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1 Clarissa Harlowe BARTON1,2 (1821-1912) [4381]. Born 25 Dec 1821, Oxford, MA.1,2 Died 12 Apr 1912, Glen Echo, MD.1,3 Cause: Chronic Pneumonia. Buried North Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, MA.4
From Historical Times Enclopedia of the CIvil War edited by Patricia L. Faust.
Born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Mass., the youngets of 5 children in middle class family, Barton was educated at home, and at 15 started teaching school. Her most notable antebellum achievement was the establishment of a free public school in Bordentown, NJ. Though she is remembered as the founder of the American Red Cross, her only prewar medical experience came when for 2 years she nursed an invalid brother.
In 1861 Barton was living in Washington, DC., working at the U.S. Patent Office. When the 6th Massachusetts Regiment arrived in the city after the Baltimore Riots, she organized a relief program for the soldiers, beginning a lifetime of philanthropy.
When Barton learned that many of the wounded from First Bull Run had suffered, not from want of attention but from need of medical supplies, she advertised for donations in the Worcester, Mass., Spy and began an independant organization to distribute goods. The relief operation was successful, and the following yuear U.S. Surgeon General William A. Hammond granted her a general pass to travel with army ambulances "for the purpose of distributing comforts for the sick and wounded, and nursing them."
For 3 years she followed army operatoins throughout the Virginia theater and in the Charleston, S.C., area. Her work in Fredericksburg, Va., hospitals, caring for the casualties from the Battle of the Wilderness, and nursing work at Bermuda Hundred attracted national notice. At this time she formed her only formal Civil War connection with any organization when she served as superintendent of nurses in Maj. Gen Benjamin F. Butlers command.
She also expanded her concept of soldier aid, traveling to Camp Parole, Md., to organize a program for locating men listed as missing in action. Through interviews with Federals returning from SOuthern prisons, she was often able to determine the status of some of the missing and notify families.
By the end of the war Barton had performed most of the services that would later be associated with the American Red Cross, which she founded in 1881. IN 1904 she resigned as head of that organization, retiring to her home at Glen Echo, outside Washington, D.C., where she died 12 Apr. 1912.
From Proceedings of the 21st Continental Congress of the DAR, 1912.
We have lost from our midst one of our most distinguished Daughters - one of the incorporators of our Society - Clara Barton.
Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American National Red Cross Association, died at he home at Glen Echo Friday morning, April 12, 1912. Clara Barton was born in Worcester County, Massachusetts, on Christmas day, 1821, her parents being Captain Stephen Barton and Sallie Stone Barton. She was the fifth child of her parents. Her father, Captain Stephen Barton, was with "Dad Anthony" Wayne in all of his campaigns, and Miss Barton often delighted her friends with reminiscences of stories her father, Capt. Barton, told her of his experiences during those wild campaigns as well as of the hardly less than exciting political campaigns of the day.
Miss Barton, as was said of Lincoln, now belongs to the ages. She was probably the most famous woman on the last century, known in three wars as the angel of the battlefield. From the battlefields of the Civil War, she was called to the battlefield of the Franco-Prussian War, where she performed such signal service for the suffering soldiers on both sides that she was decorated by by both Franco Na Germany, receiving the iron cross of Germany. The duchess of Baden Baden decorated her personally. In Miss Barton's collection of decorations, twelve nations are represented.
Miss Barton's funeral occurred at Glen Echo, MD, Sunday, April 14th. Her casket was covered with the American flag, placed upon her casket by her close personal friend, Mrs Isabel Worrell Ball, and the casket heaped with flowers from the patriotic organizations of the country. Her pall bearers were veterans of the Civil War for whom she had done so much. They were Past Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief John McElroy and Past Department Commanders S.E. Faunce, George C. Ross, J.D. Bloodgood, Newton Ferree, and J.S. Walker. Interment was in Oxford Mass., where by her won request, she sleeps by the side of her father, the Revolutionary soldier.
From the Life of Clara Barton by William Eleazar Barton:
The North Oxford Cemetery [Oxford, Massachusetts] has a beautiful and slightly elevation, containing the largest lot in the enclosure where for generations the Bartons have been buried. There her body was laid to rest, the hands of old soldiers lowering it to it last resting place.
2 Stephen BARTON , Jr1,5 (1774- ) [4379]. Born 18 Aug 1774.1,5,6 Marr Sarah STONE 22 Apr 1804, Oxford, MA.7
From the Life of Clara Barton, 1922, by William E. Barton.
"Captain Stephen Barton won his military title by that system of post-bellum promotion familiar in all American communities. He was a non-commissioned officer in the wars against the Indians. He was nineteen when he enlisted, and marched on foot with his troop from Boston to Philadelphia, which at that time was the Nations's capital. The main army was then at Detroit under command of General Wayne, whom the soldiers lovingly knew as "Mad Anthony." William Henry Harrison and Richard M. Johnson, later president and Vice-President of the United States, were then lieutenants, and Stephen Barton fought side by side with them. He was present when Tecumseh was slain, and at the signing of the treaty of peace which followed. His military service extended over three years. At the close of the war he marched home on foot through northern Ohio and central New York. He and the other officers were greatly charmed by the Genesee and Mohawk valleys, and he purchased land somewhere in the vicinity of Rochester. He had some thoughts of establishing a home in that remote region, but it was so far distant from civilization that he sold his New York land and made his home in Oxford.
In 1796, Stephen Barton returned from the Indian War. He was then twenty-two years of age. Eight years later he married Sarah Stone, who was only seventeen. They established their home west of Oxford, near Charlton, and later removed to the farm where Clara Barton was born.".
4 Stephen BARTON , Sr5 (1750-1805) [4378]. Born 1750. Marr Dorothy MOORE 28 May 1765, Oxford, MA.5,8 Died 1805.6
From the Life of Clara Barton by Percy H. Epler, 1917.
"Stephen Barton was a Physician. His generosity forbade him to present his bills to patients, and though a good practitioner, he was unable to make a living from the profession. In 1764 he settled at Oxford Center, and engaged in trading, becoming in time the landlord of the old Tavern. IN 1776 he removed to Windson, Maine, with his sons, but returned to Oxford in 1790 and established a mechanical shop. He died in Main in 1805.
One of his sons was Stephen Barton, born August 18, 1774. This was the father of Clara Barton.".
5 Dorothy MOORE1,5,9 (1747- ) [4377]. Born 12 Apr 1747.1,5,9
10 Elijah MOORE9,10 (1702-1781) [4376]. Born 14 Mar 1701/02, Oxford, MA.9 Marr Dorothy LEARNED 19 Jul 1733.9 Died 17 Nov 1781.9
11 Dorothy LEARNED1,10 (1715- ) [4375]. Born 19 Jul 1715.1,10
3 Sarah STONE1,5 (1783-1851) [4380]. Born 13 Nov 1783.1,5 Died 10 Jul 1851.5
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.".
| 1 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 2 | "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War edited by Patricia L. Faust. ". |
| 3 | "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War edited by Patricia L. Faust.". |
| 4 | "Life of Clara Barton by William Eleazar Barton". |
| 5 | "The Life of Clara Barton by William E. Barton, 1922". |
| 6 | "The Life of Clara Barton by Percy H. Epler, 1917". |
| 7 | "Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850". |
| 8 | "Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800". |
| 9 | "The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1903". |
| 10 | Joel Munsell's Sons, 1882, "The Learned Family, compiled by William Law Learened in part from the papers of the late Joseph Gay Eaton Larned". |