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Show Clayton Barton Is Hunting Accident Victim Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon in the Par-1 agonah Ward chapel for Clayton Lyman Barton, 35, who was ' killed by a stray bullet while I hunting deer in the vicinity of the Paragonah Reservoir last Sat - j urday. Mr. Barton was killed al- j most instantly when hit by the stray bullet while leading a horse carrying a deer down a most instantly when hit by the Another deer was jumped near-! near-! by and hunters in the same area as Barton were either shooting at that deer or possibly the one on the horse which Barton was ; leading, investigating officers report. re-port. It is reported that Barton, ajid Burns Sherratt and the latter's son of Cedar City, were together and had just loaded the dead deer, on the horse to bring in 'when the bullet hit the deceased. Sherratt went for help and located locat-ed Frank Dunton, who went to j Paragonah to report the accident 'and get help to bring the body out. Mr. Barton was born in Paragonah Para-gonah Feb. 26, 1919, a son of John C and Martha Elnora Reynolds Barton. He attended grade school in Paragonah' and the Parowan High School. lie was a veteran of World War II and was also a member of the 213th Armored Field Arrtillery Battalion of Cedar City, which served for a year in Korea. He has been been employed as a driver dri-ver by the Carrot Truck Lines for the past nine years. He was married to Dorothy Sorenson of Orderville in the St. George L D S temple on May 1, 1918, and she with three sons, j Le Lynn, Kyle Hans, and Craig Calvin, all of Paragonah, survive him. Also surviving are two brothers, bro-thers, Scott, who was hunting with him when he was killed, and Cecil Barton, Paragonah; four sisters, Mrs. Cyril (Delia) Partner, 1 1 , Paragonah; Mrs. Boyd (Eunice) Orton, and Mrs. Lavar (Iletta) Taylor, Parowan, and Mrs. George (Gwen) Malone, Las Ve-1 gas, and his parents, of Paragonah. |