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Click on this link for a picture of H.M. Teague's studio in Lenoir, named on the photograph above.
The picture appears to have been taken in front of the family homestead.

Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009
Subject: This is the Thomas Leroy Barlow and Elizabeth Apaline Ferguson Barlow Family.

Uncle Thomas and Aunt App are the parents (couple front left). John Zebulon Barlow (1862-1932) is the oldest son, in the back row (middle left).  They homesteaded in Ferguson NC [in Wilkes County. Picture from mid-1890's, date assumed from clothing styles and apparent age of youngest son.]

They married Dec. 2, 1859.
Children of THOMAS BARLOW (
28 Jul 1836 in Wilkes NC - 1898?) and ELIZABETH (App) FERGUSON (Sept.4, 1838 - 1Jan.31, 1928: dates from gravestone) were as follows.  (Information for children provided by Lori Barlow Stuart at http://www.barlowgenealogy.com/BOB/BraxtonBarlow-Carlton.html There are a few additional pictures at this site.) Presumably most of the children are in the photo.

  • LAURA BARLOW, born 14 October 1860 and died 27 November 1923.  She married CELPHUS FINLEY ANDREWS on 13 September 1883

  • JOHN ZEBULON BARLOW, born 25 June 1862, and died 27 November 1932, burial in Riverside Community Church, Beaverdam, Hanover Co Virginia, along with his wife, son, and daughter-in-law.  He married FRANCES LOUELLEN SWANSON in 1892.

  • THOMAS STONEMAN BARLOW, born 21 January 1866 and died 11 February 1958, burial in Riverside Community Church, Beaverdam, Hanover Co Virginia.

  • JAMES BARLOW, born 20 May 1868.   No further information. One family legend has it that he ran off to California and never came back after being heartbroken when his fianceé married another man.

  • RUFUS BARTLETT BARLOW, born 07 March 1871, and died on 13 January 1902.   He married AMELIA ROSETTA WALKER.

  • LILLIE ANN BARLOW, born 26 June 1873, and died 17 July 1939.    She married RICHARD ANDERSON SHARPE.

  • IDA AUGUSTA BARLOW, born 08 February 1876, death date unknown.  She married LINDSEY BARTELLA SWANSON on 10 May 1896.

  • JOSEPH H. BARLOW, born 19 July 1878, and died 1951.  He married RUBY WEST.

  • GARFIELD BARLOW, born 15 December 1880, died in infancy.

  • WILLIAM H. BARLOW, born 06 May 1884, death date unknown.  He married CANARY WEST on 20 July 1902.

Researched by Karin Borei, Museum volunteer.

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