The following life sketch is from the book, John Fleming Wakefield His Ancestry and Posterity, by Melvin Wakefield on page 60:
Valera Luella Wakefield was born 15 June 1877, in Fountain Green, Utah, to Thomas Garlick an Maria Jane Johnson Wakefield. He folks moved to Huntington while Luella was a baby. Here she attended school and was active in the church young people's programs.
Jesse Alvin Washburn and Luella Wakefield were married 2 September, 1896, in the Manti Temle.
In addition to being the mother of eleven children, Luella became certified as a midwife. In that capacity, in the absence of doctors, she assisted in the birth of uncounted babies. She was also an accomplished seamstress and milliner and was widely known as an excellent teacher. She taught at Huntington, Woodside, Bush Valley, new Mexico, Theodore, Duchesne and Tabiona, Utah.
In 1953, she was Utah's Mother of the Year and in the national convettion in New York City she was declared the runner-up to the National Mother of the Year.
She died 13 December 1963, in Orem, and was interred in the family plot in Huntington, Utah.
Jesse and Luella had the following children:
Alvin Verd Washburn
Lela Washburn
Jesse Nile Washburn
Thomas Daniel Washburn
Donald Elden Washburn
Barr Valentine Washburn
Victor Fred Washburn
Hyrum Clyde Washburn
Roland Washburn
Clinton Woodrow Washburn
Margaret Marie Washburn
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Whit Washburn submitted several pages of the diary of Luella Wakefield Washburn.
