Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 23 January 2005

• William V. Barkalow Civil War Service

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WILLIAM V. BARKALOW, marble-yard, Franklin; son of Moses V. and Cornelia (Burgen) Barkalow; was born in Germantown. Montgomery Co., Jan. 25, 1846; his grandparents came here at an early period; his grandmother, who still lives at the advanced age of 88 years, was Amy Vale; came here with her parents about 1800, and settled in Franklin Township, near Butler County line, where they bought 200 acres of land. They lived in the first house built In Middletown; they had twelve children, all of whom are dead, except the father of our subject, Moses V., who was married in 1845 to Cornelia Burgen. a native of Kentucky. They had six children, of whom William V. is the eldest. In 1866, he began to learn the trade of marble-cutting with W. S. Evans, with whom he remained till 1872, when he started his present yard on Front street, near the suspension bridge, where he makes all kinds of monuments and building material. He was married, in Franklin, in 1867, to Harriet C., daughter of Thomas Dodd.