. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. cinity ofShirleysburg, with his wife and fivechildren, about 1785. .John Bartonwas one of the pioneer school teach-ers in Shirleysburg. His five child-reh were: Kimber, Thomas Gage,John Jr., Mary and Sabra. KimberBarton was the lirst postmaster inShirleysburg, being chosen in had also an inclination towardmusic and literature. He was thegrandfather too, of Miss Ann Divenof Mount Union. Thomas Gage Bar-ton was the father of Thomas Nel-son Barton, late of Shirleysburg, andthe grandfather of Thomas of Hunt-ingdon, Bower C. and C
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. cinity ofShirleysburg, with his wife and fivechildren, about 1785. .John Bartonwas one of the pioneer school teach-ers in Shirleysburg. His five child-reh were: Kimber, Thomas Gage,John Jr., Mary and Sabra. KimberBarton was the lirst postmaster inShirleysburg, being chosen in had also an inclination towardmusic and literature. He was thegrandfather too, of Miss Ann Divenof Mount Union. Thomas Gage Bar-ton was the father of Thomas Nel-son Barton, late of Shirleysburg, andthe grandfather of Thomas of Hunt-ingdon, Bower C. and Clement Bar-ion of Shirleysburg, and Sibbie, E. Emerick, of Grantville, Gage Barton was also thefather of Mrs. Benj. Leas, formerly ofShirleysburg. John Barton, Jr., theord son, was married to a Miss Stack-pole of McVeytown. Mary Bartonwas the wife of John Bower and themother of Dr. Chas. Bower, long aneminent physician at Newton Hamil-ton, also of Rev. Frederick Bower,a noted defender of the Baptist Faithin his day, who died at Middleburg,. TEOnAS NELSON BARTON, dtceastd 90 Pa., about 8 years ago. Sabra Bar-ton, the other daughter of John Bar-ton, Sr., the pioneer, was the wife ofJacob Smelker formerly of Shir-leysburg, and this Jacob Smelkerwas the father of Thomas A. Smel-ker, long a resident of Germany Val-ley. Thomas A. Smelker was thefather of H. S. Smelker of Mount Un-ion, C. B. Smelker of Beaumont, Tex.,T. N. Smelker and Mrs. Julia Creeof Kauffman, Tex., Mrs. Hannah Mus-ser of Homestead and Mary, Mrs. Ovelman of Altoona. Thomas Barton was married to MissGertrude Lovell Morgan, Quoatieoke,Quebec. Canada. Clement Bartonmarried Miss Jessie Myers. Sibbiemarried Dr. C. E, Bmsrick and re-sides at Grantville, Pa. The present Barton sons of Shir-leysburg. Clement and Bower C,Thomas of Huntingdon, and Mrs. Emerick of Grantville, Pa., are thechildren of the late Thomas NelsonBarton, long a prominent resident ofShirleysburg. Mr. Barton died April1, 1906.
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