Walker Barlow Obit

While searching randomly on Google, I found the obituary of my great-great-grandfather, Walker Barlow.  We go to his gravesite in the Ogden Cemetery most years on Memorial Day, and I was excited to learn more. I think of him as the transition generation, around the turn of the century. They walked across America, and lived to see cars and airplanes.

BARLOW, WalkerDated: Monday, July 3, 1933
  Headline: Pioneer Dies During Sleep-Walker Barlow Services Will Be Conducted Wednesday
    Walker Barlow, 82, died early Sunday evening during a nap at the family home, 708 Twelfth street. He had been in good health and attended the old folks’ outing last week.
He was born June 9, 1851, at Blakely, Lancashire, England, a son of Thomas and Anne Hulme Barlow.
He arrived in Utah September 13, 1861, having walked from the Missouri river in the company of Captain Horne. He was married in the Salt Lake endowment house to Clarissa Barker in March, 1876. Mrs. Barlow died January 19, 1926.
Mr. Barlow had lived at the Twelfth street address for 52 years.
He was a member of the high priest quorum of the Ogden stake and was active in the Twenty-first ward of the L.D.S. church. For many years he operated the Mound Fort dairy and lately had been engaged in truck gardening.
Surviving are the following sons and daughters: Mrs. E.J. Watkins, Ogden; George W. Barlow, Salt Lake; former City Judge Simon Barlow and J. Fred Barlow, Ogden; Joseph Willard Barlow, Santa Ana, Calif.; Ezra T. Barlow, Salt Lake and Ellis E. Barlow, Los Angeles; 24 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at two o’clock Wednesday in the L.D.S. Seventh ward chapel with Bishop T.L. Richards of the Twenty-first ward presiding.
Friends may call at Larkin and Sons chapel Tuesday afternoon and evening, then at the home of Simon Barlow, 700 Twelfth street from ten until one o’clock Wednesday. Interment will be made in the Ogden city cemetery.

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