.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      While the parents were away there was a big flood.  A ditch (big) 
2 CONC ran past the Raymond ranch to the Walker River, Mr. Raymond disappeared 
2 CONC and his body was later found in the river channel, weighted down by 
2 CONC irons.  Mama thinks Uncle Phelps found him (the body) but is not sure of 
2 CONC that.  Uncle Phelps would have been about ten (years of age) then. 
2 CONC Everyone thought that Mr. Holland killed Mr. Raymond, but nothing was 
2 CONC ever proved.  Emma heard afterwards that her father, Charles Barton 
2 CONC Osborn, was suspected because he was jealous of Mr. Raymond's attention 
2 CONC to her mother (Emily Barton Osborn).  Mama (Emma) thinks this is untrue, 
2 CONC because she does not think that Charles cared enough about Emily to be 
2 CONC jealous at that time.  Of course Emma was only about eight years of age 
2 CONC so she would not know much about it, and would have been told less (as 
2 CONC time went by).
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Emma also heard later that Grandpa (Charles Barton Osborn) killed a 
2 CONC man in California.  He lived in California for about a year after his 
2 CONC marriage (to Emily Barton) at Modesto.  However, he was never convicted 
2 CONC of any crime.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Mama thinks Aunt Alice was between one and two years old when 
2 CONC Grandpa and Grandma separated, but she does not know when they were 
2 CONC divorced.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Charles Osborn and Emily Barton were related in some way, but Mama 
2 CONC does not know just how.  They were children together in Michigan, and 
2 CONC Charles was very fond of her brother Charles (Barton).  He (Charles 
2 CONC Osborn) had no middle name, so he took Barton as his middle name -- 
2 CONC explaining the similarity in names.  Charles spelled his name "Osborn" 
2 CONC but Emily added the "e" to her name and the children's names when she 
2 CONC divorced Charles.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Cornelius Osborn and his son Nelson: Cornelius was Charles Barton 
2 CONC Osborn's father and Nelson was Charles' brother.  They are supposed 
2 CONC (credited) to have planted the first (successful field) of alfalfa in 
2 CONC Mason Valley (small patches had been raised before).  It was raised in 
2 CONC the field directly west of the corrals at the (later) George Edmund 
2 CONC Batchelder ranch, where Leland Burr now farms.  Everyone (some persons) 
2 CONC wanted Nelson to plow up the alfalfa because they were sure it would kill 
2 CONC cattle - some cows had bloated on it.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Grandfather Cornelius Osborn had married four times.  The second 
2 CONC wife was the mother of Charles, Mary (Greely), and Nelson.  The first 
2 CONC wife was the mother of Frank and a daughter who's name Mama (Emma) does 
2 CONC not know.  She thinks that the girl became a nurse and lived at 
2 CONC Hawthorne, Nevada (at one time).  Cornelius second wife's name was 
2 CONC Matilda - his third was Anne.  He didn't know the fourth wife very well 
2 CONC when he married her, and after they were married he found out that her 
2 CONC name was Matilda Anne, so he just called her "Wife".
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Charles was the youngest child.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Anne was always described as a "devil", but Matilda Anne was a very 
2 CONC nice woman.  She was an aunt of Carrie Conklin of Dayton (Nevada). Carrie 
2 CONC married Fred C. Batchelder, a brother to George Edmund Batchelder who 
2 CONC married Emma Adel Osborn.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Emily Barton (Osborn(e)) came to Mason Valley in 1875, to teach 
2 CONC school.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      She returned to Michigan for the birth of her first child, Phelps, 
2 CONC in 1877.
2 CONT  She also visited her Michigan home about 1884 and brought back some bees 
2 CONC to Mason Valley -- supposedly the queen bee first domesticated bees 
2 CONC introduced into the valley.  She always kept bees and Mama can remember 
2 CONC that honey was used almost exclusively as a sweetener - sugar was kept in 
2 CONC hand in a limited quantity for special occasions.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following is recorded in Book J, page 115, of Miscellaneous Records, 
2 CONC in the Lyon County, NV Court House in File No. 12663:
2 CONT 
2 CONT IN THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR 
2 CONC LYON COUNTY.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the matter of the Estate of Charles B. Osborn, Deceased.  Decree of 
2 CONC Settlement of Final Account and Distribution.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      S. P. Osborn and George B. Osborn, executors of the last Will and 
2 CONC Testament of Charles B. Osborn, deceased, having on the 14th day of May, 
2 CONC 1915, rendered and filed herein a full account and report of their 
2 CONC administration of said estate, which account was for a final settlement, 
2 CONC and having with said account and report filed their petition and 
2 CONC distribution of said estate;
2 CONT 
2 CONT      And the said account and report and petition for distribution this 
2 CONC day coming on regularly to be heard, proof having been made to the 
2 CONC satisfaction of the Court that the Clerk has given notice of the time set 
2 CONC for the hearing and settlement of said account and the hearing upon said 
2 CONC petition for distribution, in the manner and for the time required by 
2 CONC law; that the only persons interested in said estate besides said 
2 CONC petitioners are Mrs. Emma Batchelder, surviving daughter of said 
2 CONC deceased, Alice L. Osborn, daughter of said deceased and Ruch (sic) G. 
2 CONC Batchelder, grand-daughter of said deceased; that said Alice L. Osborn 
2 CONC has filed herein her waiver, in writing, waiving all notice of all 
2 CONC proceedings had in the administration of the estate of said deceased, and 
2 CONC said Emma Batchelder has, in her own behalf, and as guardian of the 
2 CONC person and estate of said Ruth C. Batchelder, been served with notice of 
2 CONC said hearing upon said account and petition and has admitted, in writing, 
2 CONC service of such notice and has waived any other or further notice which 
2 CONC may be required by law;
2 CONT 
2 CONT      And it appearing that said account is in all respects true and 
2 CONC correct and according to law; that no claims have been presented against 
2 CONC said estate; that no moneys belonging to said estate have been received 
2 CONC by said executors, but all expenses of the administration of said estate 
2 CONC have been paid by said executors from private funds not belonging to said 
2 CONC estate and all expenses of closing said estate will likewise be paid from 
2 CONC such funds; that all taxes due from said estate have been paid and said 
2 CONC estate is now in a condition to be closed;
2 CONT 
2 CONT      It is Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that said final account and 
2 CONC report be, and the same hereby is allowed, settled and approved.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      And it further appearing that said Charles B. Osborn died testate in 
2 CONC the County of Lyon and State of Nevada upon the 10th day of January 1915, 
2 CONC leaving him surviving his two sons, the said executors, two daughters, 
2 CONC Mrs.
2 CONT Emma Batchelder and Alice L. Osborn, the former of whom now resides in 
2 CONC this county and state and the latter of whom now resides in the county of 
2 CONC Washoe in this State;
2 CONT 
2 CONT      That in and by the last Will and Testament of said deceased, 
2 CONC heretofore admitted to probate in this Court and cause, all personal 
2 CONC property owned by said deceased at the time of his death was bequeathed 
2 CONC to his son, S. P. Osborn upon the condition that he pay to his sister, 
2 CONC Mrs. Emma Batchelder, one of the daughters of said deceased, the sum of 
2 CONC fifty dollars; that each of the parcels of real property hereinafter 
2 CONC described was by said last will and testament devised to the respective 
2 CONC persons to whom they are hereinafter distributed by this decree, the 
2 CONC parcel set apart to said George B. Osborn being so devised to him upon 
2 CONC the condition that he pay all debts owing by said deceased at the time of 
2 CONC his death, and his funeral expenses; that all the conditions attached to 
2 CONC said devises and bequeaths have been fully performed, and the respective 
2 CONC devices and legatees named in said will are entitled to have distributed 
2 CONC to them the properties devised and bequeathed to them by said will.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      It is further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that the residue of said 
2 CONC estate remaining in the hands of said executors, and hereinafter 
2 CONC particularly described, be, and the same, hereby is distributed as 
2 CONC follows:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      To S. P. Osborn, son of said deceased, all property belonging to 
2 CONC said deceased, as hereinafter described, and all other personal property 
2 CONC not now known or discovered or herein described, owned by said deceased 
2 CONC at the time of his death, or in which said deceased had any interest at 
2 CONC said time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      To George B. Osborn, son of said deceased, five (5) shares of the 
2 CONC Capital stock of the Mickey Ditch Company, a corporation and eighty acres 
2 CONC of land described as the West half of the North-east quarter of Section 
2 CONC Fifteen, in Township Twelve North, Range twenty-five East, Mount Diablo 
2 CONC Base and Meridian, situate in Lyon County, Nevada.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      To Alice L. Osborne, daughter of said deceased, sixty acres of land 
2 CONC described as the Southeast quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 
2 CONC Ten, Township Twelve North, Range Twenty-five East, Mount Diablo Base and 
2 CONC Meridian, situate in said County of Lyon.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      To Ruth G. Batchelder, granddaughter of said deceased, sixty acres 
2 CONC of land described as the South-east quarter of the South-west quarter of 
2 CONC Section Three and the North half of the North-east quarter of the 
2 CONC North-west quarter of Section Ten in Township Twelve North Range 
2 CONC Twenty-five East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, situate in said County 
2 CONC of Lyon.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The following is a particular description of the said residue of 
2 CONC said estate referred to in this decree, and of which distribution is now 
2 CONC ordered as aforesaid:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      PERSONAL PROPERTY:
2 CONT 
2 CONT           One four year old black filly, branded S O. weighing about 1100 
2 CONC pounds; two three year old bay geldings, weighing about 1000 pounds each, 
2 CONC and each branded S O.; one brown mare six years old weighing about 1200 
2 CONC and branded S O ; one old bay mare known as the "Downey mare", weighing 
2 CONC about 1300 pounds; one old sorrel mare weighing about 1100 pounds; one 
2 CONC set leather express harness; one set old chain harness; one set single 
2 CONC driving harness; one spring wagon; one roan milk cow branded O S; one 
2 CONC brown Jersey cow with long ears and no brand; one white faced cow branded 
2 CONC S O; one two year old red roan heifer branded S O; three head three year 
2 CONC old red heifers, each branded S O; two suckling caves, heifer and steer; 
2 CONC one black heifer calf eight months old; three dozen Plymouth Rock hens; 
2 CONC one Plymouth Rock rooster; one white rooster; eight turkey hens and one 
2 CONC gobbler; one six tined fork; three iron derrick blocks; one 1 1/2 inch 
2 CONC grass rope about 40 feet long; fifty tons of alfalfa hay; one hay wagon 
2 CONC with iron wheels in front and wood wheels at rear; one all iron hay rake; 
2 CONC one mowing machine; one two horse Fresno Scraper; one three horse riding 
2 CONC plow; one single horse garden cultivator.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Real Property.  The West half of the North-east quarter (w1/2 of 
2 CONC NE1/4) of Section Fifteen (15) in Township Twelve North, Range 
2 CONC Twenty-five East, Mount Diablo Base and meridian, and five (5) shares of 
2 CONC Capital stock of the Mickey Ditch Company, a corporation; all of which 
2 CONC was by said will devised to said George B. Osborn;
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The Southeast quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section Ten (SE1/4 
2 CONC of NW1/4 of 10), and the South half of the Northeast quarter of the 
2 CONC Northwest quarter of Section Ten (S1/2 of NE1/4 of NW1/4 of 10), in said 
2 CONC township and range, devised to said Alice L. Osborne; and
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The Southeast quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section Three 
2 CONC (SE1/4 of SW1/4 of 3) and the North half of the Northeast quarter of 
2 CONC Northwest Quarter (N1/2 of NE1/4 of 10), devised to said Ruth G. 
2 CONC Batchelder.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Done in open Court this 5th day of June A.D. 1915.
2 CONT 
2 CONT T. C. Hart, District Judge.
2 CONT 
2 CONT ...
2 CONT 
2 CONT Recorded at Request of George Osborn, Jun 7th, 1915 at 5 Min. past 2 P.M.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Florence Ellis materials contain the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mason Valley, Nevada
2 CONT 
2 CONT                       Charles B. Osborne One of Our Pioneers Called
2 CONT 
2 CONT Charles B. Osborne departed this life Sunday evening, at his home in 
2 CONC Missouri Flat, after an illness of a few hours, only. Deceasee was 
2 CONC stricken with apoplexy while driving to his home, in company with Mrs. 
2 CONC Fitzgerald, Sunday afternoon and passed away at 6:30 o'clock that 
2 CONC evening. Funderal services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon, 
2 CONC conducted by Rev. Frank Summers, with interment at the cemetery 
2 CONC thereafter. Charles B. Osborne was born January 1, 1847 at Tekonsha, 
2 CONC Calhoun County, Michigan, where he lived until 1858. He moved to Illinois 
2 CONC with his parents, residing there two years, in 1860 with his father, 
2 CONC brother Nelson, sister Mary and a number of relatives he crossed the 
2 CONC plains to Calif. by ox team. At the age of twenty he moved from 
2 CONC California to Silver City, Nevada living there until 1872 when he took up 
2 CONC residence in Mason Valley, remaining there continually til his death. 
2 CONC Surviving Mr. Osborne are N. D. Osborne, a brother residing at Battle 
2 CONC Creek, Michigan and four children residing in Mason Valley, G. P. and 
2 CONC George B. Osborne, Miss Alice Osborne and Mrs. George E. Bachelder.  (RCL 
2 CONC note: son G. P. Osborne must be Sidney Phelps Osborne.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT For additional information on the family and ancestry of Charles Barton 
2 CONC Osborn, go to http://www.angelfire.com/tx/royc/ and click on My wife's 
2 CONC Osborn(e) line.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 14:22:22
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME William Sidney /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 25 APR 1815
2 PLAC ,,New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 FEB 1883
2 PLAC Burlington,Calhoun,Michigan
2 CAUS Cancer of stomach
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F13@
1 NOTE Source: 1880 Nevada census for children Wilber F. and Emma indicated 
2 CONC father was born in Vermont and mother was born in New York.
2 CONT 
2 CONT However, a page entitled Tidbits, dated 12-25-89 and included in an 
2 CONC Osborn history prepared by Earl and Tommi Osborne, indicates the 
2 CONC following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sidney Barton was born in Skene Attles, New York.  He married Louisa Olds 
2 CONC who was born in Wells, New York.  (RCL note:  Skene Attles is now spelled 
2 CONC Skaneateles. Likewise, Louisa was very probably born in Wells, VT, not 
2 CONC Wells, NY.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT As mentioned elsewhere, Cornelius Osborn homesteaded property in Mason 
2 CONC Valley, Nevada in the name of Sidney Barton.  On 26 September 1876, 
2 CONC Sidney and Louisa Barton of Calhoun County, Michigan, granted this 
2 CONC property (consisting of 260 acres) to Emily Barton of Mason Valley, 
2 CONC Esmeralda County, Nevada, for $60.00 gold coin.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Alice Louisa Osborn Perry wrote the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT The mother of Louisa Olds was full blooded Spanish - hence the 
2 CONC descendants had large brown eyes and olive skin.
2 CONT 
2 CONT None were very prosperous until late in life.  Physiques were short and 
2 CONC fat. (Many) had good educations.  Eben was a lawyer, Harry and Emma 
2 CONC taught schools (Emily sometimes known as Emma was really Emily Barton 
2 CONC Osborn(e)).
2 CONT 
2 CONT They were long lived but had leg troubles.  Sidney Barton had one leg 
2 CONC (shorter than the other) shortened with sciataca in his forties.  Wilber 
2 CONC was on crutches before he died.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The 1850 Michigan Calhoun County federal census taken 19 July 1850 for 
2 CONC the Town of Marshall indicates the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 278, house 252, family 265:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Name                   Age  Gender  Occupation                Birthplace
2 CONT 
2 CONT  W. S. Barton            35     M    Carpenter                New York
2 CONT 
2 CONT  L.L.                    30     F                             Vermont
2 CONT 
2 CONT  L.                       9     FMichigan
2 CONT 
2 CONT  C.L.                     5     M "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  W.                       3     M   "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  E.                       2     F   "
2 CONT 
2 CONT The 1860 Michigan Calhoun County federal census taken 25 June 1860 for 
2 CONC the township of Marshall indicates the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Pages 591 and 592, house 883 family 830:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Name                   Age Gender  Occupation      Real Personal 
2 CONC Birthplace
2 CONT 
2 CONT  William S. Barton       45    M    Wagonmaker      $3000  $500   New 
2 CONC York
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Louisa                  40    F                                  Vermont
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Lucinda                 18    F Michigan
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Charles                 15    M                                     "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Wilbur                  13    M                                     "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Emily                   12    F                                     "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  George                   8    M   "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Eben                     8    M     "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Sidney                   3    M   "
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Baby                  3/12    M                                     "
2 CONT 
2 CONT The 1880 Michigan Calhoun County federal census for Burlington township 
2 CONC indicates the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Vol 4, Enumeration District 63 Sheet 14 Line 24 House 574 Family 575
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Name                   Age Gender Relationship Occupation Birthplace
2 CONT 
2 CONT  William S. Barton       65    M                Farmer           NY RI NY
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Louisa L.               60    F   Wife                          VT NY NY
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Harry                   19    M   Son                           MI NY VT
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Dickey Lucinda G.        9    F   Granddaughter                 MI MI MI
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Eben C.                 26    M   Son                           MI NY VT
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Susan                   24    F   Daughter-in-law               MI NY NY
2 CONT 
2 CONT To eliminate future confusion, there is a Wm. S. Barton listed in the 
2 CONC 1870 Lincoln County, NV federal census in the Meadow Valley enumeration 
2 CONC district.  However, this is a 25 year old farmer who was born in Illinois 
2 CONC whose wife was born in Iowa.
2 CONT 
2 CONT History of Calhoun County, Michigan, 1877, L. H. Everts & Co., page 158 
2 CONC under Burlington Township, Civil Organization, William S. Barton is 
2 CONC mentioned as a Justice of the Peace.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The index to the 1870 Michigan Calhoun County census was finally 
2 CONC completed.  For the township of Burlington Township, I found the 
2 CONC following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dwelling and family number 30 contains the following entry:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Barton, William          55 m Farmer      $5,000  $493  New York
2 CONT 
2 CONT          Louisa           50 f Keeping house             Vermont
2 CONT 
2 CONT          Eben             16 m Works on farm             Michigan
2 CONT 
2 CONT          Sidney F.        13 m At school works on farm   Michigan
2 CONT 
2 CONT          Harry L.         11 m At school works on farm   Michigan
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dwelling and family number 31 contains the following entry:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Barton, Nathanel          79 m At home                  Rhode Island
2 CONT 
2 CONT          Lucinda           78 f Keeping House            New York
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is obviously the same Nathan and Lucinda Barton mentioned in the 
2 CONC following paragraph.
2 CONT 
2 CONT On a visit to the Calhoun County Court House at Marshall, Michigan in 
2 CONC 1997 I finally solved the mystery of the parentage of our Sidney Barton.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Record of Death Book 2, page 28, record 223 indicates the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT William S. Barton died Feb. 13, 1883 at Burlington, Calhoun County, 
2 CONC Michigan of stomach cancer.  He was born in New York and was a farmer. 
2 CONC His father was Nathan S. Barton and his mother was Lucinda Barton.  Date 
2 CONC of Record: May 27, 1885.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Based on his age at death, his birth date would be about May 24, 1815.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 14:12:12
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME Louisa L. /Olds/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 APR 1820
2 PLAC ,,Vermont
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 APR 1906
2 PLAC Tekonsha Twp.Calhoun,Michigan
2 CAUS Consumption
1 FAMS @F5@
1 NOTE In January 1998 I posted the following query on an Olds genealogy mailing 
2 CONC list on the Internet:
2 CONT 
2 CONT According to family lore, my wife's 2great grandmother Louisa L. OLDS was 
2 CONC born about in Wells, New York.  However, 1850, 60, and 80 census 
2 CONC information indicate she was born in Vermont. The 1880 census for her 
2 CONC indicates both her parents were born in New York.
2 CONT 
2 CONT She married William Sidney Barton in New York and by 1840 they were 
2 CONC living in Calhoun County, Michigan where their family was born and 
2 CONC raised.  Her husband died there in 1883 so I imagine she did sometime 
2 CONC later.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Earline Killian <ekillian@tcoe.trinity.k12.ca.us> responded with:
2 CONT 
2 CONT I have the families of Luther Olds and he was born in New York also.  In 
2 CONC fact, of what I know of the Olds they were almost all born in New York. A 
2 CONC couple in Vermont.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Luther's father was Isaac Olds and his mother's name was Martha B. last 
2 CONC name unknown. Luther Olds stayed in MI and is buried beside his wife 
2 CONC Dorcas Young in the Young Cemetery in Calhoun County, MI.  We descend 
2 CONC from Luther's son David Olds and his wife Martha Lamb both from Michigan. 
2 CONC  Part of the family came West to Genoa Nevada when it was the territory 
2 CONC of Utah.  They stayed in Carson Valley area and then went down to around 
2 CONC Bishop, CA. and died and are buried there.
2 CONT 
2 CONT We have two Louisa's in the family both born much later than your Louisa 
2 CONC Olds.  Both born in Nevada.  At this time, I can not find any help for 
2 CONC you.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I feel there may be a connection, because all of these Olds were in New 
2 CONC York and all born about the same time. I will let you know if I find 
2 CONC anything definite.  Please let me know if you get good response.  Olds 
2 CONC are hard to find.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Based on this, I began seeing a possible pattern.  I responded with the 
2 CONC following message:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Earline, like you, I feel there is probably a connection here.  There are 
2 CONC just too many similar circumstances.  While I have very little on the 
2 CONC Olds line, I will include some Barton and Osborn(e) information at the 
2 CONC end so we follow the time line.
2 CONT 
2 CONT You said Luther's father was Isaac Olds and his mother's name was Martha 
2 CONC B. last name unknown. Luther Olds stayed in MI and is buried beside his 
2 CONC wife Dorcas Young in the Young Cemetery in Calhoun County, MI.  We desend 
2 CONC from Luther's son David Olds and his wife Martha Lamb both from Michigan.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Where in Calhoun County is the Young Cemetery located?  Louise Olds and 
2 CONC her husband William Sidney Barton were living in Burlington at the time 
2 CONC of his death in 1883. (See his story at the end - they had apparently 
2 CONC lived there for some time.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT  You said part of the family came West to Genoa, Nevada when it was the 
2 CONC territory of Utah.  They stayed in Carson Valley area and then went down 
2 CONC to around Bishop, CA. and died and are buried there.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As you can see from the Cornelius Osborn notes below, some of the family 
2 CONC moved about 1864 to Gold Hill, NV (about 10 miles NE of Carson City.) 
2 CONC Genoa is down at the south end of Carson Valley just a little NW of Smith 
2 CONC Valley where my wife's brother and father still live today near 
2 CONC Wellington.  Immediately east of Smith Valley is Mason Valley where 
2 CONC Cornelius Osborn eventually settled in Yerington.
2 CONT 
2 CONT You said you feel there may be a connection, because all of these Olds 
2 CONC were in New York and all born about the same time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Earline, Please read these notes and see if any of it rings a bell with 
2 CONC you.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (Here, I included the notes from the tid bits provided by Alice Louisa 
2 CONC Osborn Perry that are included in the notes for Cornelius Osborn 
2 CONC pertaining to the Barton family history.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Shortly after this exchange, I was reviewing the census records for early 
2 CONC New York attempting to trace Cornelius Osborn's ancestry back to Suffolk 
2 CONC County on Long Island where Thomas Osborn had settled in 1640.  The 
2 CONC Cornelius Osborn enumerated in the 1855 Greece, Monroe County, New York 
2 CONC census was born in Suffolk County in about 1790. By 1820 he was in 
2 CONC Washington County, New York when his first child was born.  While 
2 CONC checking the census for Washington County for Osborns, I was surprised to 
2 CONC find several Olds families there.  Tracing back through the 1810 and 1800 
2 CONC censuses I found Olds families there.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1800, Elijah, James, Samuel and Zebulon Olds were in Cayuga Co (just 
2 CONC west of where William Sidney Barton was born in 1823.)  James, and 
2 CONC Timothy Olds were in Onondaga County (where William Sidney Barton was 
2 CONC born.)  John and Stephen Olds were in Washington County (just north of 
2 CONC where where Nathan Sisson Barton was about the same time.) In addition, 
2 CONC Joseph and Rufus Olds were in Ontario County and Mediam Olds was in 
2 CONC Saratoga County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As said above, the ancestry of our Louisa Olds is not clear.  Both the 
2 CONC LDS International Genealogical Index and Ancestral File contain a Louisa 
2 CONC Olds that could very well be ours.  Louisa Katherine Olds has a 
2 CONC significant pedigree going back many generations. We know our Louisa Olds 
2 CONC was born about 1820 very probably in the area near the New York/Vermont 
2 CONC border.  Family lore says she was born in Wells which is about 40 miles 
2 CONC west of the border. The LDS IGI indicates that Louisa Katherine Olds was 
2 CONC born 23 Nov 1824 at Ft. Ann, Washington County, New York.  This is only a 
2 CONC few miles from where William Sidney Barton's grandfather Rufus settled 
2 CONC about 1791 and remained there until he moved again to Lansingburgh about 
2 CONC 1810.  Lansingburgh is only 20 - 30 miles further to the southwest.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Since all of Louisa Katherine Olds' ancestors are from the LDS IGI and 
2 CONC Ancestral File, there are only the vital statistic information provided. 
2 CONC There is no accompanying text.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Readers should take into consideration the fact that this link is not 
2 CONC proved.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jane Townsend Antonetti's notes:  William & Louisa had three other 
2 CONC children who died.  Wilbur, Eben and Harry were partners in 2 peppermint 
2 CONC distilleries north of Burlington.  Harry beat Wilbur out of his share. 
2 CONC (Per my Aunt Eleanore Townsend Kemp)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Also, according to records that my cousin Larry Pio found in Michigan 
2 CONC (1860 & 1900 census, local newsletter etc.. William S. Barton was also 
2 CONC referred to as Sidney, his father was Nathan S. Barton and his mother was 
2 CONC Lucinda.  William was born in New York.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jane (Townsend) Antonetti's notes:  According to my Aunt Shirley and Aunt 
2 CONC Eleanore (great-grandaughters of William Barton and Louisa Olds) Louisa's 
2 CONC Father was Joseph J. Olds (also called Carmi) and his wife's name was 
2 CONC Olive Clark.  Carmi was said to be a Methodist minister and that he is 
2 CONC buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I was also told that Louisa had a nephew named Schyler Olds who was a 
2 CONC politician.
2 CONT 
2 CONT According to the 1860 &1900 Michigan Census and the Calhoun County death 
2 CONC records, Louisa is listed as Louisa L. Olds, born May 1820, though the 
2 CONC death certificate indicates 4/2/20.  The birthplace listed is Vermont.  
2 CONC The 1900 census indicates 9 children, 7 still living.  Her father was 
2 CONC listed as Joseph J. Olds (born in New York).  Her mother is listed as 
2 CONC Olive Clark (born in New York) Both are also listed as being born in 
2 CONC Michigan in another source.
2 CONT 
2 CONT While at the Calhoun County Court House in Marshall, MI in July 2001 I 
2 CONC found the following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Record of Calhoun County Deaths, Book 3, page 224 #188. Apr 12, 1906, 
2 CONC Louisa L. Barton Tekonsha Twp age 86 - 10, Consumption, Born Vermont, 
2 CONC Father Joseph J. Olds, Mother Olive Clark, both apparently resided in 
2 CONC Michigan.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For further information on this Olds line, go to 
2 CONC http://www.angelfire.com/tx/royc/ and click on My wife's Olds line.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 9 JUL 2002
3 TIME 09:50:50
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME Nathan Sisson /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 MAY 1791
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE Aft 1870
2 PLAC Burlington,Calhoun,Michigan
1 FAMS @F13@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE While at the Rhode Island Genealogical Society in 1997 I photo copied a 
2 CONC microfilm record of the actual birth recorded by the Warren city clerk.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Surprisingly, several years before I made the discovery that Nathan was 
2 CONC the father of William Sidney Barton, I now find that my notes indicated 
2 CONC Nathan Barton, 69, Carpenter, $500, $200, NY, is listed in the 1860 
2 CONC Tekonsha Township, Calhoun County, Michigan federal census in household 
2 CONC 1717, the Rufus Osborn residence!  (I wonder where Nathan's wife Lucinda 
2 CONC was during this time.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT The 1850 Calhoun County, Town of Marshall federal census has the 
2 CONC following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Barton, N S               59 m Carpenter                Rhode Island
2 CONT 
2 CONT          L                 56 f                          New York
2 CONT 
2 CONT The index to the 1870 Michigan Calhoun County census was finally 
2 CONC completed.  For the township of Burlington Township, I found the 
2 CONC following:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dwelling and family number 31 contains the following entry:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Barton, Nathanel          79 m At home                  Rhode Island
2 CONT 
2 CONT          Lucinda           78 f Keeping House            New York
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is adjacent to their son William S. Barton who is family 30 in the 
2 CONC above census.
2 CONT ----------------------------------------------
2 CONT The fact that Nathan S. Barton, father of William S. Barton is the same 
2 CONC Nathan Sisson Barton, son of Rufus and Prudence Barton has not been 
2 CONC proved.  However, this similarities are striking.  The have the same 
2 CONC first name and middle initial.  According to several Calhoun County 
2 CONC census records Nathan S. was born about 1791 in Rhode Island.  Nathan 
2 CONC Sisson was born on Feb. 11, 1791 in Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The source of Nathan Sisson Barton, his siblings and his parents is the 
2 CONC 1988 International Genealogical Index, Batch #: C502171, Source Call #: 
2 CONC 908271 ITEM 2.  They are also listed on page 67 of The Descendants of 
2 CONC John Cole of Plymouth 1633.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The notes for Nathan's mother Prudence gives us a major clue on the 
2 CONC family migration from Warren, Rhode Island to Washington County, NY 
2 CONC between the date of birth of her last two children (1796-1799).
2 CONT 
2 CONT While at the Calhoun County Court House at Marshall, Michigan in June, 
2 CONC 1997 I found several records pertaining to a Charles A. and Lucy Barton.  
2 CONC There was also a Nathan Barton of Chicago who purchased several 
2 CONC properties in Calhoun County.acent to Cayuga County.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 11:53:53
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Lucinda //
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 JAN 1794
2 PLAC ,,New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 FEB 1880
2 PLAC Burlington,Calhoun,Michigan
2 CAUS Old age
1 FAMS @F13@
1 NOTE Record of Calhoun Co. Deaths 1867 - 1882, pagd 249, Burlington Twp #64 
2 CONC Lucinda Barton, female white, widow, age 86 y 1 m 5 d died in Burlington 
2 CONC of old age. Born in NY, no record of parents names. Died Feb 13, 1880.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The 1880 MI Mortality Index indicates that Lucinda's father was Born in 
2 CONC France.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 14:26:26
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME Rufus /Barton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 AUG 1749
2 PLAC Warwick,Kent,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1807
2 PLAC Lansingburg,Rensselaer,New York
1 FAMS @F2@
1 NOTE ========================== Introduction=========================
2 CONT 
2 CONT I was invited to add my wife Darlene's Barton line to the Barton 
2 CONC Historical Society web site, www.bartonsite.org. We have that line 
2 CONC solidly back from her Great Grandmother Emily Barton (1848-1934) to Rufus 
2 CONC Barton (1749-1807) and Prudence Cole (1753-1845.) We are 99.99% sure her 
2 CONC Rufus is the great great grandson of Rufus Barton (1606-1648) of Warwick, 
2 CONC RI.  We are this sure because her Rufus is a close cousin of General 
2 CONC William Barton whose relationship to Rufus the immigrant is well proven. 
2 CONC ( The DAR application submitted by Margarett Hodges Matavia, under the 
2 CONC section "Ancestor's Services", she typed the following: " Col. William 
2 CONC Barton was a cousin of Rufus Barton and was reared in his home so they 
2 CONC were like  brothers.")
2 CONT 
2 CONT So as not to conflict with the  Rufus Barton (1606-1648) line led by 
2 CONC Betsey Perra, I have restricted this database to the descendants of Rufus 
2 CONC Barton (1749-1807) and Prudence Cole (1753-1845.) My complete Barton 
2 CONC database is available at my web site at http://www.angelfire.com/tx/royc/ 
2 CONC and is also included in the Rootsweb/Ancestry.com online projects under 
2 CONC my royc-barton database. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT For those interested in the ancestry of Prudence Cole, my other Barton 
2 CONC databases have significant information on her pedigree, especially the 
2 CONC Cole, Luther, and Miller (Millard) lines. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Please address any questions, additions, or corrections to me at 
2 CONC royc@cts.com. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Enjoy, Roy and Darlene Leggitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT ====================== Rufus Barton's Early Life====================
2 CONT 
2 CONT For background we must know that Warren, Rhode Island was founded 1747 
2 CONC from MA towns of Barrington, Swansea, and Rehoboth.  Also, Bristol was 
2 CONC called Mt. Hope in 1679. Founded 1681 as part of Plymouth Colony. 1686 
2 CONC Became Bristol Co., MA. ceded to RI in 1747.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There is little doubt in my mind that our Rufus Barton of Warren descends 
2 CONC from the Rufus Barton who settled in Warwick and died there in 1648.  A 
2 CONC common genealogical ploy is to work down from your known line and work up 
2 CONC from the immigrant at the same time.  Eventually the two will connect. 
2 CONC However, until we make the actual connection, all general Barton 
2 CONC information will be included here.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As a starting point, the Census of the Inhabitants of Rhode Island, 1774 
2 CONC include the following at Warren:
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Name                     Males >16 <16 Females >16 <16 Indian Black
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Haile Barton                     1   1           1
2 CONT 
2 CONT  William Barton                   1   2           1   1          1
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Rufus Barton                     1   2           2
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Lydia Barton                     1   1           2
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Richard Barton                   1   2           2   1          4
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Benjamin Barton                  1   3           2   1          1
2 CONT 
2 CONT (This census also included 15 Cole, 7 Luther, 15 Miller, and 3 Sisson 
2 CONC heads of household in Warren.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT The History of Warren, Rhode Island, in the War of The Revolution, 1776 - 
2 CONC 1783. By Virginia Baker, Published in Warren, R.I. in 1901 contains some 
2 CONC historic information that may help make the connection.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 5 indicates that the pioneer settlers of Swansea, Massachusetts, of 
2 CONC which the town Warren originally formed a part, were a strong and 
2 CONC steadfast race of men, resolute, courageous, and liberty loving.  The 
2 CONC characteristics so marked in them descended to their posterity.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 10 indicates the population of Warren in 1776 was 1,005 including 
2 CONC slaves. The town was required by law to furnish ten men for military 
2 CONC service, but in September it was voted to increase the number to twelve.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 13 describes how Lieut. Col William Barton (later promoted to 
2 CONC General) in July 1777 raised the hopes of Rhode Islanders by capturing 
2 CONC British General Prescott, Warren being especially gratified at this 
2 CONC brilliant achievement of one of her sons.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 38 lists the Roll of Capt. Ezra Ormsbee's Company of Militia in the 
2 CONC Town Warren, 1776.  It included Haile Barton, David Barton, Thomas 
2 CONC Barden, Richard Barton, Joseph Barton, Jr.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 41 includes a True List of all the Soldiers in the Town of Warren 
2 CONC both in the Alarm and Militia who were Drafted the 28th day of Sep't'm., 
2 CONC A. D. 1777. They included William, Benjamin, Richard Barton.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 43 lists Warren men who were members of the Alarm Company of Bristol 
2 CONC County in 1779.  It included Benjamin Barton.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 44 lists the names in Captain Robert Carr's Company of the Senior 
2 CONC Class in the County of Bristol in Gen. Miller's Brigade, 1780.  It 
2 CONC included Rufus and William Barton.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 45 lists Capt. Curtis Cole's Company in Cur'nl Nathan Miller's 
2 CONC Regiment. 1781.  It included David Barton.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 59 indicates Rufus Barton's loss during the War was £9 9 6.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The First Census of the United States in 1790 lists Rufus Barton in 
2 CONC Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island with two males of 16 years and 
2 CONC upwards, three females under 16 years, and three females including heads 
2 CONC of families.
2 CONT 
2 CONT ====================== Rufus Barton's Parents======================
2 CONT 
2 CONT I am not sure who are the parents of our Rufus Barton.  However, because 
2 CONC this Rufus Barton named one of his daughters Lillis Turner Barton, I 
2 CONC originally assumed his parents were Samuel Barton and Lillis Turner.
2 CONT 
2 CONT From the fact that Warren was once part of Swansea, Massachusetts, I 
2 CONC found something in the Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 
2 CONC that might be a lead to Rufus Barton's ancestry.  Book B: Marriages 1705 
2 CONC - 1775 indicates that Samuel Barton and Lillis Turner were married March 
2 CONC ye 23: 1737/8 by Samuel Maxwell minister.  Since our Rufus named one of 
2 CONC his daughters Lillis Turner Barton, based on time and place, I would 
2 CONC suspect that Samuel and Lillis Barton may be his parents.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Book B: Births 1705 - 1775 indicates Lillis the daughter of William 
2 CONC Turner and of Patience his wife was Born February the 26: 1714/5.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The source of this Rufus Barton's birth date, birth location, marriage 
2 CONC date, and marriage location is the 1994 RI IGI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 22 of the Barton Family manuscript lists Rufus and Prudence (Cole) 
2 CONC Barton, Mar. Apr 7, 1771, and their eleven children.  However, there is 
2 CONC neither a link to this Rufus nor reference to his parents in the 
2 CONC manuscript. (Nearly every other entry in the manuscript has both a to and 
2 CONC from reference for every family head.)  It does list the eleventh child, 
2 CONC Ebenezer Cole Barton b. Aug 14, 1799 Cambridge, N. Y.
2 CONT 
2 CONT As stated above, it appears Samuel and Lillis Turner Barton may be the 
2 CONC parents of this Rufus.  In July 1997 I ran across an Internet web page 
2 CONC sponsored by David Cole.  In it, there is circumstantial evidence that 
2 CONC Rufus's parents are David and Susanna Barton, married about 1735, or 
2 CONC Samuel and Lillis Turner Barton, married in 1737.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A final bit of evidence is that General William Barton and our Rufus 
2 CONC Barton were cousins. ( The DAR application submitted by Margarett Hodges 
2 CONC Matavia, under the section "Ancestor's Services", she typed the 
2 CONC following: " Col. William Barton was a cousin of Rufus Barton and was 
2 CONC reared in his home so they were like  brothers.") William Barton's father 
2 CONC was Benjamin Barton, brother of Samuel Barton. This would make William 
2 CONC and Rufus cousins.  However, there were three other brothers that could 
2 CONC be Rufus's father: Andrew, Rufus, and Anthony.  In fact, this brother 
2 CONC Rufus had a son named Rufus born 1743 of whom we know nothing further. 
2 CONC But, brother Anthony had a son Nathan - remember that our Rufus named one 
2 CONC son Nathan. Oh, how twisted this web becomes!
2 CONT 
2 CONT Within an hour of writing the previous paragraph I completed my initial 
2 CONC review of Rufus Barton's pension package. The very last page of the file 
2 CONC was a letter from a Jos. J. Barton of Greensboro, N.C. dated March 6, 
2 CONC 1909 to the Pension Office in Washington, DC. In that letter he said:
2 CONT 
2 CONT "I am advised that I may obtain a copy of the application for a pension 
2 CONC of our Rufus Barton who was born Feby. 22, 1743 in Warwick, R.I. and 
2 CONC lived in Warren R.I. at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. He is 
2 CONC supposed to have served in a Rhode Island regiment. I would like to 
2 CONC obtain the date of his death and such information as your records may 
2 CONC sho. He married April 7, 1771, Prudence Cole. ..." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This all but proves that our Rufus is the son of Rufus, son of Andrew 
2 CONC mentioned above.
2 CONT 
2 CONT =================Rufus Barton's Revolutionary Service================
2 CONT 
2 CONT Rufus Barton's widow was placed on the pension roll, 1836, for his 
2 CONC service as orderly sergeant and ensign, and, 1777-78, as lieutenant in 
2 CONC Capt. Benjamin Church's company, Colonel Tallman's regiment; also, 
2 CONC 1778-79, as Deputy Commissary of Issues. He died 1807, in Lansingburgh, 
2 CONC N. Y. (See great granddaughter Fannie Osborn's notes.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT State of New York
2 CONT County of Rensselaer
2 CONT City of Troy
2 CONT 
2 CONT On this 16th day of August AD. 1836 personally appeared before the 
2 CONC Justices Court in and for the City of Troy, Prudence Barton, a resident 
2 CONC of Lansingburgh in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York. Aged 
2 CONC last October 82 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth 
2 CONC on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit 
2 CONC of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836. That 
2 CONC she is the widow of Rufus Barton who was a Lieutenant and a Commissary in 
2 CONC the Army of the Revolution in the Rhode Island State Troops - That her 
2 CONC said husband Rufus Barton first entered said service as a Lieutenant in 
2 CONC the month of February AD. 1777 and continually served as such Lieutenant 
2 CONC until the month of March 1778 when he was reappointed such Lieutenant and 
2 CONC served continually in that capacity until the spring of the year of 1779. 
2 CONC That during about nine or ten months of the latter part of the last 
2 CONC mentioned term of service, he acted as issuing Commissary for the 
2 CONC Regiment. That in the month of January 1779 according to the best 
2 CONC recollection of this deponent - she went with her said husband to Little 
2 CONC Compton in Rhode Island where the troops were stationed and that she 
2 CONC remained with him there until the latter part of April or first of May in 
2 CONC the year 1779. That while there she well remembers that her said husband 
2 CONC acted as Commissary and distributed rations, clothing and other articles 
2 CONC to the Regiment and that she this deponent during that time, herself 
2 CONC baked bread and done other cooking for the soldiers there stationed - And 
2 CONC that her said husband remained at Little Compton and acted in his 
2 CONC capacity of Commissary after his second year's commission as Lieutenant 
2 CONC expired, but for what term this deponent does not recollect. And this 
2 CONC deponent further says that her said husband first began his service in 
2 CONC the revolution upon the breaking out of hostilities in Rhode Island about 
2 CONC two years before he was appointed Lieutenant and went to Boston and 
2 CONC served at different times as an orderlie (orderly) Sergeant and Ensign, 
2 CONC but for what period he served in those capacities she has no means of 
2 CONC recollection.
2 CONT That she and her said husband removed from Warren in Rhode Island to 
2 CONC Cambridge, Washington County in this state in the month of March 1797 and 
2 CONC resided there until October 1802 when they removed to Lansingburgh, where 
2 CONC she now resides. That her said husband died in the month of June 1807 and 
2 CONC that there all her husband's books and papers fell into the hands of her 
2 CONC son Rufus Barton, since which she has not seen them, but most of which 
2 CONC she believes to be lost or destroyed. - That she has no Documentary 
2 CONC Evidence in support of her claim unless the same may be found at 
2 CONC Washington.
2 CONT She further declares that she was married to the said Rufus Barton on the 
2 CONC 7th day of April 1771: that her husband, the aforesaid Rufus Barton died 
2 CONC on the tenth day of June A.D. 1807 and that she has remained a widow ever 
2 CONC since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof 
2 CONC hereto annexed.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above Written before the 
2 CONC Justices
2 CONT of the Justice Court of the City of Troy
2 CONT 
2 CONT B. M. Wilson, Clerk (Benjamin M.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT =================Rufus Barton's Migration to New York================
2 CONT 
2 CONT Rufus and Prudence in New York (where William Sidney Barton was born.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Since William Sidney Barton was born in New York in 1815, supposedly in 
2 CONC Skaneateles, Onondaga County, Nathan Sisson and Lucinda Barton were there 
2 CONC by that time.  The 1800 New York census has several Barton entries that 
2 CONC are of interest.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Ruphis Barton is listed in the 1800 Federal New York Census in Washington 
2 CONC Co. on page 365 as 31201-11101-00.  Seth and Timothy Barton were also in 
2 CONC Washington Co.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Alpheus, Benjamin, Josiah, and Stephen Barton were in Onondaga County. 
2 CONC Thomas Barton was in Cayuga County, immediately to the west of 
2 CONC Skaneateles.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Of special interest is Azariah, Edward, Samuel, and William Barton are in 
2 CONC Rensselaer County.  This could be especially meaningful because in 1819 
2 CONC Rufus Barton of Lansingburgh in the county of Rensselaer was involved in 
2 CONC two land transactions in Camillus in the county of Onondaga.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Probably the most convincing evidence of the migration path is that The 
2 CONC Descendants of James Cole of Plymouth 1633, page 67 gives us some very 
2 CONC meaningful additional information.  The text indicates Prudence's and 
2 CONC Rufus' first ten children were born in Warren, RI and the last one was 
2 CONC born in Cambridge, Washington Co., NY.  The family lived near Troy, NY.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The 1800 NY census indicates a Ruphes Barton in Washington County, page 
2 CONC 192.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Cambridge is approximately 23 miles northeast of Troy in Rensselaer 
2 CONC County, NY.
2 CONT  It is also only two miles from the Vermont/New York boundary.
2 CONT 
2 CONT A deposition by  David Smith to support Prudence Barton's request for 
2 CONC Rufus' pension indicates Rufus and Prudence moved to Lansingburgh about 
2 CONC 1802 and that Rufus died there in 1807..
2 CONT 
2 CONT The 1820 New York federal census lists Prudence and Rufus Barton in 
2 CONC adjacent entries in Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County. (Lansingburgh is a 
2 CONC community in the northern part of current Troy, NY. Based on later 
2 CONC evidence, this Rufus would be her son.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT For additional information on this Rufus Barton's ancestry, go to 
2 CONC http://www.angelfire.com/tx/royc/ and click on My wife's Barton line.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 11:36:36
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME Prudence /Cole/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 OCT 1753
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 NOV 1845
2 PLAC Lansingburgh,Rensselaer,New York
1 BURI
2 PLAC The Village Cem.
1 FAMS @F2@
1 NOTE Source of birth and marriage is 1988 RI IGI.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The Burial Grounds of Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, New York, 
2 CONC Broderick, page 17. Buried in the Village Cemetery.  Text indicated 
2 CONC Prudence Barton (Mrs. Rufus Barton) born in Warren, RI Oct 22, 1753, died 
2 CONC in Lansingburgh Nov 29, 1845.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For further information on this Cole line, go to 
2 CONC http://www/angelfire.com/tx/royc/ and click on My wife's Barton  line and 
2 CONC search for Prudence Cole.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 11:37:37
0 @I37@ INDI
1 NAME /Ward/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F8@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 25 APR 2002
3 TIME 16:17:17
0 @I38@ INDI
1 NAME Emily /Barton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAY 1848
2 PLAC Burlington,Calhoun,Michigan
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 APR 1934
2 PLAC So. Mason Valley,Lyon,Nevada
1 BURI
2 DATE APR 1934
2 PLAC Yerington Cem.,Lyon,Nevada
1 AFN 2035-63
1 FAMS @F12@
1 FAMC @F5@
1 NOTE Source Microfilm: 1394125  Submission: AF83-0261:  Some of the Barton 
2 CONC information was submitted by one of Earl Osborne's Mormon cousins to the 
2 CONC LDS Ancestral File.
2 CONT 
2 CONT In 1876 Sidney Barton of Calhoun County, Michigan, granted 280 acres in 
2 CONC Mason Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada to Emily Barton of Mason Valley 
2 CONC for the sum of $6,000.  Its legal description was SW 1/4 of Section 10 
2 CONC and W 1/2 of SE 1/4 of Section 9 and SE 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Section 9, all 
2 CONC in Township 12 North Range 25 East Mount Diablo Base.  The transaction 
2 CONC was notarized in Calhoun County by James M. French on 26 September 1876. 
2 CONC However, it was not recorded in Lyon County, Nevada, Deed Book J, page 
2 CONC 780 until June 30, 1886, apparently in conjunction with her divorce 
2 CONC proceedings..
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1880 Nevada census, Esmeralda County, Mason Valley, lists her brother, 
2 CONC Wilber F. 34, as living with them.  He was born in Michigan.  Their 
2 CONC father is listed as born in Vermont and her mother in New York.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Source:  Osborne family records:  After she and Charles bitterly divorced 
2 CONC in about 1885/6, Emily changed the family name to Osborne to disassociate 
2 CONC them from Charles Osborn.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miscellaneous records for Lyon County, NV, shows Emily Osborn's inventory 
2 CONC of separate property recorded the 28th day of June, 1886.  It consisted 
2 CONC of the SW quarter of Section 10 and the W half of the SE quarter of 
2 CONC Section 9 and the SE quarter of Section 9, all in Township Twelve N of 
2 CONC Range 25 E M.D.M. containing 280 acres.  Also 9 cows, 3 yearling heifer 
2 CONC ~~~, 3 steers, 7 calves,  and 45 stands of bees.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 10 JUL 2002
3 TIME 14:20:20
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1@
1 WIFE @I2@
1 MARR
2 DATE 12 SEP 1812
2 PLAC Lansingburg,Rensselaer,New York
0 @F2@ FAM
1 HUSB @I35@
1 WIFE @I36@
1 CHIL @I16@
1 CHIL @I17@
1 CHIL @I24@
1 CHIL @I18@
1 CHIL @I21@
1 CHIL @I2@
1 CHIL @I22@
1 CHIL @I33@
1 CHIL @I20@
1 CHIL @I23@
1 CHIL @I19@
1 MARR
2 DATE 7 APR 1771
2 PLAC Warren,Bristol,Rhode Island
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2 DATE 2 SEP 1873
2 PLAC Burlington,Michigan
1 NOTE Rev. A.H. Gillet
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1 MARR
2 DATE 15 NOV 1901
2 PLAC Tekonsha Twp.Calhoun,Michigan
1 NOTE mar. Lic says 11/05/01
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1 HUSB @I29@
1 WIFE @I28@
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1 DIV Y
1 HUSB @I30@
1 WIFE @I38@
1 MARR
2 DATE 17 OCT 1878
2 PLAC Gold Hill,Storey,Nevada
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1 TITL Cemeteries of Tekonsha Township Calhoun County, Michigan 
2 CONT Riverside Windfall MacFadden
1 AUTH Calhoun County Genealogical Society
1 PUBL Published June, 2000, by Calhoun County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 
2 CONC 879, Marshall, MI 49068
1 ABBR Cemeteries of Tekonsha Township
1 _MASTER Y
0 @S2@ SOUR
1 TITL Gedcom file leggitt barton modified.ged 6/29/2000
1 AUTH Jane (Townsend) Antonetti
1 PUBL Jane is a direct descendant of Wilbur Fisk Barton. Jane and her husband 
2 CONC live in Island Lake, IL
1 ABBR Jane (Townsend) Antonetti <jantonetti@juno.com>
1 _MASTER Y
0 TRLR