*****Alabama Portraits prior to 1870
compiled by the Historical Activities Committee
Mrs. Orville Lay, State Chairman for the
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama
pg 18
Armstead Barton 1800-1847, of Tuscumbia and Dickson, AL, moved to AL in 1825, opened mercantile business in Tuscumbia, in 1837 moved to Dickson where he built Barton Hall, still standing.