Ina Mae Russell

1916 - 2001  (85 years)

• Name	Ina Mae Russell  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	27 Jan 1916	Texas   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	25 Feb 2001  [2]
  Burial	Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas   [2]
  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.
  Person ID	I47182	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Creed Thomas Russell,   b. 29 Jan 1888, Texas d. 5 Dec 1925 (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Lora Lee Warner,   b. 25 Jul 1894, Texas d. 2 Aug 1983, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	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."
  Family ID	F14093	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adron Horace "Dick" Barlow,   b. 3 Sep 1907, Texas d. 23 Dec 1987 (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	14 Jul 1932  [3]
  Children	1. Creed Lamar Barlow,   b. 24 Mar 1933, Sabine County, Texas d. 26 Jun 2018, Sabine County, Texas (Age 85 years)   2. Living   3. Wendall Joe Barlow,   b. 1 Sep 1936, Sabine County, Texas d. 24 Oct 2013, Sabine County, Texas (Age 77 years)   4. Living
  Family ID	F14094	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2018

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 27 Jan 1916 - Texas Burial - - Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

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