Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Barton, Ernest H. - October 3, 1906
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer.00@gmail.com February 26, 2023, 11:38 pm


source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
October 06, 1906, page 5


ERNEST H. BARTON. - Death Claims One of the Best Known Citizens of Ascension 
Parish. - Ernest H. Barton, owner of St. Emma plantation and one of the best 
known and highly esteemed sugar planter of this parish, died very suddenly at 
10:45 o'clock Wednesday night, from the effects of an attack of acute nervous 
indigestion. The sad event transpired at the palatial Barton home on St. Emma 
plantation, and will carry profound sorrow and regret into many households. Mr. 
Barton was apparently in the very best of health and spirits when he retired to 
his room about 10 o'clock Wednesday night, at the conclusion of a game of 
billiards with his son-in-law, Capt. Frank K. Sims. He chatted with his wife for 
several minutes after disrobing and made some trivial remark to her just as she 
turned out the light and directed her steps toward the bed. The words proved to 
be his last, for a brief moment later, with a smile on his lips and content in 
his heart, he closed his eyes in the long sleep that knows no waking and passed 
quietly away. Death came to him as he had earned it - peacefully, calmly, 
softly, as the slumber after a day's work honestly done, the setting of a sun 
that had been untarnished by the slightest touch of cloud.

Mr. Barton was a native of Assumption parish, having been born on Little Texas 
plantation Dec. 8, 1854. His early education was derived from private tutors and 
subsequently he attended the University of Virginia, from which institution he 
graduated with high honors. Returning to Louisiana Mr. Barton assisted his 
father in the management of Trinity plantation, Assumption parish, afterwards 
assuming the position of manager of the St. Clair estate in St. James parish. 
His next venture was the leasing of Minnie plantation, and in the year 1891 he 
purchased the well-appointed St. Emma place in this parish, a short distance 
below Donaldsonville, where he took up his residence the following year.

In 1879, Mr. Barton married Miss Bertha Beasley, the ceremony being performed at 
the old Beasley homestead on Wildwood plantation, Assumption parish, and the 
union was blessed with five children, four of whom survive their father, to-wit: 
Mrs. Frank K. Sims, Misses Ida and Roberta Barton, and Ernest H. Barton, Jr. The 
deceased is also survived by his devoted wife, two brothers, Walter I. Barton, 
of Riverside plantation, and Clarence C. Barton, of Little Texas, and one 
sister, Mrs. Effie L. Pike, of St. Clair plantation.

Mr. Barton always manifested a deep interest in public affairs, and was foremost 
in every movement looking to the benefit of the community in which he lived. At 
the time of his death he was serving the parish as a member of the board of jury 
commissioners, and filled that and other positions of honor and trust with 
signal ability and distinction. He was a leading member of the Ascension Club of 
Donaldsonville, and the rooms of that organization have been draped in mourning 
as a tribute of respect to his memory.

The funeral took place at noon Thursday, interment being made in the Episcopal 
cemetery at Napoleonville after impressive services at Christ Church, Rev. 
Quincy Ewing officiating. The pall-bearers were as follows: R.N. Sims, Clerville 
Himel, Walter Lemann, Arthur K. Barton, K.A. Aucoin, Jas. B. Murphy, Edward E. 
Murphy and S. Kennedy Barton.

Generous, kindly, sympathetic, a man of highest integrity and exceptionally 
engaging personality, he was respected and admired by all who knew him, both in 
the business and social world, and those who knew him best loved him most. It 
may be said that no citizen of Ascension parish stood higher in the esteem of 
his friends, neighbors and acquaintances than did Ernest H. Barton, and his 
sudden and untimely death has caused a void that only time can fill and a wound 
that naught but a divine Providence can heal.
 


Additional Comments:
NOTE: www.findagrave.com memorial # 58415022


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/ascension/obits/b/barton8691gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/

File size: 4.6 Kb