Henry Alanson Teeples

SHORT HISTORY OF HENRY ALANSON TEEPLES BY HIS SON WILLIS TEEPLES

Henry Alanson Teeples was born on the 8th of November, 1844, at Nauvoo, Illinois. He was born a few months after the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred. On the twenty-fourth of July, the Teeples and Colbys crossed the plains in 1848, in the Heber C. Kimball's Company,  His mother, Hannah was twenty six years old at the time.

When Henry was six years old he remembered the hardships they had endured in crossing the plains. He could also remember when great swarms of crickets came from the mountains and began to devour every growing thing. The settlers fought them the best way they could, but little could be done with such countless millions of insects. Their crops, their means of living through the next year, were fast disappearing. A thousand miles of desert and mountains lay between them and other people. They would have to raise food or starve.
When they had just about given up hope, there came great flocks of seagulls from the lake and began eating crickets. These birds would eat the pests and then fly back to the lake and disgorge. This they did day after day until the crickets were destroyed. The prayers of the people had been answered; the crops were saved.
Prospects were not encouraging, however, owing to the small crops raised and they lived on weeks on greens and thistles. They also used a kind of soup made by boiling rawhide.
During the next year, gold was discovered in California, and great companies of men came flocking from the east on their way to the gold fields. These men brought with them all kinds of goods, which they traded with the Saints for light wagons, fresh horses, and such other things that were needed. Thus a great deal of merchandise was brought to the Salt Lake Valley, and Heber C. Kimball's prophecy was fulfilled.
Henry's family was among the first settlers of Provo, Utah. It was after Henry had moved to Holden, Utah, in 1866, that he and his mother, Hannah, decided to become man and wife. They were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City.
They built their first home at Holden, Utah. Hannah cooked over a campfire for the bricklayers and workmen. When his son Willis, paid a visit to Holden in 1934 Stevenson's, the people Henry sold to, were still living there.
Henry married Ann Eliza Savage about the time his son, George, was born in 1874. Aunt Tidy's house was still standing in 1934.
They moved from Holden to Burrville, Sevier County, in 1887, when Jane was a baby. Joseph Whitehead was bishop of Burrville at the time. When Bishop Whitehead was released Henry was chosen bishop and was ordained a High Priest in 1890. He was chosen bishop in 1891.
The Stake built a new tabernacle at Richfield. The people of Burrville, being poor, could not pay their assessment. Henry borrowed the money from Bishop Bagley of Koosharem to make the payment. He received the money from the people later. After the tabernacle was completed, it accidently caught fire and was burned. The people of the stake rebuilt it in a short time.
It was a one-day trip with team and buggy from Burrville to Richfield. People stayed overnight when attending conference.
Henry owned an interest in a horse powered threshing machine.They threshed all of the grain grown in the valley. When they threshed for the Indians at Box Creek, it made them happy to have Bishop Teeples eat dinner with them.
An Indian named "Nick" stopped at their place overnight several times. One evening, at bedtime, he began talking to himself in Indian language. We talked back with him, trying to find out what he was saying. After he had said "Amen" he rolled up in a blanket, lay down on the floor and said, "Good night."
One hard winter in Grass Valley, the Indians almost starved. Henry had a small flock of sheep, and he gave some of them to the Indians for food. He was always willing to help those in need no matter to what race they belonged.
He owned a small store in Burrville, but he was not successful, so far as profit was concerned, because he gave all of his profits away to others. He had a splendid character and was unselfish, always thinking of the needs of others before his own. I doubt if he had an enemy, if he did, it was an enemy of the church.
He spent one year and six months in the penitentiary at Salt Lake City for having two wives. While he was there his daughter, Margaret, who was eight years old, died of diphtheria. People were afraid to hold funeral services because of it being a contagious and much dreaded disease at that time.
Aunt Tidy, who was a good nurse and Hannah, dressed the golden-haired daughter and laid her body away to rest. When Henry returned home, one of our Heavenly Father's choice spirits was not there to greet him. In times of trouble, Hannah and aunt were always united. Henry went through a great deal of hardship for his families, but he has a numerous posterity to bless his name.
When he returned from the penitentiary, all of the people in Burrville went up to the canyon north of town to meet him, and they had a time of rejoicing together. Young and old alike were his friends.
He always raised a good garden in Burrville. One time some boys came and helped themselves to what they wanted. When he found out who they were he got them together and talked to them. He told them that they could have all that they wanted if they would just ask for it, but he also admonished them not to steal The boys came to Henry one at a time and asked his forgiveness.
Henry was a good and valuable man in the community. Since there were no dentists in Grass Valley, people would come from miles around to have him pull teeth, since having a pair of forseps. There were no funeral homes in the valley, therefore Henry helped out in case of death by constructing caskets for those who would furnish the materials.
When Henry lived at Holden, he hauled fruit to Pioche, Nevada, with a team and wagon. The district school house was located at the top of the hill. Henry would take a bushel of apples and pour them out at the top of the hill and watch the school children run after them. Giving away this one bushel of apples advertised his fruit and he would soon sell his load.
In 1934, when Willis visited Holden, Mr. Kinney, a man who knew Henry, told him some things regarding his honesty. After selling one load of fruit, he took his checks to the bank to cash them. The banker gave him twenty dollars too much, which he didn't notice until noon on the way back home. When he noticed the mistake, he drove all the way back to the bank and showed the banker. The banker told him that they couldn't rectify mistakes, and told him to keep the money.
Here is another story in regard to his honesty: Henry traded a black mare they called "Bess" to Dock Cloward of Burrville for a black horse. The horse he received in trade was good to ride or work and his boys certainly liked·him. After Cloward had kept the mare for about two months he came to Henry and said, "I think that I was cheated in trading horses." Henry said, "If you think that you were cheated bring the mare back and get the horse." As a boy, Willis thought that was a funny way to trade horses. He surely felt bad.
Later Henry hauled a load of cheese to southern Utah. He traveled with a man from Koosharem by the name of Kunersen, who had a brown horse that was too fast for his mate. He traded him to Henry for old "Bess", which made a better team for both parties. Old "Dan", as we called him, and his mate were the team Willis drove to Idaho on a wagon. Good horses were valuable then, and this father felt well paid for trading back with Cloward.
Henry being a stock raiser had a dairy ranch on the Fish Lake Mountains which was noted for grass and pasture. Sheepmen, hearing of the wonderful range, brought in hundreds of herds of sheep which soon destroyed the range for cattle. Not being a good place for stock raising anymore he decided to look for a new home.
Henry had heard of the great Snake River Valley, and talked about it to his family and friends. At last he decided to make the trip to Idaho and look at the country. Edgar Fillmore, his first counselor in the Bishopric, came with him in about the year l898, and Henry made a small payment on a place in Presto. After visiting with Matt Hancock and family, and other friends he knew, he went back with the wonderful news of the country in the Snake River Valley. He said there was enough water in Snake River to water every foot of farming ground in Utah. He also said one could plow a furrow from the valley ten miles back in the mountains without striking a rock. The people in Grass Valley thought this strange, since the Grass Va11ey Mountains were noted for rock.
Ransford, who was just married, and George left our ranch at Burrville for Idaho in a covered wagon. After about two months they arrived at the place in Presto that Henry had bargained for. Soon after they left Ed, he returned from a mission to New Zealand and came to the Snake River Valley to join Ransford And George.
The first October 1900, Henry, Hannah, Jane, Lovisa, Augusta and Willis left for Idaho. Willis drove a team hitched to a covered wagon, while the others rode in a white-top buggy pulled by a pair of mules.
School was out for recess and Willis bade the school children good-bye, expecting to be back within a year or two. However, he didn't get to go back until 1934, just 34 years from the time he left. There were only three families that lived there when they moved away who still remained. Len Burr's wife and boys were there. John Fillmore lived in George Water's home. Young Henry Knight had moved into Henry Alanson's place. Burrville was surely deserted. The windows were all knocked out of the schoolhouse and the meetinghouse had been burned Our house was still there; people lived in it. A lean-to had been built on. Aunt Tidy's house was still there also. To look at the valley and mountains though it was as if Willis had seen them only the day before. There was no ward organization, and the Latter-Day Saints who lived there belonged to the Koosharem Ward.
On the journey to Idaho they stopped at noons and nights. His father was a good cook over a campfire and they baked bread in a bake oven. Father Henry and Willis slept on the ground and the rest of the family slept in the wagon. They arrived in Presto on election day, November 4, 1900.

Ransford and Loal came out to meet them. Loal was carrying Gertrude in her arms. They were glad to see them. Ed and George were over at the school house voting for William Jennings Bryan, as it was a presidential election year. William McKinley won the election. They came soon after they arrived. The family stayed with Ransford and Loal during the winter. George and Willis slept in the granery. There was so much snow that the wild rabbits crawled through a cat hole to greet us once in a while.

The first year they were here Ed and George bought the Meslon place and his Henry and Edgar Fillmore began running the Wolverine place. During that year Henry went to Utah and sold the farm at Burrville to a man by the name of Wilkinson.

Aunt Tidy's family, which consisted of David and wife, Joseph, Belle, Eva and Ella, left Burrville with two covered wagons and teams. Henry came with the cattle on the train. Aunt Tidy and Julia also came on the train. They all arrived in Idaho in November 1901.

After Henry had run the Wolverine place for three years, he bought a place at East LaBelle. He built a frame house for each family and expected to make his home there for many years to come. He did not live long after he had completed his tasks in building homes for his families, however, his body was worn out with hard work and ailments had overcome his physical powers. He was no longer able to go about the business of life. He was operated on for gravel of the bladder, as it was called at the time. He died at the Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah December 4, 1904.

His funeral services were held at LaBelle. His body was taken to the Annis Cemetery and was later moved to Goshen. His two wives, his son George and daughter Lovisa are buried in the same lot. At his funeral services Howard Hale, the Goshen clerk, said he paid more tithing than any man who had lived in the Goshen Ward, and he had two big families to keep. He lived the things he preached.

May God help us with understanding hearts and with desires to do our parts as nobly and as well as Henry did his.

---

HENRY ALANSON TEEPLES

Henry Alanson Teeples was born on November 8, 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois to George Bentley Teeples and Huldah Clarinda Colby Teeples.

In 1848, when Henry was five years old, with his father and mother traveled across the plains in the Heber C. Kimball Company to Salt Lake City, Utah leaving June 7, 1848 and arriving in Salt Lake Valley on September 24, 1848.

He appeared in the census in 1850 in Fish Haven, Bear Lake County, Idaho. (living at home with his mother)

He married Anna Eliza SAVAGE on January 19, 1874 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, daughter of David Leonard SAVAGE and Mary Abigail WHITE. She was born December 17, 1856 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, and died October 30, 1940 in Labelle, Bingham, Utah. He married Hannah COLBY on December 15, 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, daughter of Jacob Ransford COLBY and Hannah CHILD. She was born November 6, 1848 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa and died March 2, 1932 in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho.

He was ordained a High Priest on February 22, 1891. He was ordained a Bishop between February 22, 1892 and 1900 in Burrville, Sevier County, Utah. He died on December 4,1904 at Ogden, Weber County, Utah. He was buried on December 6, 1904 in Goshen, Bingham County, Idaho. He was a farmer, stockman and rancher.

On Tuesday, February 25, 1890, in the First District Court, at Provo, Teancum Pratt, of Spring Glen, was sentenced by Judge Judd to six months' imprisonment and $100 fine; Jens C.A. Weibye, of Manti, to six months; both for u.c.; Henry Teeples, of Burrville, was sentenced to 18 months, for alleged adultery. On Sunday, May 10, 1891, Henry Teeples was discharged from the Penitentiary.

SOURCE: "LDS Family History Suite" CD, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Andrew Jenson, 1951

---

Henry Alanson TEEPLES and Hannah COLBY were married on 15 DEC 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Children were: Ransford Henry Teeples, Jacob Edwin Teeples, George Ammon Teeples, Hannah Lorretta Teeples, Nephi Teeples, Benjaman Teeples, Margaret Ada Teeples, Willis Teeples, Huldah Jane Teeples, Lovisa Teeples, Augusta Ellen Teeples.

Henry Alanson Teeples and Ann Eliza Savage were married on 19 JAN 1874 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Children were: David John Teeples, Mary Maranda Teeples, Joseph Teeples (twin), Hyrum Teeples (twin), Lucy Belle Teeples, Eva Amanda Teeples, Barbara Ellen Teeples, Julia Ann Teeples.

I have seen his birth year as 1844 and 1842. On his death certificate and gravestone it says he was born in 1844 so I went with that.

ID: 115133 Last Name: Teeples First Name: Henry Alanson Age: Gender: M Cemetery: Goshen, Idaho Birth Date: 8 Nov 1844 Birth Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Date Died: 4 Dec 1904 Death Place: Ogden, Utah Father: George Bentley Teeples Mother: Hulda Colby Spouse: Hannah Colby, md. Sources: Headstone. Sexton record: Block 1, Lot 46. Goshen Ward Film # 007,222.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 10 2016, 19:28:23 UTC

  ---

  
  

Birth: Nov. 8, 1844 Nauvoo Hancock County Illinois, USA Death: Dec. 4, 1904 Ogden Weber County Utah, USA

HENRY ALANSON TEEPLES

Henry Alanson Teeples was born on November 8, 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois to George Bentley Teeples and Huldah Clarinda Colby Teeples.

In 1848, when Henry was five years old, with his father and mother traveled across the plains in the Heber C. Kimball Company to Salt Lake City, Utah leaving June 7, 1848 and arriving in Salt Lake Valley on September 24, 1848.

He appeared in the census in 1850 in Fish Haven, Bear Lake County, Idaho. (living at home with his mother)

He married Anna Eliza SAVAGE on January 19, 1874 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, daughter of David Leonard SAVAGE and Mary Abigail WHITE. She was born December 17, 1856 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, and died October 30, 1940 in Labelle, Bingham, Utah. He married Hannah COLBY on December 15, 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, daughter of Jacob Ransford COLBY and Hannah CHILD. She was born November 6, 1848 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa and died March 2, 1932 in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho.

He was ordained a High Priest on February 22, 1891. He was ordained a Bishop between February 22, 1892 and 1900 in Burrville, Sevier County, Utah. He died on December 4,1904 at Ogden, Weber County, Utah. He was buried on December 6, 1904 in Goshen, Bingham County, Idaho. He was a farmer, stockman and rancher.

On Tuesday, February 25, 1890, in the First District Court, at Provo, Teancum Pratt, of Spring Glen, was sentenced by Judge Judd to six months' imprisonment and $100 fine; Jens C.A. Weibye, of Manti, to six months; both for u.c.; Henry Teeples, of Burrville, was sentenced to 18 months, for alleged adultery. On Sunday, May 10, 1891, Henry Teeples was discharged from the Penitentiary.

SOURCE: "LDS Family History Suite" CD, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Andrew Jenson, 1951

---

Henry Alanson TEEPLES and Hannah COLBY were married on 15 DEC 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Children were: Ransford Henry Teeples, Jacob Edwin Teeples, George Ammon Teeples, Hannah Lorretta Teeples, Nephi Teeples, Benjaman Teeples, Margaret Ada Teeples, Willis Teeples, Huldah Jane Teeples, Lovisa Teeples, Augusta Ellen Teeples.

Henry Alanson Teeples and Ann Eliza Savage were married on 19 JAN 1874 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Children were: David John Teeples, Mary Maranda Teeples, Joseph Teeples (twin), Hyrum Teeples (twin), Lucy Belle Teeples, Eva Amanda Teeples, Barbara Ellen Teeples, Julia Ann Teeples.

I have seen his birth year as 1844 and 1842. On his death certificate and gravestone it says he was born in 1844 so I went with that.

ID: 115133 Last Name: Teeples First Name: Henry Alanson Age: Gender: M Cemetery: Goshen, Idaho Birth Date: 8 Nov 1844 Birth Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Date Died: 4 Dec 1904 Death Place: Ogden, Utah Father: George Bentley Teeples Mother: Hulda Colby Spouse: Hannah Colby, md. Sources: Headstone. Sexton record: Block 1, Lot 46. Goshen Ward Film # 007,222.

Family links:

Parents:

 George Bentley Teeples (1803 - 1884)

 Huldah Clarinda Colby Teeples (1812 - 1881)

Spouses:

 Hannah Colby Teeples (1847 - 1932)

 Annie Eliza Savage Teeples (1856 - 1940)*

Children:

 Ransford Henry Teeples (1869 - 1955)*

 Jacob Edwin Teeples (1871 - 1946)*

 George Ammon Teeples (1874 - 1904)*

 Hannah Loretta Teeples (1875 - 1876)*

 Nephi Teeples (1877 - 1881)*

 David John Teeples (1877 - 1945)*

 May Teeples Jensen (1878 - 1951)*

 Benjamin Teeples (1879 - 1882)*

 Margaret Ada Teeples (1881 - 1889)*

 Joseph Teeples (1881 - 1976)*

 Belle Teeples Gjettrup (1884 - 1976)*

 Willis Teeples (1884 - 1954)*

 Huldah "Jane" Teeples Peterson (1886 - 1956)*

 Eva Amanda Teeples Radford (1886 - 1976)*

 Lovisa Teeples (1889 - 1906)*

 Barbara Ellen Teeples Hansen (1889 - 1963)*

 Augusta Ellen Teeples Fullmer (1892 - 1975)*

 Julia Teeples Womack (1892 - 1971)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Goshen Cemetery Goshen Bingham County Idaho, USA

Maintained by: Rhonda Originally Created by: Collins Crapo Record added: Jun 14, 2006 Find A Grave Memorial# 14609972 __________________________________

SHORT HISTORY OF HENRY ALANSON TEEPLES BY HIS SON WILLIS TEEPES

Henry Alanson Teeples was born on the 8th of November, 1844, at Nauvoo, Illinois. He was born a few months after the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred. On the twenty-fourth of July, the Teeples and Colbys crossed the plains in 1848, in the Heber C. Kimball's Company, His mother, Hannah was twenty six years old at the time.

When Henry was six years old he remembered the hardships they had endured in crossing the plains. He could also remember when great swarms of crickets came from the mountains and began to devour every growing thing. The settlers fought them the best way they could, but little could be done with such countless millions of insects. Their crops, their means of living through the next year, were fast disappearing. A thousand miles of desert and mountains lay between them and other people. They would have to raise food or starve.

When they had just about given up hope, there came great flocks of seagulls from the lake and began eating crickets. These birds would eat the pests and then fly back to the lake and disgorge. This they did day after day until the crickets were destroyed. The prayers of the people had been answered; the crops were saved.

Prospects were not encouraging, however, owing to the small crops raised and they lived on weeks on greens and thistles. They also used a kind of soup made by boiling rawhide.

During the next year, gold was discovered in California, and great companies of men came flocking from the east on their way to the gold fields. These men brought with them all kinds of goods, which they traded with the Saints for light wagons, fresh horses, and such other things that were needed. Thus a great deal of merchandise was brought to the Salt Lake Valley, and Heber C. Kimball's prophecy was fulfilled.

Henry's family was among the first settlers of Provo, Utah. It was after Henry had moved to Holden, Utah, in 1866, that he and his mother, Hannah, decided to become man and wife. They were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City.

They built their first home at Holden, Utah. Hannah cooked over a campfire for the bricklayers and workmen. When his son Willis, paid a visit to Holden in 1934 Stevenson's, the people Henry sold to, were still living there.

Henry married Ann Eliza Savage about the time his son, George, was born in 1874. Aunt Tidy's house was still standing in 1934.

They moved from Holden to Burrville, Sevier County, in 1887, when Jane was a baby. Joseph Whitehead was bishop of Burrville at the time. When Bishop Whitehead was released Henry was chosen bishop and was ordained a High Priest in 1890. He was chosen bishop in 1891.

The Stake built a new tabernacle at Richfield. The people of Burrville, being poor, could not pay their assessment. Henry borrowed the money from Bishop Bagley of Koosharem to make the payment. He received the money from the people later. After the tabernacle was completed, it accidently caught fire and was burned. The people of the stake rebuilt it in a short time.

It was a one-day trip with team and buggy from Burrville to Richfield. People stayed overnight when attending conference.

Henry owned an interest in a horse powered threshing machine.They threshed all of the grain grown in the valley. When they threshed for the Indians at Box Creek, it made them happy to have Bishop Teeples eat dinner with them.

An Indian named "Nick" stopped at their place overnight several times. One evening, at bedtime, he began talking to himself in Indian language. We talked back with him, trying to find out what he was saying. After he had said "Amen" he rolled up in a blanket, lay down on the floor and said, "Good night."

One hard winter in Grass Valley, the Indians almost starved. Henry had a small flock of sheep, and he gave some of them to the Indians for food. He was always willing to help those in need no matter to what race they belonged.

He owned a small store in Burrville, but he was not successful, so far as profit was concerned, because he gave all of his profits away to others. He had a splendid character and was unselfish, always thinking of the needs of others before his own. I doubt if he had an enemy, if he did, it was an enemy of the church.

He spent one year and six months in the penitentiary at Salt Lake City for having two wives. While he was there his daughter, Margaret, who was eight years old, died of diphtheria. People were afraid to hold funeral services because of it being a contagious and much dreaded disease at that time.

Aunt Tidy, who was a good nurse and Hannah, dressed the golden-haired daughter and laid her body away to rest. When Henry returned home, one of our Heavenly Father's choice spirits was not there to greet him. In times of trouble, Hannah and aunt were always united. Henry went through a great deal of hardship for his families, but he has a numerous posterity to bless his name.

When he returned from the penitentiary, all of the people in Burrville went up to the canyon north of town to meet him, and they had a time of rejoicing together. Young and old alike were his friends.

He always raised a good garden in Burrville. One time some boys came and helped themselves to what they wanted. When he found out who they were he got them together and talked to them. He told them that they could have all that they wanted if they would just ask for it, but he also admonished them not to steal The boys came to Henry one at a time and asked his forgiveness.

Henry was a good and valuable man in the community. Since there were no dentists in Grass Valley, people would come from miles around to have him pull teeth, since having a pair of forseps. There were no funeral homes in the valley, therefore Henry helped out in case of death by constructing caskets for those who would furnish the materials.

When Henry lived at Holden, he hauled fruit to Pioche, Nevada, with a team and wagon. The district school house was located at the top of the hill. Henry would take a bushel of apples and pour them out at the top of the hill and watch the school children run after them. Giving away this one bushel of apples advertised his fruit and he would soon sell his load.

In 1934, when Willis visited Holden, Mr. Kinney, a man who knew Henry, told him some things regarding his honesty. After selling one load of fruit, he took his checks to the bank to cash them. The banker gave him twenty dollars too much, which he didn't notice until noon on the way back home. When he noticed the mistake, he drove all the way back to the bank and showed the banker. The banker told him that they couldn't rectify mistakes, and told him to keep the money.

Here is another story in regard to his honesty: Henry traded a black mare they called "Bess" to Dock Cloward of Burrville for a black horse. The horse he received in trade was good to ride or work and his boys certainly liked·him. After Cloward had kept the mare for about two months he came to Henry and said, "I think that I was cheated in trading horses." Henry said, "If you think that you were cheated bring the mare back and get the horse." As a boy, Willis thought that was a funny way to trade horses. He surely felt bad.

Later Henry hauled a load of cheese to southern Utah. He traveled with a man from Koosharem by the name of Kunersen, who had a brown horse that was too fast for his mate. He traded him to Henry for old "Bess", which made a better team for both parties. Old "Dan", as we called him, and his mate were the team Willis drove to Idaho on a wagon. Good horses were valuable then, and this father felt well paid for trading back with Cloward.

Henry being a stock raiser had a dairy ranch on the Fish Lake Mountains which was noted for grass and pasture. Sheepmen, hearing of the wonderful range, brought in hundreds of herds of sheep which soon destroyed the range for cattle. Not being a good place for stock raising anymore he decided to look for a new home.

Henry had heard of the great Snake River Valley, and talked about it to his family and friends. At last he decided to make the trip to Idaho and look at the country. Edgar Fillmore, his first counselor in the Bishopric, came with him in about the year l898, and Henry made a small payment on a place in Presto. After visiting with Matt Hancock and family, and other friends he knew, he went back with the wonderful news of the country in the Snake River Valley. He said there was enough water in Snake River to water every foot of farming ground in Utah. He also said one could plow a furrow from the valley ten miles back in the mountains without striking a rock. The people in Grass Valley thought this strange, since the Grass Va11ey Mountains were noted for rock.

Ransford, who was just married, and George left our ranch at Burrville for Idaho in a covered wagon. After about two months they arrived at the place in Presto that Henry had bargained for. Soon after they left Ed, he returned from a mission to New Zealand and came to the Snake River Valley to join Ransford And George.

The first October 1900, Henry, Hannah, Jane, Lovisa, Augusta and Willis left for Idaho. Willis drove a team hitched to a covered wagon, while the others rode in a white-top buggy pulled by a pair of mules.

School was out for recess and Willis bade the school children good-bye, expecting to be back within a year or two. However, he didn't get to go back until 1934, just 34 years from the time he left. There were only three families that lived there when they moved away who still remained. Len Burr's wife and boys were there. John Fillmore lived in George Water's home. Young Henry Knight had moved into Henry Alanson's place. Burrville was surely deserted. The windows were all knocked out of the schoolhouse and the meetinghouse had been burned Our house was still there; people lived in it. A lean-to had been built on. Aunt Tidy's house was still there also. To look at the valley and mountains though it was as if Willis had seen them only the day before. There was no ward organization, and the Latter-Day Saints who lived there belonged to the Koosharem Ward.

On the journey to Idaho they stopped at noons and nights. His father was a good cook over a campfire and they baked bread in a bake oven. Father Henry and Willis slept on the ground and the rest of the family slept in the wagon. They arrived in Presto on election day, November 4, 1900.

Ransford and Loal came out to meet them. Loal was carrying Gertrude in her arms. They were glad to see them. Ed and George were over at the school house voting for William Jennings Bryan, as it was a presidential election year. William McKinley won the election. They came soon after they arrived. The family stayed with Ransford and Loal during the winter. George and Willis slept in the granery. There was so much snow that the wild rabbits crawled through a cat hole to greet us once in a while.

The first year they were here Ed and George bought the Meslon place and his Henry and Edgar Fillmore began running the Wolverine place. During that year Henry went to Utah and sold the farm at Burrville to a man by the name of Wilkinson.

Aunt Tidy's family, which consisted of David and wife, Joseph, Belle, Eva and Ella, left Burrville with two covered wagons and teams. Henry came with the cattle on the train. Aunt Tidy and Julia also came on the train. They all arrived in Idaho in November 1901.

After Henry had run the Wolverine place for three years, he bought a place at East LaBelle. He built a frame house for each family and expected to make his home there for many years to come. He did not live long after he had completed his tasks in building homes for his families, however, his body was worn out with hard work and ailments had overcome his physical powers. He was no longer able to go about the business of life. He was operated on for gravel of the bladder, as it was called at the time. He died at the Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah December 4, 1904.

His funeral services were held at LaBelle. His body was taken to the Annis Cemetery and was later moved to Goshen. His two wives, his son George and daughter Lovisa are buried in the same lot. At his funeral services Howard Hale, the Goshen clerk, said he paid more tithing than any man who had lived in the Goshen Ward, and he had two big families to keep. He lived the things he preached.

May God help us with understanding hearts and with desires to do our parts as nobly and as well as Henry did his.

---

---

• Residence: [Blank], Weber, Utah, United States - 1860
• Residence: Holden, Millard, Utah Territory, United States - 1868
• Residence: Burrville, Sevier, Utah Territory, United States - 1887
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jun 5 2020, 0:22:41 UTC