Wilford Elbert BARLOW

                   I am the daughter of goodly parents. My father, Henry W. Jackson was of the Mormon Battallion and became acquainted with my mother in Salt Lake City, who was Eliza Ann Dibble. She was the daughter of Philo Dibble, Sr. They were married February 3, 1850, the wedding reception being held at the home of one of President Brigham Young's wives. Father gave fifty dollars in California gold for the supper.
From this union six children were born, three of whom are living, namely, William Henry Jackson, of Lewiston, Utah, age sixty-one, and myself  Laura A. Barlow, age fifty-four, of Bountiful, and Mary E. Marrill of Trenton, age fifty-two. My father worked on the mail line, for which the United States Government were owing him one thousand and four hundred dollars. He went East in 1861 to try to collect, but did not succeed but was enlisted in the Civil War and was killed. Mother afterwards received a pension. By its aid and her own labors she clothed and educated her children with a good common school education. My brother and I both taught several terms of district school.
I married Wilford Barlow, 1876 and have had twelve children, eight boys and four girls, eleven are living. My husband was the son of Israel Barlow, St. and Elizabeth Haven <../EdmundofMalden/edmundofmaldendescendancychart.html>.
Our parents went through all the drivings of the Saints and they went with the famous celebration in Cottonwood Canyon. They were numbered with those that went South '58.