Memorial by Bob Barlow
 
Margaret Fullmer Barlow born March 13, 1899, died Jan. 9, 2000 thus fulfilling her wish to reach 100 years and live in 3 centuries.
 
 Margaret was born in Mapleton, Utah to Fannie Whiting and William Price Fullmer, Jr. She was the second oldest of 17 brothers and sisters. Margaret mentioned that her parents had lots of sons and daughters because they knelt in prayer after they were married and told the Lord to bless them with as many children as the He saw fit. I guess their prayers were answered.
 
 Upon Margaret's 4th birthday the family move to Wallsberg, Utah. The family lived in town, but had a farm south of town. Margaret loved the area and mentioned how she would collect wild flowers in the spring and summer and watch the oaks change color in the fall. She loved to roam the little valley. Her parents were a good example to her and she remembers how faithful her father was when he received a call to go on a mission with nine children and an expectant wife. His friends told him not to go but he accepted the call to serve, but was allowed to stay home until his wife delivered. Upon the birth of twins who unfortunately died soon after birth, he left. Margaret tells the story of her sister, Alice getting whooping cough, while her dad was on a mission. Her mother took Alice to a doctor in Heber, but the situation looked bad. Finally Margaret's mother pleaded with Lord to allow her to live until her husband could come home from his mission. Alice partially recovered and was able to live until her father came home. Margaret remembered her parent's faithfulness and this was a source of strength to her.
 
Her father was called home from his mission a couple of months early to he the new bishop of the ward. Her father was very industrious and believed that an idle brain was the devil's workshop. Margaret and her siblings were constantly working. She remembers that around 9 or 10 hiring out to work a sugar beet field. She was paid roughly 25 cents a day and remembers how she saved 99 cents and felt she was rich.
 
As her grandchild, I remember being fascinated with Grandma's false teeth. There is a story behind this. When she was 16 or 17, she went to a dentist in Heber to have her teeth worked on. This dentist wasn't very careful and started hitting a live nerve in Margaret's mouth. After that incident, Margaret said she really didn't like dentist and would only go to them when she absolutely had to.
 
Around 1916, Margaret's family moved to the Little Lost River area. Margaret and her sister stayed back to finish school. When they finished school, members of her family came to get them and they rode back to Lost River on a train. Margaret remembers how her family would joke with them on the train ride about their home in Lost River. Margaret would look out the window of the train at the log cabins going by and the family would say how nice these cabins were compared to their cabin in Lost River. This really worried her and her sister. They soon arrived at their home, which was a three-room log cabin with a dirt roof. There were some smaller cabins close by with dirt floors that the boys slept in during the summer, but they were too cold to be used in the winter.
 
She worked at Little Lost River Ranch and had to cook for 8 ranch hands and the ranchers family. She wasn't a very accomplished cook at the time and when they asked her to make coffee, she added one tablespoon of coffee to a large 5-gallon pot and let it simmer. Needless to say, it was pretty weak. That was the last time they asked her to make the coffee.
 
Soon she was teaching at the school and it was here that she met Newell Barlow who was teaching the 7th and 8th grade. She thought that he was a pretty good teacher. He was in line to be principal, but they passed on him because they didn't want a Mormon principal. While they were teaching, Margaret asked Newell to a leap year's dance on a dare and he accepted. This was their first date. While teaching at Basalt, Newell would come and visit on weekends. After two years of courtship, they were married. Margaret wanted Newell to ask her father.
 
Newell finally got the courage to do so and went to ask Margaret's father for her hand. As they went out on the porch, Mack and his little sisters snuck out and listened to the conversation so they could report back to Margaret.
 
They then traveled to Salt Lake to get married in the temple, but as they reported to get married, they only had an Idaho license so they had to run to the Salt Lake courthouse to get a Utah license. They were married on 10 June 1926.
 
The doctors thought that Margaret wouldn't have any children without surgery. Because of this condition, Margaret felt that she might not have any children and concentrated on teaching. She was blessed though with 4 children, Carol, Fullmer Jeri, and Ada.
 
Although times were tough, they were able to eventually buy a home at Louella and Cedar in Blackfoot. Around 1960, after her three oldest children were married, Margaret and Newell moved to their home on Monroe Street in Blackfoot, Idaho. In 1966, after a lengthy illness, her daughter Ada passed away. It was soon after this that Margaret and Newell, served a mission in Texas fulfilling a long time wish. Newell died Dec. 3, 1983. Looking back on Margaret's life, we can truly say she sacrificed a lot for her family and truly loved the Lord.