Family Bible of Henry Barron & Sarah Callaway

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Family Background:

Henry Barron
        born:         4 Aug 1803, Hancock County Georgia
        married:    8 Jan 1824, Jones County Georgia
        died:         7 Apr 1870, near Spearsville, Union Parish Louisiana
        buried:      Spearsville Cemetery
        father:       John Barron
        mother:     Frances Garrard

Sarah Callaway
        born:         12 Jan 1802, Hancock County Georgia
        died:         28 June 1863, near Spearsville, Union Parish Louisiana
        buried:      Spearsville Cemetery
        father:       Jonathan Callaway
        mother:     Sarah Dennis

    For several years after their marriage in early 1824, Henry and Sarah alternated living near her family in Jones County and his in Upson.  But when the Callaways moved to Monroe County in 1827, Henry bought a farm in Upson and lived there until the end of 1833. At that time he sold his farm and joined Sarah's brothers Daniel and Henry Callaway in Barbour County Alabama. By 1843, Henry Barron was north in Macon County Alabama with Sarah's brothers Henry and Benjamin. Finally, in 1848, Henry and Sarah Barron moved to Tallapoosa County, not too far from his brothers Hiram and Milton Barron in Randolph County.

    In early 1852, Henry and Sarah sold their Alabama farm and moved to Union Parish Louisiana, settling a few miles south of Spearsville on the Corney Bayou. Henry and Sarah lived there for the rest of their lives. Henry and a few other men bought two acres of land in 1860 and donated it to the community for a "graveyard", now called the Spearsville Cemetery. Sarah died in 1863, and Henry died in 1870, with both buried in the cemetery just under the large cedar tree towards the back.

Children of Henry Barron & Sarah Callaway
Child's Name	born	died	married	spouse	cemetery
Zilleann Frances Barron	9 Nov 1824	1892 - 1899	10 June 1847	Alexander Wilson Upshaw	Spearsville
William J. Barron	24 Dec 1825	14 Aug 1845	----	----	?
James Daniel Barron	9 June 1828	12 May 1912	5 July 1849	Lucy Freeman	Spearsville
			2 Jan 1861	Martha J. Cherry
Hyram G. Barron	7 Apr 1830	19 Jan 1885	18 Dec 1856	Savillia Rabun	?
Henry Callaway Barron	4 Dec 1831	21 Jan 1911	30 Mar 1856	Satsey Ann Taylor	Spearsville
			2 Jan 1859	Amanda E. Giles
			22 July 1876	Sophronia Ellen Moses
Sarah Amanda Barron	27 Nov 1833	3 June 1888	25 Apr 1852	Frederick M. Hawkins	Spearsville
			14 Dec 1864	Dr. John V. Arrington
Milton L. Barron	14 Feb 1836	28 July 1864	----	----	?
Mary Almira Barron	24 Apr 1838	8 Nov 1923	3 May 1855	William L. Johnston Beck	Osage
			1865	Aaron B. Lott
Emily Aramantha Barron	1 May 1840	15 Nov 1912	28 Oct 1866	John Sidney Post	Willow
Georgia Ann Elizabeth Barron	20 Feb 1842	17 Nov 1916	1859/1860	James Morris Post	Nash
Benjamin Franklin Barron	21 Jan 1845	9 Sept 1845	----	----	?

Union Parish Barrons of African Descent:

    There is no record that Henry Barron's grandparents William and Prudence Barron nor his parents John and Frances Garrard Barron owned slaves. However, several of John and Frances’ sons owned a few slaves. Similarly, the records indicate that Sarah Callaway Barron’s parents and grandparents did not own slaves. However, Sarah’s brothers did acquire slaves during their lives. Her brother William Callaway never married, and he accumulated a large plantation with many slaves in Monroe County Georgia between 1828 and his death in 1854.

    In 1830 when Henry and Sarah lived near his mother and brothers in Upson County Georgia. But between 1833 and 1836, Henry and Sarah Barron moved from Georgia to Barbour County Alabama, settling near her brother Daniel Callaway. In 1840 Henry was listed as the owner of 4 slaves, one male under 10, 2 females under 10, and one female slaves aged 24 - 36. It is not known how Henry and Sarah acquired these slaves, if they owned them at that time. It is possible they belonged to one of her brothers.

    By 1850, Henry Barron was listed as the owner of 1 female slave aged 18 years, 1 male slave aged 10 years, and 1 male slave aged 30 years. Although the names of the older slaves are not known, the younger male is most likely Andrew Jack Barron, whose birth was recorded in Henry’s Bible as occurring on 2 May 1840.

    When Sarah Callaway Barron’s single brother William died in Monroe County Georgia in 1854, she became an heir to  his property, including his many slaves. The administrators divided the slaves into families and distributed the families to William Callaway's seven surviving siblings. Sarah and Henry Barron become the owners of a slave family consisting of a man Lewis (valued at $1050), a woman Sarah and her child (valued at $1050), a boy Dock (valued at $800), and a boy Sanford (valued at $675). The birth dates for Dock and Sanford were recorded in Henry Barron’s Bible, but those for Lewis and Sarah were not. Sarah’s child was almost certainly Mariah, whose birth was recorded in the Barron Bible as 14 August 1853.

    After the end of slavery in the United States in 1866, the slaves owned by Henry Barron took the surnames “Barron” and “Callaway”. Andrew Jack Barron lived near Henry Barron’s children between 1870 and his death in the 1920s. Also living next to them in 1870 was a black man named Sam Caly (probably Callaway), aged 47, his wife Harriett, aged 36, and a younger boy Allen, apparently their son. Allen’s birth was recorded in the Barron Bible, 31 January 1859. Harriett is apparently the female slave owned by Henry Barron in 1850 and 1860. Sam could have been the man called “Lewis” in William Callaway’s estate papers.