Correspondence, genealogy, funeral records, and poetry from the the family of Frederick E. Barker and his wife, Cecelia Sharp Barker, Utah. Records span in time from 1826-1967.

This collection contains a hand-written document of the Browning Family genealogy along with a typed document of the Middletons genealogy. Both items were transferred from Utah State University in June 2005.

Book: “Our Ancestry; As Told by Generations (From Adam Down to Date) by

Merlin J. Stone. Published November 26, 1920, Ogden, Utah. Genealogy on the Dee, Shaw,

Stone, and Taylor families of Ogden, Utah.

This collection was gifted to Weber State University Special Collections in 1999 by the Stewart Family following the death of Elizabeth in 1996. The collection contains most memorabilia items from Donnell and Elizabeth such as certificates, plaques, and scrapbooks. Four family albums were disassembled to preserve the photographs but are groups together by subject.

Letter from “Eunice” to “Thelia”, Ogden, Utah dated July 19, 1891. Letter is

filled with news about children and other homey matters. There is some suggestion that Thelia

may be a sister, since Eunice requests that Thelia tell “mother” that one of Eunice’s babies has

his cradle.

Correspondence to early Ogden, Utah businessman, Fred J. Kiesel. Letters are from his mother, his sisters, Marie and Louise, and his grandfather, Christoph H. Kiesel. Several letters are written in German and these have typewritten pages of English translation. Also included is a genealogy page for the Kiesel family. Letters are dated 1857, 1860, 1862, and 1863.