Robert James Barrow (1817 - 1887)

Born 5 Oct 1817 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Died 16 Dec 1887 at age 70 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

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Biography

Robert James Barrow was educated at Burdstown, Kentucky and at the University of Virginia. He came to Louisiana and settled in West Feliciana, where he resided during the greater part of his life, conducting a large sugar plantation. When the American Civil War broke out he was a General of Militia, and went into the service of the Confederacy as Colonel of the 4th Louisiana Infantry Regiment.^[1] Planter in Wilkinson County, Mississippi and resident in New Orleans postwar.^[2][3]

Husband of Mary Eleanor Crabb. Final resting place in Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Barrow, Robert J, 4th Louisiana Infantry, National Archives, 45 records, accessed January 13, 2021.
2. ↑ The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 18, 1887.
3. ↑ Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register, Bruce Allardice, University of Missouri Press, 2008, page 54.
4. ↑ Robert James Barrow, Find A Grave: Memorial #42930290, accessed January 13, 2021.