General Notes

Find the Barlows on the internet.  Use Edna's internet site:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barlow/Parlur-Barler-Beriet-Barlow1.htm
     The History of S.E. Polk County, Iowa gives a grim picture ofPioneer living.   "The homes of the Pioneers were crude indeed.  Theyvaried in size, some being 14 x 16, others 16 x 18 feet in size.  Theaverage one was made out of hewed green logs, had one door and onewindow, and puncheon floors.  The cracks between the logs were chinkedwith sticks and daubed with mud.  Most of the furniture was handmade andrough.  When Polk County was settling up, families with five to tenmembers lived, slept and ate in one room.    Everyone was poor on thefrontier, there were no dudes or aristocrats."  "Severe weather presentedone aspect of hardship for cabin dwellers...Sickness was anotherhardship."  It is suprising to me that so many of the early pioneerslived such long lives, but many children died in infancy or at a veryearly age.

Kentucky Marriages Internet  WWW.genweb.net/~barlow/kentucky marriages
ADAIR County Kentucky
Barlow, Sarah & Wheeler, Benjamin  03 October 1809 (dau of Lewis)
Barlow, Jeremiah & White, Polly     05 August 1811

WASHINGTON Co, Ky Marriages  Internet  WWW.genweb.net/~barlow/kentuckymarriages
Barlow, Henry &  Dawson, Mary   13 August 1805
Barlow, Sarah &  Sibert, John      07 September 1807 dau of Henry & Jane
Barlow, Jane &  Curtsinger, George    07 March 1808
Barlow, Jacob &  Pile, Rebekah    10 September

   1840 Census Shelby Co, IN, Jackson Twp, p 547: Henry 13, Archibald 11,Sarah 6, ? (between 5-10 girl); Sarah Wheeler, Head of household, 48.(Benjamin died in 1836)  This page on the census has lots of importantinformation.  Silas Breeding , 20, married Sarah's daughter MillyWheeler, 18.  Also an Alex Breeding between ages 40-50, is probablySilas' father.  Then there is Henry Barlow,55, brother of Sarah and sonof Lewis &  Judah Barlow.  He is listed with second wife Mahala Kinselo,age 40, and children Bird 1, Jesse 10, tom 11, Jeremiah 13, daughtersEliz 9, and Judith 16.  His sons from his first wife are also on thispage. Henry's sons, and Sarah's nephews, John Barlow, 26 is llisted withhis wife, Anna Lisk, 22, his son Lewis, 2, and brother Lewis 28. (Thereis a mistake in the census cause it lists on of the two brothers asbetween 15-20 and they are both between 20-30.)  Another nephew ofSarah's is listed.  Blewford, 24, (son of Blewford) with his wifeClarrisa Fitz Randolph, 16; his mother Elizabeth, and his grandmotherJudah Smith Barlow, 85, (wife of Lewis who died in 1840.)  Anothernephew, brother of Blewford and son of Blewford sr, listed is GeorgeBarlow, 22 and his wife Charity Fitz Randolph, 21 and daughter Elizabeth,2.  It appears that the Barlow brothers married  Fitz Randolph sisters.Is it any wonder that I have had trouble with the Barlow family.

      According to Shelby County Court Records, Probate Order, book D,page 186,
Sarah Wheeler, appointed guardian of: Mary Jane Randolph (16), Archibald(19) and Sarah (14) Wheeler, minors over 14.  Henry Wheeler (21) listedas her surety.  May 14, 1848.  On November 21, 1848 Sarah went back tocourt and reported the sale of her ward's real estate to Ivory H. Legate(Book f, pg 113 and Book D, pg 312.)
     1850 Census Polk Co, Iowa, pg 17: son Henry 23, Farmer, head of Hsd,Sarah, 60, Archibald 21, farming; Sarah 16.
     1860 Census, Polk Co Iowa, Deleware Twp, p 224, family #395, SarahWheeler, age 69 b. KY, is listed with her Daughter,Lewis F. Randolph 32,b Ohio (died May 1859, but still counted in census)  Mary Jane Randolph,age 27 and her six children.  (D,11,M,b.IN;  W H,9,M,b. Ia;  S F,7,F,b.IA;  Clara Ann, 6,F,B. IA; L, 3, F, b. IA; Suetta, 1,F, b. Ia)
     She is enumerated in this same daughter's home in 1870 Census ofPolk Co, Deleware Twp, Sarah, 79, while Mary Jane has remarried JamesJones and has one child, George, age 1.
     Sarah died in January of 1874 near Mitchellville, Iowa and is buriedin Rising Sun, along with her Dau Mary Jane and Louis Randolph (who wereburied there later.)
     Sarah is mentioned in her son's Henry's will.  He died in April orMay 1851, in Polk County.  Book 1.  Archibald is his administrator.

Ed Note:  the Barlow Clearinghouse has the two Sarah Barlows mixed up.This Sarah's cousin Sarah Barlow (b. 1790, dau of Henry)  married JohnSibert in Washington Co, KY in 1807.  " My" ancestor Sarah Barlow (b.1792, daughter of Lewis & Judah) married Benjamin Wheeler in Adair Co, Kyin 1809.
(A Margaret Wolf errored in her book about Barlows with thisrelationship, but had the correct information two pages later.)