T. A. Barrow family papers, 1819-1989

Summary

Creator:
Barrow family
Date:
1819-1989
Extent:
13.5 Linear Feet (27 document boxes; 4 oversize boxes; and 1 oversize folder)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

T. A. Barrow family papers, ms4349, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of the papers, correspondence, diaries, photographs, maps, and writings of members of the extended Barrow families as well as information and photographs of other ancestors during the 1819-1989 period. They were collected and housed in the residence of the late Loyce Alice Barrow and Shelby Myrick Jr.

Biographical / historical:

David Crenshaw Barrow, Sr. was born in 1815 to James Barrow and Patience Cain Crenshaw at Beulah plantation near Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia. In 1838, he married Sarah Elizabeth Pope and had nine children at her family's plantation in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, now called Home Place. According to an 1860 census, he enslaved 81 people at Home Place plantation. In addition, he owned two other plantations, Blowing Cave plantation in what is now Grady County, Georgia and Syll's Fork plantation in Oglethorpe County near Lexington, Georgia.

Barrow's son Thomas Augustine Barrow, Sr. graduated from the University of Georgia in 1862, then joined the Confederate Army with a Barrow family slave named Wesley Cochran. He returned to Blowing Cave plantation where he married Pricilla Jane "Jennie" Turner in 1872 and had three children. Following Pricilla's death, he married Alice Josephine Hand in 1882, with whom he had two sons; then became a Baptist minister in 1890 and moved his family to Pelham, Georgia. In 1910, Alice became the librarian of the Pelham Carnegie Library, built by her wealthy brother Judson Larabee "J. L." Hand, and worked there until retiring in 1944. Thomas and Alice's son, Thomas Augustine Barrow, Jr., graduated from the University of Georgia in 1903 with a degree in Engineering and served in France during World War I. Upon his return, he became the owner and editor of the Pelham Journal and was elected mayor of Pelham in 1920. In 1921, he married Loyce Leona Smith, a graduate of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College teaching in Pelham. In 1935, they moved to Florida where they both worked at a citrus canning plant until retiring in 1951 and returning to Pelham to farm and raise livestock. Loyce also started a catering business and florist shop and was awarded the Pelham Citizen of the Year award in 1980.

Arrangement:

Materials are arranged by individual, record type, then chronologically within each record type with the exception of correspondence which is arranged alphabetically then chronologically.

Primary record types and sequence are: 1. Photographs 2. General information 3. Organizations 4. Writings and Research papers 5. Clippings 6. Correspondence 7. Property records 8. Accounts 9. Death, Obituaries, Estate papers

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Land grants -- Georgia.
Obituaries.
World War, 1914-1918 -- France.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Slave records -- Georgia.
Slaveholders -- Georgia.
World War, 1914-1918.
Correspondence
Photographs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Names:
Syl's Fork plantation
University of Georgia. Students
Home Place plantation (Oglethorpe Co., Ga.)
Blowing Cave plantation, (Decatur Co. (now Grady Co.), Ga.)
Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)
Ridgeway Farm, (Pelham, Mitchell Co., Ga.)
Barrow, Lucy Pope, 1845-1880
Barrow, Frances Childs "Aunt Fannie"
Barrow, Middleton Pope, 1839-1903
Barrow, Judge James, 1917-2000
Barrow, James Crenshaw, 1872-1937
Barrow, Francis Cuthbert
Barrow, Ella "Nellie" Patience , 1849-1929
Barrow, David Crenshaw, IV.
Barrow, David Crenshaw, III.
Lumpkin, Wilson, 1783-1870
Hand, Judson Larrabee, 1851-1916
Barrow, Loyce Leona Smith, 1900-1989
Barrow, Thomas Augustine, Jr., 1883-1973
Barrow, Alice Josephine Hand, 1859-1949
Barrow, Thomas Augustine, Sr., 1843-1897
Barrow, David Crenshaw, Sr., 1815-1899
Barrow, Clara Elizabeth, 1846-1880
Barrow, David C., Jr. (David Crenshaw), 1852-1929
Barrow, Benjamin White, 1851-1876
Cochran, Annie Swan, 1892-1950
Smith, Willis
Barrow, Pricilla Jane "Jennie" Turner, 1849-1880
Swan, Cloran Harris Taylor
Harrison, Elizabeth
Cochran, Silas, Sr., 1885-1967
Cochran, Wesley
Hand, Florence Hollis
Barrow, Sarah Elizabeth Pope, 1821-1855
Scarborough, Ida Camilla Hand, 1856-1930
Patton, Helen Smith
Hand, Henry, Reverend, 1753-1835
Barrow, Patricia Flint Sawyer
Barrow, Thomas Augustine, III.
Bower, Columbia America, 1828-1917
Calloway, Alice Hand
Hand, Columbus Washington, 1823-1881
Hand, Henry Harrison, 1793-1871
Hand, Frederick Barrow, Sr., 1904-1978
Places:
Pelham (Ga.)
Lakeland (Fla.)

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

T. A. Barrow family papers, ms4349, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.