See articles, below.Rites Tuesday For J.H. Barton, Union Veteran
Funeral services for John Henry Barton, Negro, 95, one of the last two Civil War veterans in this city, who died yesterday at his home, 520 Basin street, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Bethel A.M.E. Church, Briggs and Ash streets.
The Rev. Charles H. Fountain, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Lincoln Cemetery. Friends may call at the residence Monday evening from 6 to 10 o'clock.
Barton and Ephrain Slaughter, the other veteran, served as honorary chief marshals of the Memorial Day parade this year, although neither was physically able to participate.
Barton, who resided in this city since 1867, was a member of the Bethel A.M.E. Church for sixty-eight years. He was born in Frederick, Md., in 1848 and enlisted in the Union Army in Baltimore when 16.
He served as a private with Company 8, Seventh Regiment, United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and saw service in the battle of Cedar Creek, Fla., and in many skirmishes around Petersburg and Richmond, Va. Barton received a deep bayonet gash in his hand at White Bluff. His biggest thrill, he said, was taking part in the capture of Peterburg, Va.
He was first employed here by the local Paxton Roller Mill and the Lochiel Hotel. When he retired at the age of 80 he had completed more than twenty years with the City Highway Department.
Surviving are his daughter, Miss Jennie Barton; a son, Ephraim H. Barton; six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. He was a member of the former David R. Stevens Post, NO. 520, G.A.R. (The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 18 July 1942.)
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