1A Simon Jones and Eliza Adder
The earliest recorded ancestors are Simon Jones and Eliza Adder. We see them in the 1880 Census.
The 1890 census was largely destroyed in a fire, so the next available census data is in 1900 in Beat 2, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Simon Jones is a farmer who rented his farm. All the children aged 10 and older are listed as farmworkers. The 6- and 8-year-old girls, Mary and Clara, are going to school, and the baby, Dorsey, is at home with his mother.
Simon Jones and Eliza (“Lizzie”) Adder had several children as we can piece together from several documents:
- Nolan Jones (born 1876) Listed in the 1880 census as the eldest son.
- John Jones (born Jun 1878)
- Ella Jones (born May 1876 according to 1900 census, death certificate lists June 26, 1882 as her birth date) Married John (“Johnni”) Barton.
- David Jones (born May 1884)
- Anna Jones (born Feb 1886)
- Annette Jones (born Apr 1890)
- Mary L. Jones (born Mar 1892)
- Clara Jones (born Apr 1894)
- Dorsey Jones (born Mar 1896)
1B. Zak (Zeek, Ezikel) Barton and his wife Susan. Zeek (or Zak) was born in about 1852. He is likely the son of Daniel and Rachael Barton, who lived in Cannon County Tennessee. In 1870 Ezikel Barton is living with his parents in District 2, Cannon, Tennessee.
A man named Zeek Barton appears in the 1880 census in Cannon, County, Tennessee, with his wife, Susan Barton and 4 children: Jordan, Rizley, Edney and baby Hattie. The 1890 census was destroyed, but in the 1900 census, Zak is listed as being of an unknown age, but being born in Tennessee, from parents who were also born in Tennessee. Daughter Hattie still lives at home as does a younger son named John Barton who was born in about 1882.
- Jordan Barton, born in 1873. In 1900 Jordan Barton is married to Snow Barton and lives in Cannon with their daughters Allice and Laura and their son Buford.
- Rizley Barton, born in 1875
- Edney Barton, born in 1877. Called Edd in the 1900 census. Married to Hattie Barton, and father of Alferd.
- Hattie Barton, born in ca 1880. Lives with her father Zak and stepmother in 1900.
- John Barton, born ca 1882 in Tennessee
Zak married for a second time in 1894 to a woman named Nancy. Nancy had a daughter Elista Morton from a previous marriage.
2. John Barton and Ella Jones. Ella Jones married John Barton and they had at least 3 children.
John Barton and his wife, Ella, appear in the 1920 census. They live on Sherrill Road, in Dudley Township in Arkansas. John is said to be 39 years, he was born in ca 1881 in Tennessee, and his parents were said to be from the United States (father) and Arkansas (mother). John Spoke English and could not read or write. Ella Barton (born Jones) was listed as a Mulatto, and she was able to read and write according to the census record. John was a farmer, who rented their farm. This likely meant he was a sharecropper. John and Ella had a boarder living with them named Joe Williams, who was 18-years old. Ella was said to be born in Arkansas, and her parents were born in Mississippi. John and Ella had two sons named J.V and Leonard.T respectively, and they had a daughter named Ethel Lee.
- J.V. Borton (1907–)
- L.T. Barton (1908–) marries Melvinia Holland
- Ethel Lee Barton (1910–)
3. L.T. Barton (1809 – ) and Melvinia Holland
L.T. Barton and Melvina Holland get married on December 25, 1928, in Cross, Arkansas. In 1930 they lived on the Dibble Farm in Perkins (Cross County), Arkansas.
The Dibble Farm is (in)famous for an incident in 1936. The families of sharecroppers, including L.T. and Melvina, had joined the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union. The plantation owners argued that this was a conspiracy to take possession of their homes. The families were evicted at gunpoint on January 12, 1936, during the height of the depression. The families were forcibly evicted from their homes and temporarily housed in a tent camp. Photographer John Vachon recorded the events, and the photo below shows the families right after being removed from the property. L.T. Barton and his wife and two children are likely captured in this photograph, but it is hard to determine who they are. The author suspects that the man and young boy near the cart front and right are possibly L.T. Barton and his son L.T. Junior.
The women and their children are captured in this photograph
In 1940 the family lived in Chicago.
- L.T. Barton (1927–1992) married Geraldine W. Cotton
- Alexander Barton (1930–) married
4. L.T. Barton and Geraldine W. Cotton
- Luther Barton (1959–2009)
- Earline Barton (1960–)
- Roger Barton (1961–2023)
- Kenneth K. Barton (1965–)
- Barbara Jean Barton (1969–2016)
5. Earline Barton
With Unknown:
- Robert Barton1977–
With Mr. Love
- Antonio Love (1987–)
- Darius Love (1988–)
With unknown father (DNA connections do not match last names suggested by family)
- Durrell Love (1990–) Married Marleena Thomas Daughter of Buddy Thomas (See the Thomas and Weary Family for more information.) and Clara Brasswell (See Braswell Family)
With Charles Titer
- LT Christopher Bart (1991–)
With Mr. Smith
- Charles Smith (1992–1992)
With Mr Watson
- Breyon Watson (1994–)
- Terrell Watson (1996–)