Louisa Joyce Walton

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BARTON, Louisa J[oyce]
b. [ ] 1891
d. [02 Feb] 1948 C-19-04-05
"In this city February 2, Mrs. Louisa Joyce Barton, late resident of Salem route 4, box 121. Wife of R.D. Barton of Salem; mother of Ruth Phillips of Eugene and Richard Paul Barton of Portland; sister of Mrs. Lulu Walton Quick of Salem, Mrs. Lorena Sturgeon of Corvallis, Dr. R.W. Walton of Mount Claire, N.J., Harold Walton of Monroe, N.Y., Paul Walton of Syracuse, N.Y., Fremont W. Walton of Exeter, Calif.; and grandmother of Paul Taylor Barton and Elaine Marie Barton, both of Portland. Member of Soroptomist club, American Legion auxiliary, Salem Truth Center and YWCA. Services will be held Thursday, February 5, at 1:30 p.m. at the W.T. Rigdon chapel, the Rev. George H. Swift officiating. Interment in Lee Mission cemetery." OS Feb 4, 1948 9:5

Louisa married Richard Don Malle Barton on 29 Mar 1917. Richard (son of Francisco Miller Barton and Mary Whitehead) was born on 29 Mar 1892 in Manchester, Virginia, USA; died on 7 Nov 1953 in Portland, Oregon, USA; was buried in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, Marion County, Oregon, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard Paul Barton was born on 25 Oct 1921 in Oregon, USA; died on 25 Jul 1984 in Oregon, USA; was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States.
2. Ruth Louise Barton was born on 27 Dec 1924 in Salem, Oregon, USA; died in Oct 2000 in Arizona, USA.

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GEORGE WALTON ?-? FAMILY REUNION
Nearly a half century ago the George Walton family who lived in Keene for. many years sold their property and went to the West Coast, taking the younger children with theirs who afterwards married and made their homes in the West. Last Tuesday the following arrived at Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Sullivan's for a reunion and to call on old friends which they had wished to do for so long: Harold Walton from Monroe, N. Y.; Mrs. George Quick (Lulu) from Rotterdam Junction, N. Y.; Dr. Ralph Walton from Mont Clair, N.J.; Paul Walton from Syracuse, N.Y.; Mrs. Lorena Sturgeon from Corvallius, Oregon, and Fremont Walton from Exeter, Calif. To Fremont and Lorena, who hadn't been here for so many years the old Keene was gone and a new one in its place with
many strange faces, new homes and scenic wonders. The old friends were so glad to have the privilege of visiting
with them again and hoping there will not be the span of years before they come to Keene again.
- THE RECORD-POST. Au Sable, New York, September 27, 1956

George married Susan Ellis McClelland on 30 Sep 1874 in Black Brook, New York, USA. Susan (daughter of James D. McClelland and Mary Elizabeth Wise) was born in Feb 1857 in Canada; died on 12 Mar 1924 in Portland, Oregon, USA; was buried in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, Marion County, Oregon, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Louisa ?. Louisa was born in 1824 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Apparently the McClelland family moved from Ireland to Canada while James was an infant. James' sister Agnes McClelland immigrated to the United States in 1840 at the age of 16; presumably James came at the same time at the age of 9. According to census records, their father was born in Scotland; their mother was born in Ireland.


Birth:
Armagh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

James married Mary Elizabeth Wise in 1851. Mary (daughter of Roswell Wise and Mary De Mon) was born on 13 Sep 1836 in Elizabethtown, New York, USA; died on 30 Aug 1918 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA; was buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery, Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Malone Farmer, Adirondacks, New York
Wednesday September 11, 1918

Mrs. Mary E. McClelland, who died at her home in Saranac Lake last week was a noble woman who, for more than 60 years was an influential factor in all phases of community uplift and benefit in that village. When she settled there it was little more than a logging camp and contained but seven families. She was the second teacher in the schools of the place and laid the groundwork for splendid citizenship in her pupils. In the Methodist church and W.C.T.U. she was among the foremost acting as president of the latter for many years. Before Saranac Lake had newspapers of it’s own she acted as a special correspondent from time to time for other papers entering the community and was for some time on the Farmer’s staff of correspondents. The farm left by her husband who died 21 years ago extended over what is now a large part of the thrifty Adirondack village. Her five surviving children are widely scattered, only one, Miss Lena McClelland, being left at Saranac Lake.


August 30, 1918

Community Loses Pioneer Resident
Mrs. Mary E. McClelland passes away at age of 81
Here over 60 Years
Only seven houses in Village When She Took Up Her Residence 66 Years Ago
Was Able to Teach School Where Others Had Failed
Wrote Interesting Articles Before Newspapers Were Established Here and
During Her Long Life Was A Factor in All Phases of Community Uplift.

In the death of Mrs. Mary E. McClelland, aged 81, which occurred at her home No. 172 Broadway, Friday night, at 7:30 o’clock, Saranac Lake lost another of its pioneer citizens and a resident who for more than sixty years was a powerful factor in all phases of community uplift and betterment.
Mrs. McClelland was born at Elizabethtown, Sept. 13, 1836, the daughter of the late Roswell and Mary Demon Wise. At the age of 15 she was married to James McClelland, who died here 21 years ago. Shortly after her marriage, Mrs. McClelland came to Saranac Lake, and with the exception of four or five years during which she resided in Canada, she had lived here until her death.
When Mrs. McClelland came to Saranac Lake the village was then a very small hamlet. It was little more than a logging camp. Seven families comprised its entire population. The inhabitants led the rough woods life. Mrs. McClelland, who was the second teacher in the community, brought with her a kindliness and a keen insight into human nature that won the respect and the friendship of the youths and she was able to teach the rudiments of education and to lay the groundwork for the fine community spirit that quickly developed. Many of her pupils became prominent citizens and accumulated considerable wealth. She taught two years in the red schoolhouse on Lake Street. She was successful because of her remarkable patience and her unfailing good nature which characterized her through life and won for her the endearment of hundreds of friends. This kindliness of spirit which made her a loving wife and mother, was omnipresent and through it was wielded a powerful influence for good in religious and community movements.
Mrs. McClelland was naturally of a literary turn of mind and during her life she contributed many interesting articles to the press. When she came here there were no newspapers, but papers from other parts of the Northern New York circulated here and Mrs. McClelland was the local correspondent. She wasn’t a correspondent in the sense of writing day to day news but devoted most of her time to articles of splendid literary merit and carrying always an inspiring note. During the Civil War she wrote many poems and clippings of what she had written were voluminous. These were destroyed in a fire a few years ago. Mrs. McClelland retained a remarkable grasp of her mental faculties until her death and was able to recite from memory 90 poems.
Mrs. McClelland was active in church circles, being deeply religious but without fanaticism. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was always at the forefront in Sunday School activities and the organization of other church societies. She was for many years the president of W.T.C.U. attended in a drinking fountain erected near the St. Regis Hotel on Bloomingdale avenue, but it is said the fountain was destroyed by saloonkeepers whom she opposed.
Mrs. McClelland’s property extended over a large part of the village.
There were 13 children in the family, of whom the following survive; Mrs. Frank S. Barton and Mrs. George W. Walton of Salem, Oregon, Fred S. McClelland of Whitinsville, Mass., Mrs. Herbert Hazelwood of Mattawa, Ontario and Miss Lena C. McClelland of Saranac Lake, besides one brother, George W. Wise of Saranac Lake.
The funeral was held from the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Alexander McKinley, pastor of the church officiating. There was a profusion of beautiful flowers. Members of the Women’s Relief Corp attended in a body. A special program of music was given, two hymns, “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” and “Abide With Me” being beautifully sung by a mixed quartet. The pall bearers were her grandsons, Thomas, Charles, and Gaylord McClelland, Paul Walton, Frank Washburn and George Quick. Burial was in Pine Ridge Cemetery.

—Transcribed by Michele Tucker of the William Chapman White Room, Saranac Lake Free Library, 4/11/2006, from Alfred L. Donaldson's Scrapbook 8.

Notes:

Sent to relatives in County Armagh, Northern Ireland as a young boy after his parents died in Scotland around 1800. It seems he was called "Dark" because he was of Scots birth and was a unionist.

Dark married Islaye ?. Islaye was born in in Éire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Roswell married Mary De Mon in 1835. Mary (daughter of Brouwer De Mon and Delnaya ?) was born in 1814; died on 6 Jan 1849; was buried in Simonds Hill Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Essex County, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]