Eighth Generation4793. Chester W. BARROWS79 was born in 1813 in Crown Point, Essex, New York.79 He died on 16 August 1897 at the age of 84 in Clay County, Indiana.79 Chester was the third child and oldest son of Spencer and Lydia Thrasher Barrows. In 1828, he moved with his family to Shalersville, Portage Co., Ohio. In the Spring of 1831, the family moved to Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio, where Chester spent the next 37 years of his life. Chester married his second cousin, Olive Thrasher. When she died in 1863, he married his cousin Otis' widow, Pamelia Frances Blood Thrasher, two months later. Emily Pike, in her diary says, "is a stormy day and Chester Barrows is married this evening to the widow of Otis Thrasher his wife has been gone just 2 months to day he was in a great hurrey I think sureley." Frances brought to the marriage, four sons. In 1868/9, Chester, Frances, Chester's sons John and Edward, and Frances' three youngest sons Arthur, Charles, and Otis, moved to Clay County Indiana and settled where Ashboro is today. Ashboro was originally called Barrows Inn on the Bloomington Road. Chester was a large man with (in later years) a head full of white hair. A family story states that Chester and his four brothers weighed a total of one half ton and were a total of 30 feet tall. Another family story says that Chester kept a barrel of cider in his barn. ["How big a barrel I do not know - neither do I know if it was hard cider - but I have my guess." - Betty Adams] When a man would visit his home, Chester would invite him to the barn for a drink of cider. Chester would lift the barrel and drink - and hand the barrel to his visitor. The 1850 Census lists: The 1860 Census lists: The 1870 Census of Sugar Ridge Twp., Clay Co., Indiana shows the following: Barrows - married in Troy, August 11, 1863, Chester Barrows and Mrs. Frances P. Thrasher, both of Troy. (Jeffersonian Democrat, August 21, 1863) Chester W. BARROWS and Olive E. THRASHER were married on 28 September 1845 in Delaware County, Ohio.79 Olive E. THRASHER, daughter of True Sanborn THRASHER and Mary BEAN, was born about 1814.79 She died on 12 June 1863 at the age of 49 in Troy Township, Geauga, Ohio.79 She died at age 49 from breast cancer. Chester W. BARROWS-28927 and Olive E. THRASHER-28880 had the following children:
Chester W. BARROWS and Francis Parmelia BLOOD were married on 11 August 1863 in Troy Township, Geauga, Ohio.79 Francis Parmelia BLOOD was born about 1824.79 She died on 5 February 1894 at the age of 70 in Clay County, Indiana.79 From the diary of Emily Pike - |