Marion Barrow was born November 12, 1826, the son of John Stone Barrow and Mary Steele Barrow. He married Elizabeth Thomason (June 5, 1839-December 13, 1919) in Percy, Illinois, on March 26, 1857. They had nine children, all born in Illinois, in Jackson and Perry Counties, or Randolph:
1) Abner Barrow, born June 29, 1858
2) John Barrow, born July 19, 1860
3) Elizabeth Ann Barrow, a.k.a. Anna (Eliza) Louisa Barrow, born September 22, 1863
4) James Barrow, born March 14, 1865, died April 16, 1894,
5) George Thomason Barrow, born January 28, 1868
6) Edward Barrow, born May 12, 1870
7) Charles Barrow, born December 5, 1872
8) Ellsworth Barrow, born March 1, 1877
9) Marion Franklin (or Frank Marion?) Barrow, born June 20, 1880
Marion Barrow died on February 15, 1894, and is buried at the Union Cemetery, along side his wife, his son James, and grandson Norman, in Greenville, Missouri.
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Marion taught school for many years in Jackson County and adjoining counties in Illinois. Also, upon request of the school board, he taught music in the schools. Among the schools was Webb School in Perry County, near Percy. He taught at the Webb School nine terms beginning in 1863. He lived in Perry County near the school at the time. He united with the Missionary Baptist Church in Steeleville, Illinois, in 1875. Marion and his family moved from Illinois to Wayne County, Missouri, in a covered wagon, in 1887, first to Wappapello, then to Greenville in 1894. He was both a teacher and a farmer. Marion moved from Jackson County, Illinois, to Greenville because of the lumber mill. There was a lumber boom in Southeast Missouri. Marion's son, Abner, helped to build a railroad for getting the lumber to market. At one time Greenville had the largest lumber mill in the country. The "Old Greenville" was flooded by a dam that formed Wappapelo Lake.
Transcript of letter in the scrapbook from Marion to his brother Claiborne:
"Claiborne I will inform you that I am well at this time and have been ever since I left home. I received your letter this morning of which gave me great satisfaction to hear from you all. Uncle James Steele has settled in Wisconsin, Layfette county about thirty mile northeast of Galena. He bought 120 acres of land with an improvement of 40 acres and entered 80 acres more. They are all well and well satisfied. I am in the neighborhood where he lives harvesting. I worked last week at $1.25 a day and may work there at the same price. The common price is a dollar a day but the man I worked for last week gives $1.25 a day for binders that will keep up with the ( ). I done it last week myself I worked for William Barrow from the first of June till harvest commenced and likely will again as soon as harvest is over but I expect to go and see Daniel Branscom the first thing after I git through harvesting I will give you as good a description of the country as I can. The country here where uncle James has settled is mostly dryrooting prairie and very rich soil. The timbered land looks very much like the grassy ridges in that country only it has a different kind of grass and richer soil and is generally very rocky the timber is generally low scrubby oak. I have not seen any trees here that would make more than one rail cut but where the fire has been kept out it is growing up with as nice timber as I ever saw any where the ...or the timbered land springs are very plenty and the best kind of water. All the water courses are perfectly clear and run through the whole summer though the people here generally raise from 25 to 30 bushels of wheat to the acre but some that I worked in last week I believe will make go to ( ) the acre and corn from 50 to sixty and oats about 50 and now you can guess what sort of land it is. It has been a very backward spring and very wet but it is very dry now. The weather
has been generally very cool but there has been three or four as hot days as I ever saw. The cholera has been tolerable bad in Galena ever since I have been here but it has not spread any even the county there is no sickness of any kind about here as I know of. I believe this is a very healthy country. I expect to come home about the first of October if the cholera continues on the river I will come by land. I can come as quick by stage or by water but it would cost more. William Barrow talks of going to St. Louis this fall and if the cholera continues bad on the river he will go with a wagon and I will go with him. some of the people in this county is in a great way of going to California. There is about two hundred men about Galena talks of starting this fall to go by water. I believe I have nothing more to report at present. I want some of you to write to me again soon. That your next letter to a Shullsburg post office of Lafayette county Wisconsin. I can
git them from where I am now.
Marion Barrow
Dear Uncle I have this opportunity to write a few lines to and as Marion has paper to spare. We are all well at present hoping these few lines may find you all enjoying the same ....of life. I consider myself settled for as Marion has described the county it isn't worth my while to say anything. I would be glad if you could sell my land (against father?) comes down next fall for I stand very much in need of the money to buy for my self here and when you can get two hundred and twenty dollars for it let it go....respect to you and aunt and all the relations say to Daniel that it would of been worth a hundred dollars to him to of spent this summer in this country. Marion is at fathers today. No more only remains yours, ( ) Steele to John Barrow "
1) Abner Barrow, born June 29, 1858
2) John Barrow, born July 19, 1860
3) Elizabeth Ann Barrow, a.k.a. Anna (Eliza) Louisa Barrow, born September 22, 1863
4) James Barrow, born March 14, 1865, died April 16, 1894,
5) George Thomason Barrow, born January 28, 1868
6) Edward Barrow, born May 12, 1870
7) Charles Barrow, born December 5, 1872
8) Ellsworth Barrow, born March 1, 1877
9) Marion Franklin (or Frank Marion?) Barrow, born June 20, 1880
Marion Barrow died on February 15, 1894, and is buried at the Union Cemetery, along side his wife, his son James, and grandson Norman, in Greenville, Missouri.
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Marion taught school for many years in Jackson County and adjoining counties in Illinois. Also, upon request of the school board, he taught music in the schools. Among the schools was Webb School in Perry County, near Percy. He taught at the Webb School nine terms beginning in 1863. He lived in Perry County near the school at the time. He united with the Missionary Baptist Church in Steeleville, Illinois, in 1875. Marion and his family moved from Illinois to Wayne County, Missouri, in a covered wagon, in 1887, first to Wappapello, then to Greenville in 1894. He was both a teacher and a farmer. Marion moved from Jackson County, Illinois, to Greenville because of the lumber mill. There was a lumber boom in Southeast Missouri. Marion's son, Abner, helped to build a railroad for getting the lumber to market. At one time Greenville had the largest lumber mill in the country. The "Old Greenville" was flooded by a dam that formed Wappapelo Lake.
Transcript of letter in the scrapbook from Marion to his brother Claiborne:
"Claiborne I will inform you that I am well at this time and have been ever since I left home. I received your letter this morning of which gave me great satisfaction to hear from you all. Uncle James Steele has settled in Wisconsin, Layfette county about thirty mile northeast of Galena. He bought 120 acres of land with an improvement of 40 acres and entered 80 acres more. They are all well and well satisfied. I am in the neighborhood where he lives harvesting. I worked last week at $1.25 a day and may work there at the same price. The common price is a dollar a day but the man I worked for last week gives $1.25 a day for binders that will keep up with the ( ). I done it last week myself I worked for William Barrow from the first of June till harvest commenced and likely will again as soon as harvest is over but I expect to go and see Daniel Branscom the first thing after I git through harvesting I will give you as good a description of the country as I can. The country here where uncle James has settled is mostly dryrooting prairie and very rich soil. The timbered land looks very much like the grassy ridges in that country only it has a different kind of grass and richer soil and is generally very rocky the timber is generally low scrubby oak. I have not seen any trees here that would make more than one rail cut but where the fire has been kept out it is growing up with as nice timber as I ever saw any where the ...or the timbered land springs are very plenty and the best kind of water. All the water courses are perfectly clear and run through the whole summer though the people here generally raise from 25 to 30 bushels of wheat to the acre but some that I worked in last week I believe will make go to ( ) the acre and corn from 50 to sixty and oats about 50 and now you can guess what sort of land it is. It has been a very backward spring and very wet but it is very dry now. The weather
has been generally very cool but there has been three or four as hot days as I ever saw. The cholera has been tolerable bad in Galena ever since I have been here but it has not spread any even the county there is no sickness of any kind about here as I know of. I believe this is a very healthy country. I expect to come home about the first of October if the cholera continues on the river I will come by land. I can come as quick by stage or by water but it would cost more. William Barrow talks of going to St. Louis this fall and if the cholera continues bad on the river he will go with a wagon and I will go with him. some of the people in this county is in a great way of going to California. There is about two hundred men about Galena talks of starting this fall to go by water. I believe I have nothing more to report at present. I want some of you to write to me again soon. That your next letter to a Shullsburg post office of Lafayette county Wisconsin. I can
git them from where I am now.
Marion Barrow
Dear Uncle I have this opportunity to write a few lines to and as Marion has paper to spare. We are all well at present hoping these few lines may find you all enjoying the same ....of life. I consider myself settled for as Marion has described the county it isn't worth my while to say anything. I would be glad if you could sell my land (against father?) comes down next fall for I stand very much in need of the money to buy for my self here and when you can get two hundred and twenty dollars for it let it go....respect to you and aunt and all the relations say to Daniel that it would of been worth a hundred dollars to him to of spent this summer in this country. Marion is at fathers today. No more only remains yours, ( ) Steele to John Barrow "
Marion Barrow was born November 12, 1826, the son of John Stone Barrow and Mary Steele Barrow. He married Elizabeth Thomason (June 5, 1839-December 13, 1919) in Percy, Illinois, on March 26, 1857. They had nine children, all born in Illinois, in Jackson and Perry Counties, or Randolph:
1) Abner Barrow, born June 29, 1858
2) John Barrow, born July 19, 1860
3) Elizabeth Ann Barrow, a.k.a. Anna (Eliza) Louisa Barrow, born September 22, 1863
4) James Barrow, born March 14, 1865, died April 16, 1894,
5) George Thomason Barrow, born January 28, 1868
6) Edward Barrow, born May 12, 1870
7) Charles Barrow, born December 5, 1872
8) Ellsworth Barrow, born March 1, 1877
9) Marion Franklin (or Frank Marion?) Barrow, born June 20, 1880
Marion Barrow died on February 15, 1894, and is buried at the Union Cemetery, along side his wife, his son James, and grandson Norman, in Greenville, Missouri.
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Marion taught school for many years in Jackson County and adjoining counties in Illinois. Also, upon request of the school board, he taught music in the schools. Among the schools was Webb School in Perry County, near Percy. He taught at the Webb School nine terms beginning in 1863. He lived in Perry County near the school at the time. He united with the Missionary Baptist Church in Steeleville, Illinois, in 1875. Marion and his family moved from Illinois to Wayne County, Missouri, in a covered wagon, in 1887, first to Wappapello, then to Greenville in 1894. He was both a teacher and a farmer. Marion moved from Jackson County, Illinois, to Greenville because of the lumber mill. There was a lumber boom in Southeast Missouri. Marion's son, Abner, helped to build a railroad for getting the lumber to market. At one time Greenville had the largest lumber mill in the country. The "Old Greenville" was flooded by a dam that formed Wappapelo Lake.
Transcript of letter in the scrapbook from Marion to his brother Claiborne:
"Claiborne I will inform you that I am well at this time and have been ever since I left home. I received your letter this morning of which gave me great satisfaction to hear from you all. Uncle James Steele has settled in Wisconsin, Layfette county about thirty mile northeast of Galena. He bought 120 acres of land with an improvement of 40 acres and entered 80 acres more. They are all well and well satisfied. I am in the neighborhood where he lives harvesting. I worked last week at $1.25 a day and may work there at the same price. The common price is a dollar a day but the man I worked for last week gives $1.25 a day for binders that will keep up with the ( ). I done it last week myself I worked for William Barrow from the first of June till harvest commenced and likely will again as soon as harvest is over but I expect to go and see Daniel Branscom the first thing after I git through harvesting I will give you as good a description of the country as I can. The country here where uncle James has settled is mostly dryrooting prairie and very rich soil. The timbered land looks very much like the grassy ridges in that country only it has a different kind of grass and richer soil and is generally very rocky the timber is generally low scrubby oak. I have not seen any trees here that would make more than one rail cut but where the fire has been kept out it is growing up with as nice timber as I ever saw any where the ...or the timbered land springs are very plenty and the best kind of water. All the water courses are perfectly clear and run through the whole summer though the people here generally raise from 25 to 30 bushels of wheat to the acre but some that I worked in last week I believe will make go to ( ) the acre and corn from 50 to sixty and oats about 50 and now you can guess what sort of land it is. It has been a very backward spring and very wet but it is very dry now. The weather
has been generally very cool but there has been three or four as hot days as I ever saw. The cholera has been tolerable bad in Galena ever since I have been here but it has not spread any even the county there is no sickness of any kind about here as I know of. I believe this is a very healthy country. I expect to come home about the first of October if the cholera continues on the river I will come by land. I can come as quick by stage or by water but it would cost more. William Barrow talks of going to St. Louis this fall and if the cholera continues bad on the river he will go with a wagon and I will go with him. some of the people in this county is in a great way of going to California. There is about two hundred men about Galena talks of starting this fall to go by water. I believe I have nothing more to report at present. I want some of you to write to me again soon. That your next letter to a Shullsburg post office of Lafayette county Wisconsin. I can
git them from where I am now.
Marion Barrow
Dear Uncle I have this opportunity to write a few lines to and as Marion has paper to spare. We are all well at present hoping these few lines may find you all enjoying the same ....of life. I consider myself settled for as Marion has described the county it isn't worth my while to say anything. I would be glad if you could sell my land (against father?) comes down next fall for I stand very much in need of the money to buy for my self here and when you can get two hundred and twenty dollars for it let it go....respect to you and aunt and all the relations say to Daniel that it would of been worth a hundred dollars to him to of spent this summer in this country. Marion is at fathers today. No more only remains yours, ( ) Steele to John Barrow "
1) Abner Barrow, born June 29, 1858
2) John Barrow, born July 19, 1860
3) Elizabeth Ann Barrow, a.k.a. Anna (Eliza) Louisa Barrow, born September 22, 1863
4) James Barrow, born March 14, 1865, died April 16, 1894,
5) George Thomason Barrow, born January 28, 1868
6) Edward Barrow, born May 12, 1870
7) Charles Barrow, born December 5, 1872
8) Ellsworth Barrow, born March 1, 1877
9) Marion Franklin (or Frank Marion?) Barrow, born June 20, 1880
Marion Barrow died on February 15, 1894, and is buried at the Union Cemetery, along side his wife, his son James, and grandson Norman, in Greenville, Missouri.
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Marion taught school for many years in Jackson County and adjoining counties in Illinois. Also, upon request of the school board, he taught music in the schools. Among the schools was Webb School in Perry County, near Percy. He taught at the Webb School nine terms beginning in 1863. He lived in Perry County near the school at the time. He united with the Missionary Baptist Church in Steeleville, Illinois, in 1875. Marion and his family moved from Illinois to Wayne County, Missouri, in a covered wagon, in 1887, first to Wappapello, then to Greenville in 1894. He was both a teacher and a farmer. Marion moved from Jackson County, Illinois, to Greenville because of the lumber mill. There was a lumber boom in Southeast Missouri. Marion's son, Abner, helped to build a railroad for getting the lumber to market. At one time Greenville had the largest lumber mill in the country. The "Old Greenville" was flooded by a dam that formed Wappapelo Lake.
Transcript of letter in the scrapbook from Marion to his brother Claiborne:
"Claiborne I will inform you that I am well at this time and have been ever since I left home. I received your letter this morning of which gave me great satisfaction to hear from you all. Uncle James Steele has settled in Wisconsin, Layfette county about thirty mile northeast of Galena. He bought 120 acres of land with an improvement of 40 acres and entered 80 acres more. They are all well and well satisfied. I am in the neighborhood where he lives harvesting. I worked last week at $1.25 a day and may work there at the same price. The common price is a dollar a day but the man I worked for last week gives $1.25 a day for binders that will keep up with the ( ). I done it last week myself I worked for William Barrow from the first of June till harvest commenced and likely will again as soon as harvest is over but I expect to go and see Daniel Branscom the first thing after I git through harvesting I will give you as good a description of the country as I can. The country here where uncle James has settled is mostly dryrooting prairie and very rich soil. The timbered land looks very much like the grassy ridges in that country only it has a different kind of grass and richer soil and is generally very rocky the timber is generally low scrubby oak. I have not seen any trees here that would make more than one rail cut but where the fire has been kept out it is growing up with as nice timber as I ever saw any where the ...or the timbered land springs are very plenty and the best kind of water. All the water courses are perfectly clear and run through the whole summer though the people here generally raise from 25 to 30 bushels of wheat to the acre but some that I worked in last week I believe will make go to ( ) the acre and corn from 50 to sixty and oats about 50 and now you can guess what sort of land it is. It has been a very backward spring and very wet but it is very dry now. The weather
has been generally very cool but there has been three or four as hot days as I ever saw. The cholera has been tolerable bad in Galena ever since I have been here but it has not spread any even the county there is no sickness of any kind about here as I know of. I believe this is a very healthy country. I expect to come home about the first of October if the cholera continues on the river I will come by land. I can come as quick by stage or by water but it would cost more. William Barrow talks of going to St. Louis this fall and if the cholera continues bad on the river he will go with a wagon and I will go with him. some of the people in this county is in a great way of going to California. There is about two hundred men about Galena talks of starting this fall to go by water. I believe I have nothing more to report at present. I want some of you to write to me again soon. That your next letter to a Shullsburg post office of Lafayette county Wisconsin. I can
git them from where I am now.
Marion Barrow
Dear Uncle I have this opportunity to write a few lines to and as Marion has paper to spare. We are all well at present hoping these few lines may find you all enjoying the same ....of life. I consider myself settled for as Marion has described the county it isn't worth my while to say anything. I would be glad if you could sell my land (against father?) comes down next fall for I stand very much in need of the money to buy for my self here and when you can get two hundred and twenty dollars for it let it go....respect to you and aunt and all the relations say to Daniel that it would of been worth a hundred dollars to him to of spent this summer in this country. Marion is at fathers today. No more only remains yours, ( ) Steele to John Barrow "
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