Victoria Elizabeth Barnard Campbell - 1867-1929

Life History of Victoria Elizabeth Barnard Campbell

Written by daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Stotter Campbell Bowles

In far away Hungerford, England a little girl was born to Thomas Barnard and Elizabeth on the 19th of February 1867. They named her Victoria Elizabeth after the Queen of England. She was the eldest of three children. Her brother and sister passed away while small. Her mother passed away when she was 12 years old. She had cancer and it ate one half of her face away. Her father would take care of her mother's face before he went to work and then my mother watched her during the day.

They joined the Church in England when Mother was 14 or 15, later she and her father came to America. They Church paid their way. Then she and her Father worked and paid it back. She did housework.

When she was 16 she married Robert Lemuel Campbell on 8 November 1883 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. They lived in Salt Lake for a while then Father went to southern Utah and Mother rode a freight wagon down to see him.

They lived in Kaysville when their first son was born 28 November 1884, he died at birth. Then they moved to Toquerville and on 3 November 1885 another son was born, they named him Alfred Henry. Father worked very hard at whatever he could get, farm work, herding sheep, etc. They moved to Kaysville again and while there another son was born 11 July 1888, they named him Hyrum Lemuel, and on the 13 July 1890 a daughter Sylvia Ruth named after a ship father sailed on.

Mother loved to knit and crochet, she knit our stockings and socks for Father and the boys. She was a hard working woman. In 1891 they moved to Benjamin, Utah, and lived in a tent while Father was building a two room brick house. Before he got it built, another daughter was born, 7 August 1892. She was named Sarah Elizabeth Stotter. Father put shocks of barley around the tent to keep out the wind and make it warmer for Mother.

While living here they farmed and Mother raised turkeys and sold them. Father worked at the brick yard when he could as he was sick a lot of the time. Mother was a very good nurse she sure helped a lot of people. Father went a lot and helped take care of the sick when they were quarantined.

While living in Benjamin another son was born. They named him Robert Thomas he was born on 9 October 1894. On the 10th of November 1896 a son Napthali Barnard was born he had spinal meningitis, he was very sick, but through their faith and prayers and being administered to he got better, but it affected his speech. While he was small he got burnt with hot grease all down his face and it left quite a scar.

On the 14th of January 1898 a daughter Henrietta was born. On the 20th of March 1900 Amelia was born. In the spring of 1902 Father started for Idaho, but the roads being bad he came back. While he was gone, a daughter Mildred was born on 24 April 1902. Sister Hand took care of Mother. After a few weeks Father and Robert Thomas went to Idaho and left Mother and Hyrum to run the farm. Father came back that fall and the next spring they moved to Idaho. They shipped their furniture and livestock on the train and took the family in covered wagons. Grandfather Barnard and his family went at the same time, it took 12 days to make the trip.

They lived in Rudy one year and then moved to Rigby. Father bought 80 acres and cleared the sagebrush off, plowed and diked the ground and made a nice farm. They raised raspberries, currents and had a nice garden which supplied us with food which was hard to get in those days having a large family to buy shoes and clothing for. We all had to work and that was a good blessing.

On 20 July 1904 another daughter was born named Zina. Mother worked early and late sewing, cooking and knitting stockings for her little family besides all the other work. On the 4th January 1911 a daughter Inez Nicholls was born.

Mother was Relief Society Teacher and worked in the YWMIA. One time she went to Ogden to take care of Father's brother John, his wife being dead. After he got better she went to Salt Lake to take care of his sister. Tillie as she thought she was going to die. She had Mother do her temple clothes up so they would be ready, but she never passed away. Mother passed away at Rexburg on 10 December 1929 of albumin poisoning, she had been sick all summer.

In October before she died, she wanted to go to Utah so Clifford and myself were going to conference and we took her with us. She sure enjoyed herself. She said she knew if she hadn't gone she would never get to go. I think she knew she wasn't her for long and she wasn't for she passed away December. A wonderful woman full of faith and courage to do her part and was loved by all.

Back row left to right: Alfred Henry, Robert Thomas, Hyrum Lemuel

Middle row left to right: Zina, Sarah Elizabeth Stotter, Sylvia Ruth, Amelia, Henrietta, Mildred

Front row left to right: Napthali Barnard, Victoria Elizabeth, Inez Nicholls, Robert Lemuel Tillie Hobbs

Victoria Elizabeth Barnard Campbell