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Duncan Barlow, the son of William Barlow # 3 and his first wife, Nancy Ferguson, was born in Robeson County, North Carolina in 1834. In 1842 he and his sisters, Sarah and Catherine, moved to Montgomery County, Georgia, possibly after the death of his mother. His older sister Sarah was listed in the 1850 census of Montgomery County in the household of John Forgusson, a relative of her mother. Duncan's father, William, was remarried in 1850 to Elizabeth Watson Couey, the widow of James Couey. In the 1850 census of Montgomery County, William and Elizabeth were listed in the household of Phillip McSwain. Their first child, William #4, the half-brother of Duncan, was born in 1850 in Montgomery County.
A deed from Montgomery County shows that in June of 1859, Duncan Barlow transferred two hundred two and one half acres located in District 33 to Alexander McMillan for twenty-three dollars. Duncan and his older sister Sarah, born in 1831, moved to Clinch County shortly after that, where Duncan and Sarah boarded with Mary Smith and her children, Martha and Jackson Smith. Duncan and Mary evidently hit it off and were married in about 1860. Mary,or "Polly" as she was called, born in 1837, was the daughter of C. J. Smith and Linnie Drawdy Smith of Clinch County. They had eight children as follows:
Leacy b. Sept 25, 1863
Catherine b. Feb. 20, 1864
3. Sophalia b. Jan. 2, 1869
4. Amanda b. Oct. 12, 1873
5. Baldy W. b. Oct. 12, 1875, married Pinky Sedgwick, daughter of W. F. Sedgwick on Sept. 13, 1902
Lula b. April 3, 1877
Effie b. May 18, 1881
8. Roxie b. July 27, 1885
Duncan and his wife also raised Wylanta Bergen, born in 1861, According to Folks Huxford's personal notes, she was the daughter of Duncan's sister Sarah, who never married. Duncan's younger sister, Catherine, born in 1837, married James Henry Darley.
Duncan Barlow owned several large tracts of land in Clinch County, one of which was about 3 or 4 miles south of Homerville on present U. S. Highway 441. At the time of his death on Nov. 13, 1898 he was living on 35 acres of lot 594. Mary Smith Barlow died on Feb. 9, 1918 while living on this same tract of land. They were buried in a small graveyard on the old Q. B. Morgan homeplace on lot 558, just across present Highwy 441 from the old Midway Schoolhouse. The graves are unmarked.
Duncan and Mary were members of the Pine Grove Methodist Church where he was a steward and Sunday School superintendent. They later moved their membership to Homerville Methodist Church when Pine Grove disbanded.
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