

  <p>Barton, Dovie Bibbee</p>
  <p>Passed: 1970-03-12</p>
  <p>Age: 74</p>


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  <p>Obituary Date: 1970-03-20</p>
  <p>Information: Dovie Bibbee Barton, 74, daughter of the late Elmer and Ida Brown Bibbee, died March 12 in Long Beach, California where she had resided the past twenty years.  A native of Kenna, Jackson County, she was born and spent her youth on Divide Ridge near Kenna.  Three sisters, Ida, Nola and Hamie preceded her in death, as did her parents and a baby daughter.  All are buried in the Emma Chapel Cemetery at Divide, but Mrs. Barton chose to be buried in the beautiful and nationally known cemetery, Forest Lawn, near Hollywood.  The Bibbees are an old and established family in Jackson County, settling first at Millwood about 100 years ago.  The Bibbees are of German descent, fine farmers and solid pillars of their separate communities.  On her mothers&#39; side, Mrs. Barton descended from John Bonnett, a victim of the religious persecutions in France some 200 years ago.  The Bonnetts went first to Holland then, like many others of their fate, embarked for America.  Coming first to Philadelphia where the immigrant Bonnetts are buried.  The descendants came into West Virginia, first to Harrison County, when William Bonnett Sr., became an early settler in Jackson County.  Through various marriages of the Bibbees and Bonnetts, Mrs. Barton was related the the Parsons, Castos, Harpolds, Browns and Van Dynes.  So she leaves many relatives in Jackson County and in the state.  In 1924, she married Charles W. Ball of Barboursville at Ripley and they went to Akron, Ohio to live and work, coming back to the Jackson County farm to weather out the depression.  They were living in Chesapeake, West Virginia and Mr. Ball was working at Belle when he died suddenly in 1948.  Mrs. Ball&#39;s health failed and doctors advised her to leave the Kanawha Valley.  She sold out going to live with a sister in Long Beach where she met and married Mr. George Barton, a retired railroad man.  He survives her.  Mrs. Adams Keller Jr. of Charleston is a cousin.  Funeral services were held in Long Beach Methodist Church before interment in Forest Lawn Monday, March 16.</p>


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