Burton Family History Introduction and Credits

BURTON FAMILY HISTORY

HONORING

JAMES BURTON AND ISABELLA WALTON

FAMILY

Compiled by BURTON FAMILY Organization

for
Burton Family Reunion - June 24, 1967

at Kaysville, Utah

To all members of the BURTON FAMILY:

The stories and pictures assembled in these pages, were obtained from the treasured material kept in many of the Burton Families; from memory and tradition (see note below); and from recent intensive research. It has been assembled here for the purpose of preserving the memories of our people, whose faithful, loving service and simple thrifty ways should be retained in the memory of their children as a source of inspiration through all the generations.

By the vote of the Burton Family assembled in Reunion at Kaysville in 1964, under the chairmanship of Ruby Rushforth Pincock, granddaughter of Rosemond Burton Rushforth, the plan to prepare this History was put into action. To honor this first generation of the Burtons in the Church this History is now presented by the Historical Committee appointed, with the humble hope that it is "complete, correct and acceptable." The committee extends sincere appreciation to all who have contributed stories, shared treasured pictures, identified and verified materials, typed copy or helped in any way.



Family Reunion Officers:

Alice Burton Rampton - President
Camella Christensen Barton
Lucile Burton Kennah
Golda Burton King
John Walton Waite
Ardella Waite Mertlich
Nora Blaimires Ivy


Members Burton Family History Committee:

Marian Gardner Fluckiger - Chairman
Ruby Rushforth Pincock
Bertha Clarke Call
Josephine Burton Bagley - Burton Family Representative

Note: In 1915 William Walton Burton called the Burton Family together in an important Genealogy meeting where plans were made to gather the important dates and facts pertaining to the family in a Record and to begin the work of Genealogy Research.

Consequently all information possible from memory and resources available to the family at that time, was written into a suitable Family Record, and marked "Memory and Tradition".

The accuracy and detail of this first Burton Family Record is amazing to those who have followed this work, and who have checked this work by careful scientific research. It has been a key to success in gathering data which now is assembled in the extensive Genealogy Records in the keeping of our Family Genealogists available to all.

We follow them who lived before,
Because they lived, we now have life
And strength to meet its time of strife.
For us they opened wide the door --
Bequeathed to us all things they learned -
Left guide posts on the roads they turend,
And to the best that they could know
Pointed the way for us to go.
                 By Edgar A. Guest
                 from Children of the Dead