Thomas is my gggg-grandfather. I was wondering if anyone has an occupation listed for him? Many of the Barlows from his line were gunsmiths blacksmiths and jewelers etc. One of his sons Jesse Barlow (my ggg-grandfather) I found listed as a gunsmith and I know that my gg-grandfather (that Jesse's son) Jesse M. Barlow was a gunsmith. Also a son of Jesse M. John W. Barlow made guns too. Jesse Barlow Saddler, off-spring of Thomas' daughter Lucy (aka Linsey) also made guns. After Lucy's husband (Saddler) died she remarried a Cottingham and they moved to Decatur Co. Indiana near where I live in Shelby Co. and also near Rush County where many of those Barlows ended up. The three counties all corner up together. I was told by my father (deceased) that Jesse M. Barlow lived with his aunt Lucy for a while when he first came to Indiana. It is also possible that his whole family came together and stayed with her until they found a place. I have no information on that possibility but all of Jesse M. Barlow's brothers married in Rush county and he did too. My father said that supposedly the first Jesse Barlow came to Indiana but returned to Cynthiana KY to be buried. No actual info on that either. That first Jesse Barlow was married to Nancy Gosnell a sister of Benjamin Gosnell who was at one time married to Elizabeth Younnell Barlow, a sister of Jesse Barlow and of Lucy (Barlow) Saddler. (I have to wonder where that "Younnell" middle name came from???) Also Benjamin Gosnell's brother William was married to Jane Barlow another sister of Jesse's. Willis Barlow, a son of the first Jesse Barlow married a Frances "Fanny" Gosnell. I have the children of that Jesse Barlow (b.Abt 1779 d. Aft 1863) and Nancy (Gosnell) Barlow as: Jesse Maurice Barlow b.1805 d.1882) my gg-grandfather. Willis Barlow Lewis Barlow b.1807 d.1887 William Barlow b.1815 Newton Barlow b.1821 I am always looking for more info on any of these... I do have spouses for those last 5 listed. -- The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. ~ James A. Michener, attributed Francis Robinson Central Indiana USA robinson@svs.net