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Daniel Weedon Barton

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Daniel Weedon Barton

Birth
Marion County, Missouri, USA
Death
31 May 1865 (aged 39)
Shelby County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Shelbyville, Shelby County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Daniel Barton a resident of Shelby County, Missouri was recently arrested and shot by Macon County militia. He had recently returned from a military prison in Chicago. He was charged with being a bushwhacker. He was 39, and left a wife and 11 children. (Paris Mercury) More 13 June 1865. The family story is - "The Union came to their house. Took Daniel outside. Made the family all line up and say goodbye. Then took him out in the woods and shot him."
SCOURCE: As per Karen Duncan, Rt. #1, Box 533A, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74006. Daniel married Sarah "Sally" McBroom, January 1, 1845 in Monroe, Co., Missouri.∼Shelby County, Missouri Obituary - Daniel Barton

16 June 1865 PALMYRA SPECTATOR
We understand that on Wednesday of last week a squad of militia from
Macon County arrested Daniel Barton of Shelby county: and the next day,
while on their return with him to Macon City they shot him. He had but
recently returned home from a long imprisonment in the military prison
at Chicago. We understand that those who killed him charged him with
being an accomplice of some bushwackers who had lately made a raid
through that section of the county. He was some 40 years of age and
leaves a wife and 11 children. PARIS MERCURY June 9

NOTE: it is not known for sure that he is buried in this cemetery but his wife and some of their children are.
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I based his death date on what was reported in the newspaper obituary.
Daniel Barton a resident of Shelby County, Missouri was recently arrested and shot by Macon County militia. He had recently returned from a military prison in Chicago. He was charged with being a bushwhacker. He was 39, and left a wife and 11 children. (Paris Mercury) More 13 June 1865. The family story is - "The Union came to their house. Took Daniel outside. Made the family all line up and say goodbye. Then took him out in the woods and shot him."
SCOURCE: As per Karen Duncan, Rt. #1, Box 533A, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74006. Daniel married Sarah "Sally" McBroom, January 1, 1845 in Monroe, Co., Missouri.∼Shelby County, Missouri Obituary - Daniel Barton

16 June 1865 PALMYRA SPECTATOR
We understand that on Wednesday of last week a squad of militia from
Macon County arrested Daniel Barton of Shelby county: and the next day,
while on their return with him to Macon City they shot him. He had but
recently returned home from a long imprisonment in the military prison
at Chicago. We understand that those who killed him charged him with
being an accomplice of some bushwackers who had lately made a raid
through that section of the county. He was some 40 years of age and
leaves a wife and 11 children. PARIS MERCURY June 9

NOTE: it is not known for sure that he is buried in this cemetery but his wife and some of their children are.
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I based his death date on what was reported in the newspaper obituary.

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