The items in this series are from the personal collection of Gary B. Hansen and include a number of historical documents and papers that he acquired from Lena B. Hansen around 1970. They represent the lives and work of his maternal grandparents, Joseph Barker and Frances Alice Chadwick, who were born in North Ogden, Utah, to pioneer settlers. Lifetime residents of Weber County from 1867 to 1937, the couple married on November 21, 1888, and operated a farm and dairy in the North Ogden and Huntsville areas.

This section includes the five categories of documents and other items relating to their lives: (1) Joseph Barker’s missionary journal and the letters he wrote to his wife Frances while he served an LDS mission to Great Britain from April 1894 to May of 1896, plus a photocopy of Joseph Barker’s mission call by President Wilford Woodruff, a typed copy of Joseph Barker’s missionary journal, photographs of Joseph Barker and his missionary companions, and miscellaneous articles and notes. (2) Joseph Barker’s farm records, correspondence, Articles of Incorporation of the Cold Water Creek Irrigation Company, biographical sketches and other items about farming, etc. (3) Joseph and Frances Barker’s school notebooks, report cards, slates Joseph and Frances used along with other materials while they were in school. (4) Journal kept by Joseph Barker of the trip he and his wife made to the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY in 1901. (5) "Joseph and Frances Alice Chadwick Barker Family Narrative," a history of their family written by their daughter Lena B. Hansen on May 20, 1971, and a reel-to-reel tape and cassette tape of Lena B. Hansen reading her "Joseph and Frances Alice Chadwick Barker Family Narrative."