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| Here we are on Friday morning at the Lewelling
Quaker Shrine in Salem, IA - a couple miles south of Mount Pleasant. |
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| Bill (Dad) and Wes Barton. |
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| Allison and Edson in the living room of the Quaker
Shrine. |
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| In the kitchen, we were shown a hidden trapdoor
in the floor which leads to a crawlspace where black slaves fleeing from
Missouri would hide during their trip out of slave states. |
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| The Lewelling House was a first stop in the north
for black slaves using the Underground Railroad to find their way to
freedom. |
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| Here is a picture of what the crawlspace looks
like. The slaves that hid here would stay in the crawlspace during the day
and resume their trip north under the cover of darkness. |
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| A collection of old clothes irons. |
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| While we were visiting Salem, several old cars
drove by. I managed to take a picture of one. |
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| Our Quaker Shrine guide exhibits a Civil War-era
sword. |
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| Unbelievable today, this poster advertising a
slave auction and describing the "goods" up for bids was
apparently the norm in its time. |
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| A name quilt. |
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| Yet another name quilt. |
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| A bonnet donated to the Quaker Shrine by the area
Barton family. |
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| A bow tie and cumberbun(?) in an ellaborate box
which belonged to an Iowa Barton. |
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| Allison prepares to take a picture in the
Lewelling Quaker Shrine. |
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| On the south side of the Lewelling House is a door
to the basement which the Lewellings would allow authorities to search if
they were looking for escaped slaves. This was separate from the hidden
crawlspace, of course. |
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| Another shot of that. |
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| An old cannon. |
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| Members of our group relaxing on the (newly rebuilt)
front porch of the Lewelling house before we left for Nauvoo. |
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| A flag made of masonry which sits on the grounds
of the Lewelling Quaker Shrine. |
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| An excerpt from a book in the Lewelling Quaker
Shrine which tells about Thomas H. Barton, my great-great grandfather's
brother and Wes Barton's great grandfather. |
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| Part 2 of above described document. |
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| On the north side of Big Creek, on the opposite
side as the Bethel church and cemetery, is where we surmize William Henry
Barton operated a sawmill. This is what that side of the creek looks like. |
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| Doran, Allison, and Bill near the ford in Big
Creek (known as Bartons Ford). |
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| Another of the three of us. |
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| Big Creek. |
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| The dirt road leading up to the Barton Bethel
cemetery from the ford in Big Creek. |
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| Big Creek. |
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| Big Creek. |
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| Big Creek. |
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| A picture of the north side of Big Creek. |
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| The foundation of the old church is still visible
in the grass outside the cemetery. |
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| I took a walk out into some of the bushes and
trees south of the cemetery. Very pretty. |
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| A panorama of the Barton Bethel Cemetery. |
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| Another panorama of the Barton Bethel Cemetery. |
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| The entrance to the Lambirth Cemetery. |
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| Some of the Iowa Barton relatives who were at the
Lambirth cemetery with us. From left to right: Joyce McElewe, Janet, Judy, Wes Barton, Janet's husband. |
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| Most of our group. |
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| Dad walking through the Lambirth cemetery. |
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| The house Marie and J.F. Barton lived in near
Lambirth when they ran their farm in Henry County, IA. |
