Dr. Welborn and Louisa Adeline Barton

The Salado Historical Society says Dr. Barton took his medical degree in 1847 and led a wagon train of about 100 people from South Carolina to Texas in 1854, a trip of two and a half months. He served as a surgeon in the Civil War, then moved his family to Salado so the children could be educated. A trustee of Salado College, he built a busy practice, and Louisa went along on his rounds, driving the buggy and acting as his nurse. After he died in 1883 she boarded college students to supplement her income.

What the plaque says

Dr. Welborn and Louisa Adeline Barton A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Welborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carolina to wed Louisa Adeline Cox (1835-1920). They came with other South Carolinians to Burnet County in 1854 and moved to Salado in 1865 after he served in the Confederate army. He was a doctor, a trustee of Salado College and a Mason. Louisa served as his nurse and was involved in the Amasavourian Literary Society. The parents of ten children, the Bartons were also active in the First Baptist Church. (2003)

Where it stands

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