Alma BARNEY

                       Parowan East Ward Records 1926-41 Film #26416 card #904, shows death date as
    28 Dec 1930 - died of old age.
    TIB   #1262688 shows endowment date of 2 Oct 1871 EH
    Baptized and confirmed by John D. Lee, 1856. High Priest by John Taylor 23 Apr
    1877. Panguitch Ward Record 6459 pt 1. ReBaptized 18 Jul 1875.    1870 Census of
    Utah, shows 22 yrs old, farmer, 3 in family, in Kanasah,
    Kane Co.(himself, mother, and sister.)  1880 Census of Utah, Panguitch City, Vol
    1, FD 20, sheet 9, line
    44. Sealing to parents date 27 Nov 1990 IFALL, verified by IGI on 13 Aug 1994. Sealing to wife date 2 Oct 1871 EHOUS, verified by IGI on 13 Aug 1994.
    BYU   Library has Diary of Alma Barney History 1834-1934. His Manuscript on file at Church Office Building MS 4543/1. His Obituary: said he was a veteran of the Black Hawk & Navajo Indian War.

    A  Brief History of Life and Works of Alma Barney, Son of Marcy and Henry
    Barney.

    I first saw the light of day on the 14th day of July, 1848, in Springfield,
    Illinois.  I came to Utah with my parents and family in the year 1850.  When we
    arrived in the Salt Lake Valley I was only two years old.  We settled at Provo
    which was the farthest south of any settlement in Utah at that time.  We lived
    here a short time and passed through one Indian War.  One of my sisters married
    here - Amanda to R. G. Clark, Sr.  We moved from here to Manti, Sanpete County,
    which was the only settlement in that County at that time.  I knew very little
    of what was going on in the world at that time, but I can remember seeing people
    brought into town that had been killed by the Indians.  I want to mention one
    circumstance that happened on our journey from Provo.  I was lying asleep by a
    door that was in our wagon cover, for it had projections over the sides like a
    sheep wagon, made for traveling long distances, and when the wagon came to a
    sidling place in the road I fell out and the hind wheels of the wagon would
    have passed over both my legs but involuntarily I threw up both legs and the
    wheel just missed my body.  That saved me my legs and perhaps my life, as the
    wagon was very heavily loaded.  This was my first providential escape. When I
    went back to Manti with food and means for the temple which was then in course
    of construction, I could locate scenes that I could remember where I had been
    in my childhood.

    Our next move was to Parowan, Iron County.  I am not prepared to give those
    dates, but we lived at Parowan about one year.  John D. Lee was settling
    Harmony about this time and persuaded father to move there.  We settled at the
    foot of the Black Ridge, which looked at that time as though it was the end of
    the road and that it never would be built any farther South.  Here I began to
    know the world and what was going on in it.  President Brigham Young and
    Company came and paid us a visit and spoke to the people from the front of a
    wagon box.  Brother Parley P. Pratt prophesied that the time would come that
    merchandise would come to Utah by way of Harmony, which at that time looked
    impossible, but I lived to see it fulfilled.  President Young advised the
    people to move to a place a little farther North than this place and bring Ash
    Creek, the creek we were then using, and Kanarah Creek together and make a
    field and a Fort at their junction.  At this time I got so I was able to help
    on the farm and do the herding of the cows and sheep.  If this Fort had been
    completed, it would have been about the size of one of the blocks of Panguitch,
    or about 5 acres, made of sun dried adobes, a thick outside wall with doors all
    opening in and a big thick gate on the South side with two bastions where men
    could keep the Indians from setting the gates on fire.  It was to be two
    stories high with a double decked porch running around the entire fort, with a
    very deep well in the cneter where all the people could get water.  We lived in
    this place until I was about 10 years of age.  Here I was baptised and
    confirmed a member of The Church by John D. Lee.  Here I met with varied
    experiences.  I saw one man by the name of Llewylen Harris stripped to the
    waist one cold winter day, tied to a post and given 20 lashes to appease the
    Indians for striking one of their number.

    When the road was made across the Black Ridge and Dixie settled, we moved there.
    Here we endured the privations incidental to the settling of Dixie.  We lived
    on whatever we could get, threshing what little wheat we could raise with oxen,
    getting the Indians to do the cleaning and then hauling it 60 miles to a grist
    mill to get our wheat ground.  Our clothes were almost like those of John the
    Baptist.  We first settled at Virgin City, which has since been washed away by
    high waters of the wicked Rio Virgin River.  From here we moved farther up the
    River to a place we called Grafton.  We remained here until we were washed out.
    There were about 8 houses in the little berg on the bank of the river.  The
    next morning after the Big Flood found all the people of the town marooned on
    the side of the mountain with but one house left standing, and that one was
    ours.  That was a wonderful night and in the midst of it all a baby boy was
    born to a mother by the name of Genney and she named the child "Marvelous
    Flood".  We lived here about 3 or 4 years.  We used to raise lots of melons,
    cotton and molasses.  After this wonderful flood we came back to Virgin City.
    This was our turning point back to civilization.  We lived in Virgin City
    during the Navajo Indian War.  Here I performed duty as a U. S. soldier before
    I reached my majority.  For two years I spent most of my time chasing after
    Indians.  When Whittmore and McIntyre were killed I helped to find and bring
    back their bodies.
    There were a number of Indians killed at this time as well.  I want to

    mention one trip in particular.  We left Grafton in the evening and rode all
    night until it was coming day light.  When we did halt I was so cold and numb
    that I couldn't stand alone and we were not allowed to make any fire so two men
    were detailed to willow me to start the blood to circulating to keep me from
    freezing to death.  I could go on for a whole week telling of the hardships I,
    with the rest, endured, but I will let this suffice.  At Virgin City, Mother,
    my sister Marcy Jane and I were left to make our own way in the world and we
    saw some very tough times. We left Virgin City and came back to Kanarra.  Here
    we got 5 acres of land and a city lot and built us a nice little log home where
    we lived very happily.  Here is where I wooed and won my wife, Alice
    Ann Gardiner.  About this time Geo. W. Sevy was called to settle up Panguitch
    Valley and we had nothing to make a home of in Kanarra so I, in company with
    Riley G. Clark, came and started to make a home here in Panguitch.  We put a
    few acres of crop in on a small piece of land just East of Alonzo Hancock's
    residence.  This was given to us by the Bishop for that year only, which was
    1871.  We also went into Red Canyon and hewed a set of house logs.  There were
    four of us; DeLong, Byron Roundy, Clark and myself. All are now dead but me.
    We then returned home to Kanarra.  I want to tell of a little circumstance that
    happened to me on that trip.  We had got our work completed and was going to
    start in the morning to come back.  I got up at day light to get the oxen but
    mine had left for home during the night.  I never stopped for anything to eat
    but started in pursuit.  I had to wade the river three times before I overtook
    the cattle, and when I found them they were lying down near where Hancock used
    to live.  In going back I thought instead of wading the river I would ride one
    of the oxen.  I got on his back but when we were in the river he threw me in
    all over so I was content to wade after that.  The next trip I made to
    Panguitch, I came with Brother and Sister DeLong.  I came to look after the
    crop and finish hauling our house logs.  Here I got a chance to exchange my
    oxen for a pair of horses which was my first experience with horses.  When I
    got home this time the next trip my sister, Marcy J. Deuel, came with me, also
    R. G. Clark and we put up 3 loads of hay each, cutting it with a scythe.  I
    returned home and this time I got ready and my dear wife and I got ready and
    went to Salt Lake City and were married in the Endowment House.  When we
    returned to our Kanarra home we left our housekeeping outfit which we purchased
    in Salt Lake City at Red Creek.  We reached our Panguitch home on the lst day
    of December, 1871.  Our little log house was just up to the square but we had
    some lumber for the sheeting and the floor.  This lumber we have brought from
    Parowan Valley.  The shingles were made here.  We commenced in earnest to
    complete the home and when Christmas came it found us comfortably located in
    our new home in a new country 40 miles from any source of supplies, but we were
    comfortable and happy in our first home built by our own hands.  We had 4
    children born to us in this home, Alma, Harriet, who have gone to the other
    side, and George Henry and Mary Alice.  While living here in our new country we
    had close times.  We took up a farm of 30 acres and fenced it in connection
    with other farms.  We helped to make the canal that brought the water to it.
    We had a very poor crop the first year we farmed this our first farm.  All we
    got was 60 bushels of poor smutty frost bitten wheat, hardly fit for the pigs.
    I went to Pioche and worked for money and went down the Sevier River and bought
    our bread.  Shortly after we came to live here I was appointed by Bishop Sevy
    to preside over the Elders' Quorum, which position I held for 12 years, and
    when the Stake was organized I was released to help Bishop Sevy as Second
    Councelor.  We lived in the little log home for about 9 years.  We then built
    our present brick home where the rest of our children were born, and we have
    lived since - about 42 years.  Sarah Elizabeth was the first born to us in our
    new home, then Edgar Lawrence, Josephine, Jesse Newton, Grace Adelia, and Ava
    Delilah.  Edgar Lawrence was called away to another sphere when he was 17 years
    of age.  We had lived here about 40 years when we were invited back to our old
    home town in Virgin City to their home coming.  This was a very nice and
    enjoyable time.  I was invited to tell about Virgin's first Theatrical Company
    and theatre.  It was very crude indeed.  For our first play we had a quilt
    stretched across the corner of the old log, dirt roofed school house.  When one
    of us had spoken our little piece we would dodge behind the quilt.  We met
    many old friends and neighbors, bringing home some fruit with us.  I followed
    this theatre business long after we came to Panguitch.  I fell sick and for
    three years we had to rent out our farm, our means of living was reduced very
    low but that never stopped our determination to keep on living.  We built our
    present home and the the next year our daughter Sadie was born to us, the first
    child born in our present home.  About this time or soon after we undertook to
    increase our farm by making the Long Canal.  By this we increased our farm and
    exchanged our old farm for land in the new field, making us a good sized farm.
    About this time Henry was married to Nellie Tebbs, our first child to marry.
    Their first child died when he was 8 months old and when our grandson, Burns
    was born, Nellie died leaving Burns for his grandma to raise.  He has just
    completed a mission in Chicago where his father labored as a missionary some 18
    or 20 years ago.  In 1894, I was called to take a training course in Sunday
    School Methods at the B. Y. U. at Provo for 20 weeks and when I returned home I
    was chosen to take charge of the Sunday Schools of the Panguitch Stake in
    October, 1895, which position I held until 1918.  I would here like to introduce
    a letter which was written to me by the General Superintendency of the Sunday
    Schools of the Church:
    Salt Lake City, Utah
    February 13, 1918.
    Elder Alma Barney,
    Panguitch, Utah.
    Dear Brother Barney:
    We are adivsed that you have received an honorable release by the High
    Council of your Stake as Superintendent of Sunday Schools, and that you have
    been made a High Councilor in the Panguitch Stake of Zion.
    We congratulate you, Brother Barney, upon your appointment to this new
    and important position, and at the same time desire to express our appreciation
    of your long and faithful service in the office of Stake Superintendent.  Your
    fidelity to the cause has been noticed by your brethern in the Sunday School
    work, and your faithfulness often spoken of.  We feel sure that you have had
    great satisfaction in the performance of these Sunday School duties, and that
    the consciousness of "duty well done" together with the pleasant associations
    of our spendid Sunday School workers will be ample recompense for your years of
    devotion to the cause.
    That the Lord may bless you in your new duties and in all that
    pertains unto you, is the earnest wish of your brethern.
    Sincerely,
    THE DESERET SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION BOARD.
    (Signed)     Joseph F. Smith
    Geo. D. Pyper                            David O. McKay
    General Secretary.                      Stephen L. Richards
    General Superintendency.

    It should here be stated that at the time the Panguitch Ward was divided into
    the First and Second Ward, Bishop J. C. Davis was chosen as Bishop of the First
    Ward and he selected me for his First Counselor, which position I held until
    the wards were again united.  Allen Miller was chosen Bishop and he chose me to
    be Head Teacher and I held this position until after Bishop Heywood was set
    apart to succeed Allen Miller as Bishop.  The order of the Church at this time
    was changed and I was released from this position.  My present position in the
    Church is a High Councilman in the Panguitch Stake of Zion.

    I want here to say something about my experiences in theatering here in
    Panguitch.  I took a part in the Seth Johnson and Charles Pinney Troop.  I also
    took a part at various times in Mutual Improvement entertainments.  When the
    Co-Op Store got their new brick store completed and moved away from the old
    place of business, we organized a theatrical troop with J. W. Crosby as
    President and myself as Stage Manager.  The Store Company, wishing to encourage
    home talent, fixed up the old abandoned store as a Theatre for us to play in.
    This Theatre was fitted with fairly good scenery and seats and was a very good
    Playhouse for those days.  We produced some very good plays in this old
    building.  It was finally consumed by devouring fire.  The Company then moved
    to the Meeting House for a short time.  Then to a Hall above the Garfield
    Exchange Store.  The next move was to a Hall that Chidester, Owens and Hanks
    built, which was the only place of amusement in Panguitch for many years, all
    the theatres, dances, picture shows and entertainments of every kind being held
    here.  It is now used by Sam Barton as a Garage.

    I will here relate a circumstance that happened to me wherein I almost lost my
    life, in which case this history never would have been written.  My horses were
    grazing on the hills and when I went to get them I was unable to find them so I
    got a pair of mules belonging to Butler Brothers to haul shingles with which to
    cover our new home.  When I was coming d