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Show MRS. W.G. BLACK OBSERVES 86th BIRTHDAY Mrs. W. G. Black, early Utah state pioneer woman, observed her eighty-sixth birthday Wednesday at her home. During the day Mrs. Black received re-ceived a number of gifts and greetings from friends and relatives. rela-tives. A daughter of George W. and Martha Ann Townsend Lufkin, she was born March 26, 1872, in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Black recalls that her father had the first hotel in Salt Lake City. At the age of seven years, she went with, her family to Southern Utah, settling in Virgin, where they lived one year. In the early days of frontier pioneer life,, Mrs. Black recalls many incidents of interest among them the fact that she picked cotton cot-ton two summers in sand burrs near Dalton in Southern Utah. During the early years of her life she lived at intervals in St. George and Panaca, Nevada. She married William A. Barron in the Salt Lake Endowment House, October 12, 1872, and the young couple lived for five years in Panaca, later going to Skull Valley to take care of Porter Rockwell's stock ranch. Eleven years later they moved to Salt Lake City and at later intervals lived in North Point, Deseret, Logan, Lo-gan, Richfield, and Springville. Mr. Barron died January 17, 1925, and Mrs. Barron later married mar-ried William G. Black, August 9, 192 7 in the Salt Lake temple. She has always been an L. D. S. worker work-er and also a worker in the Red Cross. She proudly proclaims the fact that she had two boys in the service during the World War, one in the navy and one in the army. She is the mother of 11 children, child-ren, seven of whom are living: Mrs. Minerva Gillette, Phoenix, Arizona; Virgil Barron, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. E. J. Norton, Salt Lake City; F. Henry Barron, Poca-jtello, Poca-jtello, Idaho; J. Clifford Barron, (Continued on page ten) airs. W. G. Black Observes Birthday (Continued from page one) Salt Lake City; G. L, Barron, Springville; A. C. Barron, Kays-ville. Kays-ville. She has 19 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Black is very active and has always liked knitting and crocheting, and other types of fine sewing. |