The Hotchkiss-Crawford Historical Society and Museum has received an excellent donation for researchers that will be available in the museum’s library. It is a genealogy of the descendants of John Haxton Barrow.

It even includes the record of John Haxton Barrow’s father who was born in England in 1790. John Haxton Barrow was a doctor. He was born in Oct. 1828 and died in Oct. 1888. His wife was Martha Alace Jenner.

One of the many photographs of the Barrow family in the genealogical record that has been donated to the Hotchkiss-Crawford Historical Society and Museum. Above are John Haxton Barrow and Martha Alace Jenner who came with five of their children from Ohio to Hotchkiss in 1882.

Beulah Barrow Smith (1900 - 1992) was the daughter of John Eberely Barrow and Carolyn Marguerite Ashbaugh. Beulah (listed as Bulah Irene in the genealogy) wrote a “History of the Barrow Family.” The Barrows came from Richland County, Ohio in 1882 to Crested Butte, which was considered by the Barrows as a rough and tumble mining town. Since her grandmother was “a very devout person” she wanted to move elsewhere. The Barrows traveled over Black Mesa. Beulah wrote of the difficulty of the trip and the hospitality they received from the DeGraffenried family in Maher.

The Barrows fell in love with an area in Hotchkiss which continues to this day to bear their family name, “Barrow Mesa.” They decided there was no need to travel on to Grand Junction, and homesteaded the mesa between John and Martha (the center part), Eberely (the northern end), Edward (the southeast portion) and William (the southwest part of the mesa).

Edward Page Barrow married Nellie Davis. They had two daughters and one son. William Jenner Barrow married Esther L. Dunn. They had three daughters. John Eberely Barrow and Carolyn Ashbaugh had two daughters and two sons. Emily Edwinna Barrow married Clarence E. Mower and they had three daughters and one son. Martha Ardis Barrow married Daniel Wyman McIntyre Sr.. They had two daughters and two sons.

Give yourself plenty of time to study the genealogy of the Barrow family when you come to the Hotchkiss-Crawford Historical Museum.

The museum is located on Second Street and Hotchkiss Avenue. The museum is open on Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. For more information, call the museum at 872-3540.

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