Bartlow Orphan Lines - 7

Orphan lines, by assigned definition here, can be any lines with ancestral OR descendancy connection problems. They will invariably lack hard evidentiary documentation like bibles, church or probate records, to specifically identify parentage.

Nathan Bartlow(1832-1896) Iron Co.,MO lines.

CHRONOLOGY OF COINCIDENTAL OR LINKABLE EVENTS:

1. NATHAN BARTLOW, age 17, born in Kentucky, appears in the 1850 census of Clay Twp., Scioto Co.,OH. He is enumerated with the family of John Lawson,50,b.VA.,Farmer; wife, Rebecca,54,b.KY., and their eight children, aged 8-22 years, all born in Ohio. There may be a relationship between Nathan and the Lawsons, but it is unknown as yet.

2. NATHAN BARTLOW, is next found in Iron Co.,MO., when he marries 24 Sep 1857, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth(Thomas) Fitzpatrick.

3. NATHAN BARTLOW, is subsequently enumerated in the 1860(p.729), 1870(p.547) and 1880(p.496) Federal Censuses of Iron Co.,MO., P.O. Ironton.

4. NATHAN BARTLOW, dies 6 Feb 1896 in Ironton,MO., and is buried in the Bellevue Presbyterian Cemetery at Caledonia,MO.

EVALUATING ANCESTRY PROBABILITIES:

Nathan Bartlow, is almost assuredly the son of Stout Bartlow(b.1803,KY.) and Mary Groves(b.c1805), whose marriage was recorded in Fleming Co.,KY books as simply, Oct.1826. The 1840 census of Lewis Co.,KY(p.50) shows Stout Bartlow with five children, three daughters and two sons. The sons are both 5-10 years old, a clear fit for both Stout(b.1832) and Benjamin(b.1831), the latter of whom was listed as a 19-year-old "Farmer" with the family of Baldwin G. Gill,42,b.KY in Mason Co.,KY in 1850(p.66).

It's apparent from the distribution of children believed connected to Stout and Mary(Groves) Bartlow that the family was broken up by divorce, or by the death of their mother sometime during the 1840's. Stout Bartlow, unable to support his children, either sent them to live with relatives, or allowed them to fend for themselves. With the youngest being in their late teens, they were all old enough to hire themselves out as farm-hands and domestics, as was a common practice for the day, anyway.

Stout Bartlow, at age 47 in 1850, appears himself as a farm-hand residing with John N. Procter and family in Mason Co.,KY(p.6). Probably a "jobber" doing farm work, odd jobs or mining, he would have spent time going where the work was, which would have likely included temporary stops in Mason, Lewis, Fleming and Greenup Co's,KY., as well as the Portsmouth,Ohio area where his brother, Benjamin(b.1797) settled and their father, Johnson(1762-1808) got involved in land speculation between 1804 and his death in 1808.

Stout was the youngest son of Johnson Barkelow(c1762-1808) and Ruth Stout(c1765-1837), who were both born in Kingwood Twp.,Hunterdon Co.,NJ and who emigrated to Hampshire Co.,VA(now W.VA) about 1790 with Johnson's parents, James Barkelow(1732-1796) and Elizabeth Johnson(c1742-1818).

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