Aged Resident Dies

One of Washington county’s pioneer residents was called to rest on Tuesday morning when Mrs. Eliza Barton died at her home on south First street after she had been confined to her bed but a few days with double pneumonia. The deceased was born in England, February 3, 1847 and came to American with her parents when she was four years of age. The family settled in Illinois where the children were educated in the public schools.

On January 18, 1865, the deceased was united in marriage to Solomon Barton at Edgewood, Illinois, and to this union ten children were born, nine of whom are surviving. In October, 1877, the family moved to Nebraska and located on a farm west of this city where they lived for many years. The trip to Washington county was made in a covered wagon and the Barton family belonged to the early pioneers and endured the hardships so common to the early settlers. Mr. Barton died thirteen years ago and the following year the deceased moved to her home in this city where she had since resided. She was of a sunny disposition and had a wide acquaintance in this county, all of whom thought highly of her.

She leaves to mourn her loss, four sons, Solomon of Arlington, William and Lester, who live near Blair, and Elmer at home; five daughters, Mrs. Pixley of Brown county, Nebraska, Mrs. Newkirk of Arlington, Mrs. McCowan and Mrs. Nels Nelson of north of Blair, and Miss Anna Barton at home. She is also survived by two brothers, William Wilson and Robert Wilson, both of this city and a sister, Mrs. Vesta of Layclede, Illinois, besides two half brothers and a half sister.

Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, the Rev. Carl G. Bader officiating, after which interment will be made in the family lot in Blair cemetery.

Pilot 21 March 1928

Mrs. Solomon Barton Passes

Had Reached Ripe Old Age of 81 When Death Found Her Yesterday at 8:45

Funeral Friday Afternoon

Mrs. Solomon Barton passed peacefully away at 8:45 yesterday morning at her home in this city, 108 south West street, following an illness of just a week, having been taken sick the Tuesday previous with a bad cold. It developed into pneumonia and she was unable to throw it off at her advanced age of 81.

The funeral service will be held at the Methodist church at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, Rev. Carl G. Bader officiating. Burial will be in the Blair cemetery by the side of her husband, whose death occurred thirteen years ago, Feb. 21st.

Eliza Wilson was born in England at Misco Hill and came to this country with her parents when a girl of four years. They settled first in Connecticut, afterward moving to Edgewood, Ill., where she grew to womanhood and was married to Solomon Barton, Jan. 19th, 1865.

They lived there five years before coming to Washington county, settling on the old farm seven miles northwest of Blair that was their home for about forty years. A year after Mr. Barton’s death Mrs. Barton moved to this city twelve years ago.

Ten children were born to them, one son, Albert died at the age of three years. Solomon lives at Arlington, William and Lester live near Blair, Elmer made his home with his mother, Lida, Mrs. Jos. Pixley, lives at Mary, Neb., Frances, Mrs. A. B. Newkirk, Arlington, Stella, Mrs. Sam McConell, Blair, Esther, Mrs. N. P. Nelson, Blair, and Anna, who made her home with her brother William.

She leaves also two brothers, William and Robert Wilson, of this city and one sister, Mrs. Hettie Vesta, of Laclede, Ill., also two half brothers and one half sister at Edgwood, Ill. There are 20 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Mrs. Barton was a wonderful wife, mother and friend, a lover of her home and her family, a willing worker, always ready to sacrifice herself for those she loved more than her own life. The bereaved family have the sincere sympathy of their many friends.

~There is an additional obituary on file in the Blair Public library that was published in The Enterprise on March 22, 1928. It does not have any additional information.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~