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Martha Jessop

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1900–1944

Martha Jessop

Martha Jessop was born in Millville, Utah, in 1900, a daughter of Joseph Smith Jessop. She married John Y. Barlow in 1923 and died in Colorado City, Arizona, in 1944.

Martha Jessop, also called Mattie, was born on 24 September 1900 in Millville, Cache County, Utah, a daughter of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates.1 FamilySearch records her under the identifier L1HL-J7F, with that birth, a death date of 22 October 1944 in Colorado City, Mohave County, Arizona, and burial in 1944 at Isaac Carling Memorial Park there.2

Published family lists of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates’s children include Richard Seth Jessop, Martha Jessop, and Frederick Meade Jessop, among others.3

She married John Yates Barlow on 10 September 1923 in Salt Lake City.4 Wikipedia’s article on her father records that on 1 September 1923 the family prayed about whether his daughter Martha (“Mattie”) should enter plural marriage, that they took the answer as affirmative, and that she was afterward excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.5 A Highland, Utah, city historical sketch describes her as John Y. Barlow’s fourth wife, says they lived in Highland for a short time about 1930–1935, and says that in 1930 two of their children died there: John Willis, at age two, and Martha, a newborn.6

FamilySearch lists these children of Martha Jessop and John Yates Barlow with death dates: Louis Jessop Barlow (1924–2004); Jaunita Barlow (1926–2008); Joseph Israel Barlow Sr. (1927–2010); John Willis Barlow (1928–1930); Martha Barlow (1930–1930); Mildred Barlow (1933–2008); Truman Ianthus Barlow Sr. (1936–2015); and Warren Leroy Barlow (1938–2023).7

This page is about Martha Jessop (1900–1944), daughter of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates and wife of John Yates Barlow. It is not a page for other people in the archive who share the name Martha Jessop, including later recordings so labeled.

Appearances

No pre-1961 talk, meeting, document, or photograph on this site has yet been published under her name. Later archive files labeled Martha Jessop, including a 1990 recording, are not treated as this person: she died in 1944. Those later years open as they are approved.

Sources

  1. FamilySearch, Martha Jessop, identifier L1HL-J7F: birth 24 September 1900, Millville, Cache County, Utah; parents Joseph Smith Jessop Sr (KWCH-SKG, 1869–1953) and Martha Moore Yeates (KWCH-SKP, 1871–1938). Tree details read 30 October 2026. Wikipedia, “Joseph Smith Jessop,” lists Martha (known as Mattie) among the children of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates. Find a Grave memorial 19691814, Violet Jessop Wayman Barlow, also lists Martha Jessop Barlow (1900–1944) among the siblings.
  2. FamilySearch, L1HL-J7F: death 22 October 1944, Colorado City, Mohave County, Arizona; burial 1944, Isaac Carling Memorial Park, Colorado City. Alternate names on the same record include Mattie Jessop and Aunt Mattie. FamilySearch person page. Highland City, Utah, “Barlow,” states that John Y. Barlow’s wives four and five are buried in the Isaac W. Carling Memorial Park in Colorado City, Arizona. https://www.highlandut.gov/711/Barlow.
  3. Wikipedia, “Joseph Smith Jessop,” children of Martha Moore Yeates, including Richard Seth, Martha (Mattie), and Frederick Meade. WikiTree, Frederick Meade Jessop (Jessop-343), names Martha (Jessop) Barlow among his siblings, with parents Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore (Yeates) Jessop. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jessop-343. FamilySearch, Joseph Smith Jessop Sr, identifier KWCH-SKG, same child list (tree details read 30 October 2026).
  4. FamilySearch, L1HL-J7F and John Yates Barlow, identifier LVQQ-712: marriage 10 September 1923, Salt Lake City. Wikipedia, “John Y. Barlow,” lists Martha Jessop among his wives. Highland City, “Barlow,” and the city’s January 2019 historical sketch give the same marriage date and her dates as 24 September 1900 to 22 October 1944. Highland historical sketch (PDF).
  5. Wikipedia, “Joseph Smith Jessop,” on the 1 September 1923 prayer concerning his daughter Martha “Mattie” and her subsequent excommunication.
  6. Highland City, “Barlow,” and the January 2019 historical sketch cited in note 4: residence in Highland about 1930–1935, and the deaths there in 1930 of John Willis, age two, and Martha, a newborn.
  7. FamilySearch, L1HL-J7F, children of the marriage to John Yates Barlow (LVQQ-712), tree details read 30 October 2026. The Highland sketch named seven of those children. This list includes only children for whom FamilySearch gives both a birth year and a death year. Other children appear on that FamilySearch page without a published death year here.