Reuben Barrow Jr.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Nickname: Bully becausae of his love for a good fight: Chambers CO, TX. ⁴

• Biography: He was one of the first permanet settlers in, 1824, Chambers CO, TX. ⁵ Reuben Barrow, Jr. was a single man when he arrived in present-day Chambers County in 1824 and did not make his petition for land until 1827. Like many of his peers, however, he did not get his land grant until 1838 during the days of the Republic of Texas. By that time Reuben had married Miss Susannah Dunman, a daughter of James and Sarah (White) Dunman, which made her a niece of the legendary cattleman James Taylor White. Reuben and Susannah settled near Gilchrist on the Bolivar Peninsula, which is in Galveston County. This put them in close proximity to Susannah's brother, Martin Dunman, who remains a fairly interesting character in his own right. Martin's homeplace was on a large land grant that now covers the place where High Island is located. Some newspaper accounts of that time refer to the place as "The High Islands." The late Villamae Williams felt that this first homeplace for Reuben and Susannah was probably near Rollover Pass. It was a lovely place, except for the hurricanes and the large mosquitoes that inhabited the place then as now. Those conditions eventually prompted Reuben to settle on land he received at Double Bayou as a bounty grant for military service to the Republic of Texas. Reuben and Susannah had six children who lived to maturity: Richard Vincent, Mary, Sarah, Martha, Henry and Julia. Richard Vincent Barrow married Sophronia Miles. Martha Barrow married Joseph LaFour. There are any number of men in the Barrow family who carried the name Reuben, although this gentleman was often called "Bully Reuben" to differentiate him from his father and his nephews. The late Lorraine Silva, a lifelong Barrow family researcher, said he earned that nickname because of his propensity for picking fights, usually initiating hostilities by coming up behind a man's favorite horse and cutting off the animal's tail. Most folks didn't like that. Reuben Barrow, Jr. died sometime before October 24, 1871, when an application for probate of his estate was filed.

• Census: Liberty CO, TX - 1850 Federal Census, 27 Aug 1850, Liberty CO, TX. ⁶ Stamped Pg. 337

• Census: Harris CO, TX - 1860 Federal Census, 21 Jul 1860, Harris CO, TX. ⁷ Pct 8, Pg 12, Stamped Pg 364 & 365

• Census: Chambers CO, TX - 1870 Federal Census, 2 Jul 1870, Chambers CO, TX. ⁸ Subdv 17, Pg 3, Stamped Pg 152

Reuben married Susanna Irene Dunman, daughter of James Dunman and Sarah White, on 7 Jan 1832 in TX.^{1 2} (Susanna Irene Dunman was born on 15 Jan 1814 in LA.)