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Israel Barlow

Male 1806 - 1883  (77 years)


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  • Name Israel Barlow 
    Born 13 Sep 1806  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1 Nov 1883  Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 4 Nov 1883  Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2283  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Jonathan Barlow,   b. 23 Jun 1769, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Dec 1820, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Annis Gillett,   b. 25 Jul 1784, Sharon, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Aug 1853, near Corley, Shelby, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Married 13 Oct 1804  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F958  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth Haven,   b. 28 Dec 1811, Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1892, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 23 Feb 1840  Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F445  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Elizabeth Barton,   b. 10 Sep 1803, Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1874, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 28 Jan 1846  Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F513  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Lucy Heap,   b. 24 Sep 1836, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jul 1901, Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Married 2 Dec 1855  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1343  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 4 Cordelia Maria Dalrymple,   b. 4 Oct 1822, Bolton, Warren, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Mar 1905, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 27 May 1865  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F223  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1840 US: Hancock Co., Illinois, pg. 1, all occurring together in sequence:
      John Reed [possible relation of Sophronia Reed?], males 2@5-10, 1@15-20, 1@50-60; females 2@10-15, 1@50-60.
      Israel Barlow, males 1@10-15, 1@40-50; females 1@20-30.
      Truman Barlow, males 1@20-30.
      Edwd. Thomson, males 1@70-80; females 1 @50-60
      Joh'than W. Barlow [separate from above names by one family named Albert Rockwood], males 1@30-40.

      1880 US: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, NA film T9-1336, p. 275C:
      Israel Barlow, farmer, M, 73, MA, MA, MA.
      Elizabeth Barlow, keeping house, M, 68, MA, MA, MA.

      2. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 29 Nov 2002 and LDS Ancestral File 30 Nov 2002.

      3. FHL film 1035515, item 16, p. Appendix F: "A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio and Members of Zion's Camp" contains a copy of a broadside printed in Kirtland in 1836 identifying priesthood bodies. Listed is Israel Barlow under the First Quorum of Seventy Elders. He is listed elsewhere as being in Zion's March and one of the witnesses of the Articles of the Kirtland Safety Society whose names do not appear in the ledger book.

      4. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812.

      5. From 30 Nov 2002 website which is the autobiography of Joseph Holbrook:
      a. In speaking of Zion's Camp: "The 1st of May we left Kirtland for New Portage a distance of about fifty miles where the brethren were to meet with us for Missouri. At this place, May 6, 1834, the camp of Saints was organized for our journey by the Prophet, when every man gave unto the treasurer the amount of means he had for the journey except those who had families who were directed to provide for themselves in as much as they had means to do so. The Company was divided into companies of ten persons with a captain to each ten or fifty and hundred persons, according to the ancient order of Israel. We were led by the Prophet and pitched our tents by the way as we traveled having the most perfect order in our camp. At the sound of the bugle, prayers were held morning and evening in every tent, while every one was to be engaged in preparing foods looking after the teams, etc. as they were organized and appointed their several duties by the prophet of the Lord who was our leader. We had much good instructions given us on this journey which if I could have been prepared to keep a proper record I should have been much benefited thereby and as I have not a list of all the names before me I will only give some of those I best remember who formed a part of our company: ...Israel Barlow..."
      b. Concerning the Utah War: "During the fall of 1857 we were compelled to send out men to the mountains to keep the soldiers from approaching our settlements this winter as there would be no safety for our citizens under the present orders to the command as they were determined to destroy our leaders and put every person that believed in Mormonism to the sword; but after the winter set in the brethren mostly were exempt from guarding the passes in the mountains, except a few. The Legislative Council were alive to petition the President and Congress to effect a peace but they turned a deaf ear to our entreaties. I herewith copy the resolutions of a meeting at the City Bountiful and similar meetings and like resolves were passed in almost every portion of our Territory.
      Bountiful City Hall, Davis County
      Utah Territory, January 27, 1858
      Mass Meeting of the citizens of Bountiful was called to order by appointing John Telford, Esq. chairman and Thomas F. Fisher, secretary when the following committee were appointed to present resolutions expressive of their views relative to the official course of His Excellency Governor Young and his message to the Legislative Assembly of Dec. 15, 1857 and further to approve or disapprove of the acts of the late Legislative body as shall best suit the views of this meeting. P.G. Sessions, Jeremiah Willey, Israel Barlow, E.H. Davis, William Atkinson, your committee would humbly submit the following resolutions as follows: Resolve that we view the administration of His Excellency Governor Young as humane, great and noble and that from a long experience in his official acts as well as his private life we do assuredly know him to be a friend of freedom and a firm supporter of constitution and liberties of the people. Resolved: that we view and highly approve of the message of His Excellency Governor Young as being fully reliable in every particular setting forth in truth our present position and recommend it worthy the consideration of every lover of freedom and friend of mankind throughout the world. Resolved: That we most cordially endorse all and every act of the late Legislative Assembly in expressing our most sanguine wishes to our Federal Government and to the world at large wherein we feel ourselves properly represented. Resolved: That we hold our lives, our faculties, our means and family ready for every emergency in carrying out our constitutional rights as freemen so nobly gained by our forefathers and bequeathed to us their children as being worthy of maintaining those liberties forever against every invading foe. Resolved: That we sustain and uphold His Excellency Governor Young as our united choice for which we now pledge ourselves in faithfulness to perform every duty he in his official carrier may demand. Resolved: That the spirit and independent course of the late Legislative Assembly in its wisdom is most congenial to our views and settled convictions as being strictly constitutional in all its expressions and movements and we thank our God that it is our lot to speak and act as freemen and pray that God and his Kingdom may prevail forever and ever. Resolved: That these resolutions be signed by the chairman and secretary in behalf of the citizens and forwarded for publication in the Deseret News. Unanimously adopted and signed.
      John Telford - chairman, Thomas F. Fisher - secretary. Soon after this we were to get and equip our proportion of men for a standing army of one thousand men to keep on our guard and to act as a defense against any and every invading foe... Total one thousand dollars to every 2 men or five hundred dollars to each man so fitted after much of the above outfit was ready from circumstances it was thought best for the people to move away to the southern settlements for the present and if the army were determined to continue their threatened vengeance upon the Latter-day Saints we would burn up our cities and lay our farms desolate as we found them upon our approaching the valley rather than that our enemies should again share our property as they had done in our former drivings in the states. How long we had got to flee before our enemies we did not know. Much of our crops for the spring were in and what was not in was left without being put in to a crop. The brethren commenced moving from the northern settlements and our roads were continually filled with wagons, teams, stock, sheep, horses, hogs, etc. by night and day so as to get moved away before the snow would get out of the mountains so that the army could come in. The army consisted of about ten thousand regular soldiers besides teams, army followers some three or four thousand more with orders for as many to follow as would be needed to wipe out Mormons from among the mountains. I had hauled some twenty loads of my own and left it out of doors as the most of our loading had to be left as there could be no storage found. We moved about from 70 to 150 miles when the brethren had got the country cleaned of everything that could be taken away and every man was ready with his torch to set fire to his hard earned labor at a moments notice. President Buchanan and his cabinet finding his expedition against the Mormons rather unpopular and expensive business to be carried on to gain any credit to himself or the nation as the country was prepared ready for the burning. He thought best to send three commissioners to enquire into the circumstances of his sending an army to drive and kill the Saints offering at the same time to grant a full and complete pardon for all and every evil that might have transpired previous to the gracious pardon if the people would let the army into the valley and the citizens would again return to their homes they should not be molested in their persons or in their property. Governor Cummings having come into the valley and General Johnson having marched his army through Great Salt Lake City, June 26, 1858 and camped at camp Floyd, about 45 miles from the city of Salt Lake and by the proclamation of Gov. Cummings for the people to return home peaceable. The brethren began to move to their homes about the first of July 1858 when we found that our grain was ready for harvesting and by the blessings of God it was a good crop. I had some 1300 bushels of wheat besides barley, oats and without any irrigation except the rains that fell which was enough to make a good crop. I got back the 4th day of July and found my grain ready for the harvest. Thus God had over ruled everything for the best as wagons, mules, goods etc., were plenty and our grain brought a fair price with a ready market for the army which they were now ready to pay for instead of their plundering it from the Mormons as they having done it in the states in our former persecution. Great Salt Lake City, Jan. 22, 1858, a list of the names to form a prayer circle in North Canyon Ward, selected by Heber C. Kimball. Names: John Stoker, Bishop, Daniel Carter - 2nd councilor, Anson Call, Chester Loveland, Jeremiah Willey, Israel Barlow, P.G. Sessions, James Duncan, Thomas F. Fisher, Martin Wood, William Atkinson, John Ellis, E.G.M. Hogan, Joseph Holbrook, John W. Lasley. The prayer circle of North Canyon Ward was organized by choosing John Stoker President, Joseph Holbrook clerk. The prayer circle was held at P. G. Sessions upper room which dedicated for that purpose and kept up until April 4, 1858 when it adjourned till further instructions which did not continue after the move south.
      c. "Festival of the Camp of Zion. The members of Zion's Camp met in the Social Hall at 1 P.M. on Monday at the instance of President Brigham Young. This was the first meeting of this body of veterans for thirty years and it was truly an interesting occasion. Each man as he entered came to the clerk, brother Thomas Bullock, and reported his residence. The company were called to order by President Brigham Young who delivered an introductory address tracing the history and origin of the camp and stated the various localities from which the brethren were collected who formed that company. He also observed that most of the brethren who performed the return journey traveled 2,000 miles on foot within a period of three months. The audience sang a hymn which was a great favorite with the camp during their toilsome journeyings for the redemption of Zion in the year 1834 which commenced, Hark! Listen to the Trumpeters. The President offered prayer. President Joseph Young narrated many incidents that occurred in the travels of the camp and also remarked upon the sayings and doings of the Prophet Joseph. Elder Orson Hyde made some remarks at the conclusion of which the band played the Marsellaise while company went down to dinner. Then the company returned to the hall. Elder George A. Smith told a number of anecdotes concerning their journey from Ohio to Missouri. President Young then gathered the members of the camp on the north west and south west sides of the room called out the captains of companies when ten came forward each of whom called their respective companies to the floor for inspection. At this interesting moment Elders George Q. Cannon and John W. Young entered the hall having just returned from Europe. The President went round and shook hands with each of these honored and brave men and was followed in this interesting ceremony by President Heber C. Kimball, Elders Amasa M. Lyman, Charles C. Rich, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Hyde, George A. Smith, John Smith, David Evans and Joseph Young. President Young and Kimball and Elder Hyde each in his order lifted up their hands toward heaven and blessed the members of Zion's Camp and the other invited quests in the name of the Lord. These ceremonies over dancing commenced and was continued with spirit and good feeling till eleven o'clock at which hour the company went to the basement to supper. After dancing was resumed and together with speeches from several members of the company kept up the interest of the entertainment till after one o'clock on Tuesday morning. We give below the names and residences of those present. Roll of Zion's Camp. Who went up with the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1834, present in the Social Hall Great Salt Lake City, Oct. 10, 1864:... Barlow Israel - Stoker's Ward, Davis County... Hancock Levi W. - 10 Ward, G.S.L. City..."

      6. The book "Not by Bread Alone, the Journal of Martha Spence Heywood 1850-1856," edited by Juanita Brooks, pg. 79 notes: "April 27th [1852] During the evening we had several calls - ...besides G.A. Smith, Major Barlow to supper." Footnote indicates Israel Barlow had been long in the church and was one of the first nurserymen in Davis County.

      7. From biographical register of the book: "Winter Quarters, The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards" edited by Maurine Carr Ward, Utah State University Press, 1996: "Barlow, Israel. Born Sep. 13, 1806, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, to Jonathan Barlow and Annis Gillett. Married, first Elizabeth Haven, Feb. 23, 1840, Quincy, Adams, Illinois. Married, second, Elizabeth Barton, Jan. 28, 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. Other wives in Utah. Died Nov. 1, 1883, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Sources conflict as to when Israel arrived in Winter Quarters. One source says his family spent the winter of 1846 in Iowa before going on to Winter Quarters the fall of 1847. This correlates with Mary's journal about Brother Barlow just arriving from Farmington with the corpse of Mother Barton, perhaps the mother of his second wife. However, that Brother Barlow may have been Truman Barlow. Israel may have been in Mt. Pisgah in 1846 when the Mormon Battalion volunteers were recruited and then in Winter Quarters to help build the first homes. Sources: Barlow, The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores; Carter, Heart Throbs of the West; Black, Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 1830-1848; Cook, Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages, 1839-1845."

      8. Ora Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores," p. 180, references a census taken of the Nauvoo, Illinois wards which show the following in the 3rd ward:
      Israel and Elizabeth Barlow
      [Next door:] Edward and Anis Thompson, Truman R. Barlow
      P. 182 shows a map of lands owned by Israel and Truman Barlow in Nauvoo.

      9. Short synopsis from a database on Ancestry.com: "Israel came to Utah with Brigham Young's company arriving in Utah 23 September 1848. He was a body guard of Joseph Smith. He assisted in bringing immigrants to Utah. Israel was a pioneer of Bountiful in 1849. Israel served a mission to England from 1853 to 1855. He was president of the Birmingham, England conference. He was a member of the Zion and Kirtland camps. He was ordained a patriarch by Wilford Woodruff in 1882. Israel was in the 1st Quorum of Seventies - 28 February 1835 by Joseph Smith. He was also president of the 6th quorum of seventy. He served a mission to New Hampshire 15 April 1844. Israel was a member of the 67th quorum of elders. Israel was a member of the Nauvoo 3rd ward. Israel was married to his first wife by Isaac Morley. Israel was a shareholder in the Kirtland Safety Society. Israel was one of the first Mormons to see Nauvoo in November 1839, he met with Isaac Galland there. On 14 September 1839 President Brigham Young started from his home in Montrose, Effingham, Illinois, for England. His health was very poor; he was unable to go thirty rods to the river without assistance. After he had crossed the ferry he got Israel Barlow to carry him on his horse behind him to Heber C. Kimball's where he remained sick until the 18th."

      10. Quoted from the book "Joseph Smith, the First Mormon," by Donna Hill, 1977, concerning finding the location of Nauvoo, a Mormon community: "Joseph's immediate concern, however, was to find a place of their own for the Saints. In this search he welcomed the aide of one Isaac Galland, of Commerce, Hancock County, just to the north of Adams County... Isaac Galland, a former Indian agent and a candidate for the state legislature in 1834, who had earlier, according to Governor Ford, admitted in public speeches that he had no pretentions to integrity. He had been known as a thief, counterfeiter and member of the Massac gang of outlaws. In the fall of 1838, the Mormon elder Israel Barlow had met Isaac Galland in Illinois, and had told him that the Saints had been expelled from Missouri and were in desperate need of land. In February 1839, Galland had written letters to Barlow and to David W. Rogers to tell them and the church that cabins were available where he was living on the Mississippi and farms could be rented on the Half Breed Lands across the river in Iowa. He would be pleased, Galland wrote, to show the territory to Sidney Rigdon or other church leaders. In apparent candor and sympathy, Galland said he felt he was assuming a great responsibility, but wished to be governed by wisdom and discretion, adding: 'The little knowledge which I have as yet of the doctirne, order or practice of the Church, leaves me under the necessity of acting in all this matter as a stranger, though, as I sencerely hope, as a friend, for such, I assure you I feel myself to be, both towards you collectively, as a people, and individually as sufferers.' The following month, David Rogers and Israel Barlow had gone to explore the town of Commerce and regions nearby. They reported that Galland owned the house in Commerce and had rights to sell some 20,000 acres of the Half Breed Reservation. On March 25, Joseph had written a lengthy letter to the Saints from Liberty Jail: 'It still seems to bear heavily on our minds that the Church would do well to secure to themselves the contract of the land which is proposed to them by Mr. Isaac Galland, and to cultivate the friendly feelings of that gentleman, inasmuch as he shall prove himself to be a man of honor and friend to humanity... We really think that Mr. Galland's letter breathes that kind of spirit, if we may judge correctly.' The town which interested the Mormons was Commerce, some fifty miles up the river from Quincy. One of the first villages settled in the county, it had been mapped as a town in 1834 by two eastern land speculators and remapped soon afterward as Commerce City, but it had never attracted settlers and had remained a dreary little outplost on the frontier. By 1839, it had only six or eight houses, a store and a post office." [The letter from Galland to Barlow has a footnote with a reference as to source; I did not copy the reference, but it appears that letter may exist in an archive upon further review of the book.]

      11. Journal History, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20 Jan 1848, p. 25: "Following is the petition for a post office on the Pottawattamie lands, referred to, with the signatures attached. To the Honorable Postmaster General of the United States. Sir: There are many thousand inhabitants in the vicinity of the Log Tabernacle, which is situated on the Government purchase of the Pottawatamies and in the State of Iowa, whose interest is materially injured, and whose journey, business and improvements are retarded or destroyed by non intercourse; there being no Post Office within forty or fifty miles of said Tabernacle, and the public good requires a convenient office: Therefore, We your Petitioners, Citizens of the United States and residents of said vicinage, pray your Honor to cause, such an office to be located at or near said Tabernacle without delay, to be called the Tabernacle Post Office... [Approximately 2,000 plus all male signatures including] Wm. G. Perkins, Jude Allen, Daniel Tyler, Wm. Stoker, Israel Barlow, William Thompson [and William Thompson, Jr.], Joseph Mangum, William Richey, John B. Richey, William B. Richey, John R. Holden [Wiley Holden and Joshua Holden are immediately adjacent - relations?], Andrew Allen [with Ira Allen, Franklin Allen, Joseph Allen immediately adjacent - relations?], John Coon [with Samuel Coon, Eli Coon, Jacob Coon, and Joseph Coon immediately adjacent - relations?].

      12. The book "Our Pioneer Heritage," chapter "A Treasury of Indian Stories," Dau. of Utah Pioneers, p. 464: "Pamela Elizabeth Barlow Thompson was born in Nauvoo, Illinois September 6, 1844, the daughter of Israel Barlow Sr., and Elizabeth Haven. When she was four years of age she crossed the plains with her parents arriving in the Salt Lake Valley September 23, 1848. After residing for a time in the Eighth Ward they moved to Sessions Settlement, now known as West Bountiful. There were quite a number of Indians in the settlement at that time and sometimes there were as many as fifty tepees on the Barlow farm. The Barlows treated the Indians kindly and gave freely of their supplies. When Pamela was six years of age she was stolen by the Indians. She and her brother Israel, who was eight years of age, had been to town. At that time sunflowers lined the streets which in some places were taller than a horse. When the children were about half a mile from home, on the return trip, several Indians came out of the sunflowers and one of them picked up the little girl and swung her on his pony. Israel ran home and told his parents wheat had happened. It was several hours later that the child was rescued by her father and neighbors who had immediately set out in pursuit of the Indians. When Pamela was nine years of age her father was called on a mission to England. At that time Brigham Young counseled Mrs. Barlow to have her log cabin moved into the larger settlement for the safety of herself and five small children. - Cleo Clark."

      13. The book "A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," by B.H. Roberts, 1930:
      P. 5: "While the great body of the church made its exit from Missouri via Quincy, all did not do so. Some went northward into the then territory of Iowa. Among these was a brother Israel Barlow, who, taking a northeasterly course from Far West, struck the Des Moines river a short distance above its mouth. He was without food and destitute of clothing. Making his wants known to the people living in that locality, they kindly supplied him with food and raiment. To them he related the story of the persecution of the Latter-day Saints in Missouri, and how his people, poor and destitute as himself, were fleeing from the state en mass. His relation of the sufferings of the saints, and the cruelties heaped upon them by their heartless persecutors, enlisted the sympathies of his hearers, and they gave him letters of introduction to several gentlemen, among which was one to Dr. Isaac Galland, a gentleman of some influence, living at Commerce…"
      Pp. 23-24, in speaking about Brigham Young as he was preparing to depart for their missions with other Apostles, many of whom were extremely ill from "swamp fever": "On the 14th of September, Brigham Young left his home at Montrose and started for England. He had been prostrated for some time by sickness, and at the time of starting on his mission was so feeble that he had to be assisted to the ferry, only some thirty rods from his house. All his children were sick, and he left his wife with a babe but ten days old, and in the poorest circumstance, for the mobs of Missouri had robbed him of all he had. After crossing the river to the Nauvoo side, Israel Barlow took him on a horse behind him and carried him to the house of Elder Heber C. Kimball, where his strength altogether failed him, and he had to remain there fore several days, nursed by his wife, who hearing that he was unable to get farther than Brother Kimball's, had crossed the river from Montrose to care for him. On the 18th of the month, however, Elder Young, in company with Heber C. Kimball, made another start... Elder Kimball left his wife in bed shaking with ague, and all his children sick. It was only by the assistance of some of the brethren that Heber himself could climb into the wagon. 'It seemed to me,' he remarked afterwards in relating the circumstance, 'as though my very inmost parts would melt within me at the thought of leaving my family in such a condition as it were, almost in the arms of death. I felt as though I could scarcely endure it.' 'Hold up!' said he to the teamster, who had just started. 'Brother Brigham, this is pretty tough, but let us rise and give them a cheer.' Brigham, with much difficulty, rose to his feet, and joined Elder Kimball in swinging his hat and shouting, "Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah for Israel!' Sisters Young and Kimball, hearing the cheer came to the door - Sister Kimball with great difficulty - and waved a farewell; and the two apostles continued their journey without purse, without script, for England."

      14. It is mentioned in the book The Town of Mendon 1813-2000 and Village of Honeoye Falls 1838-2000 by Diane Ham and Anne Bullock, Honeoye Falls-Town of Mendon Historical Society, January 2000, p. 75, that Annis Gillett, George Gillett Lockwood, Julia Ann Lockwood, Israel Barlow, Jonathan Barlow, Truman Barlow, Annis Barlow and Rhoda Barlow all went to Kirtland, OH with the Mormons in 1832.

      15. Various references found from the Kirtland, Ohio Restoration Office Sep 2006 also known as "The Saints of Kirtland":
      A. Born on 13 Sep 1806 in Granville, Hampden Co., MA to Jonathan Barlow and Annis Gillett; died on 1 Nov 1883 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah; ordained ot the office of a Seventy; participated in these organizations:
      i. Kirtland Safety Society
      ii. Zion's Camp
      iii. Missionary and Minister Licenses
      iv. First Quorum of Seventy
      B. Newell K. Whitney Store Account Book, Kirtland, Ohio, November 12, 1836 to April 16, 1837 has an extensive list of purchases and prices which I have on file. Included on the list: beeswax, broadcloth, clothes brush, buckham, buttons, cambric, canvas, circassion and thread, drilling, seal skin gloves, silk hat, padding, vest pattern, satinette, and silk.
      C. David Rogers, Auto, 70s Rec, 34th Qrm, LDS Arc: "On 14 Sep 1838 started for Far West Missouri. Moved to Quincy, Illinois 10 Nov 1838. Met Saints in this place, they having been driven from Missouri by the mob. He here rented a place, and many of the saints found a resting place for awhile. Was soon appointed by the authorities of the church, with Israel Barlow, to find a place where the church could locate. Visited and made arrangements for a place called Commerce, afterwards called Nauvoo. Was called apon to carry a message to the Prophet Joseph Smith, who was confined in Liberty jail, Missouri, to sell land and do business for the church ect. which he preformed. He also assisted many families togather from Missouri to Quincy. He assisted to guard the city of Nauvoo."
      D. Marriages in Nauvoo, Pg. 7, Israel Barlow, b. 13 Sep 1806 in Granville, Hampden, Mass., md. 23 Feb 1840 to Elizabeth Haven at Quincy, Illinois by Issac Morley, died 1 Nov. 1883.
      E. Wandle Mace Autobiography, typescript, BYU-S, Pg. 32: "Brother Joseph Young and family lived in my house all winter, as also John Taylor, one of the Twelve Apostles and his family. He was a turner by trade, consequently my turning lathe was very convenient; upon it he turned carpenter's bench screws, butter prints, and a variety of useful articles which he sold and thereby earned a living for himself and family. Here also Israel Barlow lived with me, and married a young woman who was nursing my wife when our little daughter Zuriah was born on February 17, 1839."
      Pg. 35: "In his flight from Missouri, Israel Barlow crossed the Mississippi River about fifty miles above Quincy, at a small settlement called Commerce. He reached this place in a destitute condition. He was kindly treated and in conversation with several gentlemen upon the difficulties the saints were undergoing, he enlisted their sympathies. Among these gentelmen was one Dr. Galland, who proposed the saints settle in that vicinity. When Brother Barlow reached my house in Quincy he made known his interview with these gentelmen, and the proposition of Dr. Galland to the Church. A committee was then appointed to go and examine the country and learn more fully the propositions made. I was chosen one of this committee. We went up to see the land and thought it would be a good place for the Saints to locate and so reported to a meeting held for that purpose in the committee room at my house."
      Pg. 36: "Several of the brethern expressed themselves upon the subject; some were for gathering together upon the land, while others were undecided. Brother Marks said he was altogether in favor of making the purchase, providing it was the will of the Lord that we should again gather together. Bur from the circumstances of being driven from the other places, he almost was to the conclusion that it was not wisdom that we should do so. Israel Barlow thought it might be in consequence of not building according to the pattern given us that we had been scattered. He was in favor of gathering, and I was in favor of immediately gathering, that we might build up a Zion to the Lord. Bishop Partridge did not think it expedient under the circumstance to collect together; he thought it would be better to scatter into different parts and provide for the poor. Others spoke ther minds upon the subject. However a letter was recieved from Dr. Gall and one was written by the committee and sent to the Prophet Joseph by the hand of Brother D.W Rogers, to secure the land and that he would soon be out of prison. He also wrote a letter to Dr. Galland and which showed the bold, frank, independent spirit which pervaded his breast, although a prisoner in Liberty Jail, Missouri. A copy of this letter was published in the Times and Seasons of February 1840."
      F. Brigham Young History, 1801-44, ed., E. Watson (1968), Pg. 50: "After I crossed the river I got Israel Barlow to carry me on his horse, behind him, to Heber C. Kimball's, where I remained sick till the 18th. I left my wife sick, with a babe only ten days old, and all my children sick and unable to wait upon each other."
      G. PWJS Dean Jessee Notes p. 684: "5. Israel Barlow (1806-1883), a native of Granville, Massachusetts, was one of the leaders of the group of Saints who first met Galland in 1838. Not authorized to make decisions for the Church, Barlow had conveyed the information to Church authorities in Quincy, Illinois, upon his arrival there. (Early Church Information File; Smith, History of the Church 3:265.)
      H. History of the Church, Vol.3, Ch.18, p.265: "When Elder Israel Barlow left Missouri in the fall of 1838, either by missing his way, or some other cause, he struck the Des Moines river some distance above its mouth. He was in a destitute situation; and making his wants known, found friends who assisted him, and gave him introductions to several gentlemen, among whom was Dr. Isaac Galland, to whom he communicated the situation of the Saints; the relation of which enlisted Mr. Galland's sympathies, or interest, or both united, and hence a providential introduction of the Church to Commerce [the place of residence of Mr. Galland] and its vicinity; for Brother Barlow went direct to Quincy, the place of his destination, and made known his interview with Dr. Galland to the Church."
      I. Hist. Record, March 1889, Jenson - Nauvoo, Hancock County, pg. 745-746: "In the fall of 1838, a brother in the Church by the name of Israel Barlow left the State of Missouri under the exterminating order of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs. By missing his way, or, what is more likely, [page 746] directed by the hand of a kind providence, he did not leave the State by the same route as the great body of the people, but, taking a northeasterly course, struck the Des Moines River a short distance above the mouth, in the Territory of Iowa. He was without food, destitute of clothing and in a sad condition. Making his wants known to the people living in that locality, they kindly supplied him with food and raiment. To them he related the story of the persecutions of the Saints in Missouri, and how his people, poor and destitute as himself, were fleeing from the State en masse. His relation of the sufferings of the Saints, and the cruelties heaped upon them by their heartless persecutors enlisted their sympathies, and they gave Elder Barlow letters of introduction to several gentlemen; among which was one to Dr. Isaac Galland, a gentleman of some influence living at Commerce. Dr. Galland owned considerable land in Commerce, and under date of Feb. 26, 1839, he wrote to the Saints located in Quincy, that several farms could doubtless be rented in that locality, and that perhaps some fifty families could be accommodated at Commerce. In addition to this offer of lands made to the Church, another and a previous one had been made of 20,000 acres, between the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers. This tract was offered for sale at $2.00 per acre, to be paid in 20 annual payments without interest. Consequently a conference was convened by the Saints at Quincy in February, 1839, and the advisability of making the purchase, and settling the Saints in a body came up for consideration. But it was decided at that time that it was not advisable to locate lands at present.
      J. Hist. Record, December 1889, Jenson - Church Encyclopedia, pg. 945: "Barlow, Israel, in Zion's Camp, 591,940; is ordained a Seventy, 420; visits Commerce, Ill., 745, 746; aids President Young, 749."
      K. Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol. 1O, p.211: "In 1848, Israel Barlow, Sr., settled in what is now West Bountiful. He took up a large tract of land that was very wet and soggy. He gave Brother Kippen forty acres of it for digging a drain across the land. He brought lilacs from England. They were probably some of the first planted here. He had a nursery. He and Brother Tuttle used to bud two or three kinds of fruit on one tree. It gave a bigger variety as well as the novelty of it."
      L. Treasures of Pioneer History, Vol. 5, p. 53: "On Sunday April 22, 1855, five hundred eighty-one Saints under the direction of Israel Barlow sailed from Liverpool, England. It was the maiden voyage of the ship Samuel Curling. The first part of the trip was very pleasant until the ship swerved from its course and icebergs were sighted. They traveled in the icy sea for a day and a night and as they neared Newfoundland the storm became so severe that they could no longer control the ship. For three days the storm raged. At the end of the third day the Saints were called together for prayer and soon a calm descended upon the ocean and the vessel did not move for another three days. The storm had torn the sails of the ship almost in shreds and Joseph was called upon to use his tailoring ability to mend them. Finally a wind came up and they docked in New York on May 27, 1855."
      M. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.736: "Barlow, Israel (son of Jonathan Barlow, born June 1,1769, and Annis Gillett, born 1781, both at Granville, Hampden county, Mass.). He was born Sept. 13, 1806, at Granville. Came to Utah Sept. 23, 1848, Brigham Young company.
      Married Elizabeth Haven Feb. 23,1840 (daughter of John Haven, pioneer Sept. 23,1848, Brigham Young company, and Elizabeth Howe). She was born Dec. 28, 1811, Holliston, Middlesex county, Mass., and died Dec. 25, 1892, Bountiful, Utah. Their children: James Nathaniel b. May 8, 1841, d. same day; Israel, Jr. b. Sept. 5, 1842, m. Annie Yeates April 26, 1863; Pamela Elizabeth b. Sept. 6,1844, m. David W. Thompson Sept. 10,1861; lanthius Haven, b. May 1, 1846, m. Hannah Wintle Dec. 7, 1867; John Haven b. July 27,1848, m. Elizabeth Cook Oct. 24,1868; Mary A. b. Nov. 15, 1850, m. David O. Willey Dec. 7, 1868; Wilford b. Feb. 3, 1854, m. Laura Ann Jackson Jan. 24, 1876; Willard Albert b. Feb. 3, 1854, d. Oct. 28, 1854. Family home Bountiful, Utah.
      Married Elizabeth Barton 1844, Nauvoo, III. (daughter of Nathan Barton), who was born Sept. 1O, 1801, in Pennsylvania, and died Oct. 21, 1874, at Bountiful, Utah.
      Married Lucy Heap Dec. 3, 1855, Salt Lake City (daughter of Thomas Heap, pioneer Oct. 24, 1855, Milo Andrus company, and Sarah Waters). She was born Sept. 24, 1836, Litchfield, Staffordshire, Eng., died July 4, 1901, Afton, Wyo. Their children: Truman Heap b. June 12,1857, d. Feb. 19, 1913, m. Fanny Call Nov. 28, 1878, m. Sarah Call June 29, 1887; Sarah Isabelle b. June 26, 1859, m. Joseph H. Call June 26, 1879; Annis Janet b. Sept. 30, 1860, m. Chester Vinson Call Oct. 28, 1880; Emma Jane b. Aug. 19, 1862, m. Ira Call Oct. 28, 1830; Hyrum Heap b. Aug. 30, 1864, m. Margaret Burton Jan. 2, 1889; Minnie Rette b. Nov. 17, 1865, m. Chester Vinson Call Sept. 5, 1884; Granville b. July 31, 1867, m. Eliza Ann Burningham Dec. 18, 1889; Nathan b. March 26, 1869, m. Dora Matilda Tolman June 24,1891. Family home Bountiful, Utah.
      Married Cordelia Maria Dalrymple May 27, 1865, Salt Lake City (daughter of Luther Dalrymple and Sally Hammond), who was born Oct. 4,1822, Warren county, N. Y, died March 1906, Lewiston, Utah. Family resided at Bountiful and Logan, Utah.
      Seventy; president 6th quorum seventies; patriarch 1882; missionary to England 1853-55; president Birmingham conference; bodyguard to Joseph Smith; member Zion and Kirtland camps. Assisted in bringing immigrants to Utah; pioneer of Bountiful 1849. Pioneer nurseryman and apiarist; farmer and stockraiser. Died Nov. 1, 1883, Bountiful, Utah.
      Seventies Ordained Before 1850 Barlow, Israel; Birth: 13 Sep 1806; Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts Parents: Jonathan. Contribution: Brigham Young Home: $50.00 Contribution: Books, 1844-46: $ .25 Remarks: President Residence: [Utah]. Source: 70s Rec, 1 Qrm, 1835, Joseph Young, History of Seventies (1878); 6 Qrm, Bk 8 Sel, LOS Arc; 6 Qrm, 1844-46, LOS Arc, pg. 1-7."
      N. Harvey Black, camp, Early Seventies: "Barlow, Israel Birth: MA 1806 Death: UT 1883
      Parents: Barlow, Jonathan
      Wives (Number of children): Haven, Elizabeth
      Barton, Elizabeth Heap, Lucy
      Dalrymple, Cordelia M. Ordination: 1835
      Quorum: Q1; Q5; Presidency of Q6
      Early Church Data: Missionary England, NH Endowed Nauvoo Temple 12/16/45 In Original 1st Quorum of Seventy Post-Nauvoo Civil Data: Stockman
      Bee Keeper Bountiful UT
      Post-Nauvoo Church Data: Patriarch
      Sources: S19, 20; Susan Black, Early LDS Members Rec 3:562; Index, Nauvoo Land and Reco
      Files 61; 70s Rec, Qrm 6"

      16. Various references found from the Kirtland, Ohio Restoration Office Sep 2006 also known as "The Saints of Kirtland": Barlow, Israel (Male)[i] [See footnotes below]
      Birth: Barlow, Israel (Male) Date: September 13,1806 Place: Granville, Hampden, MA, USA Parents: Barlow, Israel (Male) Father: Barlow, Jonathan Mother: Gillet, Annis.
      November 1, 1883 Place: Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA Date: November 4, 1883[ii] Buried: Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA[iii]
      Marriage Information: Barlow, Israel; Spouse: Haven, Elizabeth Date: February 23, 1840; Place: Quincy, Adams, IL, USA children:
      1. Barlow, Nathaniel James May 8, 1841 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      2. Barlow, Israel Jr. September 5,1842 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      3. Barlow, Pamela Elizabeth September 6, 1844 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      4. Barlow, lanthus Haven May 1,1846 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      5. Barlow, John Haven July 27, 1848 Heber Springs, Platte, WY, USA
      6. Barlow, Mary Antenett November 13, 1850 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      7. Barlow, Willard Albert February 3, 1854 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA
      8. Barlow, Wilford Elbert February 3,1854 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA .
      Marriage Number 2 Barton, Elizabeth; Alternate Spouse: Barton Betsey[v] Date: January 28, 1846[vi] Alternate Date: 1844[vii]
      Marriage Number 3 Heap, Lucy Catherine; Date: December 3,1855, Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA. Marriage 3 children:[viii]
      1. Barlow, Truman Heap June 12,1857 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      2. Barlow, Sarah Isabel (Isabelle) June 26, 1859 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      3. Barlow, Annis Janette (Janet) September 30, 1860 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      4. Barlow, Emma Jane August 19, 1862 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      5. Barlow, Hyrum Heap August 30, 1864 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      6. Barlow, Minnie Rette (Miine) November 17,1865 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      7. Barlow, Granville July 31, 1867 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      8. Barlow, Nathan March 26,1869 Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      Marriage Number 4: Dalymple, Cordlia Maria [ix] Date: May 27, 1865. Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT. [x]
      Church Ordinance Data: Baptism[xi] Date: May 16, 32 or May 1918 Official Brigham Young.
      Ordained Seventy[xii] Date: January 11, 1835 Officiator: Rigdon, Sidney.
      Temple Ordinance Data: Barlow, Israel (Male) Endowment[xiii] Date: December 16, 45 or Dec 1918 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      Sealed to Parents [xiv] Date: September 16, 1931
      Sealed to Spouse[xv] Date: January 17,1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      Sealed to Spouse[xvi] Date: January 28, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      Sealed to Spouse[xvii] Date: December 2,1855
      Sealed to Spouse[xviii] Date: May 27,1865 Temple: Endowment House, Salt Lake City, UT
      Places of Residence: Barlow, Israel 1841-1846: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA - 1848: Heber Springs, UT, USA - 1848-1854: Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA - 1854: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA[xix]
      Vocations: Nurseryman, Apiarist[xx], Farmer, Stockraiser[xi]
      Comments: lsrael came to Utah with Brigham Young's company arriving in Utah 23 Sep 1848. He was a body guard of Joseph Smith. He assisted in bringing immigrants to Utah. Israel was a Bountiful in 1849. Israel served a mission to England from 1853 to 1855. He was president of the Birmingham, England conference. He was a member of the Zion and Kirtland camps. He was ordained a patriarch by Wilford Woodruff in 1882. [xxii] Israel was in the 1st Quorum of Seventies -28 February 1835 by Joseph Smith. He was also president of the 6th quorum of seventy. He served a mission to New Hampshire 15 April 1844. [xxiii] Israel was a member of the 67th quorum of elders.[ xxiv] Israel was a member of the Nauvoo 3rd ward. Israel was married to his first wife by Isaac Morley.[xxv] Israel was president of the Warwickshire, England conference.[xxvi] Israel was a shareholder in the Kirtland Safety Society.[xxvii] Israel was one of the first Mormons to see Nauvoo in November 1839, he met with Isaac Galland there. On 14 September 1839 President Brigham Young started from his home in Montrose, Effingham, Illinois, for England. His health was very poor; he was unable to go thirty rods to the river without assistance. After he had crossed the ferry he got Israel Barlow to carry him on his horse behind him to Heber C. Kimball's where he remained sick until the 18th. [xxviii]
      Footnote sources:
      i. Articles of Kirtland Safety Society
      Missionaries of the Church. Jenson, Andrew
      A Profile of... Camp, 1830-39. Backman, Jr., Milton V. Kirtland High Council Minute Book Page: 89, 165, 172, 190
      Nauvoo Social History Project. Smith, James Family Group Sheet-Self
      Marriages in Nauvoo Region 1839-45. Easton, S.
      Civil Marriages in Nauvoo 1839-45. Cook, Lyndon Temple Index Bureau
      Nauvoo: Early Mormon...Series 1839-46. Platt, Lyman. 1980
      Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Page: 736, 132
      Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46 Early Church File
      LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 4 Page: 687-688
      Times and Seasons (Nauvoo, IL) May 1840
      Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies. Bitton, Davis The Words of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1980 Page: 27
      Checklists to Published Diaries and Autobiographies Biographical Record of Salt Lake City … Present. 1902 Page: 404
      Utah Federal Census; Year: 1851
      Illinois, Nauvoo City Tax Lists 1841-44 Nauvoo Property Transactions
      History of Antelope Island...50 Years of Davis County
      A Comprehensive History of the Church. Roberts, B.H. Volume: 2 Page: 24, 5
      Journal Histories of the Church
      LDS Messenger and Advocate (Kirtland, OH) 1834-37 History of the Church. Smith, Joseph
      Elder Licenses Issued at Kirtland
      ii. Family Group Sheet-Self
      iii. Early Church File; Family Group Sheet-Self
      iv. Family Group Sheet-Self Child-Number: 1; Barlow, Nathaniel James Date: 5/8/1841; Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
      v. Family Group Sheet-Self
      vi. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913
      vii. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Family Group Sheet-Self
      viii. Family Group Sheet-Self Child-Number: 1; Barlow, Truman Heap Date: 6/12/1857; Place: Bountiful, Davis, UT, USA
      ix. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913
      x. Marriages in Nauvoo Region 1839-45. Easton, S.; LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951; Family Group Sheet-Self; Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913
      xi. Early Church File; Family Group Sheet-Self
      xii. Early Church File
      xiii. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46; Family Group Sheet-Self
      xiv.Temple Patron Notification Reference
      xv. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46 Family Group Sheet-Self
      xvi. Family Group Sheet-Self
      xvii. Family Group Sheet-Self
      xviii. Family Group Sheet-Self
      xvx. Family Group Sheet-Self
      xx. Utah Federal Census; Year: 1851; Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913
      xxi. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Page: 736; Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies. Bitton, Davis; Mormon Manuscripts to 1846. Andrus, Hyrum. 1977; History of the Church. Smith, Joseph; LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951
      xxii. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Page: 736; Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies. Bitton, Davis; Mormon Manuscripts to 1846, Andrus, Hyrum, 1977; History of the Church. Smith, Joseph; LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951
      xxiii. History of the Church. Smith, Joseph
      xxiv. Early Church File
      xxv. Mormon Manuscripts to 1846. Andrus, Hyrum. 1977
      xxvi. A Profile of...Camp, 1830-39. Backman, Jr., Milton V.
      xxvii. The Words of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1980
      xxviii. The Words of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1980

      17. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007) provides the following information (also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com) for which I give mention in full below but only include information not already transcribed elsewhere in the notes for Israel:
      A. Nauvoo Property:
      Kimball 1st: Block 2, Lot 70, 4 acres.
      Kimball 1st: Block 2, Lot 71.
      Wells: Block 28, Lot 2.
      Half Breed Tract: T66 R6 (Lee County, Iowa).
      B. Nauvoo Records:
      a. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 18.
      b. Nauvoo Marriages, p. 5.
      c. 70's Record, p. 40: Quorums 1, 5, 6 Pres., Missionary England, Stockman, Beekeeper in Bountiful Utah, Patriarch.
      d. Members, LDS, 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol. 3, pp. 562-568.
      e. Nauvoo Legion, p. 3: Commission Records for I. Barlow - 3rd. L.; rank date of 6 Apr 41; companies 1b, 1co, 1c; commiss. 16 Oct 41.
      f. Record of Baptisms for the Dead, Nauvoo, by Black and Black, Vol. 1, pp. 238-240. (See entry below.)
      g. Early Mormon Record, Vol. 1, p. 68.
      C. Histories:
      a. Chronicles of Courage, V. 1, p. 333.
      b. Conquerors of the West, V. 1, pp. 144-146.
      c. Our Pioneer Heritage, V. 8, p. 155: In speaking of museum holdings: "A beautiful Steinway (piano), for which the William Showell family sent east soon after their arrival in Utah in 1854, bears witness of the pioneer's determination to continue their cultural pursuits. The Hampson Sidney Beatie family Steinway recalls the story of a pioneer woman who made 200 pairs of embroidered gauntlet gloves and sold them at $5.00 per pair to California immigrants, so that she might earn the $1,000 with which to purchase the first Steinway to be brought to Utah. There is a small upright piano of English make which was brought across the plains in 1863. Others included in the collection are a rosewood Chickering, a rosewood owned by the the Barlow family of Bountiful and a box piano brought in 1862 by Abraham Hunsaker..." Also V. 9, p. 6; V. 12, p. 462.
      d. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, pp. 132, 736.
      e. Kirtland-Zion's Camp, p.5.
      f. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, pp. 687-688.
      D. Other Sources:
      a. Letter from Nauvoo Restoration, Inc.
      b. Nauvoo Data Bank, 8 pp.: 1842 Tax Record for Israel Barlow (Kimball Block 70-2) gives the following values: Cattle $30, Horses $160, Wagons $30, Clocks $5, Other Property $30.
      c. History of the Half-Breed Tract, from History of Lee County, Iowa, by N.C. Roberts and S.W. Moorehead.
      d. Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi.
      e. Bodyguards of Joseph Smith, 1p.: Israel Barlow listed as one of 60 men.
      f. Mormon Historical Studies, Fall 2004, Vol. 5, p. 106, A list of those licensed to preach the gospel for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published in the Messenger and Advocate, Kirtland, Ohio, June 3, 1836: "Licenses were recorded, the preceding Quarter in the License Records, in Kirtland, Ohio. Thomas Burdick, Recording Clerk: Israel Barlow."
      E. Quotes from various sources:
      a. Joseph Holbrook Autobiography, typescript, BYU-S, pg. 32 [sounds like Zion's Camp]: "We had many good instructions given us while on this journey which if I could have been prepared to have kept a proper record, I should have been much benefitted thereby and as I have not the list of the names before me, I will give only some of those I best remember who formed a part of our company, viz: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Joseph Young, Lyman Wight, Wilford Woodruff, John M. Chidester and wife, Alanson Ripley and wife, Chandler Holbrook, John Tanner, Nathan Tanner, Wililiam Smith, Heman T. Hyde, Milton Holmes, Levi Hancock, Martin Harris, Leonard Rich, Jess Harmon, Orson Hyde, Parley P. Pratt, Lyman Johnson, Luke Johnson, Zerubbabel Snow, Jacob Gates and wife, David Patten, Warren Parrish, Jackson Smith, John Fossett, Almon W. Babbit, Eleazer Miller, Geroge Crooks [?], Zebedee Coltrin, Harvey Brown, Alden Childs, Mr. [Joseph] Nichols, Joseph Hancock, Solomon Humphrey, Martin Allred, Solon Foster, John D. Parker, Jedediah M. Grant, Frederick G. Williams, Charles C. Rich, Solomon Angel, John Carter, Exra Thayer, Samuel Brown, Orson Hyatt, Roger Orton, Sylvester Smith, Elias R. Wells, Joseph B. Nobel, James Ive, James Foster, Joseph Holbrook, and family."
      b. John Taylor, "Nauvoo Journal," BYU Studies 23:22: "I arose and said Brother Young has spoken as I would have done. I acquiesce in the statements made by him to select men to go and instruct the Church and put them on their guard; and when those in the counties round see that we are using our influence to put these things down it will have some effect on the honest. The Anti-Mormons wish to publish the thefts and charge them to the Mormons and thus raise an excitement, and to bring ruin and desolation upon this people. The following persons were then nominated: Charles Bird, Jesse C. Braley, William Cutler, John Eldredge, H.B. Jacobs, Thomas McKenzie, H. Elderedge, William Miller, Jacob Gates, B. Wilson, Egan Holton, Daniel Browett, Truman Gillett, W.G. Wilson, Alphonzo Young, Samuel Richards, Israel Barlow, D. D. Hunt, William Anderson, John Spires, D.M. Repsher, Andrew Moore, Brother Sanders, J.L. Burnham."
      c. Times and Seasons, Vol. 1, pg. 111: "In Quincy, on the 23rd of Feb. by Elder Isaac Morley, Mr. Israel Barlow to Miss Elizabeth Haven."
      d. Times and Seasons, Vol. 2, pg. 355: "Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Ilinois represented in the General Assembly, That Sidney Rigdon, George A. Robinson, Samuel James, Wilson Law, Daniel H. Wells, Hyram Smith, George Miller, William Marks, Peter Haws, Vinson Knight, John Scott, D.O. Smith, William Huntington Sr., Ebenezer Robinson, R.B. Thompson, William Law, James Allred, John T. Barnett, Theodore Turley, John C. Bennett, Elias Higbee, Isaac Higbee, Joseph Smith, A. Cutler, Israel Barlow, R.D. Foster, John F. Olnery, John Snider, Leonard Soby, Orson Pratt, James Kelly, Sidney Knowlton, John P. Greene, John F. Weld, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing Association, and by that name shall be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered, in all counts and places, and may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure."
      e. Stanley B. Kimball, BYU Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 132: "Apparently the first Mormons in Lee County were Israel Barlow and about thirty others who fled there from Caldwell County, Missouri, during the fall and winter Exodus of 1838-39. Most Missouri Mormons headed for the ferries at Quincy, Illinois, and Louisiana, Missouri, but some did not. In Lee county, Barlow was made welcome at Montrose. He was attracted to that community."
      f. Daniel Tyler, autobiography, p. 38: "At the Spring conference, in 1853, I was called on a mission to Europe, with a number of others. While crossing the ocean, when about two hundred miles from Liverpool, we encountered, what the captain said, was the severest storm he had experienced during thirty years of seafaring life. There were seven elders on board the English sail ship, Ashburton. When the storm became the most severe only four could be got together. We had taken second cabin passage, and, of course, had a room with bunks in which to sleep. To this room elders Charles R. Dana, Israel Barlow and myself repaired, leaving Brother Thomas Colburn outside to watch and tend the door while we prayed and rebuked the raging wind and boisterous sea. We had but just commenced to pray when the door of the ventilator of our room flew open and let a large stream of water upon us. Brother Barlow sprang upon one of the upper bunks and closed the door and held it to its place while Brother Dana and myself continued the prayer. By this time the ship had come so near capsizing that a bottle of ink being open and standing over one doorpost, which was about six feet high, emptied its contents upon the opposite post about one and a half feet from the door sill, making an angle, by actual measurement, of over fifty degrees, which was just about as far as she could go without capsizing. Just at this juncture the wind was rebuked by the servants of the Lord, and so sudden was the reaction that the ship creaked from stem to stern and we did not know but what she might fall to pieces. But the main damage done was to lose her sails and cause the yardarm to fall and break the ship-carpenter's leg. The cargo was shiped [shifted] to one side so that she could not run level during the remainder of the voyage. We had on board, among other passengers, a Presbyterian temperance lecturer, with whom we had had many arguments on the use of the spiritual gifts, he taking the view that they were done away because no longer needed. His berth was on the opposite side of the ship. Before the prayer was closed and the door opened, he stood trembling with excitement outside. No sooner was the door opened than he exclaimed hastily and in an excited manner, "Haven't you been praying? Haven't you been praying?" On Elder Dana inquiring why he asked that question, he nervously answered, "I thought you had; the wind stopped blowing so suddenly."
      During the remainder of the journey, whenever there was more than a gentle breeze of wind, this man and his friends were sure to find their way to our cabin, as though they thought, if all the balance of the ship sank, our side would float all right.
      This is one of the many incidents that might be cited to show that our enemies are not sincere in opposing our doctrines. I firmly believe that many people who hear the gospel preached have an inward conviction of its truth; but the love of riches and popularity with the fear of their friends deserting them and the frowns of the world, in many instances, cause their love to grow cold and they smother their convictions and become our enemies. On this subject the Lord has said, "Every ear shall hear and every heart shall be penetrated" [D&C 1:2]. I think both occur at the same time; that there may be a time in the future when they will feel it much stronger, when it is too late to benefit them, I also admit; for they will even seek death and not be able to find it."

      18. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007) provides the following information (also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com): Israel Barlow acted as proxy for the following proxy baptisms in 11 Jun 1843 in Nauvoo per "Nauvoo Baptismal Records for the Dead":
      a. Heman Barlow, proxy was the nephew to Heman, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31.
      b. Jonathan Barlow, b. 23 Jun 1769 at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, father Nathan Barlow, mother Margaret Purchase, spouse Annis Gillett, m.14 Nov 1804 at Granville. Proxy is son of Jonathan, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31.
      c. Margaret Purchase, b. 1739 at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, father Jonathan purchase, mother Margaret Worthington, spouse Nathan Barlow, m. 19 Oct 1765 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, proxy was grandson of Margaret, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31.
      d. Nathan Barlow, b. 26 Mar 1726 at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, father James Barlow, mother Mary Harmon, spouse Margaret Purchase, m. 19 Oct 1765 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, d. Granville, proxy was grandson to Nathan, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31.

      19. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription:
      A. "Within the Stoker households life was always on the move. In 1852 and again in 1858 John was called to be a member of a prayer circle that had been organized. In 1858 Judge Holbrook made a note in his journal about this: "Great Salt Lake City, Jan. 22, 1858. A List of the Names to Form a Prayer Circle in North Canyon Ward selected by Heber C. Kimball, John Stoker, Bishop Daniel Carter 2nd Counselor, Anson Call, Chester Lovelond, Jeremiah Willey, Israel Barlow, P.G. Sessions, James Duncan, Thomas F. Fisher, Martin Wood, William Atkinson, John Ellis, E.G. Hogan, Joseph Holbrook, John W. Lasley. The prayer circle of north canyon ward was organized by choosing John Stoker president, Joseph Holbrook clerk. The prayer circle was held at P.G. Sessions upper room which was dedicated for that purpose and kept up until April 4, 1858 when it adjourned till further instructions which did not continue after the move south... This January 1858 prayer circle must have been a revival of the August 1852 organization. All of the original eight, except Joseph B. Noble, are listed above as well as eight new names. It is known that the prayer circle later met in the room above the Bountiful Tabernacle vestry" (Barlow 1968).
      B. "The time finally came to release John from his calling as Bishop- due to his ill health. On 4 August 1874 a letter was sent to the North Kanyon Ward from Brigham Young giving notice of John's release as Bishop and Anson Call receiving the mantle of spiritual leadership. Five days later the following account was recorded.
      "Sunday half past 10 A.M. August 9, 1874 Meeting called to order by Bishop Call Letter of appointment read various ones spoke Ex-Bp. John Stoker, his former Couns. Wm. Atchison [etc]...
      Bro Israel Barlow rather regretted the change having taken place, and stated that he had been offered the office of Bishop but declined, for which he had always been sorry. He therefore thought that Bishop Stoker ought not to have resigned.
      Bro. Henry Tingy stated that Bro. Barlow had spoken his mind. He said that Bro. Stoker was called a slow horse, but he liked a slow horse best for he would get through the sooner, but felt like sustaining the present encumbered" (Barlow 1968)."

      20. Article by Brent A. Barlow, "Daddy, Do Not Leave Me Here," Ensign, Jul 2009, 34-36:
      "It remains the responsibility of each individual to know his kindred dead. ... Even if the [temple] work is done, then it is still each person's responsibility to study and become acquainted with his ancestors." President Joseph Fielding Smith quoted in Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894–1994 (1995), 184.
      The blessings of turning the hearts of the children to the fathers will come as we become familiar with the faith and trials, joys and sorrows of our ancestors.
      James Nathaniel Barlow was born on May 8, 1841, in Nauvoo, Illinois, to Israel and Elizabeth Haven Barlow. He died a few hours after his birth and was buried in a small cemetery in a field in Nauvoo. The memory of his short life might have been lost or confined to simply a name, date, and place if his father, Israel, had not written a letter to his wife, Elizabeth, on September 12, 1853.
      Israel's letter was in response to his wife's request for him to stop in Nauvoo as he traveled from their home in Salt Lake City to his mission in England. Elizabeth wanted Israel to locate their little son's grave and rebury James in the main cemetery east of Nauvoo. Israel agreed.
      Searching for the Grave
      On Wednesday, August 31, 1853, Israel spent the day looking for the place where little James Nathaniel was buried but could not find it. "The flowers that were around his grave were all destroyed but the morning glories were spread some two rods [33 feet, or 10 meters] or more around his grave," Israel wrote of his search. "They made a very beautiful appearance on the weeds and potatoes that were growing there; however, they did not aid me in finding the grave."
      The next day Israel sought the help of George Holman, the man who cared for the area. They dug around and found the little graves of James and his cousin Mary side by side. The coffins were broken and the remains were in disarray. For a moment, as Israel gazed upon the scene, he gave up on the idea of removing the remains to the new cemetery.
      "Something spoke, seemingly twice: Move it, move it," Israel's letter continued.
      "It seemed quite an undertaking as my time was mostly spent. ... I therefore turned away and concluded that I would leave them there until the future. ...
      "I had not gone over more than one rod when I heard a voice. Shall I say it was not audible, but so distinct to my mind that I could [hear] it say, 'Daddy, do not leave me here.' I turned about again and walked to the grave and ... concluded that I would remove my little boy at any rate. I felt a peculiar calm and peace of mind which before I did not feel. ... But this much I will say — that I never was more conscientious of any duty done in my life."
      Reburying James and Mary
      On Friday, September 2, Israel and Mr. Holman took the bodies to the Nauvoo Burying Ground. "There I interred my little boy the second time with Mary, his cousin," wrote Israel. "There remains now a rude stone to tell where they are with the letters cut on in a rude and imperfect manner: 'J. N. Barlow.' ... After setting the stones at the head and foot of the graves, the time of my departure had come. Could I go away? No! There was something that caused my feelings to linger there and bound me fast. ... I felt a desire to dedicate myself and all that I might call mine into the hands of the Lord that I might be counted worthy to come forth with [my son] in the morning of the First Resurrection. ... The last