| spouse= (1) Alice Shurtleff Batton (died 1973)
(2) Louise Zeagler Jones Batton (divorced)
| children=Jacqueline Dale "Jackie " Batton Reeves (1938-2023)
Jimmy Batton (1943-1997)
Dorothy Batton Smith
Batton graduated in 1932 from [[Minden (Louisiana) High School|Minden High School]], at which in the fall of 1931 he played [[football]].<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', August 29, 1986, p. 24.</ref> His first wife, the former Dorothy Alice Shurtleff (December 18, 1914 – May 14, 1973), was a daughter of A. C. Shurtleff (January 15, 1882 – September 16, 1928) and Cora Belle Shurtleff (February 1, 1888 – December 16, 1960).
The Battons resided in a house made of brown rock at the intersection of Goodwill and Marshall streets in Minden. The house is across the street from the boyhood home of the [[singer]] David Houston and near the football star David Lee of the former Baltimore Colts. The Battons had three children: Jacqueline Dale "Jackie " Batton Reeves (born August 1938-2023) and husband, Henry Rogers Reeves (born May 1937-2023), of Haughton in Bossier Parish; Jackie and Rogers Reeves died two days apart;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://press-herald.com/rogers-and-jackie-reeves/|title=Rogers and Jackie Reeves obituary|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|date=March 13, 2023|accessdate=March 16, 2023}}</ref>James Howard "Jimmy" Batton (1943-1997), a former Webster Parish sheriff's deputy, and Dorothy Gale Batton Smith (born 1946) and husband, Harold Eugene Smith (1940-2011)<ref>Harold E. Smith obituary, ''The Minden Press-Herald,'', November 3, 2011.</ref> of Waynesboro [[Virginia]]. There were also five grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
At the time of his death, Batton was divorced from the former Louise Zeagler Jones (1916-2004),<ref name=louiseobit>{{cite web|url=http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.obits/14629/mb.ashx|title=Obit: Louise Jones|publisher=boards.ancestry.com|accessdate=October 19, 2012}}</ref> the widow of retired [[United States Army]] police officer and Lieutenant Colonel Rosamond Roy Jones (1912-1980) of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitochnes]] and later Minden. A native of Caldwell Parish, Louise Jones Batton was heavily involved in the American Legion auxiliary and in various veterans causes. In 1993, she was named "Woman of the Year" in Minden.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', March 4, 1994, p. 1.</ref> Rosamond and Louise Jones had three children, Doris Jones Copeland, Rosamond Anne Gaston, and Phillip Lee Jones (born 1947). Rosamond and Louise Jones are interred at Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden.<ref name=louiseobit/>
==City council service==
In 1949, Batton became a director of Hunter's Playground and Playhouse, located near his home on Goodwill Street. The complex was opened for the entertainment of young people in the city by Larry B. Hunter (1896–1971) and his wife, Gladys Powell Hunter (1899–1973), the owners of the local [[Coca-Cola]] franchise.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/Hunter's%20Park%20and%20Playhouse.htm|title=Hunter's Playhouse|publisher=mindenmemories.org|accessdate=June 5, 2011}}</ref>
Batton was a director of the Webster Parish Free Fair Board, since the Bossier/Webster Fair and Forest Festival.<ref>"Webster Parish, La., Picks New Directors of Free Fair", " ''The Billboard,'', February 19, 1949, p. 53.</ref>
In November 1990, Batton was shot and hospitalized in a holdup attempt at his grocery store. An eighteen-year-old male from [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]], who was visiting Minden during the [[Thanksgiving Day]] holidays, shot the former mayor when Batton hesitated to turn over money demanded by the culprit.<ref>"Former mayor shot during holdup try. Batton reportedly in stable condition at local hospital", ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 27, 1990, p. 1.</ref>