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Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

The Lima (Ohio) News, Tuesday, February 26, 1974:

Alice F. Barton, 64, of Elyria, formerly of Lima, died at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Columbia Nursing Home.

Born March 9, 1909 in South Bend, Ind., she was the daughter of Josephus and Jennie Dye Moomaw. She married Robert C. Barton and he survives in Elyria.

Survivors also include a son, Robert J. of St. Louis, Mo.; a daughter, Mrs. E.S. (Betty) Evans Jr. of 1861 Wendell; and five grandchildren.

Mrs. Barton was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Elyria. She was a graduate of Indiana University and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. She was also a member of the Lima chapter of the DAR, the Lotus Club and the T and T Club. She was Girl Scout commissioner in Lima from 1944 to 1946 and was president of the Lima Convalescent Home Auxiliary in 1962 and 1963. She was also a Red Cross volunteer.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Siferd Westwood Chapel, Rev. Charles W. Hamilton officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Elyria, Ohio, Chronicle-Telegram, Monday, March 12, 1984:

Robert Barton was editor of The C-T from 1964-72

Robert Cheever Barton, 77, of Lima, former editor of The Chronicle-Telegram from 1964-72, died early Sunday morning at home, following a lengthy illness.

He was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, April 18, 1906. He graduated from Indiana University in 1928 with a degree in journalism.

Mr. Barton started his journalism careet as editor of a tiny paper in Rushville, Ind., and moved to the newspaper in Springfield, Ohio, after a year.

He joined the Lima News in 1936 and was editor there from 1940-56. He also was an edtor at The Plain Dealer from 1956-57.

He was editor of the newly-formed Lima Citizen from 1957 until it folded in 1964. In 1964, Mr. Barton became editor of The C-T, retiring in 1972.

Within a month after he joined The C-T, Mr. Barton had endeared himself to Elyrians with a series of stories which started with the words, "Elyria's a nice town!" and ended by citing Elyria's major blessing to be "civic pride."

In Elyria, he was chairman of the Lorain County Chapter of the American Red Cross and a member of the Elyria Country Club and First United Methodist Church.

He also was a past president of the Associated Press Society of Ohio, past president of the Blue Pencil Club of Ohio and a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Sigma Delta Chi.

Upon his retirement from The C-T, Mr. Barton said his main goal as an editor, and as a person, was to "live as an honest-to-God Christian" with the Golden Rule as a guide.

"You never know if a story will cause serious damage, if you're making a really serious mistake, but you try to live the Golden Rule and do the best you can," he said.

He is survived by a son, Robert J. and a daughter, Mrs. E. S. (Elizabeth) Evans, both of Lima.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Moomaw, in 1974.

Friends may call Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Chiles & Sons Laman Chapel of Memories, Lima. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the funeral chapel.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima.

Obituary -- The Bristol Herald Courier, Bristol, Tennessee, Saturday, 15 DEC 1934, p.7 (Newspapers.com):

MRS. HESTER CULVER

Special To The Herald Courier

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., Dec. 14.-- Mrs. Hester Bradley Culver, 81, a beloved Elizabethton woman, died at her home on Broad st., here this afternoon.

Surviving is one son, Charles Bradley, a railroad engineer at Appalachia, Va.

Funeral will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. and interment will follow in Bradley cemetery.

ceremony by Wm. Eagleton, V.D.M.

Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 (Ancestry.com).

Two daughters born and living as of the 1840 census, but no sign of them after that date.