Sarah STONE (1783-1851)

1 Sarah STONE^1,2 (1783-1851) [4380]. Born 13 Nov 1783.^1,2 Marr Stephen BARTON , Jr 22 Apr 1804, Oxford, MA.³ Died 10 Jul 1851.²

Curiously, while nearly every source indicates that Stephen Barton and Sarah Stone had only the four listed children (plus Clara), there is one source that identifies another. Clara Barton and the Red Cross in the United States by Isabella B. Hinton, lists a "Captain G. M. Barton." This may well be an error but it is an odd one.

From The Life of Clara Barton by William E. Barton, 1922.

"Clara Barton's mother, Sarah or Sally Stone, born November 13, 1783, died July 10, 1851, aged sixty-eight. Her death occurred while Clara was studying at Clinton, and the expressions of solitude in Clara's diary at the time of her perplexities over her love affairs, were induced in part, though perhaps unconsciously, by her loneliness after her mother's death.".

Sources

1	"Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd".

2	"The Life of Clara Barton by William E. Barton, 1922".

3	"Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850".