Charlotte Louisa Campbell was born on November 29, 1887 at Park Valley, Utah. She was the fifth daughter and the fifth of eleven children born to Jonathan and Sarah Raleigh Campbell. Her early years were spent at Park Valley where her father operated a farm and where she attended school. She started college at Brigham Young College in Logan, went to Rick’s Academy at Rexburg, Idaho for a year, and then returned to Brigham Young College where she graduated in 1908 with a teacher’s certificate.
She taught school at Rexburg, at Lewisville, and then at Lincoln Idaho. She met her future husband, George Edward Barlow, at Lincoln and was married to him in the Salt Lake Temple in September 1913.
George and Charlotte Barlow lived on a homesteaded dry farm near Lincoln during their first married years. Later, they operated irrigated farms for the United States Sugar Beet Seed Company at Idaho Falls and at Firth. Their three oldest children–Raleigh, Maurice, and Sarah–were born while they lived in Idaho. In 1920, they moved to Cascade, Montana where they farmed for eight years. Two nieces–Hazel and Helen Campbell–came to live with them and their fourth child–Shirley–was born during this period.
George Barlow started to work as a field representative of the Utah–Idaho Sugar Company in 1923 and continued to work in this capacity while also carrying on an active farming program for the next 15 years. While living at Cascade, the Barlows took an active role in neighborhood and church affairs. They helped to organize the first branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Cascade and George Barlow served as the Branch President. Their neighbors voted to name the rural community in which they lived Barlow in their honor.
The Barlow family bought a farm at Sims, some 30 miles from Cascade, in 1928. A productive farming operation was carried on at this location. Joyce, the youngest child, was born while the family lived at Sims. All of the family were active in community and church affairs. The children participated in various school and 4-H club activities, and George Barlow served as an elected member and as chairman of the School Board and also of the local Irrigation District Commission. The family moved to Great Falls for two years during the late 1930s where George Barlow sold insurance. They returned to the farm at Sims in 1940 and stayed there until 1944 when they sold their Montana property and moved to Los Angeles where they hoped to take life a bit easier.
The Barlows spent eighteen busy but happy years in Los Angeles before George Barlow died in 1962. Charlotte Barlow then sold her home and moved to San Leandro, California where she made her home with her daughter and son-in-law, Joyce and Glenn A. Case, until her death on October 16, 1968.
Throughout her life Charlotte Barlow always manifested a strong interest in service to others and a devout interest in the work of the church. She and her husband were generous in their gifts to the less fortunate. They help to establish branches of the church at Cascade and Sims, and missionaries frequently stated their home. Charlotte Barlow was particularly active in the work of the Relief Society and served for some years as District President of the Relief Society in Montana. Two of her children served on missions.
She continued her active interest in church affairs after she moved to California and became particularly active in genealogical work. During her adult life, she worked in the temple on every possible occasion. She was a steady worker at the Los Angeles Temple after it opened in 1955 and later at the Oakland Temple. Charlotte Barlow was a pillar of strength to her family and her associates. Her standards were ever high and her life was a living testimony of devotion to the high principles for which she stood. She was always a willing worker and a cause of charity and righteousness. Her children will long remember her as a firm but loving, understanding, and wonderful mother. She was survived in her death by her five children, the two nieces she brought into her family, 22 living grandchildren and one great-grandson, three brothers and three sisters, and by a multitude of friends.
