 Eliza Barton LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 2, p.539
Barton, Eliza, wife of James Barton, was born July 15, 1844, at St. Helens, Lancashire, England, the daughter of Josiah Barton and Margaret Wood. She was baptized in 1852 by David Grant and emigrated to America in 1862, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Manchester" and the plains in Ansel P. Harmon's train, which arrived in G. S. L. City Oct. 5, 1862; she walked all the way across the plains. Soon after her arrival in the Valley, or on July 4, 1863, she married James Barton and is the mother of all his children. Sister Barton has been an active Relief Society worker for many years and since 1896 has acted as president of the Twenty-first Ward Relief Society. She is known for her extreme kindness to the poor and sick, and is devoting so much of her time in the interest of the public good that she is seldom at home. Possessing a doctor's certificate she is able to administer to the sick and afflicted both temporally and spiritually. |
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