Barton Lamar Fast ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

There is one thing that I haven't seen addressed by any other researchers and it has to do with how or why he was named Barton Lamar. I find it incredulous that he lived his entire life and died in Larmar Township, Barton County, Missouri seemingly the source for his name, yet we are told that he was born in Fulton County, Illinois before his parents ever moved to Missouri or probably ever heard of the town of Barton in Barton County, Missouri.

My own theory would be that his parents may have visited a future homesite in Barton County, Missouri and returned home to Illinois. Shortly thereafter, his mother gave birth and the parents liked the name of their future homesite so much that they named their son after the location. One other possibility is that he was really born in Barton County, Missouri instead of Fulton County, Illinois as the 1880 census and other researchers seem to indicate. Note that the next youngest child was definitely born in Barton County, Missouri and not in Illinois. Apparently no one seems to know the exact year in which the parents moved from Illinois to Missouri.

Yes, all purely speculation but otherwise it is one huge coincidence. (Brian L. Lightfoot)

Update --- Ruth Jones reports that they traveled by wagon in 1870 over land and frozen rivers to Lamar Township, Barton County, Missouri and lived in tent for several months. William became ill so they returned to Illinois until 1872. In 1872, returned to Missouri. Hauled lumber from Kansas and built home. Residence in 1899 was Lamar Township, Barton County, Missouri.

This still does not explain why Barton Lamar Fast got that name when he was born in 1865, a full 5 years before the parents first ventured into Missouri. Perhaps the parents had traveled earlier than 1870 but those circumstances now make the namesake somewhat clearer.
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  Noted events in his life were:

1. 1870 US Census, 17 June 1870, Barton, Barton Missouri, United States. ¹ 1870 US Census
Page 5, Family 46, Roll 757
Barton, Barton County, Missouri
Barton Fast..4..IL
(Living with parents.)

2. 1880 US Census, 15 June 1880, Barton, Barton Missouri, United States. ² 1880 US Census
Page 387C, District 257, Family 107, Roll 673
Barton, Barton County, Missouri
Barton L. Fast..Son..14..IL..Works On Farm
(Living with widowed father.)

3. Cemetery: Barton City Cemetery, April 1917, Liberal, Barton, Missouri, United States.

Barton married Ida Bell Jewart on 23 March 1890 in Liberal, Barton, Missouri, United States. (Ida Bell Jewart was born on 4 March 1870 in Kansas, United States and died on 21 October 1943.)