Clara Alice Barrow

Notes:

Died:
drowned in Cedar Bayou

Amos married Minerva Ann Stubbs on 12 Jul 1964 in Chambers Co, Texas. Minerva was born in 1845; died on 09 Sep 1876 in Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Stubbs Cem, Cove, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
died from a fall from a horse shortly before the birth of what would have been her first child by her second husband.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 16 Sep 1850, Liberty Co, Texas
• Census: 1859, Chambers Co, Texas; tax roll

Notes:

Christened:
Opelousas Post
Solomon - baptized January 7, 1802; one year old;
Godparents, Thomas Hofpower and Clarisa Mils

Census:
Barrow, Solomon 49 1801 Louisiana farmer 6860
Elizabeth (winfree) 44 1806 Louisiana
Allen 21 1829 TX
Benjamin 18 1832 TX
Solomon 14 1836 TX
Martha 12 1838 TX
Amos 10 1840 TX
Elizabeth 8 1842 TX
William 6 1844 TX
Henrietta 4 1846 TX

Solomon married Elizabeth Winfree about 1825. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip Winfree and Sarah Hayes) was born about 1806 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died after 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1787, Mobile, Alabama
• Residence: 1795, Louisiana

Notes:

Old Reuben

Any snap course in Chambers County genealogy almost always has to begin with a gentleman named Reuben Barrow, Sr., who probably never came to Texas. A brace of family genealogists have studied the Barrow family for decades, but no one has ever determined when Old Reuben was born nor when he died. The fact that he lived, however, has never been in question. A man by that name appears on the 1787 census of Mobile, Alabama, aged some 28 years, which would place his birth in the vicinity of 1759. The late Villamae Williams, a longtime researcher and a former chairman of the Chambers County Historical Commission, placed the elder Barrow in Louisiana by 1795.

Reuben was married first, possibly about 1783, to Fannie Kennedy, by whom he had two sons, Levi and Vincent.

His second marriage, to Mary Jane Johnson, took place around 1790. The 1810 census of Opelousas shows two Barrow households, one headed by Reuben and the other by his son Vincent. His other son, Levi, can be found on the census of Rapides Parish that same year. By that time, however, Reuben's household was fairly swarming with young children from his second marriage. These included their daughters Rachel, Elizabeth, Sarah, Julia and Amelia. Over the years each of these girls would marry and most of these families made their way into what would become Chambers County. Elizabeth married Samuel Barber. They would settle on Old River. Sarah married Elisha Henry Roberts Wallis (known in legal documents usually as "E. H. R. Wallis). They would settle at Wallisville. Julia married Alexander Stephens and lived briefly on Turtle Bayou. Amelia would marry Henry Griffith and settle also on Old River. Their eldest daughter, Rachel, married John Foreman, but no one has ever figured out where they settled or what became of them. Four of Reuben and Mary Jane's children (William, Marie, Victoria and Richard Barrow) died young. The legends that developed around the Barrow family most often surround the three sons of Reuben and Mary Jane. Solomon, who was born in 1801, was the oldest of the three. Reuben, Jr. followed in 1806, and Benjamin was born in 1808. Old Reuben settled just below Vermillionville, Louisiana on the lyrically named Bayou Que de Tortue, which meant the Tail of the Turtle. He had some extensive holdings along the bayou, where he farmed and raised cattle. Before we cover the lives of the three Barrow brothers, we should also address one of the major problems confronting any casual student of that family's history. Most of the Barrow families tended to name their children for other members of the family. Since most of them settled in Chambers and Liberty counties, this creates a confusing minefield for the uninitiated. Old Reuben's two sons by his first wife were also involved in the mix. His son Levi died in Louisiana in 1818 and never settled in Texas, but his son Aaron Leonard Barrow and his wife came and stayed for awhile. Levi's brother, Vincent Barrow came here after the death of his first (missing text)

such manner did the first part of the Barrow clan find their way here. wife, Gertrude Thibodeaux and received a land grant near Hankamer. His sons were Levi Oliver, who married Tabitha Isabel Weed; Reuben "Dutch Reuben," who first married Elizabeth Weaver and second to Susan Benton Albritton Courtney (who had been widowed twice); Benjamin Anatoile "French Ben," who married Eliza Weed; Louisa, who married Lucien Abshier; Adaline, who married John Dunman; and Zilphia, who married Robert Dunman.

The pivotal event in the Barrow exodus from Louisiana to Texas is a lengthy journey conducted in the late fall or winter of 1824, when Elisha Henry Robert Wallis and his wife Sarah Barrow loaded their four children and all of their possessions into wagons and set out for the Trinity River. It was not a particularly perilous journey, but it was arduous. There were lots of streams, bayous and rivers to cross. Mr. Wallis came with his three young brothers-in-law. This was a practical way for a family to travel. All of the men helped in fording the streams and driving their combined livestock. They arrived in Liberty on Christmas Day in 1824 and then headed south into present-day Chambers County. Old legends say that skirted the woods to the east, camped along Turtle Bayou, and kept huge fires burning at night to keep away the alligators. In such manner did the first part of the Barrow clan find their way here.

- THE BARROW BROTHERS OF CHAMBERS COUNTY
By Kevin Ladd, Director Wallisville Heritage Park
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I1123

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from Opelousas Post
ROBERT BARROW - native of North America; son of Richard Barrow and Maria Godenne (?); MARIA JOHNSON - daughter of Daniel Johnson and Susana Daly
Julia - baptized January 7, 1802; five years old; Godparents, Estevan deville and his wife
Richard - baptized January 7, 1802; three years old; Godparents, Clark Barton and Carlota Reed
Solomon - baptized January 7, 1802; one year old; Godparents, Thomas Hofpower and Clarisa Mils

RUBEN BARRORD (BARROW) - son of Richard Barrord and Maria Godenne; MARIA JOHNSON - daughter of Daniel Johnson and Susana Daly.
Emilia - baptized August 17, 1803; one year old; Godparents,
Guillermo Perry and Anna Robert
(Ed. Note: Are the two above couples the same, or were two
brothers married to the same woman?)

Reuben married Mary Jane Johnson-Barrow, (dau?) in 1789 in Mobile, Spanish West Florida. Mary (daughter of Daniel Johnson, (son of who?) and Susanne Daley) was born about 1771 in North Carolina; died after Apr 1807 in of, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

from Temple - sissie@gte.net
The Winfree bunch is a scary family - nuts!!! One of the Winfree clan over
in LA tied his own son to a tree and beat him to death. The boys Mother did
nothing other than never spoke to her husband again. I could go on and on
with a list of stuff - thank God that they just did all this among
themselves.

Andrus family I know nothing about other than what I gave you. Very few of
those folks made it to Texas that I can see.

Chambers County is kind of different. The West side (west of Trinity River)
and the East side did not really mix then and definitely not now. The West
side mixed with the Cedar Bayou (Baytown) Harris County folks. We are all
so intermarried that we look like the Harmons and Andrus. I have cousins
back and forth . The new people ( as they are call ) in Barbers Hill really
get confused - you can not explain it to them, because they get lost before
you finish.

Zackary Taylor was first taken in by Sarah Winfree Barrow, but one of her
little ones (sweet thing that he was) kept trying to kill Zack; so she gave
him to her brother.
Sarah's husband Solomon Barrow killed her brother for something minor. She
never spoke to him again. They just divided up the house and he took up
with a slave.( The slave poisoned him).
The Winfree bunch is a scary family - nuts!!! One of the Winfree clan over
in LA tied his own son to a tree and beat him to death. The boys Mother did
nothing other than never spoke to her husband again. I could go on and on
with a list of stuff - thank God that they just did all this among
themselves.

Andrus family I know nothing about other than what I gave you. Very few of
those folks made it to Texas that I can see.

Chambers County is kind of different. The West side (west of Trinity River)
and the East side did not really mix then and definitely not now. The West
side mixed with the Cedar Bayou (Baytown) Harris County folks. We are all
so intermarried that we look like the Harmons and Andrus. I have cousins
back and forth . The new people ( as they are call ) in Barbers Hill really
get confused - you can not explain it to them, because they get lost before
you finish.

Zackary Taylor was first taken in by Sarah Winfree Barrow, but one of her
little ones (sweet thing that he was) kept trying to kill Zack; so she gave
him to her brother.
Sarah's husband Solomon Barrow killed her brother for something minor. She
never spoke to him again. They just divided up the house and he took up
with a slave.( The slave poisoned him).

The Winfrees have lots of stories - none of them good. Just real nut cases.
Calif. Winfree told me one, where he looked up this old guy and he met them
at the door with a GUN.

About 15 years ago Ernest Ben Winfree put a 357 magum to his head as a joke
(thought the safety was on) and blew his head off. O.K. Winfree beat his own
sister up and left her lying in the yard. His oldest daughter went up on
the 3rd floor of their house and never came down - died there years later.
O.K. Winfree was a big Mason + KKK. He had his own brother in law beat up
so bad, it left him brain damaged.

There are on two Winfree boys left in Chambers Co. today - pretty much
recluse.

Oh I forgot - O.K. Winfrees grandson killed is brother about 5 yrs ago - he
is in the pen. I could go on and on - they are all crazy!!!!

____
Winfree settled on the Sabine still Mex.- big cattle people - another
story.

Where their ranch was , was a major cattle herd crossing to New Orleans.
Adaline Winfree got knock up by one of the cowboys driving cattle through.
Her brothers would not let her marry him . the child's name was Joseph
Winfree. He raised a big family in Orange which married into the Wrights.

Philip married Sarah Hayes on 26 Oct 1800 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Sarah (daughter of Bosman Hayes, Sr. and Martha Ivey (or Ivy)) was born about 1783; died after 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hayes, Sarah - Lutheran (Bosman & Martha Ivy) m sun 26 Oct 1800 Phillip Winfre - Lutheran (Jacob & Elizabeth Clemont of Virginia) Wits: Bosman Hayes & James Andrus. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel Ch: v1-B - Protestant marriages: 1787-1830 p 8)