SECOND GENERATION

2. John Dandridge BARTON was born on 2 Jul 1880 in Home: Creilly Plantation, Tupelo MS. He died on 31 May 1967 in Hospital, Durant, OK. He was buried on 1 Jun 1967 in Rose Hill Cem., Calera, OK. Was a farmer most of his life. Before he married he worked as a farm hand, at least part time following the hay bailer. Some old cronies said he often was the cook for the crew. He worked a few years for A.L. Severson Hardware, in Durant, OK. (perhaps 1921-23) He lived near the old stand pipe in Durant at first. Severson then built a place between 2nd and 3rd st., near the Huber home. He lived there with wife and 4 children, and took in college students as borders, until he moved to the Streetman Farm West of Mead, near the mouth of Washita, on Red River. While there, he was a share cropper, and made a good cotton crop. From there, he moved to the Mulberry farm nearer to Mead. Finchtown School, where we children went to school, had closed. There was no school transportation. We often drove a buggy to Mead, using hot bricks wrapped in towe sacks to keep our feet warm in the winter.
Next he moved closer to school to the James Farm. It was a blow sand farm, and there was little or no profit from the farm. He then moved to a place on the highway, West of Mead. The only water came from a spring, below the house. He often had to use a sled to hawl water for the livestock. That year he cut and cleared some new land for farming. From there he moved S.E. of Mead, on Rock Creek, to the Bruce farm, in a house behind the main house. We walked to school from there.
While there, he bought a small, 4 lot, place with log cabin, on Blook # I of Mead. Before we moved he cut and halled logs to build a barn. He acquired the buildings from the old discarded Mead Lumber yard, with which he added a room, and floor to at least one other room, and the rest to use for the barn. Dad went by "Po" John, because he said he was so poor. He had been born in Tupelo MS. where he attended school, Mother said, until the third grade. Because his father managed the Creilly Plantation, After the Civil War he probably was taken out of school to help on the farm. (Tom Barton 10-7-1998). He was married to Inez HIGHTOWER on 14 Jan 1913 in Durant, OK. Marriage License

3. Inez HIGHTOWER was born on 11 Jan 1896 in Sardis Cem. Stamps, Arkansas. She died on 14 Aug 1950 in Hospital, Durant, OK. Mother had a deformed hand. She was born without a thumb, and her middle fingers were joined together. Even so she never complained. She had a hard life, doing garden work plus the house work, including often drawing water with rope, from the well, washing and scrubbing the clothes of a herself, a daughter, overalls for three boys and Dad, plus the bed linins. This was done with three tubs of water and a wash tub. One tub was used to scrub the clothes on scrub board, after having boiled and puched them in the wash tub. The second tub was to rinse them in clear water, and the third was to run them through a blueing water. The shirts and dresses were then starched. After that comes the wring and hanging out to dry. She then had to build a fire in the cook stove to heat the irons, and iron the shirts and dresses. She would then take a few moments to rest, take the wash water and scrub the bare wooden floor on her hands and knees.
If this was not enough, she had to deal with a shortage of well water. During the Summer it would often go dry; not enough to drink and cook with. She would put out wash tubes to catch the run off from the house for washing. When it did not rain that week, we would carry wash tubs and dip water from the old cotton gin's weigh tank. I would get in the middle, Mother would use her good hand to carry on left side, and A. L. would carry the other side. I would often have to stop and pull up my hernia, which I had since I was six. Mother would insist she take the middle, which of course required she use her crippled hand for one tub. She never complained.
During the college days of Buddie and me, all she could do to help us was to wash, mend and Iron our shirts. Sis did her own washing.
After she had helped Sis rear her three children, and living alone, she developed such severe arthritis that she had to give herself injections of Cortisone, which I think only relieved the pain and hasened her death. She had a stroke, the Summer of her death, while Buddie and my family were visiting her. We went to Willow Springs to let the children go swimming. She did not get out of the car, but did not complain. When we got to her house she had to be helped from the car into bed. She had had a stroke. A Doctor was called from Durant. At first he said we should not move her, but then decided to move her to the hospital. She died that night in her sleep. (Tom Barton, Son) Children were:

i. J. D., Jr. BARTON was born on 13 Jan 1914 in Home near Mead, OK. He died on 9 May 1980 in Home: Near Kingston, OK. Buried in Mead Cemetery, Mead, Oklahoma
ii. Mary Margaret BARTON was born on 4 Dec 1915 in Home near Mead, OK. She died on 7 Jan 1996 in Home of dau. Mary A. Cammillo, Durant, OK.. She liked to spell Margaret with an extra T, but think she was born as Mary Margaret.TEB

1 iii. Thomas E. BARTON.
iv. Baby BARTON was born in 1919 in Mead, or Durant, OK. He died 1919 Still Born.
v. A. L. BARTON was born on 2 Mar 1922 in Home, N. 2nd St., Durant, OK. He died on 20 Jul 1989 in Home:1620 Popular; Buel, Idaho. Liked to go by Abraham Lincoln, but he was named for A. L. Severance, owner of Severance Hardware, Durant, OK. Dad was working for him when A. L. was born. Mr. Severance built a house next to the Hubers, just for us. Mr. Huber was Fire Chief at the time. He and wife later hired 'Buddie' to work for them at their home and later at the 'Ark' which is still standing, on what is now University Dr. on the corner of 6th, across from the University President's home.