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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Ora Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores":
pp. 310-313 quotes from a letter written 12 Sep 1853 by Israel while in Rock Island, IL at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucinda Beebe Barlow, the widow of Israel's brother Jonathan Watson Barlow who had moved to that city in the 1840's and had died there 20 Jul 1851. Israel was traveling through on his way to his mission to England. Spelling uncorrected: "...the Evening I past Montrose I took a Letter out of the office from Br Truman it informe me of Mothers Death on the 18 of aug the Morning that I left Calvin Bushes 30 milds from Trumans place but Did not no it at the time I very mutch regreted that it So hapened if Mother has heur age Correct She is 72 years old She is the 5 out of the Circle of My Farthers Family My Eldest Brother Nathaniel My farther Jonathan Barlow, my Sister Annis Gennet george Stones wife, Jonatha W. Barlow at Rockiland my Brother & Annis gillet my Mother the wife of Jonathan Barlow My father. I have heard nothing from my Sister Margaret Bunnell Since Last Spring one of hur Sons by the Name of Joseph Lives with Truman..."
2. Reviewed LDS Ancestral File 30 Nov 2002.
3. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812.
DEATH:
1. Ancestry.com's "Massachusetts Town Death Records": Inf. s. Jonathan Barlow, d. 1806, buried at Granville, source is Vital Records of Granville, complete record: Inf. s. Jonathan, - , 1806, P.R.1. Source information: "Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the year 1850," Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1914.
SOURCES_MISC:
1. The book "The Israel Barlow Story."
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