Wendall Joe Barlow

Notes:

Obituary, copied from his FindAGrave memorial page

Wendall Joe Barlow, 77, of Pineland, died at 6:00 Thursday evening, October 24, 2013, at his home on the Charlie Forse Road, north of Pineland. He was born September 1, 1936 at home in the Slip-Up-and-Hitch Community (between the Plainview and Strickland Crossing Communities) in Sabine County, Texas to Adron Horace "Dick" Barlow (1907-1987) and Ina Mae Russell Barlow (1916-2001).

The family soon moved to a home northwest of Pineland, on the Bear Creek Farm that Wendall has continued farming throughout his lifetime. Wendall grew up on this farm, at his father's sawmill and garage, and working on used cars that his father bought and sold.

He attended all twelve grades at Pineland I.S.D. schools in Sabine County, graduating from Pineland High School in May, 1954, ranked 9th in a class of nine graduates. His favorite class was Mr. B.A. Reid's Agriculture classes and he supported and encouraged FFA and 4-H activities for the remainder of his life to benefit like-minded boys and girls.

From 1954 to 1958, he roughnecked on drilling rigs, both onshore and offshore, mostly in South Louisiana, and worked in all areas of drilling and production.

From 1958 to 1960, he did carpentry and concrete work on plants and dwellings.

From 1960 to 1963, he worked in Pineland as an automotive mechanic with his father, Dick Barlow, L.P. Knight and Ivy Jacks, in their garage on Highway 96.

From 1963 to 1967, he operated heavy equipment while building the Sam Rayburn Reservoir Dam, the Six Mile Bridge, the Ayish Bayou Bridge, and other highway projects in the area. He ran bulldozers, draglines, road maintainers, and scrapers and performed finish work on many of these jobs.

In 1967, he hired on at Magasco with United Gas Pipeline Company, and retired from this company in 1991. During that period, he worked as a pipeliner, compressor helper, construction inspector, Magasco Compressor Station Superintendent, and supervised construction and overhaul of various plants, facilities and pipelines all over the south. He loved the old Cooper compressor engines at Magasco, which operated from 1924 until the 1990s.

Following retirement from United Gas Pipeline (now Boardwalk/GulfSouth), he continued the same line of inspection work as an independent consultant. He worked all over Louisiana and Texas, sometimes working as many as 350 days in a year. After spending several years consulting in South Texas, he served as chief inspector for the construction of three new pipeline compressor stations for Boardwalk/Gulf South in Mobile, Alabama and Sherman, Texas, completing the last one in Sherman in 2009, at the age of 72.

In retirement, he continued running beef cattle on his farms around Pineland, owned and managed rental property in Pineland, continued his community service involvement and established the Sabine County Cowboy Church.

He was an uncommon man who lived to work and serve his God, family and community. He worked, almost unceasingly, from daylight to dark, on the job, at the farm, in the church and in the community, and could work circles around men half his age. He was a friend to all and a benefactor to anyone that truly needed help. He never met a stranger and earned friendship, trust and respect quickly. He loved children and children loved him.

He loved local history and everything about rural Deep East Texas. He had a memory for details, people, places and things that few could match, if any. He never missed a Pineland Day, a school reunion or a family reunion.

He was a man of his word and would go to whatever lengths were necessary to keep his word?and he admired the same in others. He despised cruelty, waste and laziness, and devoted every waking minute to doing his job, maintaining his farm, improving his cattle herd, compiling his collections, and finding ways to help his neighbors.

Hundreds of individuals and families in Sabine County have benefitted from his concern and assistance in times of need. He bailed the friendless from jail, made loans to those who could never repay, and found ways to give to widows and orphans through his labor and talents. He was a frugal man concerning his own needs and comfort, but would give the shirt off his back to a family member, friend or stranger in need.

He served on the boards of several organizations in Pineland and Sabine County.

His retirement, which was forced by his cancer, was spent in planning and providing for the establishment of the Sabine County Cowboy Church. His gifts of land, buildings, furnishings, equipment, labor and love made this mission possible.

On October 5, the Pineland Service Club recognized Wendall as the Citizen of the Year at Pineland Day 2013 in recognition of his many years of service to the community through Pineland Day, Pineland Clean Sweep, Business Startup Assistance, Church Establishment, FFA and 4-H activities, and other charitable deeds and philanthropy for the citizens of the Pineland and West Sabine community.

He wanted his philanthropy to be anonymous, and if it became public, he humbly diverted the praise to others, or shyly changed the subject. He asked for little in return?and what he did ask for was intended to make life better for the recipient.

Wendall is survived by his sons; Rev. Randall Barlow and his wife Pauline of Hull, England, Ronald Barlow of Pineland, and Michael Barlow and his wife Kerie of Stonewall, Louisiana, his daughter; Pam Abdallh and her husband Yousef of Silsbee, five grandchildren (Matt Barlow, Yasmine Abdallh, Ginger Barlow Wallace, Erica Barlow and Cash Barlow) and five great grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother; Lamar Barlow and wife Betty of Brookeland, and sisters; Lora Beth Barlow Wright and husband Carl of Houston and Mary Virginia Barlow Edgar and husband Wallace of Texarkana, Arkansas.

Visitation will be held from 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM, Saturday, October 26, 2013, at the Sabine County Cowboy Church in Pineland, with a meal being served at 11:30. Funeral services will closely follow at 1:00 PM, Saturday, October 26, 2013, at the Sabine County Cowboy Church in Pineland. Officiating will be his son Randall Barlow, his brother-in-law Wallace Edgar and J.P. Mills, pastor of the Sabine County Cowboy Church. Burial will follow in the Bethel Chapel Cemetery in Pineland. Pall bearers will be Benny Jacks, Jamie Powell, Tommy Mason, Billy Mack Dickerson, Matt Barlow, Cody McBride, Chip Lowrey and Jennifer Maxey. Conducting the graveside service will be Charlie Creech, pastor of First Baptist Church of Bronson. Services are under the direction of Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr Street, Hemphill Texas 75948. The family requests that instead of flowers, please consider making a contribution to the Sabine County Cowboy Church's Arena Construction Fund, P.O. Box 867, Pineland, Texas 75968.

Wendall married Doris Inez Powell about 1956. Doris was born on 5 Feb 1939 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 18 Oct 2021 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Brookeland Cemetery, Brookeland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Ronald Earl Barlow was born on 2 Aug 1960 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 26 Aug 2021 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas.
4. Living

Adron married Ina Mae Russell on 14 Jul 1932. Ina (daughter of Creed Thomas Russell and Lora Lee Warner) was born on 27 Jan 1916 in Texas; died on 25 Feb 2001; was buried in Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Copied from the Facebook Group, Farm Road 1-From one end to the other, written by Ronald Barlow:

Happy 100th Birthday, Mammaw!

One Hundred years ago today, on January 27, 1916, Ina Mae Russell (1916-2001) was born at home in LaMerle, Texas, near the Santa Fe Railroad about halfway between Pineland and Bronson.

Her parents were Creed Thomas Russell (1888-1925) and Lora Lee Warner Russell Forse (1894-1983).

Creed worked at the sawmill in LaMerle, that belonged to J.R. Harris and R.W. Henry, for a few years, before moving the family to Jasper, so he could work for the Texas Highway Department constructing Highway 8.

Ina Mae attended school at Plainview, Jasper and Bronson.

She was nine years old, when her father was shot in Jasper on November 1, 1925.
Creed Russell died four days later, leaving Lora a widow, with five children between the ages of three months and eleven years.

Lora Russell moved the family back to Bronson, where her family could help with survival.

Three years after Creed Russell's murder, when her mother married W.C. "Bill" Forse, of the Plainview Community, in 1929, her teacher, Charlie Forse, became her stepbrother.

Six years later, the family was complete with the birth of LaNell.
Her siblings were:
C.L. Russell (1914-1974)
Ina Mae Russell Barlow (1916-2001)
Wilson Roy "Billy" Russell (1918-1961)
Erma Moselle Russell Foster (1921-1972)
Leva Isabelle "Belle" Russell McLemore (1925-2007)
LaNell Forse Crow Bragg (1934-2015)

Ina Mae married Adron Horace "Dick" Barlow (1907-1987) on July 14, 1932.
Ina Mae was 16 and Dick was 24.

For the next 55 years, she was never away from his side for more than a day or two, except for the years during World War II, when Dick worked at the shipyard in Orange, and Ina Mae stayed at Pineland so the kids could stay in school.

Even then, Dick made it home on weekends.

Ina Mae was a professional Homemaker.
She had to be.

In their 55 years of marriage, she and Pappaw lived in at least ten different homes.

Ina Mae often said that "when the rapture comes, I will probably be in the middle of moving" and all their worldly possessions would be left in a ditch somewhere along the way.

She gave birth to Lamar Barlow at home, just east of Strickland Crossing on March 24, 1933.

Seventeen months later, Lora Beth was born at their next home, just southwest of Strickland Crossing on August 24, 1934.

Two years later, Wendall Joe (my Daddy) was born at their next home, in the Slip-Up-N-Hitch Community between Strickland Crossing and Plainview, near the Lott Cemetery, on September 1, 1936.

Two-and-a-half years later, Mary Virginia was born in their first home near Bear Creek, northwest of Pineland on March 22, 1939.

In less than six years, Ina Mae had set up home in four different places, while bearing four children.

That was the end of the children...but not the moving.

Just a year or two later the "Stagner House" at Bear Creek burned down.

They moved into a smaller sharecropper house next door, which I was raised in, and my mother still lives in.

Dick added on to the house to accommodate the family of six.

Ina Mae had a milk cow, chickens, and a garden, as well as a growing herd of beef cattle to tend to, as Dick farmed cotton and cut railroad ties.

With his crosscut saw, kerosene sling bottle, axe, broad axe, iron wedge, gluts, and wooden gauge, Dick could work circles around most men, turning out more crossties than anybody around.

They had no running water, no electricity, no telephone, no inside plumbing, no refrigerator...not even an icebox.

Ina Mae had a wood cook stove, kerosene lamps, a flatiron, a mud fireplace, an outhouse, a smokehouse and a corn crib.

Dick butchered his own hogs and the family bunked sweet potatoes, shelled peas and beans, shucked corn, cut okra, pulled squash, cucumbers and watermelons...and never went hungry.

Ina Mae canned pork sausage, vegetables, fruit, chow-chow, pickles, jelly and preserves.

Store-bought "Light Bread" was a rare treat, so Ina Mae made biscuits and cornbread every day.

Temple Lumber Company's sawmill whistle in Pineland could clearly be heard from 2-3 miles away and served as the Barlow's and other farm folks signal for lunch.

Life was simple...and good.

The Great Depression had very little impact on folks that lived off the land and had nothing in the bank.

During World War II, when Dick went off to work in the shipyard, Ina Mae and the kids moved into the "Conner House," a mile-or-so up the road, closer to the highway, to be closer to town with no man in the house.

Ina Mae never learned to drive and never wanted to.

Dick, as all Barlow men seem to be, was fascinated by cars and anything mechanical.

About 1945, they got electricity, and hung one bare light bulb in each room of the house, with a pull switch.

Soon after, Ina Mae had a refrigerator and an electric iron, which really changed her life.

In 1946, Dick and Arvil White bought a sawmill and set it up on a pice of land on the east side of US 96, a mile-or-so north of Pineland, where Pat Bradberry now lives.

Soon after, with lumber cut at his sawmill, Dick built a new three bedroom home and moved the family in next door to the sawmill.

Marie Beauchamp McBride now lives in this house.

Besides the sawmill, Dick sold used cars in front of the home, did carpentry work, bought and sold real estate, ran beef cattle on Bear Creek, and worked on everyone else's cars.

Ina Mae and Dick were instrumental in moving Martin Chapel Church from the Martin Cemetery, near Bear Creek, to a new location on the highway, where they renamed it Bethel Chapel Missionary Baptist Church.

They were both baptized in Allen's Pond near their home on 96.

Bethel Chapel had "preaching" only twice a month, but had it on both Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Sunday School was conducted every Sunday.

In 1954 or 1955, Dick built a combination service station/grocery store between his mother's home and the Garage he had with L.P. Knight and Ivy Jacks.

Ina Mae and Dick ran the store for several years before selling it to Dick's brother, Boob Barlow.

The kids all graduated from Pineland High School between 1951 and 1958.

In about 1962, they sold everything and moved to Arkansas.

William married Lizzie Elmira Morris on 21 May 1904. Lizzie was born on 21 Nov 1883 in Texas; died on 27 Apr 1967 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her Texas Death Certificate showed her as a daughter of Ben Morris and Jennie Howard. Informant was Mrs. Mack Bragg, her daughter. At the time of her death, she was living in rural Sabine county, on Highway 96, South of Hemphill.

Creed married Lora Lee Warner. Lora (daughter of Dud Ernest "Dudley" Warner and Sarah Candis Cousins) was born on 25 Jul 1894 in Texas; died on 2 Aug 1983 in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Springs Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Ronald Barlow, in his "Farm Road 1" column in the May 16, 2018 issue of the Sabine Conty Reporter, page 10, wrote "Horace Homer Forse (1892-1970) lived on Charlie Forse Raod, about 1/2 miile east of railroad. Pless married Addie Sofronia Impson Forse (1896-1985) and is buried in Palinview Cemetery. Horace was a brother to William Charley "Bill" Forse, who married my great-grandmother, Lora Lee Warner Russell, after her husband was murdered in 1920, and his wife died in 1927."

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JF3Q-BHG
name: Dud Ernest Warner
death date: 20 Sep 1937
death place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas
gender: Male
race:
death age: 65 years 11 months 15 days
estimated birth date:
birth date: 05 Oct 1871
birthplace: San Augustin, Texas
marital status: Married
spouse's name: Candis Warner
father's name: John Warner
father's birthplace: Ga.
mother's name: Julia Belste (Beloti)
mother's birthplace: Mississippi
occupation: Farming
place of residence: Bronson, Texas
cemetery:
burial place: Bronson, Texas
burial date: 21 Sep 1937
additional relatives:
film number: 2117298
digital film number: 4166735
image number: 2408
reference number: P 2431 CN 46597
Collection: Dud Ernest Warner, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"

His FindAGrave memorial page is linked to his parents and four siblings, and also has a photo.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, JP 4
Enumerated 28 Apr 1910
SD 2 ED 141 Sheet 7B
136-145
Warner, Dudley Head M W 38 m1 16 Tx Tn Miss Farmer
Warner, Candis S Wf W F 33 m1 16 6/6 Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Lara L Dtr F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Warner, Eula S Dtr F W 13 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Warner, Madie J Dtr F W 10 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Milton E Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Clara L Dtr F W 4 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Byron W Son M W 2 S Tx Tx Tx

1920 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, JP 4
Enumerated 30 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 179 Sheet 9A
154-159
Warner, Dudley Head M W 48 M Tx La Tn Farmer
Warner, Candis Wf W F 43 M Tx Tx Tx
Warner, E Ula Dtr F W 23 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Warner, Clara F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Byron W Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Orem Son M W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, D. S. Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Wilbur Son M W 4 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Dudley S Uncle M W 78 M La SC Miss Farm Laborer
Warner, Bell Aunt F W 78 M Tn Tn Tn

Dud married Sarah Candis Cousins about 1894. Sarah (daughter of William Daniel Cousins and Mary Frances Woods) was born on 23 Nov 1876 in Newton County, Texas; died on 5 Jun 1953 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Springs Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name: Sarah Candis Warner
Death Date: 05 Jun 1953
Death Place: Bronson, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: white
Death Age: 76 years 7 months 12 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1876
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: William D. Cousins
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Name: Francis Woods
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Bronson, Sabine, Texas
Cemetery: Magnolia Springs
Burial Place: San Augustine, Co., Texas
Burial Date: 07 Jun 1953
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2113985
Digital Film Number: 4165744
Image Number: 280
Reference Number: 53093
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976