Needham  was a nice looking young man and popular with the ladies. As the youngest son he had been spoiled by his parents and older brothers and sisters.  He courted several young women in the area including a relative of brother Waver's wife, Lois.  When he and pretty Brunell Bashlor from DuPont eloped, both families were displeased.  Brunell's brother Maxwell remembers his sister calling to tell the family that she was married.  He and his older brother, Russell, ran as fast as they could to tell their father, who was working nearby.  Mr. Bashlor was very unhappy when he heard the news, but it was too late to do anything about it. 

Mr. A. C. Smith says that he was at Waver's house when Needham and his bride drove up in a brand new Model T Ford.  Needham turned around fast in the dirt yard and kicked up a cloud of dust, showing off his bride and his car to the onlookers who included an old girlfriend, Marietta James, a sister of Lois Barlow. 

After sister Hattie and her husband, John Chauncey, moved to Jacksonville, Needham and Brunell soon followed. Needham worked as a street car conductor and later helped to build the bridge across the St. Marys River on Highway 17. 

They moved to a little house in the country near Kingsland, Georgia in the late l920's and began to raise a family of seven children.  Needham drove a school  bus, did a little farming, and became a barber.  His barber shop in Kingsland was known as a center for political discussing and cussing for many years.  Needham, like his father, was very determined in his opinions and would not hesitate to fight anyone who had the audacity to express a different viewpoint.  When long hair became stylish with the younger generation, Needham refused to cut hair any other way than very short.  Many a time his young grandsons, who were brought there reluctantly for a free hair cut, left the barber shop in tears because "Popi" Barlow had cut off all their hair.

During the 1950s Needham was elected to the office of justice of the peace.  Since Georgia did not require a three day waiting period for a marriage license as most states did, many young couples came from neighboring states to be married in Kingsland by the justice of the peace, making the position quite profitable.  Needham was kept busy with the marriage business for a few years until he lost the election .  Needham mellowed a little in his later years and gave his grandchildren the affection that he seemed unable to show towards his own children.  He always slipped the grandchildren a dollar or two when they came to visit, which may have helped to ease the pain of the dreaded haircuts.  They will always have fond memories of playing with their cousins at the old place in the country while "Popi" fried fish on the ancient stove in the picnic shed.