Dr. Welborn Barton and Louisa Adeline Barton
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Marker No: 13331
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 30.937067, -97.532166
Location: Old Salado Grave Yard, Baines Street, Salado
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Marker Text: A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Wellborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carolina to wed Louisa Adeline Cox (1835-1920) they came with other South Carolinians to Burnet County in 1854 and moved to Salado in 1865 after he served in the Confederate Army. He was a doctor , a trustee of Salado College and a mason. Louisa served as his nurse and was involved in the Amasavourian Literary Society. The parents of ten children. The Bartons were also active in the First Baptist Church. (2003)
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