Places, as well as included within the Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District. However, the tombstone is a modern replacement ordered in 1940. In addition to Barboursville, Virginia, Barboursville, West Virginia is named in his honor, as are Barbour County, West Virginia and Barbour County, Alabama. However, Barbourville, Kentucky is probably named after his uncle James Barbour (burgess)(1734–1804). The Library of Virginia has his executive papers. The Barbour family remained politically powerful in that area of Virginia for the rest of the century, despite no longer enslaving people after the American Civil War. His first cousin John S. Barbour (1790–1855) also served in the Virginia General Assembly and chaired the Democratic National Convention of 1852. J.S. Barbour's sons James Barbour and his elder brother John S. Barbour, Jr. served in the Virginia House of Delegates before the American Civil War, and James Barbour also served in the 1850 Virginia Constitutional Convention and the 1861 Secession Convention and in the Confederate States Army while his brother continued to run the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. After the war, John S. Barbour Jr. reorganized the state's Conservative Party as the Democratic Party and served in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. References Further reading Lowery, Charles; James Barbour, a Jeffersonian Republican; 1984, University of Alabama Press; (2004 paperback: ) Long, William Stapleton; "James Barbour" available at Internet Archive Marquis Who's Who, Inc. Who Was Who in American History, the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975. External links biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website Barboursville Community page |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1775 births 1842 deaths People from Barboursville, Virginia Barbour family Pendleton family American Presbyterians United States Secretaries of War John Quincy Adams administration cabinet members Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Democratic-Republican Party United States senators from Virginia Virginia Democratic-Republicans Virginia National Republicans Virginia Whigs Ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom Governors of Virginia Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates Virginia lawyers American slave owners 19th-century American diplomats 18th-century American politicians 19th-century American politicians Deaths from prostate cancer Deaths from cancer in Virginia United States senators who owned slaves