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Rhoda Almira Barlow

Female 1820 - 1876  (55 years)


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  • Name Rhoda Almira Barlow 
    Born 19 Nov 1820  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 15 Apr 1876  Cheboygan, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2615  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Jonathan Barlow,   b. 23 Jun 1769, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Dec 1820, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Annis Gillett,   b. 25 Jul 1784, Sharon, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Aug 1853, near Corley, Shelby, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Married 13 Oct 1804  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F958  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lyman Carrol Wing,   b. Abt 1809, of Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jun 1883, Chautauqua, Chautauqua, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Married Abt 30 Mar 1838  Streetsboro, Portage, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1475  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 28 Nov 2002. One interesting database ":2078492" has Ira Wing born 1856 in New York State marrying Elizabeth Cardinal 14 Nov 1881 at St. Mary's Church in Cheboygan, MI. She was b. 1863 in New York state and died 17 Apr 1943 in Cheboygan. His parents are listed as Lyman Wing and Rhoda Baron [Barlow] but with no vital data. Her parents are John Cardinal and Felicite Provost both of Quebec. They have three children: Marie Charlotte, b. 1888; Mabel Agnes, b. 1889; and Orville Peter, b. 1893. [Note that Ira G., son of Lyman and Rhoda, and husband of Eliz. Cardinal, shows up in LDS Ancestral File, b. 19 Oct 1856 at Chautauqua, NY and d. 21 Dec 1940 at Cheboygan.]
      Kerry's note: I believe that this the reported births are in error since Wings were in Iowa by 1853. Also the following website <http://www.rootsweb.com/~iahardin/civilwar/cw_vols.html/> reports that Ira G. Wing volunteered at age 19 on Aug 1862 from Hardin County, Iowa and was in the 32nd Infantry, Company F. He survived the war. The 1880 census does report a different Ira Wing born 1856 living in Chautauqua.

      2. The following letter is from Geo. Gillette Lockwood to his brother-in-law Charles Henry Hales and sister Julia Ann in Utah and was found several years ago in the home of Grace Hayward during a renovation project. I now have a photocopy of the letter. There was not a complete date on the letter but it is circa late 1860's. The letter: "San Francisco July 23. Dear Brother and Sister... I am here all alone. Mary, my oldest girl is in Waterloo, Iowa with her aunt. Georgia, the youngest girl is at school in a convent in St. Louis. Wm. H. Lockwood, my only son is married and lives in Buffalo. He has a daughter a year old old. My wife is in St. Louis. I shall send for them this fall if I conclude to stay here. When I was at Deseret I wanted to stop over and go and see Israel, but I had no time for I was already 2 weeks behind time. So I rushed thru as soon as I could. I was seven days from point to point..." The aunt in Iowa could be a half sister to George through Jonathan Barlow's marriage to Annis Gillett. There are two candidates: Margaret Marie Barlow who married Charles Bunnell and died in 1875 in Avoca, Pottawattamie, Iowa or Rhoda Almira Barlow who married Lyman Wing and died 1876 at an unknown location but probably in Iowa. The book "Israel Barlow Story" quotes a letter of his wherein he talks of Rhoda being in the Dubuque area around 1852/3; Dubuque is just about 75 miles east of Waterloo. Kim Everingham at reports that she is not familiar with any siblings of Elvira Merchant, George Lockwood's wife, living there but she is still uncertain of the whereabouts of four of them as of 19 Apr 2002.

      3. Censuses:
      1860 US: Brecksville Twp., Cuyahoga, Ohio, p. 61, 23 Jun 1860, household 484:
      Lyman C. Wing, 51, farmer, b. Chester, VT
      Rhoda A., 41, b. Northhampton, Mass.
      Ira G., 4, b. Naples, NY
      (Chester is in Rockingham Co.; Northhampton is in Hampshire Co. just north of Hampden Co.; Naples is in Ontario Co.)

      Surprisingly they are again listed in the 1860 census. Must have been between moves. They probably were in Brecksville in June and then in Boston Twp. in July and thus counted twice. Curious lack of last names for Lyman and Ira.
      1860 US: Akron P.O., Boston Twp., Summit, Ohio, household 1606, 13 Jul 1860, p. 193.
      Lyman Corall, 51, VT.
      Rhoda A. Wing, 41, MA.
      Ira Gardner, 4, NY.
      There is a Jerome Wing, 22, OH living next door with a wife Charlotte, 21, NY, and a dau. Molvina, 11/12, OH.

      4. Reviewed LDS Ancestral File 30 Nov 2002.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. It is mentioned in the book The Town of Mendon 1813-2000 and Village of Honeoye Falls 1838-2000 by Diane Ham and Anne Bullock, Honeoye Falls-Town of Mendon Historical Society, January 2000, p. 75, that Annis Gillett, George Gillett Lockwood, Julia Ann Lockwood, Israel Barlow, Jonathan Barlow, Truman Barlow, Annis Barlow and Rhoda Barlow all went to Kirtland, OH with the Mormons in 1832.

      2. Ora Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores":
      pp. 304-306 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. In his letter to his wife he mentions each of his siblings including Rhoda as follows [spelling uncorrected]: "...I have heard from my Long Lost Sister So tell Julian [Julia Ann] She now Lives at Debuke [Dubuque, Iowa] or did One year ago hur health from there wuss tolerable Comfortable but not wlthey I if I had time I Should go and See them his Name is Simon [probably Lyman] Wing has one Sone Nearly grown and all the child they have..."
      p. 17: Lyman and Rhoda Wing appear to have had only one son according to the quote above; however, in footnote 29 on page 68, the same book says "Rhoda Almira, who married Lyman C. Wing, also named a son 'Otis'." The book on page 17 has photos of this son Ira Wing and his wife Elizabeth Cardinal.
      p. 60: May have been named after the Rhoda Root, mother of her father's first wife Margaret Root.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Per Family Search's "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013" at the following link accessed 20 Oct 2015 <https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8J3-9L5?treeref=LHP8-27K%3Bhttps%3A%2F%2Ffamilysearch.org%2Ftree%2F%23view%3Dancestor%26person%3DLHP8-27K>.
      The information notes that the bride is 14 and under the guardianship of Edward Wyman; the groom is 21.
      Marriage license at Portage, Ohio, US, dated 30 Mar 1838, Lyman C. Wing, age 21, and Rhoda A. Barlow
      Spouse's, age 14, of Streetsborough Twp.

      2. Note that per Ordinance Index two sealings were done in sequence of 4 Dec 1917 Slake: Lyman Carrol Wing and Rhoda Almira Barlos and Nathaniel Clark and Rhoda Barlow; Ancestry.com has another Rhoda Barlow b. 2 Nov 1797 to James Barlow and Rhoda Pratt who married ____ Clark which probably accounts for the second entry or Rhoda had two husbands even though not discussed in the book about Israel Barlow. The sequential nature of the ordinance work would give consideration to the latter.

      ACTION:
      1. Check 1850 and 1860 censuses for Dubuque and Waterloo in Iowa to see if Rhoda is the aunt that George Lockwood speaks of about 1869 per citation above.