Thomas S. Harlan was born June 21, 1828 at the home of his father. Thomas S. was a planter and farmer. The home place was named Glendower and sold by James White for Confederate money. It is still standing and is in use in Glendower, Va. (near Scottsville) at this time (1954). The house is dark red brick with double colonial porches at each end. The records of the sale of the place were destroyed when the courthouse at Scottsville burned to the ground. However, my brother on visiting the place found several unmarked graves and one bearing the name Mary Ann Harlan. Most of the rest of the family that died in Va. are buried at Grandfather Morris’s place called Homestead. (We have not found this place so it may have been burned. It was standing after the Civil War as several of the Harlan boys were born there after the war. There was over 1800 or more acres of land at Glendower at one time. The family after selling Glendower then moved to a place called Meadowbrook and it shortly burned to the ground leaving them nothing. I have heard John Bailey speak of being terribly hungry while playing with thousand dollar bills along with his brothers. He recalled along this time of there coming a day when there was nothing in the house to eat at all and of he and his brothers trying out some soap. The commissary later that day gave them the last small ration of meal that would be issued. The family of Thomas S. then moved to West Virginia (Bath County) where they resided until 1881 when they moved to a farm between Ghent and Warsaw, Kentucky. In the latter years of his life he and his wife, Mary Fleming, lived at La Grange, Kentucky, in the house where his son Edgar Leslie Harlan later lived. His wife, Mary Fleming, was his second cousin once removed. Notes of Elizabeth Harlan Strickler |
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Glendower in 1996 (Click on image to a larger version of the picture) |
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Smaller house on Glendower build about 1700 |
Mounting Block |
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Scene from back porch of Glendower |
Slave house on Glendower property |
