Hannah Ann (Blackstock) Barton (1834 - 1920)

Born 4 Jan 1834 in Hall, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Marion Barton — married 30 Nov 1852 in , Hall County, Georgia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 6 May 1920 at age 86 in Nauvoo, Winston, Alabama, United States

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Biography

*Additional data on Hannah Ann Blackstock Barton can be found on pages 536 and 537 in the book "Clan Blackstock" Published by Helen Ring Womack and printed by Henington Publishing Company, Wolf City, Texas in 1992.

Hannah Blackstock, the daughter of Daniel K. Blackstock and Martha (Wright) Blackstock, was married November 30, 1852 to Jonathan Marion Barton in Hall County, Georgia by William Reed. John and she had known each other since about 1850. Some time in 1858 or early 1859 they moved to Winston County, Alabama where they lived the remainder of their lives.

Jonathan was a sergeant in the 1st Alabama Cavalry, Union Army, so he was gone most of the time during the Civil War era. Life was very hard for Hannah as well as other women who were left to cope with soldiers from both sides.

Women had to hide food where the soldiers couldn't find it. Soldiers stole a lot from Hannah and John and did malicious things like ripping open a feather mattress and scattering the feathers, then allowing their horses to trample them.

John filed a claim with the Southern Claims Commission and won even though he wasn't paid nearly what they'd lost.

When Clear Creek was up, Hannah would get in a canoe and use an old shovel to paddle across to grind corn and deliver the corn meal to her customers. This enabled her to make a small income on which to survive. [via Cicero Musgrove, great-grandson of Margaret (Barton) League, sister of Jonathan]

She lost her brother, Thomas, and her brother-in-law, William, in the war, but Jonathan came home alive if not completely well.

On May 7, 1898, Hannah filed a claim for a pension as the guardian of Jonathan. She said in the deposition he'd lost his mind in about 1885.

Both Jonathan and Hannah are buried at Sardis Baptist Cemetery in Winston County, Alabama.

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1860 Census of Winston County, Alabama

304

Barton,

Jonathan 30; GA

Hannah 26; GA

William 4; GA

Margaret 6; GA

Sarah 1; AL

Note

Web sites of interest

http://www.genforum.genealogy.com/blackstock/

http://www.boards.ancestry.com/surnames.blackstock/mb.ashx

Earliest Blackstock names on record:

http://www.scotsoflou.com/public/images/pdfs/clanifo/clanpdf/B/Clan%20BLACKSTOCK.pdf

http://clandouglassociety.org/blackstock/

http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/sur/surc-B/surc-Bla/sur-Blackstock/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vhart/Blackstock.html

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Sources

*Hannah Ann Blackstock Barton in findagrave.com.

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD27-SJS : accessed 2 June 2016), Hannah Barton, 10 May 1921; citing reference cn 11541, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,908,231.

• Hall Co., GA Marriage Book, 1819-1870

• 1988 interview with Hannah Belle Blanton (granddaughter of Hannah (Blackstock) Barton) and Nora McCrary (granddaughter-in-law of Hannah (Blackstock) Barton) by Madeline Whitfield and Debby Black Interviews with many other descendants of Hannah in Winston County, Alabama.

• [WINSTON: AN ANTEBELLUM AND CIVIL WAR HISTORY of a Hill County of North Alabama. Vol. 4 of Annals of Northwest Alabama, by Donald B. Dodd and Wynelle S. Dodd, compiled by Carl Elliot. Birmingham: Oxmoor Press, 1972. Southern Claims Commission].

• Deposition A: Case of Jonathan Barton (Hannah A. Barton, Gdn.); #787482

• "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JD27-SJ3 : accessed 17 Aug 2014), Blackstock in entry for Hannah Barton, 10 May 1921; citing reference cn 11541, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1908231.

1. ↑ Entered by Debby Black, Mar 25, 2012