Beckham County, OK - Obits: Sarah Frances Barrow, 1927
08 Aug 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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BARROW, SARAH FRANCES
(16 Jun 1927, The Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Sarah Frances Brown was a daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Weeks Brown
and was the youngest of seventeen children.  He (sic) was born at Homer,
Louisiana, on October 21, 1851, and died at Sayre, Oklahoma, June 3, 1927,
at the age of 75 years, 7 months and 6 days.
At the age of twenty years she was united in marriage to Josephus Edwin
Barrow at the old home plantation in Louisiana.  The young couple soon
moved to Pilot Point, Texas, where they spent the following ten years on a
farm.  They then moved to the Chickasaw Nation, locating ten miles west of
where Norman now stands, operating a cattle ranch of 3000 acres until
1897.  While residing in the Nation, Mrs. Barrow started the first church
and school in that section, sending to the South for teachers for the
school.
Leaving Oklahoma, they returned to Texas and established a plantation near
Wharton.  While residing in this section they passed through the terrific
storm which wrecked Galveston in the year 1900.  Returning to Oklahoma,
they lived at Norman and then later at Purcell where Mr. Barrow died on
Easter Sunday, April 15, 1906, and where Mrs. Barrow was laid to rest last
week.  The family moved to Sayre in 1925, where they have since resided,
and where the youngest daughter, Mrs. Trask has taught in the schools of
the city.
Mrs. Barrow was a member of the Eastern Star, the Rebekah lodge, and also
a U. D. C.  She united with the Christian church at Norman under the
ministry of Elder Grove, in 1892, and was the last surviving charter
member of that institution.  She was always active in church work.
Mrs. Barrow is survived by one brother, Charles Henderson Brown, of
Haynesville, Louisiana, and a sister, Mrs. Julia Ann Przedmojski of
Dallas, Texas.  Also by three children:  Mrs. Louzannah Ona DeLaney of
Norman; Mrs. Ida Mae Bentley of Wharton, Texas, and Mrs. Lucy Elizabeth
Trask, of Sayre.  Also by the widow of her son, Joseph Edwin, deceased who
is now Mrs. Felix Smith of Oklahoma City.  A nephew, L. L. Barrow, and
other relatives live in Sayre.  She leaves six grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
The funeral was held at the First Christian church Saturday afternoon,
June 4, E. W. Sears, pastor of the church, giving the address and the
Eastern Star participating.