Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Barton, Clara Trimble 1902
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Cedartown Standard, June 12, 1902
Mrs. Clara Barton, We feel that the Cedartown Chapter of the Daughters of the 
Confederacy have sustained, in the death of our loved sister, Mrs. Clara 
Barton, a sad and irreparable loss. Death truly loves a shining mark, but 
memory robs death of its power. While we cannot see her gentle, refined face 
again, or hear the accents of her soft, sweet voice, she is with us still to 
sooth, to cheer, to comfort and inspire. Such a life as her’s cannot be 
measured by the short span of years allotted to man on earth. She still lives 
in our hearts, a blessed memory. So full was she of that sweet sympathy that 
draws hearts as the magnet attracts steel, that all who knew her counted 
themselves her friends, and her death brought a sense of personal bereavement 
to all upon whom the influence of her life fell like a benediction. She was a 
veritable embodiment of that grand and glorious type of womanhood we seek to 
honor in our work of love as Daughters of Confederacy. We deplore her loss and 
resolve, 1st, to cherish her memory and to seek in our private life and in our 
fraternal relations to emulate her patience and charity that turneth away wrath 
and knitteth the human heart in love. 2d, That we extend to the family and 
relatives our heartfelt sympathy, and assure them that in the Daughters of the 
Confederacy they have true and loyal friends. 3d, That her untimely death 
reminds us of the uncertainty of life and the frailty of human flesh, and draws 
us together in closer bonds of friendship, and her triumphant death strengthens 
our faith in the glorious immortality that awaits the faithful. 4th, That her 
name be inscribed upon our records, and that we request our papers to publish 
these resolutions and send a copy to the family. Mrs. W. K. Fielder, Mrs. J. M. 
Curtright, Mrs. A. D. Hogg. (Cedartown Standard, July 10, 1902) 

Mrs. Clara Trimble Barton, one of Cedartown’s most highly esteemed ladies, 
passed away Saturday night in Atlanta, where she had been under surgical 
treatment at the sanatorium of Drs. Cooper & Elkins for some time. Medical 
skill was unavailing however, and Cedartown today mourns the loss of one of her 
noblest women. Miss Clara Trimble was born at Wetumpka, Ala., Feb. 19th, 1838. 
In her young womanhood she was united in marriage with Col. J. K. Barton, to 
whom she had been a most devoted wife, and has been a model mother to their 
children. The heart broken husband and five children—Mrs. Libbie Niles of 
McGhee, Tenn., Mr. Chas. C. Barton and Misses Mary, Willie and Charlotte Barton-
-survive to mourn her loss. Col. Barton, who has been in Atlanta with his wife, 
brought her remains home Sunday noon, and it was indeed a sad home coming for 
himself and his children. A large number of neighbors and friends met the 
family at the station to express sympathy in their great bereavement. The 
funeral services were conducted at the residence at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, 
and were very largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. Geo. E. 
Benedict assisted by Revs. F. L. McFadden and C. K. Henderson. A beautiful 
feature of the service was the music rendered by a quartette, consisting of 
Mesdames Chas. Adamson and A. W. Birkbeck and Messrs, N. H. Swayne and H. B. 
Johnson. Mrs. Barton had lived in this community for many years, and was widely 
known for her many acts of thoughtful kindness as neighbor and friend and in 
relieving poverty and distress. She united with the Presbyterian church in her 
girlhood, and has ever lived the life of a true Christian. The entire community 
unites with the stricken family in mourning the death of this noble woman, and 
the bereaved ones have the sympathy of all in their great loss. 

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