Individual Details

David and Rebecca may have had as many as 15 children.

1850 Census. Montgomery Co, KY, Hh 260
David Bruton, 45, Farmer, family all b. KY
Rebeca, 36
Samuel, 15
Israel G., 14
James, 12
Sarah, 10
Absalom R., 6
Amanda S. 4
David Jr., one month old
Thomas Fisk, 66, Black, Laborer, b. VA
Aggy Fisk, 50, Black, b. VA


Find A Grave Memorial# 27866397 - 11 children are linked.
Buried Red Top Cemetery, Hallsville, Boone Co, MO
On April 9, 1872, at Hickman, Boone Co. Mo., David Bruton Jr. died, in the 68th year of his age.
He had gone with his wagon to the depot for a load of goods, which he was to convey to Hallsville, distant, near a mile. While adjusting the boxes, he lost his footing and fell across the tongue of the wagon and against the heels of his horses, which taking fright, ran, dragging him some distance and finally crushed him under the wheels of the loaded wagon.
Medical aid was called promptly but he was found to be fatally injured and died in about two hours. His funeral services were held the following day with the Red Top Church, of which he was a member, in the presence of a large concurse of sorrowing relatives and sympathizing friends and his remains were interred in the beautiful cemetery grounds, connected with the church. Peace to his memory and repose to his ashes, till the angel shall sound the knell of time and usher in the morn of that day which shall have no noon and no night.
The deceased was a native of Madison Co., Ky., where he was married in 1828 to Rebecca Jackson who survives him. Soon after this and during the great religious awakening which spread through the state under the preaching of Stone and Smith, Scott, Creath and others, he and his wife joined what was the popularly known as the Reformation, more properly and scripturally known as the Christian Church
In the fall of 1852, he moved with his family to Boone Co., and settled near Hallsville, In the vicinity of which he resided at the time of his death. David Bruton was no ordinary man. Possessed of a vigorous native intellect, of sound judgment and of strong moral and religious convictions, he exerted a large influence over his fellow men. Upright and honorable to the last degree in his dealings with the world, he had the confidence of all; truthful and frank in his intercourse with men, his counsel was sought and his judgment relied on, sociable and hospitable by nature, his home was the favorite resort of a large circle of friends; kind and benevolent of heart, he was ever the friend of the poor and needy; for more than forty years, an exemplary and honored member of the church, the graces of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, goodness and fidelity shed their luster over a life of more than ordinary benevolence and purity.
Good man! he has gone to his rest and reward and though the thought that we shall greet him no more in the flesh, pains our hearts, we say in faith, and hope, "Father thy will be done." To his numerous friends we say: imitate his virtues, to his stricken widow and his grieving sons and daughters, we say, "Trust God and look up, he is not dead but sleepeth." He cannot return to you but you may go to him.

Birth	19 Nov 1804	Madison County, Kentucky
Marriage	23 Sep 1828	Kentucky - Rebecca Grant Jackson
Death	19 Apr 1872	Hallsville, Boone County, Missouri

Spouse	Rebecca Grant Jackson (1813 - 1885)
Child	Edith Anderson Bruton (1830 - 1912)
Child	Sarah Grant Bruton (1840 - 1915)