Lowndes-Twiggs County GaArchives Biographies.....Barfield, Sampson B. 1853 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   SAMPSON B. BARFIELD. Among the planters of south Georgia, few families have
been for a longer time or more actively engaged as crop producers and
contributors to the agricultural and civic wealth of this section than that of
Barfield. Several generations of this family have been residents of the state,
and one of its prosperous and worthy members is Sampson B. Barfield, whose home
for many years has been in the Club House district of Lowndes county.

   He was born in Twiggs county, this state, on the 28th of November, 1853. His
great-grandfather was a native of England and on coming to America settled in
South Carolina, but according to the best information at hand later settled in
Georgia, being one of the pioneers of Twiggs county, where he spent the rest of
his days. In the same county the grandfather, William Barfield, who was a native
of South Carolina, owned and operated a farm and lived there until his death,
which occurred before the war. His four sons and three daughters were named as
follows: John, Richard, Sampson, Frederick, Betsey, Polly and Patsy.

   Frederick Barfield, the father, was born in Twiggs county, was reared on a
farm and began his independent career on a tract of laud about seventeen miles
from Macon, where he lived until 1856. In that year he settled in Lowndes
county, which was then a much larger civil division than at present and the
county seat was located at the old town of Troupville. The Barfields came here
after the manner of emigrants to a new land, bringing in wagons their household
goods, farm implements, etc. During their first year's residence the trading
center was Troupville, but all the surplus products had to be hauled on wagons
to Tallahassee or Newport and Jacksonville, Florida. Frederick Bar-field bought
land about four miles south of the present site of Hahira. A clearing of twelve
acres and a log house constituted the improvements, and he at once began the
task of clearing more land for the plow and engaged in general farming. At the
time of the war he was past the military age, but in 1864 joined the state
militia and went to the defense of Atlanta, where he was soon discharged on
account of disability. His death occurred in 1872. He married Bethany Brewer, a
native of Twiggs county, and she died in 1889. They were the parents of thirteen
children, named as follows: William, Mary, Sarah, John, Carrie, Frank, Emeline,
Epsie, Columbus, Sampson, Lafayette, Tempy and Belle. Of these, Belle died in
childhood and William at the age of twenty-four. John and Frank both served in
the Confederate army.

   Sampson B. Barfield spent his early youth in Lowndes county, being reared in
habits of industry and thrift, and after the removal of the family to Lowndes
county he bought two hundred and twenty-five acres of timbered land that is
included in his present farm. There he built a substantial log house, which
continued the dwelling of himself and family for twenty-seven years, when it was
replaced by a commodious and attractive residence of frame. From the beginning
of his independent career he succeeded and with increasing means bought lands
until his present holdings aggregate about fourteen hundred acres, all located
in the Club House district.

   Mr. Barfield married Miss Lizzie Lawson, a native of Lowndes county and a
member of one of the old families of this section. Her parents were William and
Malcy (Vickers) Lawson, and her grandfather was Ashley Lawson (see sketch of
Lawson family elsewhere). Her father served in the army of northern Virginia and
saw arduous service as a soldier of the south, and was captured and held
prisoner at Point Lookout several months before the end of the war. For several
years he owned and operated a farm, a part of which is now included in the
village of Hahira. Mr. and Mrs. Barfield have reared ten children, namely:
Willie, Carrie, Charlie, Eddie. Zeno, Hum Mason, Ruth, Rosa, Ethel and
Christelle. Mr. Barfield has been a director of the Bank of Hahira since its
founding, is a member of the Farmers' Union, and affiliates with Hahira Lodge
No. 346, A. F. & A. M.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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