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About 45 years ago my grandmother told me that my great-
grandfather, James G. Barbour, came from Belfast (or
Londonderry) with his 4 or 5 brothers during the potato
famine.
Not until we found the obituary of James' brother, William Henry Barbour of Chillicothe, Illinois, did we know that the parents also came over. James and Catherine Glassen
Barbour came with their sons. Their ship landed in either
Baltimore or Philadelphia.
John was killed in a steamboat explosion on the Muskingum
River in Ohio sometime before 1880.
The sons settled across the north except for James who went to Memphis and, after the war, came to Yazoo City, Miss.
William lived in Chillicothe until his death in 1913. After serving in the Union Army he was Mayor and Postmaster there. His obituary mentions an unnamed brother in Anawan, Ill. who died about 1900.
From a letter which James wrote to Joseph during the war we get the names of "John" (who has been wounded),"Ellen"
and "Lizzie and the children". He also mentions "all my
brothers and sisters and their children"
Maybe "sisters" meant sisters-in-law and maybe there were
sisters who had come here with them.
A letter written early in 1865 has the addresses (apparently written on the letter by mistake) of "David M. Barbour, Baltimore, Maryland" and "Joseph Barbour,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania".
If any of this sounds familiar I'd love to hear from you.
I'll even throw in a picture of James in his Confederate
uniform and another of William in his Union uniform.
Jeppie Barbour
jbarbour@ms.quik.com
662-746-4409
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