Alva Richard Barton was born on August 21, 1883, in Indiana. He had one son and one daughter with Mary Jane Noe. His name is commemorated on the First Infantry Division monument in St. Juvin, France but his surname is inscribed as Bartom.

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BARTON, ALVA RICHARD (Deceased) VIGO COUNTY Sergeant, 53636, Company F, 26th Infantry, 1st Division
Silver Star. General Orders No. 1, Headquarters 1st Division, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., January 1, 1920: The Division Commander cites the following officers and soldiers for gallantry in action and especially meritorious services: . . . Alva R. Barton, Company F, 26th Infantry . . . By command of Major General Summerall: Stephen O. Fuqua, Colonel, General Staff, Chief of Staff. Official: R. E. Fraile, Lieutenant Colonel, A. G. D., Division Adjutant.
Record. Born August 21, 1883, Summitville; son of George T. and Lucinda (Reel) Barton. Bricklayer, West Terre Haute. Enlisted July 2, 1914, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Training: Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Fort Screven, Ga.; Brownsville, Tex. Assigned to Company F, 26th Infantry; transferred to Machine Gun Company, 26th Infantry; to Company F, 26th Infantry. Corporal, April 15, 1917; sergeant, August 1, 1917; private, September 27, 1917; Corporal, February 9, 1918; private, April 23, 1918. Overseas June 13, 1917. Battles: Soissons, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne., Killed in action October 1, 1918, Argonne Forest. Buried in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute.
Source of information: Indiana Book of Merit