About Susannah Lee Barlow Chapter, NSDAR
Oregon City, Oregon
Susannah Lee Barlow
Susannah Lee was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 17, 1791. She was the daughter of Captain William Lee, and her mother Susannah McMullen Chaffing.
Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, Susannah's parents moved to Nicholas County, Kentucky, and then later to Bloomington, Indiana where Susannah met and married Samuel Kimbrough Barlow in 1820. To this union four sons and two daughters were born. In the spring of 1845, when Susannah was 54 years old, Samuel and Susannah left for the Oregon Territory. They arrived in Oregon City, Oregon on December 25, 1845. On September 17, 1850, Samuel and Susannah Barlow purchased the donation land claim of Thomas McKay, which they later sold to their son William. The land eventually became the town of Barlow, Oregon. Susannah Lee Barlow died on December 24, 1852, and is buried in the Barlow Pioneer Cemetery, Barlow, Oregon. |
From Our Chapter Archives
The Susannah Lee Barlow Chapter, NSDAR was organized on April 22, 1918, by Mrs. George A. Harding, organizing regent, a grand-daughter of Susannah Lee Barlow, and Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, state regent.
"The name for this chapter was chosen to honor Susannah Lee Barlow, "A Real Daughter of the American Revolution" and the wife of a significant man in Oregon's history. Susannah's patriot father was Captain William Lee of "The True Blue Brigade" of South Carolina Militia and his second wife, Sarah McMellun. Susannah was born in South Carolina, March 17, 1791. She married Samuel Kimbrough Barlow in Tennessee. Oregon was the place they wanted to be, so they gradually moved westward, to Illinois, then to Indiana, then to Missouri, and from there, they started on their journey to "the land where rolls the Oregon" in June 1845. At The Dalles, Oregon, Samuel Kimbrough Barlow wanted to complete the entire journey by land, so he blazed a trail through the forest for the first wagon road over the Cascade mountains. This wagon road allowed the family to finally reach Oregon City on Christmas Day of 1845. In 1850, they moved to land that would eventually become the town of Barlow." Adapted from the Oregon Magazine, “Organization of Chapters and Significance of Chapter Names,” February – March 1926, pp. 44-45. For more information on Real Daughters of the American Revolution, please click here. Our charter members were Mrs. Imogen Harding Brodie, Mrs. Pearl Gregory Cartildge, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Chapman, Mrs. Charlotte M. A. Dillman, Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, Mrs. Nieta Barlow Lawrance, Mrs. Jennie Harding, Mrs. Eva A. Olson, Mrs. Ethel I. McC. Rossman, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Shaw, Miss Alma Moore, Miss Florence Moore, Mrs. Sedonia Shaw, Miss Virginia Shaw, and Miss Dorothy S. Rossman.
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