Robert T. Barton

"[8] Barton was also a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1884–85), mayor of Winchester from 1899 to 1903, and sat as chair or president on several state and local organizations.

[9] He was made president of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester in 1902.

In 1868 he married Katie Knight (d. 1887) of Cecil County, Maryland, who bore no surviving children.

In 1890 Barton remarried, to Gertrude W. Baker, who was nearly three decades younger than he, and bore three children, of whom a son and daughter survived to adulthood.

[10] Barton died at his home on January 17, 1917 and was buried in Winchester's historic Mt.