Hello. I just checked the 1860 census for
MARROW, and in
Missouri there were 17 people and they were all listed as White. And there were 7 people in
Illinois, also listed as White. One was a Margaret
MARROW, 30, with 4 young children, but there was no husband listed.
MARROW, MARGARET (1860 U.S. Census)
ILLINOIS ,
KNOX,
KNOXVILLEAge: 30, Female, Race: WHITE, Born: PA
Series: M653 Roll: 195 Page: 846
In PA there were 14 people with the name, all White. 2 were born in Ireland. In all of the US, there were only 188 people with the
MARROW name, with the most in NY. And half were born in Ireland.
I checked the 1870 census and that wasn't too much different than 1860, except there were only 71 people with the name then. (Perhaps others had a different spelling that year??) However, I checked the pages for
Georgia, and found a young couple who were Black.
MALLOW, FRANK (1870 U.S. Census)
GEORGIA ,
LIBERTY,
MCINTOSH P O
Age: 23,
Male, Race: BLACK, Born:
GASeries: M593 Roll: 162 Page: 177
Oh, here's something interesting. In PA a Jane
MALLOW, 52, was living with another woman, and both women are listed as
Fortune Tellers. ;o)
In VA that year, there was a couple in their 60's having a farm, and they had their married sons and daughter-in-law living with them. Both couples had had an infant boy recently, the infants' names were not listed.
I'm curious when you say that your Margaret
MALLOW witnessed "the burning of Atlanta." She would have been only 3 years old; was it a family story that she witnessed it? And, did the family live in
GA, or were they visiting the area?
Betty (near
Lowell,
MA)