Selica Soldier Laid to
Rest
- Ellis F. Barton died Sunday night
- Armistice, Ended Long Period
- of Suffering Sunday
Ellis F. Barton died Sunday
night at Selica, at the home of his uncle,
Henry Barton. He was twenty-nine years of
age.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at Catheys Creek church,
conducted by the pastor, Rev. DuPree, and a
former pastor of the deceased, Rev. A. J.
Manly, and the interment took place at the
church cemetery.
Ellis Barton was the son of G.
T. Barton, who now lives on the Clough
place. Beside this parent - his mother
having preceded him to the grave - he is
survived by five brothers and two sisters, who
are:
Julius, Rufus and H. W. Barton
of Selica, Seldon Barton of Brevard and Lewis
Barton of Little River, Mrs. Fannie Stepp of
Pisgah Forest and Miss Pauline Barton of
Greenville.
Ellis Barton was one of those
young Transylvanians who answered their
country's call for fit men to defend the word
democracy against the autocracy of the
Germans. He had training at Camp
Wadsworth and then went overseas with his
division. While fighting on the fields of
France late in the fall of 1918, he was gassed
and taken to a hospital. This was a few
days before the armistice, so that he was among
the last of the American boys to be numbered
among the casualties of the great war.
After being brought back home
to this country he was placed in one government
hospital after another, the last being the Old
Soldier's Home at Johnson City, Tenn.
Finally he was brought back home to Selica,
where he lay for months before the end
came.
While dying more than two years
after the close of the conflict young Barton
was truly one of the Transylvania boys who made
the supreme sacrifice to make the world safe
for democracy.
Brevard News, July 1,
1921, Vol. XXVI #26 - Transcribed by Linda
Hoxit Raxter, posted 08 MAR 2003
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