Biography

Lorah Jane Bowdidge Berry Barton’s life history illustrates the ramifications of the one-drop racial temple and priesthood ban that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enforced on members who appeared to be white, but who actually had limited Black African ancestry. Although the First Presidency would not officially announce a one-drop policy until 1907, Lorah fully experienced the effects of such a policy in the late nineteenth century. All documents notate Lorah’s race as “white,” but because her father was racially mixed, she was barred from receiving a temple endowment and sealing in 1885. Lorah requested an exemption to the Church’s decision, by citing three other biracial women who had entered the temple to obtain endowments and sealings, but the leaders of the Salt Lake Stake where she resided, denied her request. John Taylor, the Church president at the time, evidently upheld the denial. Her marriage to Hyrum Byron Barton resulted in his excommunication from the Church, although Lorah retained her membership. Lorah’s children were baptized into the Church and two of them stand at the head of multiple generations of faithful Latter-day Saint families and descendants.

Lorah was the eldest daughter of James Preston Berry, a biracial barber and his white British wife, Mary Bowdidge Berry Smith.[1] She was born in Salt Lake City on January 15, 1865. The Berrys had Lorah blessed in the Fourteenth Ward on March 25 of the same year. The bishop of the ward, Abraham Hoagland, performed the ordinance.[2]

Shortly after the birth of their second daughter, Mary Elizabeth Bowdidge Berry, the Berrys divorced. James Preston Berry moved to Austin, Nevada to work at his brother’s barbershop.[3] Mary refused to leave Utah Territory and her friends, resulting in the break-up of the family late in 1871.[4] The court awarded Mary custody of the girls.[5]

Lorah’s mother remarried soon after the divorce and had a son in 1872 with her new husband, Frank Smith.[6] This marriage was also short lived due to Smith’s death within a year or so of the marriage. Lorah’s mother, Mary, supported Lorah, Mary Elizabeth, her son, Frank Smith, Jr., and Alice, an older daughter who immigrated to Utah with her, by working as a seamstress.[7]

In the summer of 1884, Mary B. Berry Smith and her children moved into the Eighteenth Ward where all the children received baptisms and confirmations. Although it was customary to baptize children born to Church members at the age of eight, Lorah was considerably older than that when she received the ordinance; she was nineteen years old. James Leatham baptized her on August 5, 1884. Bishop Orson F. Whitney confirmed her two days later on August 7.[8]

As a teenager, Lorah began working for Hyrum Byron Barton’s clothing store. Barton was a Latter-day Saint convert from England who pursued many vocations. He taught school and later became a mercantilist and a real estate broker. He kept a herd of cattle and delivered milk to neighbors, and after receiving limited training in medicine, he treated patients.[9] As he and Lorah became better acquainted, he developed romantic feelings for her and wanted to marry her.[10] Hyrum was already married and had three children, with one on the way, but hoped to make Lorah a plural wife.[11]

Hyrum’s legal wife, Georgina Calder Crabb Barton, had other ideas. She and Hyrum had been married and sealed together in a ceremony that Latter-day Saints consider binding for eternity, on January 1, 1880, in the Endowment House, a temporary structure used for sacred rituals while the Salt Lake Temple was under construction. She was not enthusiastic about Hyrum bringing young Lorah into the family, but Georgina was not the only obstacle to the marriage. A sanctioned plural marriage meant a temple marriage between an endowed man and an endowed woman, rituals that required recommends from ecclesiastical leaders. Lorah petitioned President Joseph E. Taylor for a temple recommend in September 1885 to allow her to receive an endowment, likely in the Endowment House. Taylor was the first counselor in the Salt Lake Stake (a regional geographic unit that encompassed several congregations, roughly equivalent to a Catholic diocese) under President Angus Munn Cannon, but because Cannon was hiding on “the underground” from federal marshals to avoid standing trial for polygamous cohabitation, Taylor was acting president of the stake. Lorah admitted that her father was biracial, but she argued that she knew that exceptions to the racial temple restrictions had been made in the past and she requested an exception for herself. Faced with this request from a young woman he knew to have Black African ancestry, Joseph Taylor turned to John Taylor, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for permission for Lorah to receive her temple endowment.[12]

Joseph Taylor wrote to President John Taylor on September 5, 1885, and related what he knew about Lorah and her family. Her mother was white, but her “father was a very light mullatto [sic],” Joseph Taylor explained. Lorah and Hyrum Barton had “fallen in love,” but Taylor believed Barton could be “jeopardizing his future by such an alliance. . . She [Lorah] now desires to press her claim to privileges that others who are tainted with that blood have received.” Lorah knew that other women in the stake who also had mixed racial ancestry had received endowments despite that ancestry. She specified by name Rebecca Henrietta Foscue Bentley Meads, Ellenor Georgina Reid Jones, and Margaret Elizabeth Reid Jones Beckley as examples with whom she was familiar. Joseph Taylor admitted that he knew the three women who Lorah named had been allowed to receive temple endowments and he went on to request an exemption for Lorah: “The question I desire to ask is; Can you give this girl any privileges of a like character? The girl is very pretty and quite white and would not be suspected of having tainted blood in her veins unless her parentage was known.”[13]

John Taylor likely denied the request although his reply is not publicly available. In any case, Joseph Taylor did not give Lorah a temple recommend. Barton nonetheless married her despite their inability to be sealed together in the Endowment House. Salt Lake newspaper articles and an unverifiable source—minutes from the Salt Lake High Council published anonymously—tell the next chapter in their histories.

On May 29, 1886, Lorah Berry Barton gave birth to a baby girl, Ethel, who was called “Birdie.” On July 7, 1886, Hyrum Barton was arrested in Ogden, where he was living, on a charge of unlawful cohabitation because he had cohabited with Lorah while he remained married to his first wife, Georgina Barton. Utah Commissioner Albert Norrell reviewed Hyrum’s case the next day. Norrell then called Lorah as a witness so she and her baby came to Salt Lake with Hyrum.[14]

The first person to testify at the hearing was Orson F. Whitney, bishop of the 18th Ward, who told the commission that Hyrum Barton and Lorah Berry had resided in his ward two years before and that Hyrum had never applied for a recommend to take a second wife. Lorah, however, had come to him seeking a temple recommend, but he had denied her. He claimed to know nothing about why she wanted to go to the temple and did not know she and Hyrum had married, except by rumor. He also did not know if she got a recommend from someone else. Bishop Whitney had also heard it rumored that Hyrum had divorced his first wife to marry Lorah, which would be “contrary to Church discipline.”[15] He testified, “there was a case pending before him as bishop, in which Barton was on trial” because of the rumored desertion of his legal wife and family and his marriage to Lorah, but Hyrum had moved away before the matter was finalized.[16]

Next, Georgina Calder Barton testified concerning her marriage to Hyrum and subsequent divorce. She said that they had married in 1880 and had divorced early in December 1885. They had ceased living as man and wife a couple of months prior to the legal divorce, but Hyrum boarded with her for about six months after the divorce. The source of the trouble between them was her husband’s interest in Lorah and the attention he paid her. She had heard both before and after the divorce, that he had married Lorah.[17] Legal records substantiate Georgina Barton’s testimony. She had previously brought divorce proceedings against Hyrum and appeared as the plaintiff in the case.[18]

When Lorah Berry took the witness stand, one newspaper reporter described the scene this way, “Miss Laura Berry, smiling, cool and self-confident came in, smiled and bowed to Mr. Peters [an examiner for the Utah Commission], then slightly yawned and gave her name as ‘Laura Berry.’” What followed was a vague recollection and retelling of events from the previous two years, including her marriage and the birth of her baby. “I don’t know how or when I was married exactly. . . I was married to a gentleman I had met a few weeks before and we went somewhere, and some man performed a little ceremony, and I took it to be a marriage . . . I thought I was married, I don’t think it was a marriage now.” When asked about her baby’s age and the circumstances surrounding her birth, Lorah was equally opaque in her answers. She professed ignorance as to the date of her daughter’s birth and when asked where her baby was born, she replied, “I refuse to tell.” She claimed to have been entirely alone during the birth with no doctor in attendance.[19]

Lorah admitted to going out on drives with Hyrum Barton after she began clerking at his store two or three years before the hearing. Now that she lived in Ogden, Hyrum boarded at her house. After her daughter was born, when she moved to Ogden, she made no plan to go there with Hyrum, but, “simply happened to go on the same train” with him. She had talked to him about marriage, “He said if he could marry me through the Mormon Church he would do it. If he could I would marry him to-day.”[20]

Oddly enough, in her effort to protect Hyrum from prosecution, she said the name of the man who she had married was “Preston.” Lorah stated, “Preston was the name he gave me. I have never seen him since two or three weeks after my marriage. John Preston is the father of my child. He was a stranger here.” Mr. Peters asked if he was a white or a black man. Lorah answered, “A white one I guess. He looked like it.”[21]

The federal official questioning Lorah pressed her hard during her testimony and threatened her with arrest, but she steadfastly refused to tell any more in the open hearing about when or where the baby was born. The examiner gave her until 4:00 to think about it and she retired from the hearing with a deputy.[22]

Lorah’s younger sister, Mary Elizabeth (Polly) Berry, and her mother, Mary Bowdidge Berry Smith, were compelled to testify in the hearing. They both remembered Lorah leaving home in the spring of 1886, but did not know at that time that she was married. Her mother had seen her when she called at her home in July 1886, but did not think she was “in a delicate condition then.” Lorah’s mother, Mary, did not think her daughter was living in polygamy. She had checked to verify Hyrum Barton’s divorce from Georgina. One of Hyrum’s relatives told her that Judge Pyper had married Hyrum and Lorah.[23]

The commission summoned Lorah later in the afternoon. The commissioners hoped she had changed her mind about revealing when and where her baby was born. At this point Lorah said, “It seems so funny that you should want to know.” Commissioner Norrell told her that she was not the judge of that. She agreed to tell only him if it did not enter the newspapers. Norrell emptied the room of everyone but Lorah and himself. Five minutes later, the doors reopened, and the hearing resumed. He called several other witnesses who testified, followed by Hyrum Barton.[24]

Hyrum had no witnesses. The substance of his testimony was that he could not possibly be living in polygamy. He wanted Bishop Whitney to answer a question, “Whether it was not impossible to go into polygamy without a recommend. He [Barton] knew it was impossible. ‘Did you get a recommend from Bishop Whitney,’ he asked turning to Mrs. ‘Preston.’ ‘I went and couldn’t get one,’ she replied. ‘There!’ said Barton, triumphantly, and seemed to think his innocence established.” He went on to say the baby did not belong to him. Commissioner Norrell was not convinced. He set Hyrum’s bail at $1,500 and said he would render his decision in the morning.[25] Norrell ruled there was probable cause to believe Barton was guilty and would await the action of the grand jury. He set Lorah’s bail at $200 as a witness.[26] Barton was tried for unlawful cohabitation the following March 1888.[27] He was convicted and spent three months in the Utah State Penitentiary from February 15, 1889 until May 1889.[28]

Considering the detailed reports in the local news, it would seem the full story of Lorah Berry and Hyrum Barton’s marriage was contained there, but that is not the case. The month following Hyrum and Georgina’s divorce, Georgina gave birth to their fourth child. Then in May, Lorah’s baby, Birdie was born. Two months after the Utah Commission held its hearing, on September 14, 1887, Hyrum and Georgina remarried.[29] Georgina gave birth to her last child on April 11, 1888. Evidently, Lorah was pregnant when Hyrum went to prison in 1889, because she gave birth to her second daughter, Lora (Lolla) Denver Barton on September 15, 1889. She had the baby in Denver. She might have gone to Denver earlier in her pregnancy to hide the obvious fact that Barton was living with two wives.[30]

Shortly after Hyrum and Lorah Berry Barton’s second daughter, Lolla, was born, it seems Hyrum petitioned the Salt Lake High Council to consider his case in light of what he believed to be the facts. The Council minutes report that on October 9, 1889, Hyrum Barton appeared before the assembled body and that Salt Lake Stake President Angus M. Cannon was present for the meeting. The Council reviewed Hyrum’s case and their previous actions. At the council meeting Bishop Orson F. Whitney contradicted part of his testimony before the Utah Commission. He now said that the Bishop’s Court of the Eighteenth Ward had disfellowshipped Hyrum Barton around 1885. The charge against Hyrum was that he had disobeyed counsel and broken “his oath of Chastity in going outside the law of God to take a plural wife.” Joseph E. Taylor reiterated his claim that Lorah Berry had “negro blood in her veins” and that he had told her when she requested a temple recommend that, “no elder in Israel was justified before God in marrying her.” Taylor added that he had told Hyrum about Lorah’s heritage. Taylor had known James Preston Berry personally. He had been Taylor’s barber. Even so, Taylor questioned Salt Lake barber William Hennifer, who had also been acquainted with Berry, and found that Hennifer agreed with Taylor’s assessment of Berry’s racial makeup.[31]

Much of the council meeting, in fact, hinged on Hennifer’s assessment of his fellow barber’s racial identity, with opposing sides claiming that Hennifer supported their respective positions. In answer to Taylor’s assertion that Hennifer believed Berry to have African ancestry, Hyrum said that he, too, had questioned William Hennefer about James Preston Berry’s race and Hennefer told him he could not tell “by looks that Mr. Berry had any colored blood in him.” Hyrum assured the Council that he “wanted to know if there was any colored blood in her [Lorah’s] veins” and went to others who had known James Preston Berry. They all told him, “that there was nothing in his appearance to cause them to think of such a thing.” Hyrum even questioned Bishop William Hickenlooper who had married James Preston and Mary Bowdidge Berry. Hickenlooper remembered the couple and said he had “no evidence that there was any negro blood in Mr. Berry’s veins.” Even Lorah’s mother denied that Berry had Black African ancestry. When Lorah asked William Hennefer about her father, he told her the same thing that he had told Hyrum.[32]

Joseph Taylor informed the Council that he was the person who had referred Lorah to William Hennifer. Salt Lake Stake President Angus M. Cannon also weighed in on the controversy. He had actually been at Joseph Taylor’s home in 1885 when Lorah met with Taylor. Cannon had also talked to William Hennifer and he “was satisfied that Mr. Berry was a Mullatto-had Negro blood in him.” Taylor agreed with Cannon, saying that he thought Berry “was about ⅙ Nigger from his appearance.” He expressed his regret and said he “would be glad if he could disprove it and relieve Bro Barton.”[33]

Hyrum Barton restated what Hennefer had told him. President Cannon reiterated that Hennefer had told him differently and summed up Hyrum’s case by stating, “Bro. Barton deserts his first wife to marry this girl and takes her to wife. [He] displeased the first one. He goes against counsel in doing it and to make the offense worse he marries outside the covenant.”[34]

In answer to questions the Council put forward about his marriage to Lorah, Hyrum told the group that an elder of the Church had performed his marriage to Lorah in the Fourteenth Ward.[35]

The Council sustained the Bishop’s Court decision and decided to “cut off” or in other words, excommunicate Hyrum Barton for his “great crime.” They admonished Hyrum to give up Lorah entirely, to cease to live with her and not indulge in any sexual gratification. He should, however, support her and her children and show evidence of true repentance if he expected mercy.[36]

The action of the Council did not cause Lorah and Hyrum to separate. They had one more child together on March 29, 1896, Tyler Hyrum Barton. Hyrum Barton’s two families lived close together on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake. Lorah was not in good health during Tyler’s early childhood, suffering from a lung ailment that was likely tuberculosis. Tyler wrote a reminiscence as an adult in which he remembered watching his father play the guitar while his mother tapped her toe to the beat of his strumming. He said his older sisters took care of him because his mother was so ill. His eldest sister was ten years his senior, so Tyler called her, “Birdie Mama.” Because Tyler was born after the first Manifesto (Latter-day Saint Church President Wilford Woodruff’s 1890 announcement that Latter-day Saints would no longer enter into plural marriages), when strangers were near, his family tried to hide him and if “lawmen” nosed around, his sister took him up the hill to what is now the Utah State Capitol grounds.[37]

It is unclear how much Lorah participated in the life of the Church after her marriage to Hyrum and his subsequent excommunication. Since Church leaders had never sanctioned their marriage, she may have stopped participating, but it is impossible to be sure what her beliefs were. Hyrum had tried, unsuccessfully, to legitimize their union, but he may have continued to believe there should have been nothing to bar this plural marriage. It seems that none of Hyrum and Lorah’s children received baptisms during their parents’ lifetimes, but all three eventually became baptized members of the Church. All three married Latter-day Saints. Lolla and Tyler, at least, received endowments and married in the Salt Lake Temple. Tyler served a mission for the Church to the British Isles in 1921.[38] Lolla and Tyler have many Latter-day Saint descendants. 

Lorah died on March 3, 1900 at the young age of thirty-five.[39] She died at the home of her half-sister, Alice Little.[40] Bishop Wardrop, of the Twelfth Ward, conducted the “impressive funeral” and Lorah was acknowledged as “the wife of Hyrum Barton” in the funeral notice published in the Salt Lake Heraldnewspaper.[41] After her funeral, she was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.[42]

Hyrum Barton died the next year on September 26, 1901.[43] Until their children were old enough to live on their own, various relatives took over their care.[44] For a time, even Georgina Barton, Hyrum’s first wife looked after them.[45]

On March 25, 1971, a vicarious endowment was done on Lorah’s behalf in the Salt Lake Temple followed by a marriage sealing to Hyrum Barton.[46] Having been denied these rituals in her lifetime, she nonetheless received them by proxy while the Church’s racial priesthood and temple ban was still in place.

By Tonya S. Reiter

[1] Lorah’s name was spelled in various ways during and after her lifetime. “Lora” and “Laura” are common alternatives.

[2] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members Collection, Fourteenth Ward, 1856-1909, microfilm 26,695, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[3] United States, 1870 Census, Nevada, Lander County, Austin.

[4] Territory of Utah, County of Salt Lake, Probate Court, 20 November 1871, Mary S. Berry v. James P. Berry, Petition for Divorce, Series 373, reel 19, box 14, folder 142, Utah Division of Archives and Record Services, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[5] Territory of Utah, County of Salt Lake, Probate Court, 2 January 1872, Mary S. Berry v. James P. Berry, Bill for Divorce, case 1128, series 373, reel 31, box 22, folder 78, Utah Division of Archives and Record Services, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[6] “Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946,” James F. Smith.

[7] United States, 1880 Census, Utah Territory, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, 15th Ward.

[8] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members Collection, 18th Ward [1849]-1912, microfilm 26,740, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[9] Tyler Barton, “Hyrum B. Baton,” FamilySearch, Family Tree Memories Page, Hyrum Byron Barton (KWCF-ZRZ), (accessed 21 July 2024).

[10] Joseph E. Taylor to John Taylor, September 5, 1885, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[11] FamilySearch, Family Tree, Georgina Calder Crabb ( KW6D-67R), (accessed 19 July 2025)

[12] Joseph E. Taylor to John Taylor, September 5, 1885, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[13] Joseph E. Taylor to John Taylor, September 5, 1885, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[14] “A Bad-Looking Case,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 8 July 1887, 3.

[15] “A Bad-Looking Case,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 8 July 1887, 3.

[16] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[17] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[18] Territory of Utah, County of Salt Lake, Probate Court, 2 December 1885, Georgina C. Barton v. Hyrum B. Barton, Bill of Divorce, case 1638, series 373, reel 37, box 25, folder 140, Utah Division of Archives and Record Services, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[19] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[20] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[21] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8; “Barton Bound Over,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 13 July 1887, 8.

[22] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[23] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[24] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[25] “A Startling Case,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 July 1887, 8.

[26] “Barton Bound Over,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 13 July 1887, 8-9.

[27] “In Judicial Circles, Monday March 5,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah), 8 February 1888, 5.

[28] Utah, U.S., State Prison Records, 1875-1947, Department of Corrections, Inmate Services Prison Commitment Registers, Series 80388, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[29] “Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941,” entry for Hyrum Byron Barton and Georgina Calder Crabb, 14 September 1887.

[30] Hyrum and Lorah’s son, Tyler, believed his father treated patients in Denver. See: Tyler H. Barton, “History of Tyler Hyrum Barton,” FamilySearch, Family Tree Memories Page under Tyler Hyrum Barton (KWC6-ZFV), (accessed 30 September 2024).

[31] Typed transcript of the Salt Lake Stake High Council minutes, October 9, 1889 as found in Anonymous, Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1894-1899, (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 2010), 29-30.

[32] Typed transcript of the Salt Lake Stake High Council minutes, October 9, 1889 as found in Anonymous, Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1894-1899, (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 2010), 29-30.

[33] Typed transcript of the Salt Lake Stake High Council minutes, October 9, 1889 as found in Anonymous, Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1894-1899, (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 2010), 29-30.

[34] Typed transcript of the Salt Lake Stake High Council minutes, October 9, 1889 as found in Anonymous, Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1894-1899, (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 2010), 29-30.

[35] Typed transcript of the Salt Lake Stake High Council minutes, October 9, 1889 as found in Anonymous, Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1894-1899, (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 2010), 29-30.

[36] Typed transcript of the Salt Lake Stake High Council minutes, October 9, 1889 as found in Anonymous, Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1894-1899, (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 2010), 29-30.

[37] Tyler H. Barton, “History of Tyler Hyrum Barton,” FamilySearch, Family Tree Memories Page under Tyler Hyrum Barton (KWC6-ZFV), (accessed 30 September 2024).

[38] "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Missionary Registers (Worldwide), 1860-1937," entry for Tyler Hyrum Barton, United States, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[39] “Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946,” Laura B. Barton, 1900. Her death was attributed to “consumption” in the death record, but the family later published a notice in the newspaper to say she died from “prostration, not consumption.” See “Cause of Mrs. Barton’s Death,” The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah) 10 March 1900, 8.

[40] “Death of Mrs. Barton,” Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah) 5 March 1900, 8.

[41] “Mrs. Barton Buried,” Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah) 7 March 1900, 3; “Burial of Mrs. Barton,” The Salt Lake Tribune(Salt Lake City, Utah), 7.

[42] Lora Bowdidge Berry Barton, Findagraave.com (accessed 30 September 2024). Her mother, Mary, died in December 1900. Mother and daughter share a grave marker.

[43] “Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946,” Hyrum Barton, 1901.

[44] Lorah’s mother, Mary, took them into her home. See: United States, 1900 Census, Utah, Salt Lake, County Salt Lake City, Third Precinct; Birdie spent time in Lorah’s brother, James’s home. See: United States, 1900 Census, Utah, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, Third Precinct; Lorah’s half-sister, Alice Little, had Lolla and Tyler in her home. See: 1900 Census, Utah, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, 48th Precinct.

[45] Tyler H. Barton, “History of Tyler Hyrum Barton,” FamilySearch, Family Tree Memories Page under Tyler Hyrum Barton (KWC6-ZFV), (accessed 30 September 2024).

[46] Laura Jane Bowdidge Berry (KWCF-ZRH), FamilySearch, Family Tree Ordinance Page (accessed 21 July 2025).

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