Obituary from the Lancaster News Journal of October 17, 1918
MRS. WM. H. BARTON DEAD
Mrs. Mary Burns [sic] Barton, wife of William H. Barton, died yesterday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock at her home, No. 227 Mill street, from pneumonia, after an illness since last Tuesday, aged 38 years. She is survived by her father, her husband, and these children: Ellen, William H. Jr., Richard, James, Lucy, Elizabeth, David and Burns [Bernard?]. A brother David Burns [sic] and a sister, Ellen, both of Wilmington, Del., and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Kame, of Columbia, survive. The funeral will be held on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock with interment in the Catholic cemetary, at Klinesville.
[She may have been one of the fifteen reported deaths attributed to an influenza epidemic in Columbia in 1918.]