Barlow's of Robeson Co North Carolina,
to Montgomery and Clinch Co Georgia

1800 Robeson Co North Carolina

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John was not found in an 1810 census.  A census does not exist for 1820 Alabama, and in 1830, a John found in Clarke Co Alabama has potentially been identified as Branson's son, and John in Dallas Co Alabama, identified as a probable part of the Isle of Wight family. 

1840 Conecuh Co Alabama

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Mark has hired a genealogist to prove that Ralph's first wife was named Ikenon.  Having found none in the census records, he discovered that an Ikenor family did live in close proximity to the Barlow's, Council's and Lancaster's in Robeson Co.  It appears that in the transcription of the hand-written Council Memoirs, the "r" was mis-transcribed as a "n". 

Wayne Taylor adds further items of interest:

I have found much more information on the Ikner's of Robeson county, George Ikner is listed on the 1790 census of Robeson county, his name is spelled Eikner, the spelling is very close to the Jacob Eykner of Marion county. This George was married to Ann Brown, daughter of Hugh Brown and Mary Buie, she is listed in her fathers Bible as being born January 1765. I've found George listed on the 1810 and 1820 census, his will was dated november 29th 1829, but I don't know if he died at this time. He would seem to be the right age to be the brother of Ralph Barlow's wife. Ann Brown was next to the youngest of Hugh's ten children, her brother Duncan married Susanna Frierson and named a daughter Anna Eikner Brown.

I've found a family of Ikner's in Marion Co SC, in the 1780's a man by the name of Jacob Ikner settled in Marion county SC, he is shown on the 1790 census.   I've also found reference to him in The Independent Republic Quarterly, see below.  This is the first Ikner I've found near Robeson Co; Marion Co is just across the state line.  On the 1880 census of Marion county is found James Ikner, more than likely a descendant of Jacob's, considering the rarity of the name. There is a Charity Ikenor born 1828, that I found from Marion Co that married Richard Snipes and her grandson Walter Snipes lived and died in Lumberton, Robeson Co NC.  Jacob Ikner's name appears to have been spelled Eykner originally according to some of the deeds.

The Independent Republic Quarterly  Vol. 23 No. 2; Spring 1989; pp 5-6

THE AYNOR MYSTERY

As a boy I was always asking older relatives and family acquaintances about who my great grandparents were and who my ancestors were and where they came from. My other question was always where did our town get it's name? I guess some of them probably thought I was an inquisitive pest with my constant questions.

The old people, and I have talked to a lot of old people some of them born as early as the 1870's, told me that it was always called the Aynor Tract, a family name associated with the land. It was platted as the Aynor Tract originally in 1905 containing 1,625 acres.

As I have stated in previous writings, I have always searched for some connection of a name spelled similarly or pronounced similarly, as it is an unusual name, but had previously failed to find anything. I had heard so many oral histories about the town that for a long time I had gone on an assumption made plausible by a tale told by the late Mr. Cordie Page about a Mary A(ynor) Lewis and a one eyed horse. I need to say here in regards to that story that I fully believe that Mary A. Lewis traded away her property for a one-eyed horse and saddle. Mr. Boyd Lewis affirmed this to me as a truthful story recounted to him by his father as a truthful story and I do not believe that Mr. Boyd Lewis was an untruthful man.

I still had no way to prove or disprove the story. I knew the town came from the upper end of the Aynor Tract. A tract, as previously stated, containing 1,625 acres platted in 1905. I knew that lots had been sold out of the tract as early as 1907, even before recording of D.M. Burroughs' 1911 Blueprint of the town. I knew the town had taken it's name from the tract, but how had the tract gotten the name Aynor?

My first hurdle was the transaction of the F.G. Burroughs- B.G. Collins Partnership to Burroughs and Collins Co. with their deed for 80,000 acres dated July 16, 1895 recorded in Deed Book DD at page 152. Now how do you trace 1,625 acres out of 80,000. Mr. James Booth at the Burroughs and Collins Co. had told me that this deed covered most everything. I worked a long time trying to get behind this deed to find out where the 1,625 acres had come to the F.G. Burroughs-B.G. Collins Partnership from. I never was able to come up with anything and still think that is probably impossible. I kept going back to the Burroughs and Collins Co. to get help from Mr. Booth and finally one day he came out with an old deed that had Aynor Tract penciled on the outside. It had been folded several times and had torn along the creases over the years. It was rather difficult to read due to age and condition. When I opened it and read it there was no mention of the Burroughs and Collins Co. or of the Aynor Tract. It was a deed from Sheriff A.H. Skipper to Solomon L. Moore dated 1870 for a tract the Sheriff had sold at an auction to settle the estate of the late Mr. Buck of the Buck and Beaty Partnership. I was puzzled that the Burroughs and Collins Co. was neither the grantee nor the grantor and decided to go to the courthouse and see if there was a a more legible copy and to see if I could find a derivation. When I got there and checked the cross index I found Solomon L. Moore had purchased five tracts on July 4, 1870 totaling 2,520 acres by deeds recorded in Deed Book P at pages 434-437 and that later on January 9, 1871 he had purchased six more tracts totaling 3,090 acres by deeds recorded in Deed Book P pages 504-507 and 510 and 511, all from Sheriff A.H. Skipper at Sheriff's sales, and all located in the area from Cool Springs to Galivants Ferry. I checked the direct index and found that Solomon L. Moore had sold a tract of 5,905 acres to the Burroughs and Collins Co. by his deed dated January 8, 1873 recorded in Deed Book R-1 at page 521. This tract was comprised of fifteen parcels, the eleven previous and four more, and all had some type of derivation on all of them. Two of the tracts had originally come from Jacob Eykner; his name was spelled two different ways. On the first tract it was spelled Eynner and on the second it was spelled correctly Eykner.

I then had to determine where these two properties were located. Through a long process of elimination comparing property descriptions I finally determined that the Buck and Beaty Partnership had previously owned the two Eykner tracts. I then went back to see where they had gotten them. I finally found that they had purchased a 2/3 undivided interest in a 634 acre tract, which the two were part of, from Sheriff W.I. Graham, individually. This deed was dated December 15, 1854 and is recorded in Deed Book N at page 366, but there was no mention of a derivation. I checked behind W.I. Graham and found he had purchased 634 acres individually from Ebenezer Skipper by his deed dated December 6, 1853 recorded in Deed Book N at page 365. It described the property as a plantation known as Cool Springs part of it being the Jacob Ikner lands. Here the name is spelled differently again, and this is the oldest deed that I find. I can find nothing behind this except the two original land grants to Jacob Eykner. The first is dated November 1, 1790 for 100 acres, later found to be 110 acres. The second is dated November 7, 1790 for 240 acres, later found to be 273 acres. I have checked the descriptions and have compared them to the 1905 plat and they comprise the lower 383 acres of the Aynor Tract after resurvey.

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1840 Robeson Co North Carolina

Phebe Barlow

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age 74, born in Virginia

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Marsh Barlow

Alex Martin

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Jas & Archibald A Barlow

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John Mallory

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William Barlow was born about 1796 in Robeson County, North Carolina. The earliest record concerning this William shows that he married a Scottish girl, Nancy Ferguson, on February 24, 1829. In 1834 William and Nancy sold a male slave, age six, to Neill McQuilkin in Robeson County for $82.50. Many small farmers owned one or two slaves to help them plant and harvest their crops. A great depression struck North Carolina during the 1830's which might explain why William found it necessary to sell this young boy.

William Barlow and Nancy had three children: Sarah, Duncan, and Catherine. Evidently Nancy died soon after 1840, and William moved to Montgomery Co Georgia in 1842 where Marsh Barlow, probably his uncle, and Elias Barlow, perhaps a cousin, had settled earlier. Two of William's children, Sarah and Catherine, moved to Montgomery County and lived with John Forgusson or Ferguson, a relative of their mother's.  Duncan Barlow, the son, also moved to Montgomery County, although he was not listed in the 1850 census.

The state of Georgia had recently participated in the removal of the Cherokee and Creek Indians to the Western states, and their land was now available to the white settlers. However, the Indians had abandoned the land that would become Montgomery County years earlier. Some settlers had come to Montgomery County from other parts of Georgia, but the largest and most enduring settlement was the Highland Scots from Robeson County, North Carolina during the War of 1812 and for twenty years or more thereafter. William Barlow's marriage to a Scottish girl and his close ties with his Scottish neighbors in North Carolina probably influenced his decision to move to this area of Georgia.

By 1850 William Barlow was living on the land of Philip McSwain in Montgomery County and had met Elizabeth Watson Couey, the young widow of James Couey. They were married on August 10, 1850. Their children were William, Elias, John Thomas, and Mary. The elder William died before 1870, and his widow moved to Clinch Co Georgia, where she was listed as the head of the household in the 1870 census. Elizabeth, or Betsey as she was called, lived with her son William and his family in her later years. She died February 21, 1905, and is buried in the Homerville, Georgia City Cemetery.

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