• According to his obituary, his father came to Utah in 1852 and James and his mother came in 1853.

Appleton M. Harmon Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: 3

Sources

• 1856 Utah Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• “Appleton M. Harmon Company report, 1853.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 29)
• Barlow, James, [Life sketch], "Genealogical Surveys of L.D.S. Members," 35 vols., 2:202.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913).
• "Jas. Barlow Dies of Peritonitis," Richfield Reaper , 22 July 1926.
• Richards, Franklin W. to Thomas Bullock. 18 August 1853. Perpetual Emigrating Fund, General Files. CR 376 1, Box 1, Folder 3.
• Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.