When David Humphrey Posey Barton was born on 4 March 1835, in Cass, Georgia, United States, his father, Daniel Quinn Barton, was 28 and his mother, Malinda Pearson, was 16. He married Louisa Jane Blalock on 20 November 1856, in Bartow, Cass, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Bartow, Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 828, Bartow, Georgia, United States in 1900. He died on 18 January 1917, in Gordon, Georgia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in West Union Church, Gordon, Georgia, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Gordon, Georgia, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
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Possible Related NamesConfederate (CSV) Private David Humphrey Posey Barton (1835 - 1917) Home State: Georgia Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion Before Sharpsburg Age 26, from …
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