Thomas Clarkson Barton

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Thomas Clarkson Barton

Date of Birth: 4 Apr 1828

Born In: Philadelphia

Age: 64

Occupation: Tinsmith

Marital Status: Widowed

Died: 9 Aug 1892

Cause of Death: Heart Failure

Death Location: Redwood City

Burial Plot: H164

FindaGrave ID: 5792773

Obituary

SUDDEN DEATH
Rev. T. C. Barton Expires White Sitting in his Chair.
The many friends of the Rev. Thomas Clarkson Barton will hear with sorrow of his sudden death, which occurred Tuesday afternoon about 1 o'clock. He seemed to be in his usual health and took dinner with the family at the usual hour, eating rather more than he had for several meals. After dinner he went out on the back porch and seated himself in a chair, as was his custom. Some five or ten minutes later after Miss Cota Barton, a daughter, stepped into the kitchen, and glancing at the porch, noticed that her father's head was thrown back in an unusual position. She went to him and found he was dead. His position in the chair was perfectly natural, legs xxx, one hand resting on his knee and the other resting on the edge of the chair. Only the head had dropped back a little and rested on the back of the chair. He had evidently passed away without a struggle or a word.
Mr. Barton was born in Philidelphia, in April 1828. His parents moved to Elizabeth, Illinois where the deceased grew to manhood. When twenty years of age, he came with a company across the plains and arrived in California in 1849. He engaged in mining until 1854, when he became a minister in the Methodist Church South, and continued active work in the ministry until 1887, when he went on the super-annualted list on account of the failure of his eyesight. He was Presiding Elder at Santa Rosa for four years and had many warm friends in every part of the state.
He came here from the Conference in 1887 and engaged in the hardware and plumbing business which he continued to conduct in conjuction with his son up to his time of his death.
Five children survive him, two sons and three daughters. One son, Charles Barton and daughters reside here. The other son is married and lives in Stockton.
Mr. Barton was a mason and the ceremony at the cemetery will be held under the auspices of that order. The funeral will take place at 1 o'clock p.m. today, from the Methodist Church. Mr. Barton's life was long and honorable and to the day of his death he enjoyed the respect and esteem of the people among who he lived.

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