Biography of Elizabeth Cook Barlow
By Elizabeth Ann Barlow Stringham, Bountiful, Utah, October 24, 1933
This being my Mother’s 81 birthday, and also Father’s and Mother’s wedding day, I thought it a very opportune time to start a little sketch of her life.
At the last meeting of the daughters of the Pioneers, I was asked to prepare a sketch of Mother’s life for the next meeting to be held at Mrs. Sylvia Stevens home, in Bountiful, on November 10, 1933. This, too, is quite a coincident as this location is my Mothers girl hood home. The old storey and half of this home still stands in the rear of this home, (East of 8th East and Center Street)/, and is still in a state of good preservation. It was made of adobe, by my Grandfather, Mark Cook, in ( ), and my mother assisted him greatly in carrying and placing many if the adoben on the scaffold, because help was scarce. They and a large farm to tend and only one little boy to help older than she, and one five years younger.
