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Note: N5414 Time Line/ Census Info:
1860 Jul 16 - Wapella, DeWitt Co., IL - M653/R174/P660 - w/parents - Jno age 2, b. IL.
1870 Jun 14 - Harp Twp., DeWitt Co., IL - M593/R216/P53B - w/parents - John age 12, b. IL.
1885 Jul 17 - �HIGHWAY ROBBERY � On Tuesday evening a farm laborer named Harry CARENS came to Clinton and notified the city marshal that he had been "held up" on the railroad between Clinton and Wapella and robbed of a silver watch. Carens had been at work near Heyworth and came into Wapella on Tuesday, where he spent most of the day in a drunken carouse with John BARTON and a man named WINKLE. In the evening he started to walk to Clinton on the railroad track, and he claims that he was followed by Barton and Winkle, who took his watch from him. Carens and ex-marshal MOFFETT went back to Wapella that night but failed to find the reputed highway robbers.� - via submission of Judy Simpson - via http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/id35.htm
1885 July 24 - �ARRESTED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY - Last week we gave a short account of a highway robbery that was committed on the Illinois Central railroad track between this city and Wapella. Henry KARNES, the party who was robbed had been at work on a farm near Heyworth, and came to Wapella on a spree. John BARTON, one of the notorious Barton family, George WINKLE and William LANHAM, drank and kept company during the day with Karnes and in the evening when Karnes started to walk to Clinton the trio followed him and robbed him of a silver watch. As Karnes was considerably under the influence of liquor when he got to Clinton and told his story to the marshal, there seemed to be some doubt in the marshal's mind if it was anything more than the hallucination of a drunken man. The marshal telephoned to Wapella, but got no information from there. That same night Karnes and ex-marshal MOFFETT went to Wapella, but the thieves could not be found. Winkle was afterward arrested, and Lanham was arrested the first part of the week. Winkle has confessed the story of the robbery, and he and Lanham are now in jail. At this writing Barton has not been found.� - per submission of Judy Simpson - via http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/id35.htm#arrested_for_highway_robbery
1886 Dec 3 - OBITUARY - �BARTON - John BARTON, the oldest son of the celebrated BARTON family who made things lively among the farmers around Wapella township a few years ago, died in the penitentiary at Joliet on last Monday, and on Wednesday morning his body was brought to Wapella for burial. It will be remembered that John was sent to Joliet from Quincy for a term of fourteen years for horse stealing. His father was sent up for a year at the same time for being connected with the same robbery. John Barton was about thirty years old when he died [b. abt 1858], and nearly one-half of his life was spent in prison. He was the leader of a desperate gang of thieves, one of the sharpest of the lot being his sister Lizzie, who is now married and living a reputable life in Missouri.� - per DeWitt Co., IL Obituary - via submission of Judy Simpson http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/id192.htm#john_barton
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