Steuben-Republican April 1931
        
        John Barrows was born in Vermont, July 22, 1845, of old New 
England Ancestors.  His father, Brewster Barrows, and mother Rachel 
Barnard Barrows came with their family of ten children from Vermont in 
pioneer times.  John at this time being only two years of age.  He 
acquired some of his education at Orland, but most of it in Greenfield 
township, LaGrange county.  He was a great reader and remembered what he 
read.
      He was a veteran of the Civil War and enlisted in Company C of the
Twelfth Indiana Cavalary at the age of eighteen on November 22, 1863.  
He was with the army two years to a day receiving his honorable 
discharge in 1865.  He entered the army about the time Sherman was 
undertaking his great campaign around Chattanooga and Atlanta, and he 
had the duty of patroling Sherman's Line of supplies from Nashville, 
Tenn., to Huntsville, Ala.  During the summer of '64, his regiment 
patroled all the country between Huntsville and Murfreesboro.  He was 
with this regiment in all its service until he was mustered out.
        After the war he returned to Greenfield township and devoted his
time and energy to farming.  On November 30, 1869, he was married to 
Maranda Gillimore, who has been a faithful companion and untiring in her 
care of him.  He was a man of very strong character, a good neighbor, a 
kind father, and honest in all his dealings.
        He spent his last years in Orland moving there in the spring of
1923.  He leaves to mourn his memory, the devoted wife, four children, 
ten grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren, answering the final 
roll call on the evening of April 16, 1931, aged 85 years, 8 months and 
25 days.  Funeral services were held Sunday at 10:00 a.m. at his late 
home in Orland, in the presence of a large circle of friends.  Services 
were conducted by E.W. Gray, of the congregational Church, of Orland, 
Internment in Green Lawn Cemetery. 
        Relatives from a distance attending the funeral services were 
Clyde Niles and wife from Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Barrows of 
Elkhart, Mr. and Mrs. Will Anderson and family of Avilla, Mrs. Albert 
Peter and sons and son's wife from Toledo, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Otto 
Gilmore, Nr. and Mrs. Hulbert Gilmore of South Camden, Michigan, Mr. and 
Mrs. Peter Fales, Mr. and Mrs. O.J. Gilmore and family, of Camden, 
Michigan, Fred Stuck and wife of Ashley, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sperry of 
Angola, Ernest Root and wife of near Fremont, Mrs. Lois Oleson and 
husband of Flint, Michigan, Mrs. Effie Parker and Mrs. Laura Newman who 
came from Flint with them, Mrs. Inez Mock and daughter and Sam Pendall 
of near Bronson, Michigan.

Submitted by J.A. Childers