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Show Ih If WILLIAM BARTON William Barton descendants gather Approximately 300 decend-ants decend-ants attended the first William Barton Family Reunion held July 20, 21 and 22 at the Belknap Bel-knap School in Beaver. The reunion included registration regis-tration for all descendants; a car-caravan tour of the towns that William helped settle, the sites where he owned and operated property, and the graves of William, Esther, and Mary; sports on the Belknap School House lawn; a delicious banquet served at. the school; an oustanding program portraying por-traying the lives of William, Esther and Mary; dancing; and a business meeting at which Esther Barton Rollins was honored for her pioneer efforts ef-forts in getting the reunion organized or-ganized and a family organization organiza-tion established. She was presented pre-sented with a Book of Remembrance Remem-brance as a token of the family's fam-ily's appreciation. Another reunion to be held in two years, is now in the initial in-itial planning stages and promises pro-mises to be an informative and enjoyable follow-up to this inspirational in-spirational exciting first. |