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T. A. Barrow family papers
Descriptive Summary | |
| Title: T. A. Barrow family papers | |
| Creator: Barrow family | |
| Inclusive Dates: 1819-1989 | |
| Language(s): English | |
| Extent: 13.5 Linear Feet (27 document boxes; 4 oversize boxes; and 1 oversize folder) | |
| Collection Number: ms4349 | |
| Repository: Hargrett Library | |
Collection Description
Historical Note
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.
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.
Organization and 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
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
T. A. Barrow family papers, ms4349, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
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Related Collections in this Repository
Related materials in this repository: David Crenshaw Barrow Sr. family papers, ms69; Judson Larabee Hand family papers, ms888; David C. Barrow letter to Patience P. Barrow, ms1338; Barrow family papers, ms1369; Patience Barrow letters to David C. Barrow, ms1509; David Crenshaw Jr. family papers, ms2764; Hand family and business records, ms4248; and David C. Barrow papers, UA97-095.