Wood Cowboy Grandpas

4th Great Grandson of John WOOD Sr.

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John Andrew WOOD - Laura Elizabeth PARKER. Andrew born in Grafton, Utah 1883, died in Hurricane, Utah 1932

John WOOD Jr - Sarah Jane GIBSON

born in Lehi, Utah at age 5 move to the Virgin river area with parents, Grafton, Pipe Springs, Hurricane

John WOOD Sr - Ellen SMITH

John Wood Sr. lived in Lancashire, England, Lehi Utah, Virgin Utah, Duncan, Utah, Grafton, Utah, Rose Valley, Nevada, back to Grafton Utah, Ellen died there, John moved to Hurricane, Utah.

Cowboys working on the Arizona Strip B. F. Saunders Cattle Ranch.  From left: George A. Gibson, George Cropper (forman), Joe Scow, Moen Indian, Jess Lemman (cook), Parley Warnick, Dave Ballard, John Wood Jr., photo taken at Fredonia, Arizona. 

At the turn of the century everywhere was open range and nearly everyone in the settlements on the river had a few head of cattle. The cattle ranged in the winter in the Big Plain area – Gooseberry Mountain, Rattlesnake, and Caanan Gaps – and in the summer on Kolob Mountain.  (Personal History of Ether Wood)

It was always necessary to have a general roundup in the spring and fall to move the cattle from winter to summer range and vice versa.... (Personal History of Ether Wood)

Some of the men I remember riding with on the range was my father, John Wood, Jr., Dave and Ep and John Ballard, Dave and John Hastings, Frank and Alfred Russell, Dave and Dan Hirschi, Rosewell and Levi and Ben DeMille, Jim Jennings, Frank McMullin, Arch Spilsbury, Ed Higbee, Sam and Hi Ford, my brother [John] Andrew, my cousin Orin Wood, Uncle George and Dardy Gibson, Jim and E. N. Stanworth, and Tom Reeve. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

John Andrew Wood, Orin Wood, Henry Ballard, George Andrew Gibson

1902 Orin Wood, unknown, unknown, George Henry Wood Jr., George Wood Gibson, John Andrew Wood, Angus Franklin Ballard, George Andrew Gibson Sr.

Grafton, Utah

[John Andrew Wood born in Grafton 25 April 1883] in a two-room frame house about ¾ of a block from the one room adobe schoolhouse where I went to school and church and all public gatherings. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

John Sr and Ellen Wood home in Grafton 

My grandfather’s house (John Wood, Sr.) was across the street west. My grandfather and his wife, Ellen Smith Wood lived in the back room and Uncle George and Aunt Emily Wood Gibson lived in the front two rooms. Emily was the youngest child of John Wood. My grandfather’s house is still standing. My brother, Andrew [John Andrew WOOD], moved my father’s house and barn to Hurricane in 1911 and lived in it until he died and his family moved to Salt Lake City about 1932. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

1910 John Andrew Wood Married Laura Elizabth Parker.

Andrew moved his parents [John Wood Jr and Sarah Jane Gibson] house and barn from Grafton to Hurricane, Utah. Kirt DeMar Wood was born in that house in Hurricane.  

My father’s barn and corral was about 300 yards south from the house and across the street west about 100 yards south from the “south” ditch. I never could understand why he didn’t build them close to the ditch so we would not have to drive the horses and cows to water three times a day. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

John Wood, Sr. was a blacksmith in Grafton.

Across the street east from the barn was a small rocky hill. Just north from it was my father’s blacksmith shop. Two of my jobs at the shop was to blow the bellows to make the fire hot and the other was to help him fix wagon wheels when the tire would get loose. He would take it off, put it in the fire and get it to a white heat then put it in the tire shrinker, push down on the lever which would make the tire smaller. He had a measuring wheel about 8 inches in diameter with the which he would go round the wheel, also the tire. It was necessary to have the tire slightly smaller than the wheel. To put the tire on the wheel he would lay the tire flat on the ground, put the three bricks or rocks under to hold it about three inches from the ground, then crisscross stove wood around it. When it was red hot and expanded he would put it on the wheel, pour water on to cool it and keep from burning the fellies. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

Across the ditch north at the top of the lot where the house was, was a molasses mill. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

There was two streets running east and west. On the street on the south side on the east end was Uncle “Nen” Wood’s log barn and corral – also a short distance west was his two-room log house.... On west was Frank Russell, Albert Russell, and William Isom. William Isom was my Uncle. His wife Mary was my mother’s sister.... (Personal History of Ether Wood)

.... At this time the Piute Indians must not have had a reservation. They would pitch their teepees on the edge of town. The people of Grafton was sociable and good to them. The squaws would make regular trips around town carrying sacks containing flour and vegetables. They would usually walk in the house without knocking, and unless you asked them to sit, they would stand. They wouldn’t say anything unless you started a conversation. The Grafton women would add a little to what they had; then they would go.... My father [John Jr] could speak the Piute language quite well. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

Indian photo from the collection of Laura Parker Wood

They had no wagons. Their method of moving camp was to take two poles about 12 feet long and put one on each side of a horse – like shaves of a sleigh. The horse would hold up one end, and the other would drag on the ground. They would put their belongings on the poles behind the horse. Quite often the kids would ride too. The squaws would ride the horse. In the summer they would move to the mountains and higher ground. My father’s old friend, Poincum, would move to our ranch on Kolob. There was no game laws then, and when Poincum would get a deer he would skin it and quarter it and carry it in on the hide. He always gave us a hind quarter. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

A great deal of his [John Wood Jr] early life was spent in the cattle business. He was known as one of the finest horsemen there was. His old companions said he could ride a horse, or rather a bucking bronco, with a dime in either stirrup without losing them from the stirrup. (Funeral of John Wood Jr.)

He  [John Wood Jr] was not a profane man, and while working on the range he was a leader and an example of honesty and integrity. As an active church worker, he served for twenty years in the bishopric with James Ballard and J. N. Stanworth, at Grafton, Utah. (Funeral of John Wood Jr.)

In the spring of 1898, the worst tragedy in the history of Grafton happened. Uncle Nen Wood [George Henry Wood Sr] was killed by an outlaw horse. The men from the towns on the river gathered in the street in front of our place to start on the spring roundup. I remember as they started out one of them shouted “Here goes Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.” (It was during the Spanish American War.) When they were about a mile from where they were going to camp at “The Troughs” the outlaw horse started to buck. When the horse wasn’t able to throw his rider, he threw himself on his side. Uncle Nen’s head hit the ground so hard it caused a concussion of the brain. He never regained consciousness. Nen and my father had never been separated. I have heard my father tell about their boyhood. One thing I remember well was he said they had one pair of boots between them and they took turns wearing them. (Personal History of Ether Wood) / (This is one of several accounts of this family death.)

When I [Ether] was 13 and 14 years old [1903], my brother Andrew, who was six years older than I, was going to school in Provo in winter and worked for the Bar Z Cattle Co. in the summer. That left me to look after the cattle and farm. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

In 1904, when I was 15, I went on the biggest cattle roundup that was ever held in Northern Arizona. There were 75 men and 200 saddle horses and 8 chuck wagons. I can only remember two besides myself in what was called “The River Outfit.” They were Uncle George Gibson and Jim Jennings. We were holding all the river cattle that had strayed, and some had been driven from their winter range....(Personal History of Ether Wood)

In 1906 when I was 17, we moved to Hurricane, although we lived in a tent with a board floor and walls for six years. We built a barn, stable, and corral; fenced the lot and field; and worked on the canal.

In 1907 when I [Ether] was 18, I rode horseback 100 miles to the Buckskin Mt. (It is now the Kaibab.) to see if I could get a job with the Bar Z Cattle Company. It was owned by Benjamin F. Saunders of Salt Lake City. He sold out in the fall of the year to a company in Los Angeles. I found the outfit in Pleasant Valley. It is about 15 miles from the headquarters ranch in the V.T. Park. I was lucky getting a job. The men with the outfit were Charley Demmick (main boss), Dave Rider Forman, George [Henry] Wood, Jr. [uncle], [John] Andrew Wood my brother, Dardie Gibson [cousin], Arch Swapp, Oscar Littlefield, Hi Pollack, Tommy Cafel, Billy Craine, and Jake Hopkins.  (Personal History of Ether Wood)

 About 1897 John Wood Jr. bought the Ranch on Kolob Moutain

About the turn of the century, my father [John Wood Jr] bought a ranch on Kolob Mountain from [his brother in-law] Moses Gibson. It was on Big Creek about a mile up the valley from what is now Kolob Reservoir. We lived there many years in the summer and darried. Our milk cows were range cattle and were quite hard to break to milking. We would lasso them and snub them to the fence, Quite often when we turned them loose we would have to go under or over the fence to keep from getting a horn in the seat of our pants. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

Kolob Ranch

Andrew, Ether, Augusta Carter, Sarah Jane Gibson, Iona, John Jr, Roland Parker Wood

Kolob Ranch

Andrew, John Jr, Sarah Jane

We didn’t have a cream separator. We had a milk house built of logs with rows of shelves on each side. We would put about a half gallon of milk in each pan. About every other day my mother would skim the cream into a 10-gallon churn that had a crank handle on one end that went round and round until it was churned to butter. This round and round job was one of mine. I really got my exercise. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

Be sides this job and helping milk the cows I had two more jobs. We turned the cows on the open range in the day and I had to round them up each evening before milking time. I also had to deliver milk and butter to sheep camps for miles around. In the back end of the milk house which had but one door we stored grain and other supplies. One day, to our surprise, one of the big work horses squeezed through the door and was eating grain in the back with shelves of milk on both sides. We were very careful to not get him excited. We had to work him slowly out backwards. There was a log extending from each side and under the door, so we had to lift each of his feet over one at a time. After that, we kept the door shut! (Personal History of Ether Wood)

Grouse was quite plentiful. With my 22 single shot Stevens rifle, I helped some to supply meat for the family. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

To go to Kolob from Grafton with a wagon or buckboard, we had to go down the river nearly to Virgin then up North Creek, past Mountain Dell and the Mill. On horseback, we could take a cut-off on a trail up the Black Mountain, north across Coal Pits and cross North Creek about a mile above the Mill where we would come into the road. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

My father [John Wood Jr] kept horses and cattle on the ranch from early spring until late fall. He often sent me up horseback to see how everything was. It usually took me until the middle of the afternoon to make it. I didn’t like staying at the ranch alone, so I would hunt the nearest sheep camp to spend the night and then ride back to the ranch at daylight. Sheep herders always seemed to like company. Two of them I remember best was Hi Prince and Jim Taylor. They herded for Joe Prince. His range joined our ranch. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

1911 I [Ether] was released from LDS  [Western States Mission] Dec. 16, 1911 from Durango. I came over the D. and R.G. (Denver and Rio Grande) through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison to Salt Lake City, on the U.P.R.R. (Union Pacific Railroad) to Lund, and from Lund to Cedar on BenNell Stage. My brother, Andrew, met me in Cedar with a team and buggy. I arrived in Hurricane between Christmas and New Years. Found my folks still living in a tent. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

Spring 1912 [Ether] went to Moapa Valley, Nevada on horseback to sell trees for Frank Barber. I stayed part time with Uncle Mose Gibson at St. Thomas. Coming back, the first day I rode from St. Thomas to Littlefield, Arizona, the second day to Hurricane 60 miles. I rode a little white horse of Andrew’s (my brother) named Pedro. In 1912 I also worked at the Cripps Brick Yard and [Ether] hauled rock for the foundation of my father and mother’s house with a wagon from on top of the Hurricane Hill. I also helped build the house. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

In the spring of 1916, I quit work for Esplins and bought a few cattle and ranged them on the Kolob Ranch in summer and in the South Hills in winter. In winter I tended camp for Charles Lundgren. During the winter of 1917 -1918, I tended sheep camp for Bill Smith and my brother, Claud Wood, herded the sheep. In the spring, Claud quit and another brother, Clarence Wood, and a cousin, George Isom, helped me trail the sheep to the shearing corral and the lambing ground on the Bullock Plains where we lambed them. After lambing, I quit and lived on the Kolob Ranch during the summer. (Personal History of Ether Wood)

John Andrew Wood 

Sheep on Kolob, John Andrew and Ether Wood

... Spring of 1918, I bought some cattle from Bill Spendlove. I ranged them on the Kolob Ranch in summer. I fenced the southeast side of Little Creek Mountain for a winter range. Also, my father, [two younger brothers] Claud, Clarence, and I started a sheep buck herd. In the spring, we ranged them in the Berry Springs area and on the Kolob Ranch in summer. The following are some of the sheep men that owned the bucks: Albert Lundell, Charles Lundgren, Oscar Larson, Joe Prince, Howard Chamberlain, John Spendlove, Wm. Spendlove, Ted Atkin, Henry A. Pace, Wm. & John Adams, Thorleys, Brinkerhoffs, and others. We continued this about 4 years.  (Personal History of Ether Wood)

John and Sarah Wood home in Hurricane, Utah 

on horse back Ether, Sarah Jane Gibson, Iona - Ether's daughter, John Jr, William Erwin Wood

 John Wood Jr 1883-1932

John Andrew Wood 1883-1932 on a barrowed horse as an extra in a Wester movie being made in the Hurricane area

Brands including grandfathers John Wood Sr, and John Wood Jr, uncle Ether Wood, cousin Orin Wood

The Indians in and around Grafton, Utah

 See the full History on familysearch.org in memories of Mary Bertha WOOD HALL (Bertha was a first cousin of John Andrew WOOD.)

Life History of Mary Bertha Wood Hall

Recorded in May 1972 and July 1974 (Mary Bertha Wood was born on Oct 19, 1889 in Grafton, Washington County, Utah. She was the daughter of George Henry Wood and Emily Louise Hastings Wood. This history was taped by her granddaughter, Tauna Hall Navalta, during several interviews with Bertha Wood Hall.)....

Grafton, Utah Home of John Sr. and Ellen SMITH WOOD

1907 George Henry Sr (1860-1898) and Emily Louise Hastings (1860-1909) WOOD Family in Grafton, Utah Pictured Bertha in white far left back row, Orin, mother Emily, Geroge Henry Jr, 'Ella', front row left Elmer, Jennie, Nenniel

We had lots of Indians around Grafton. They put their homes or wickiups along the hill just above our place. They used to come to our home a lot. Once, before I was very old, and when Grafton was just started, the Indians came and were really tearing things up around there. So the folks all got together, fixed up a big bunch of food and clothes and took them to the Indians. It made peace between them and us. Seems like we always had a big bunch of Indians. And we used to feed them when they would come to our homes. At Christmas we used to always make something special for the Indians - pie, cake, bread, anything that we thought they’d like. Everybody in town made something and then on Christmas morning, they’d come to every door in town and say, “Christmas give.” And we’d take a sweet out and give it to them.

There was this one Indian that we called Wylie. When he died, they buried him in Grafton. I can remember after they got him down in the grave, they brought his horse and dug a big hole out to the side of his grave; killed the horse and put it down in there by him. They buried his saddle and rope too. After Wylie died, his wife, Sally - she seemed more like a white woman than an Indian - used to come there to my mother’s place and if Ma was washing, she’d help her do that washing on the board. She’d pick Nen up and throw him up in the air and say, “He-po-aun-o baby. Pretty baby. He-po-auno baby.” That meant good, real good. Those Indians were always so good to us. Seemed like those squaws liked my mother. Once right in the dead of winter, oh, it was cold, this Indian woman brought her newborn baby up and gave it to my mother. Just handed it over to her. The Navajo’s were raiding at that time and she was afraid for her baby so she brought it to my mother. Ma took that little baby and kept it for weeks. Finally she came back and got it and she cried and cried when she saw that little baby again.

Old Mary was Po-ink-um’s woman or squaw. They liked Grafton so much that they made their home there. They had two children: Wylie, that I talked about and the Puss. Ivie often thought of it - Puss, just standing out there leaning up against a big ol’ cottonwood tree that was just a little ways from the school house, while we were in school. Then he would come and play with us during recess. He liked to play ball. And sometimes he would go home with some of the children at noon, then he’d come back. But he wouldn’t go in the school building. They were afraid to be inside of a building, so he wouldn't go in.

After Po-ink-um died and they had a funeral for him, they buried him in Grafton. Old Mary didn’t want to leave but when nearly everyone else had moved away, then she went to live with the Indians more. The last time I saw her was in Leeds. We were going from Hurricane down to the Grist Mill in Washington and we had to go around that way cause there wasn’t any road down this other way. Well, Edgar, May and I were taking some grain down to get it ground. Mary was sitting on the ditch bank crying just as hard as she could cry. I went over to her and told her who I was (she was blind) and she put her arm around me and just cried and cried. I couldn’t talk to her cause she was crying so hard, ya know they didn’t talk so plain anyway. So I went in and asked Tom Stirling’s wife what was the matter with Old Mary. She didn’t know. Mary had been crying for days. A while after that, they told me that the Indians had come and taken her while she was crying there in front of that place, and they thought Old Mary had been put in one of those pens. When the squaws got too old, the Indians would put them in a pen to die - they would just starve to death. Tom Stirling said he would do all he could to keep her out - but they must have come and taken her.

The Indian kids used to play with us all the time. And ride horses, Oh, they loved to ride those horses! They’d see us out riding our horses and away they’d come to ride with us. There was this one little girl - Wylie’s and Sally’s granddaughter - that would come just a flying to go for a ride with us.

The Indians were quite interesting. They wouldn’t stay in Springdale or Zion over night. They were afraid of the ledges around, superstitious about them. They wouldn’t go up and stay over night, only just up and right back.

Some of the people in Grafton could talk Indian. Ep Ballard was just like an old Indian. On the 24th of July, he would get up and tell the pioneer story to the Indians in their language and his brother, Dave, would get up and tell us what he said. My Dad could talk some Indian too....

See other Grafton posts: Chuck Wagon, Grafton Boys, Our Family in Grafton, John Sr and Ellen SMITH WOOD

George Wahsington Gibson Headstone, Grafton Cemetery

More Indian News in the Family: 

(Biographies of Robert P. Gibson & Lucinda Wakefield Gibson)

"The Gibson family received terrible news in 1871. During an Indian attack on the people in Duncan’s Retreat on August 17, Robert P’s father, George Washington Gibson, was killed and Robert P’s mother, Mary Ann Sparks Gibson, was critically injured and died three weeks later on September 6. Both were buried in Grafton." 

Grafton The Thresher

 

[Written by Ether WOOD] My father (John Wood, Jr.) had the first grain binder on the river. It took three horses to pull it. It would cut the grain and tie it in bundles with twine. The grain was never stacked in the field. It was hauled to town and stacked in round stacks. My father and uncles, George Gibson, Nen Wood [George Henry WOOD Sr] , and Will Isom had the first threshing machine on the river also. They threshed all the grain on the river.

  The thresher had two parts – the separator and the horsepower. The separator separated the grain from the straw and chaff which was powered by the horsepower. This consisted of ten horses in five teams hitched to a wooden sweep about 12 feet long which extended from the horse power to the double trees and the horses went round and round. There was an extension of tumbling rods from the horse power to the separator connected with universal joints. Uncle Nen Wood drove the horsepower until his death in 1898; then Dave Ballard drove it. James Jepson cut the bands on the bundles as they were thrown by the men on the stacks to the table in front of him. My father and Will Isom fed the cut bundles into the cylinder. They changed off and on this job as it was the hardest, dirtiest job there. The chaff and dirt would puff back in their faces from the cylinder. Uncle George Gibson measured the grain as it poured from the machine with two half-bushel containers. He sat on a sack with about a bushel of grain in it. From two to four men would carry the grain on their shoulders to a granary or bin depending on how far they had to carry it. The men and horses boarded at the places they threshed.

1850 Mormon Trail - Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY - Mother Pioneer

Seventh Generation Marcy Jane Lucas - John WILLIAMS died in Illinois.

Places Marcy lived: Lake Fork, IL / Provo, UT / Manti, UT / Fort Harmony, UT / Grafton, UT / Karnarraville, UT / Escalante, UT Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY age 35 / b. 1814 Summit, OH - m. 1833 Sangamon, IL - d. 1896 Escalante, UT - buried Escalante, UT / other spouse Henry Barney. BAPTIZED: Marcy Baptized in IL 1840-1846. John was not a member of the LDS church and did not want his wife to join because of the persecution. BY LAND: 1850 Warren Foote Company Departure: 17 June 1850 Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 17-18, 26 September 1850 Barney, Marcy Lucas [Williams] (35) Husband Barney, Henry (35) Williams , Sarah (13) Williams , Polly (12) Williams , Elizabeth (10) Williams , George (7) Williams , Mary A (5) Barney, Alma (2) [Missing Record - Amanda Williams oldest daughter of Marcy Jane Lucas Williams Barney] Pioneer Information: Marcy took her children by night to join the church. She had to escape her husbands Will restrictions and those who where watching her movements. She married a Mormon, Henry Barney and travels west. Company Information: About 540 individuals and 104 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). Read Trail Excerpt: 11 June 1850. We traveled in company with 3 other families to the place where the company was to organize. It was 18 miles below Kanesville and we arrived on the 21st. Elder Orson Hyde proceeded to organize a company of 100. He nominated me to be captain, with Otis L. [Lysander] Terry and William [Madison Wall] captains of 50. The company started from the Missouri River 17 June 1850. After a wearysome journey of 101 days, we arrived in Salt Lake City, 26 Sept 1850. There were about 20 deaths in the company, most of them caused by cholera, in the beginning of the journey. (Foote, Warren, [Autobiography], in James Albert Jones, comp., Some Early Pioneers of Huntington, Utah and Surrounding Area [1980], 78-79.) Barney, Marcy, 1850, 37, Utah 1850 Census, Utah County Page 132 Microfilm 25540 Barney, Marcy Lucas, 1850, NA, NA, Roster found in Heart Throbs of the West, Volume 11, Pages 396-455 SEE: Kirt DeMar WOOD - Laura PARKER Pedigree for relationship

Ivie WOOD BALLARD (1891-1985)

Ivie WOOD abt 1896

Angus Franklin BALLARD and Ivie WOOD

Angus b.1885 in Grafton, UT son of Edward Harvey BALLARD and Maria Louisa RUSSELL, m. 25 Feb 1909 at St. George, UT to Ivie WOOD daughter of John WOOD Jr. and Sarah JaneGIBSON , Ivie was born 4 Jan 1891 at Grafton, UT. Angus died 3 Dec 1972 in Salt Lake City, UT, Ivie died 31 Mar 1985 in Salt Lake City, UT.

HISTORY NOTE: When Ivie's brother John Andrew WOOD died in Hurricane, UT 19 Jun 1932 his widow Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD and children moved in with Ivie for several months until they could get settled in Salt Lake City after their move from Hurricane.

Ivie WOOD BALLARD and child

Ivie WOOD BALLARD and three of her children
- my best guess is from oldest here to youngest -
right 2 LaRee BALLARD (1911-200), left 3 Claudia BALLARD (1914-2004), baby 4 Reba BALLARD,
not pictured - first born child 1 Erma (Jun 1909-Jul 1909), 5 Maxine BALLARD, 6 Merlin Wood BALLARD, 7 Delmain Gibson BALLARD.

Photos from the collection of Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD.
I will add more photos of Ivie and her family as I come across them.

I don't have any contact with the decedents of Ivie WOOD BALLARD. I am hoping her grandchildren will search and find these wonderful photos she had gave to her brother Andrew and sister in-law Laura some as long ago as one hundred years. I have other photos of the BALLARD children and will scan them when I can.

Deseret News Obituaries found online:
Obituary: LaRee Ballard Hargis
Published: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 12:00 a.m. MST

LaRee Ballard Hargis, beloved mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, great grandmother and friend, died March 19, 2000.

She was born Sept. 14, 1911 in Hurricane, Utah to Angus Franklin Ballard and Ivie Wood Ballard. She married Charles Katris and later divorced. Charles and LaRee had one son. She married John Calvin Hargis. LaRee and Cal had one daughter and one son.Graduated from West High School. She worked at the Rialto Theater as an usherette, Skaggs Drugstore as a cashier, Keeleys Restaurant and Toms Cafe as a waitress and The Foxy Lady dress shop until retiring in 1981.

She is survived by her daughter, Arline Hedges of Murray; her son, Ron (Gail) Hargis of Hurricane, UT; her son, Clair Katris of Florida; her brothers, Merlin (Vi) Ballard; Delmain (Sadie) Ballard; her sisters, Claudia Juretich; Reba Carn and Maxine Duffy; 15 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. She was loved by all. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Cal and granddaughter, Karen Stokes....

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Obituary: Claudia Ballard Juretich
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) , Oct 22, 2004

1914 ~ 2004

ST. GEORGE, UTAH - Claudia Ballard Juretich, 90, completed her life's work and joined with Janette, Shaun, Cami and Orion. She passed away peacefully Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 8:36 a.m. at her home, and in the company of her son and daughter, in St. George, Utah.

Claudia was born June 8, 1914 in Hurricane Utah, the daughter of Angus and Ivie Wood Ballard and the oldest of seven [correction-third of seven], Erma, LaRee, Reba, Maxine, Merlin, and Delmain. She married Matt Juretich (now deceased) of Murray, Utah on August 14, 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Claudia grew up in Hurricane and later moved to Salt Lake where she graduated from West High, was married, and blessed with five children (Marlene, Amber, Tamra, Janette, Kim), the first, second, and fourth preceding her in death. She delighted in her 17 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She learned to play the piano, sew, garden, decorate wedding cakes, and make amazing cookies and treats. A voracious reader, she completed thousands of books. She was an example of how not to be idle.

Claudia loved to laugh and found the good in life. She was extraordinarily giving to family and friends. She was sensitive of how others felt and would commonly do without so others could have her best. Some of her favorite remarks were, "May as well laugh than cry." "That's wonderful!" and "Oh, goodie!" Her hallmark statement was, "Just do the best you can", and we intend to do just that. Thanks Grandma....

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Ivie WOOD BALLARD with brothers abt 1965 -
William Erwin WOOD (1893-1969), Ether WOOD (1889-1974)

Photos need help with identification 1-8

Photos belonged to John Andrew WOOD and Laura Elizabeth PARKER. Family lived in Grafton, Kanarraville, Hurricane and Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of the related families are WOOD, GIBSON, NEWMAN, PARKER, ROUNDY, DAVIS / DAVIES, WILLIAMS.


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2. From left - Believed to be Winnie DAVIS - LaRen's boy, Charles PARKER Jr., Ceo's son - Wayne DAVIS.

5. Believed to be Charles PARKER Jr. (1884-1960) and wife Emiah Venita EVANS (1888-1974).

Photos need help with identification 9-23

Photos belonged to John Andrew WOOD and Laura Elizabeth PARKER. Family lived in Grafton, Kanarraville, Hurricane and Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of the related families are WOOD, GIBSON, NEWMAN, PARKER, ROUNDY, DAVIS / DAVIES, WILLIAMS.

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13. Believed to be Ether WOOD (1889-1974).
14. Young man on left believed to be Charles PARKER Jr. (1884-1960).
21, 22, 23 born in Grafton, UT are the children of John WOOD Jr. (1858-1931) and Sarah Jane GIBSON (1863-1936)
21. William Erwin WOOD (1893-1969) and Ether WOOD (1889-1974).
22. Ivie WOOD (1891-1985) who became the wife of Angus Franklin BALLARD (1885-1972).
23, John Andrew WOOD (1883-1932) husband of Laura Elizabeth PARKER (1889-1970).

Henry BARNEY - second husband of Marcy Jane LUCAS / Step Father of Polly WILLIAMS

Name: Henry BARNEY Surname: BARNEY Given Name: Henry Sex: M Birth: 1 Jun 1816 in Paint Creek, Wayne Twp, Fayette, Ohio, USA Death: ABT 1890 in Cannonville, Garfield, Utah Territory, USA

[Henry Barney, born 1 Jun 1815 in Winchester, Knox Co., Ohio; died in Cannonville, Garfield Co., Utah, son of Charles Barney and Mercy Yoeman. He married (1) in 1835 in Summit, Clinton Co., Ohio, Marcy Jane Lucas, born 25 Dec 1813 in Clinton, Summit Co., Ohio; died 20 Mar 1896 in Escalante, Garfield Co., Utah; daughter of Thomas Lucas and Sarah Hoblit. He married; (2) on 10 Oct 1863 in Salt Lake City, Utah Mary Powell, born 10 Mar 1847 in St. Luke, London, Middlesex; christened 7 Feb 1849 in Shoreditch, St. John the Baptist, London, Middlesex; died 15 Oct 1932 in Bexley, Franklin Co., Ohio; daughter of James Thomas Henry Powell and Sarah Brittle; (3) Mary Bromel.]

The following found at: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kbkeeley&id=I261

From CONQUERORS OF THE WEST: STALWART MORMON PIONEERS, vol. 1:
"Henry Barney, with his family, moved to Illinois and then to Iowa, where they joined the Church. They settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, where* he married [Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS] a young widow with six children. They had a son in Springfield, Illinois, and shortly after, made the trek to the Valley. They lived in Provo and Manti where two more children were born, and then they went south to help settle several communities (including) New Harmony, Grafton, and Virgin City. He served as a bishop's counselor for a time. Henry was reputed to be an adopted son of John D. LEE. They lived in New Harmony at the time of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. He was not directly involved but remained behind to take the water turns of those who went. He is listed as receiving some of the spoils. He operated the first molasses mill in Dixie. He took to wife an Indian girl amid some controversy. Some time later, his first wife, Marcy, took the children and went to Kanarra. In 1863 he married Mary POWELL and they helped settle the "Muddy Mission," and later Monroe, Utah. Henry spent his last years in Cannonville, Utah, where he died in a cave-in while digging an irrigation canal."

From HEART THROBS OF THE WEST, vol. 3 (Pioneer Mills and Millers):
"The molasses business is one of Dixie's outstanding accomplishments. Henry BARNEY ran the first molasses mill in 1858 or 1859 at Virgin. It was made with wooden rollers, out of mountain mahogany. It was such a primitive affair and had to run night and day in order to take care of the cane, before heavy frosts came. It squeaked so that it could be heard all over town and sounded just like a flock of geese. The boiler was made out of the bottom of a cook stove, with wooden sides fastened at the corners with wooden screws, and corked with cotton to keep it from leaking...." (from Daughters of Utah Pioneers)

From HEART THROBS OF THE WEST, vol. 12 (Pioneer Furniture, Garfield County):
"The rawhide-bottom chairs used in the prayer circle room, Stake Presidency and Relief Society rooms of the old Bishop's Building in Panguitch, were made of ashwood from Ash Creek, Dixie, by Henry BARNEY. Meetings at that time were held in the old tithing office in Panguitch. Later when the Bishop's building was erected in 1911 they (the chairs) were taken to the upstairs room which had been dedicated and set apart for the purpose of holding prayer circle. These chairs were made between 1890 and 1900 during the time Jesse W. Crosby served as Stake President......they were later taken downstairs and used in the Seminary room. In 1950, when the new Welfare building was dedicated, they were taken there to be preserved."

According to OUR PIONEER HERITAGE, vol. 20, Henry Barney was a member of the first brass band in Garfield County. This band played for many years.

Another reference to Henry Barney appears in Vol. 16: "When organized, Toquerville was attached to Harmony Ward which at this time also embraced the settlements of Pinto, Pine Valley, and Washington. The Bishopric of Harmony Ward was William Rees Davies, with John R. Davies and Henry BARNEY, counselors."
[William Rees Davies is our grandfather. (father in-Law of Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS) John R. Davies is the son of William Rees Davies. ]
see also http://www.rootcellar.us/glennsrh.htm

note: CONQUERORS OF THE WEST: STALWART MORMON PIONEERS gives Henry's birthdate as 1 June 1816 at Winchester, Knox County, Ohio. Other sources say 1 June 1815 at Wayne Township, Fayette County, Ohio.

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1850 Census, Utah County, Utah
p.132; dwelling #194; family #194:

Henry BARNEY; age 34; male; occupation: Farmer; value of real estate: $50; birthplace: Ohio
Marcy BARNEY; age 37; female; birthplace: Ohio
Sarah BARNEY*; age 14; female; birthplace: Ill.; attending school
Polly BARNEY*; age 12; female; birthplace: Ill.; attending school [Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS]
Elizabeth BARNEY*; age 10; female; birthplace: Ill.; attending school
George BARNEY*; age 8; male; birthplace: Ill.; attending school
Mary A. BARNEY*; age 6; female; birthplace: Ill.; attending school
Alma BARNEY; age 3; male; birthplace: Ill.
Jacob H. BARNEY; age 2/12; male; birthplace: Deseret
Ransom AMES; age 22; male; occupation: Laborer; birthplace: Wisconsin

*the first five of these children were actually the children of Marcy Jane LUCAS (WILLIAMS)(BARNEY) and her first husband, John WILLIAMS. In most records they used the surname WILLIAMS.
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1860 Census, Virgin City, Washington County, Utah (date: 24 July 1860)
Post Office: Tokerville; p.141; dwelling #1188; family #1059:

Hy. (Henry) BARNEY; age 46; male; occupation: Far(mer); value of real estate: $300; value of personal estate $600; birthplace: Ohio
Mercy BARNEY; age 47; female; birthplace: Ohio; cannot read or write
Geo. BARNEY; age 17; male; birthplace: Ill.
Alma BARNEY; age 12; male; birthplace: Ill.
Mercy J. BARNEY; age 5; female; birthplace: U(tah) T(erritory)
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1870 Census, St. Joseph, Rio Virgin County, Utah Territory (date: 1 July 1870)
dwelling #35; family #35:

BARNEY, Henry; age 54; male; white; occupation: Farmer; value of real estate: $100; value of personal estate: $100; birthplace: Ohio
BARNEY, Mary; age 21; female; white; occupation: Keepinghouse; birthplace: England
BARNEY, Mary A.; age 5; female; white; birthplace: Utah
BARNEY, Henry; age 4; male; white; birthplace: Utah
BARNEY, David; age 2; male; white; birthplace: Utah
BARNEY, James W.; age 8mo.; male; white; month of birth: Oct.; birthplace: Utah

(note: Rio Virgin County was included in Utah Territory for the 1870 Census, even though it is actually located in Nevada. This area, known as the "Muddy Mission," was settled by Mormons who were called by Brigham Young in 1868. The Muddy Mission was not a success, was closed in 1871, and the settlers returned to Utah).
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1880 Census, Panguitch, Iron, UT:
Henrie BARNEY, age 64, marital status: Widowed, occupation: Chair Maker, birthplace: OH, father's birthplace: VT, mother's birthplace: VT
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Henry BARNEY and John D. LEE were disfellowshipped by Bishop William Rees DAVIES for taking Indian women as wives. John D. LEE was the presiding officer over the Indian Mission and Henry BARNEY was a counselor to Bishop DAVIES.

John D. LEE writes in his journal that he was exonerated by Brigham Young and told to treat an Indian wife with the same respect as his other wives.

When Henry BARNEY married Mary POWELL in 1863. It appears that either he abandoned Mary Jane or she no longer welcomed him. It seems he was not a part of Marcy Jane's life after this marriage.

Children of Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY

This is an example of how much direct line family history you can find when you research the sibling of your grandparents. Sarah Angeline Williams is the older sister of Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS and the daughter of Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY both grandmothers of Kirt DeMar WOOD and my childern.

I have tried to bold our direct line ancestor in the following article. Thank you to the grandchild of Sarah Angeline Williams who posted this history.

see: http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4106514857629285784

SARAH ANGELINE WILLIAMS was married to Robert Wilson Glenn on December 5, 1853. She was born on 12 November 1837, a daughter of John Williams (abt.1808-1844?) and Marcy Jane Lucas (abt.1812-1896). Sarah Angeline Williams was not quite 16, and R. Wilson Glenn was 40 years old when they married.
Sarah was the second of six children born to John and Marcy Jane Lucas Williams between 1835 and 1844 near Lake Fork and Mt. Pulaski, Logan County, in central Illinois. This was about 120 miles east of Nauvoo. Her brothers and sisters (who, with their mother, all joined the LDS Church and crossed the plains to Utah in 1849), were:

     AMANDA WILLIAMS (b. 1835 in Logan Co., Illinois,
married RILEY GARNER CLARK; they lived in Provo, Manti,
Kanarraville, and Panguitch, Utah);
**SARAH ANGELINE WILLIAMS (married ROBERT WILSON GLENN)
(see below);
POLLY WILLIAMS (b. 1838 in Springfield, Ill.,
       married JAMES GEORGE DAVIS 1856 in St. George, Utah;
       they lived in Old Fort Harmony, Kanarraville, 
         and Cedar City, Utah);
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS (b. 1840 in Logan Co., Illinois,
married (1) GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHURTZ or SHIRTS 1855
  in Fort Harmony, Utah;
        (2) DON CARLOS SCHURTZ or SHIRTS;
  they lived in Harmony, Virgin, Manti, Kanarraville,
Panguitch, and Escalante);
WILLIAM GEORGE WILLIAMS (b. 1842 in Springfield, Illinois,
married ORILLA McFATE; lived in Virgin, St. George, and
  Kanarraville, Utah);
MARY ANN WILLIAMS (b. 1844 in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois,
married JOHN ALMA LEE -- a son of John D. Lee; lived in
Old Harmony, Virgin, New Harmony, Kanarraville, and
Panguitch, Utah)

Mary Ann Williams' husband, John Alma Lee, was a son of John D. Lee, who later became infamous for his part in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Interestingly, in the biography of John Doyle Lee by Juanita Brooks, the author writes that Mary Ann Williams was sealed to John D. Lee as a plural wife, when she was about 14 years old. Later this sealing was dissolved and she married John D. Lee's oldest son John Alma Lee. The reason for this strange arrangement was that around 1858, a "reformation" was called for by Church leaders: a period of fasting and repentance, and many people were re-baptized as a sign of their recommitment to live the commandments. In addition, every single person was advised to marry as soon as possible, and in many of the outlying settlements, the saints in their zeal seem to have carried this counsel too far. Many unsuitable marriages were made, and many girls as young as 13 or 14 were sealed to much older men as plural wives, especially to prominent men who were Church leaders. However, especially after further counsel was given from Church headquarters to remedy these problems, these marriages were not consummated until the girls got a little older and were able to decide whether they really desired the man (whom they were sealed to) for their eternal husband. And in case they died young, before the marriage was consummated, then they had the security of being married already, ensuring that they would have a husband in eterity who could take them to the celestial kingdom. But until a girl became old enough to give her consent, it was looked upon as sort of a betrothal instead of a marriage, and the man had to court her. In the case of MARY ANN WILLIAMS, as she grew a little older, she decided that she did not love John D. Lee as a husband, even though he spent quite a bit of time and energy trying to court her and win her favor. Instead, Mary Ann had fallen in love with his oldest son, John Alma Lee, who was much nearer to her own age. As soon as she made her choice known, John D. Lee consented to have his sealing to Mary Ann Williams dissolved and let her marry his son Alma.

John Williams, the first husband of Marcy Jane Lucas, and the father of her first six children, was born abt. 1808. He lived in Louisville, Tennessee, and died in Logan County, Illinois in 1844. Not much is known about him -- since his name is so common, it is hard to trace.

Marcy Jane Lucas was born in Clinton County, Ohio on 25 Dec 1812; the daughter of Thomas Lucas (1788-1831) and Sarah Hoblit (1794-1859) both from western Pennsylvania. It seems that the Lucas and Hoblit families, who were Dutch and German (or Swiss-German, in the case of the Hoblit/Hablutzel family) always lived on the edge of the frontier. Thomas' parents Abraham Lucas (1761-1841) and Marcy Kelsey (1764-1835), together with about two hundred others, had petitioned for the creation of a new state in western Pennsylvania between 1776 and 1780, to be called "Westsylvania." Dr. John F. Vallentine, a professor at the University of Nebraska and later at BYU, and a Lucas/Kelsey family researcher, wrote:

"The story of Abraham Lucas begins in Morris County, New Jersey, in 1761. But Abraham's origins go back to France, from whence his French Huguenot ancestors came (Lucas, Rollaire, Menton and Baudouin families); to Holland from whence his Dutch Reformed ancestors came (Adriaen Hendrikse Aten, b. 1630 in Holland and emigrated to New Amsterdam); and to England from whence still other ancestors came (Skillman, Pettit, Scofield). From New Jersey his story parallels the frontier westward, first to Washington Co., Penn., then to Bracken Co., Kentucky, next to Greene Co., Ohio, and finally to Logan County, Illinois."

The Lucas and Kelsey families had both moved from Morris County, New Jersey to western Pennsylvania, probably in the 1770's, and Abraham and Marcy were married there in about 1785. Marcy Kelsey's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all named Thomas Kelsey; before that was Mark Kelsey (1628-1723) and Rebecca Hoskins. Mark Kelsey's parents were William Kelsey (1600-1680) and Bethia Hopkins (1605-1680).

Her father Stephen Hopkins (1581-1644) came on the Mayflower to Plymouth colony. Recent research has also proven that he was the same Stephen Hopkins who had earlier helped settle Jamestown, Virginia. He had only stayed in Jamestown for a year or two, then returned to England, and later brought his family on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts, to help found that colony also. He was a "stranger" (not of the Puritan faith), but was a man of wealth and of experience in the New World, so he was a great help to the Pilgrims in establishing their colony.

Thomas Lucas was the second of Abraham and Marcy Kelsey Lucas' twelve children; he was born in 1787 in Washington Co., Pennsylvania, before his family moved to Kentucky in about 1789. He later settled in Ohio. He was named for his grandfather Thomas Lucas (1730-abt.1820), who came from New Jersey to western Pennsylvania, later moving together with a large group of extended family members, to Kentucky and later on to Greene/Clinton Co., Ohio. Thomas' parents were Frans Lucas and Jannete Aten (chr. 18 Apr 1704 in Brooklyn, New York), daughter of Thomas Aten and Elise Skillman of New York.

Thomas Lucas' wife Sarah Hoblit's parents, Johannes Michael Hoblit or Haplitz (1730-1796 - original spelling of the surname was probably Hablutzel) and Anna Katherine Weigle or Van Veigel (1750-1820) had married in western Pennsylvania around 1770, and then emigrated to Kentucky around 1771 (several years before Daniel Boone opened up the wilderness road), and they lived there until 1782, then returned to Pennsylvania for a time. They traveled by raft on the Ohio river. This river, which flows out of western Pennsylvania in a southwesterly direction, forming the southern boundary of the state of Ohio with West Virginia and Kentucky, is a natural emigration corridor which was much used in early times, although it was still very dangerous, and many emigrants were killed by Indians.

Michael Hoblit was said to be a potter, born about 1730 in Germany, who had come to America probably in the early 1750's. It seems that his ancestors, the Hablutzels, had lived in the area around Zurich, Switzerland, but had moved to Germany some time before Johannes Michael came to America and shortened his last name to Hoblit. Both Abraham Lucas and Michael Hoblit served in the Revolutionary War, primarily as Indian scouts or rangers along the western frontier of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. After the revolutionary period, the Hoblit family moved back to Kentucky again about 1789, this time in company with several Lucas families and others, and settled in Mason County, Kentucky, near the south bank of the Ohio River. Later Michael Hoblit moved further west again, to Woodford County, Kentucky, where he died in 1796.

Michael's wife Anna Katherine or Katrina Weigel also had an interesting family history. Her parents were Sebastian Weigel (1732-1807) and Catherine Leib (1736- ?). Katrina named her oldest son Sebastian after her father, but he shortened it to "Boston" Hoblit. Sebastian Weigel's parents were John Martin Weigel (1703-1759) and Dorothy Triddell (1710- ?), who had emigrated from Saalbach, Brandenburg, Germany to Pennsylvania in 1730, just after their marriage. They were members of the Lutheran faith. John Martin Weigel's father was named Valentine Weigel, who lived in the 1600's. Another Valentine Weigel, who lived about 100 years earlier (probably an ancestor, but link not yet proven) was among the early Protestant reformers in Germany. The author of the book "THE WEIGEL FAMILY" writes:

"The name Weigel-Weigl-Weigele goes back to the 12th century, when people adopted family names ... At one time the Weigels were one family. It is likely the spelling of the name was not changed until the family separated, and branches of it settled in different parts of the country (of Germany). There are the Bavarian Weigls, Saxon Weigels, and further north, along the Baltic Sea, the name appeared as Weigele. The Bavarian and Saxon Weigels preoccupied themselves mostly with matters of religion and in printing and publishing books ... The Bavarian Weigls remained Catholics, but some of the Saxon Weigels became followers of Luther. A certain Saxon by the name of Valentin Weigel, frequently referred to as "Der Grosse (Great) Herder," became a follower of Luther and was an Evangelical pastor for a while. Becoming dissatisfied with Luther's preaching, he started a sect of mystics, which he called the "Weigelaner." Born at Naundorf near Grossenhain in 1533 (father: Michael Weigel), he studied at Leipzig and Wittenburg and from 1567 to his death was a preacher at Zschopan, near Chemnitz. He emphasized the necessity of internal unction (an anointing of Spirit; see 1 John 2:20) and illumination. He taught ... that knowledge does not come from without, but from the Spirit operating upon our spirit within. In cosmology, Valentin Weigel stands near Paracelsus ... (After his death), his writings were published from 1604 to 1618 in various places, and Weigelanism became widely spread. His opponents represented him (falsely) as a dangerous revolutionary who aimed at the overthrow of all political and social order."

After her husband John Williams died in 1844 in Illinois, Marcy Jane Lucas married Henry Barney (1815- ?) for her second husband, and had three more children:

     ALMA BARNEY (b. 1848 in Springfield, Illinois,
md. ALICE ANN GARDNER in 1871 in Kanarraville;
they lived in Kanarraville, Panguitch, and Parowan, Utah)
JACOB HENRY BARNEY (b. 1850 in Provo, Utah; died young)
MARCY JANE BARNEY (b. 1854 in Manti, Utah,
md. WILLIAM HENRY DEUEL, Jr.;
they lived in Panguitch and Escalante, Utah)

Apparently Marcy Jane Lucas' second husband Henry Barney, son of Charles Barney and Mercy Yeoman from New York, was already a member of the Church at the time of their marriage. Marcy Jane had joined the Church on 23 Sep 1839, but it is not known if her first husband John Williams joined the Church before his death in 1844. Another source suggests that he did not die at that time, but instead there was a divorce, perhaps because of Marcy Jane joining the LDS church and moving to Nauvoo. At any rate, Henry and Marcy Jane Lucas Williams Barney came to Utah in 1849, settled in Provo for a time, then moved to Manti around 1851. They later moved south to Iron County and then Garfield County (Escalante was settled in 1876).

During the time the Barney/Williams family lived in Manti, Sarah Angeline Williams met R. Wilson Glenn and married him in 1853, so she didn't move south with her mother and the rest of her brothers and sisters, who all settled in Utah's Dixie. Sarah's [and Polly's] mother Marcy Jane Lucas Williams Barney died in Escalante, Utah 20 November 1896 and is buried there. The inscription on her gravestone reads,

"MARCY, wife of HENRY BARNEY,
Dec 25, 1802 - Mar 20, 1886.
Gone but not forgotten."
[dates on gravestone are incorrect- Marcy was born 25 Dec 1814 died 20 Mar 1896]

These dates are almost certainly in error, since Marcy's first child was born in 1835, and her last child in 1854. Also, an etching of the Salt Lake Temple is on her gravestone, and it wasn't dedicated until 1893. The correct year of her death was probably 1896 instead of 1886, and the correct birth year was probably 1812 or 1814. These years appear on family records and in the ancestral file.

The book "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains", a DUP publication about the history and people of Wasatch County, in the section about Wallsburg states that

"Sarah Williams Glenn was the first Primary president of the Wallsburg Ward. She was very active and served the children well because she loved them. She took part in the social activities of the ward for she was a natural leader in sports.

"She acquired the first copy of a three-act play, the first that was ever put on in Wallsburg. This wasn't an easy job to do; parts had to be hand-copied for each one in the cast. Polly Bigelow Allred said that she and Isabell Kerby went to Sarah's home many nights and copied the parts while Sarah read them from the one book. They worked till one o'clock in the morning to get the parts ready before they could even cast the play. With Sarah's patient guidance, this first play was a real success, so many more followed under her direction. Bishop Nuttall and everyone else helped her all they could.

"Sarah had a large woodbox which she always kept full and overflowing, with a good supply of firewood, neatly piled against her wall. This she gathered by picking up chunks of wood whenever coming from town or visiting her neighbors, never coming home empty-handed. She also raised fine pigs which the butchers liked to buy from her, for they always got a better price when selling hers. She raised chickens and sold eggs and young chickens for market. She made delicious chicken soup. She was a very wonderful cook.

"Sarah Williams Glenn was also a school teacher, and for many years in the latter part of her life was school janitor, a very fine one. Just before her death she had cleaned the schoolhouse and washed all the windows which was a real undertaking (the large 3-story Wallsburg school building, built in 1904, is still standing).

"Blood poisoning, caused by a scratch from a chicken, caused her death."

Sarah Angeline Williams Glenn continued to reside at Wallsburg until her death on July 11, 1914 at 76 years of age, after being a widow for 41 years. Both Robert Wilson Glenn Sr. and Sarah Williams Glenn are buried in the cemetery at Wallsburg, Wasatch County, Utah.