Caroline Amanda Foutz

In Caroline Amanda Child's life story she says, "My father, Ezbon/Esbon Childs, ( born 5 Oct 1812), died in the spring of the year of 1850 (23 Apr 1850). My mother, (Mary Haskins born 15 Nov 1814) sold her home in Athens, Ohio, in 1851 and started for Utah in the fall of the same year for it was my father's wish that we winter in the state of Illinois. We were nine weeks from Illinois to Missouri. It was another 11 weeks from Missouri River to Salt Lake City. We saw plenty of buffalo crossing the plains. We arrived in Utah in time to see plenty of crickets and gulls. The crickets lay in piles three or four inches deep and the seagulls were taking them as fast as they could." By 1857, Amanda and her family were in Pleasant Grove, Utah. There she married Joseph Lehi Foutz Sr. (1837) on the 24 of February, 1857. They had nine children. Joseph Lehi Jr, Jacob, Caroline Amanda, Ezbond Alonzo, Jacob Haskins, Mary Delilah, and Margaret were born in Pleasant Grove, Utah. In 1871, Joseph and Amanda moved their family to Richfield, Utah, where they had two more children, Sarah Catherine and John Childs Foutz. Joseph took a second wife, Emma Elizabeth Crossland in the year of 1869. Sunday, 7 Oct, 1877, General Conference was held in Salt Lake City; Joseph Lehi Foutz Sr. of Richfield, Utah, was called to serve a mission in Arizona. Excerpts of the "History of Bishop Jacob Foutz Sr. and Family" by Grace Foutz Boulter and Mary Foutz Corrigan states, "In the fall of 1877 Joseph Lehi and Amanda moved to Arizona settling in Moancopy (Moenkopi), ninety miles south of Lee's Ferry. They lived there for years. All the education several of the children ever obtained was given them by the first wife whom everyone called 'Aunt Amanda'. So efficient and diligent was she as a teacher that these same children later in life were able to hold important positions and take their place in their communities among people who had been more fortunately situated. Much honor is due this noble teacher and her worthy pupils". Joseph Lehi took a third wife in the year of 1885. This was when pleural marriages were coming to an end in the Mormon Church. Upset with her husband for taking the 3rd wife, Amanda loaded up her belongings and her children and headed back to Richfield, Utah, where she lived until she passed away. The death date on Amanda's headstone says she died in 1918. Her Death Certificate and the Richfield Cemetery Record says she died on the 8 Feb 1917. Nancy Foutz R.