William Randolph Teeples, 18341883 (aged 48 years)

Name
William Randolph Teeples
Given names
William Randolph
Surname
Teeples
Birth June 7, 1834
DivorceCatherine ChamberlainView this family

Birth of a brotherSydney Teeples
February 10, 1837 (aged 2 years)
MarriageCatherine ChamberlainView this family
1856 (aged 21 years)
Birth of a sisterLouisa Teeples
October 6, 1856 (aged 22 years)
MarriageHarriet Betsy CookView this family
August 21, 1859 (aged 25 years)
Birth of a daughterHarriet Rita Teeples
April 25, 1861 (aged 26 years)
Birth of a daughterBeatrice Ann Eliza Teeples
March 31, 1864 (aged 29 years)
Birth of a sonWilliam George Teeples
April 14, 1866 (aged 31 years)
MarriageCaroline Ann ScofieldView this family
October 11, 1868 (aged 34 years)
Birth of a sonPhineas Henry Teeples
September 4, 1869 (aged 35 years)
Birth of a sonAlonzo Randolph Teeples
May 10, 1870 (aged 35 years)
Birth of a sonJohn Albert Teeples
August 25, 1871 (aged 37 years)
Birth of a daughterPhebe Henrietta Teeples
March 30, 1873 (aged 38 years)
Birth of a sonCharles Welcome Teeples
January 4, 1874 (aged 39 years)
Birth of a sonDavid Wolcott Teeples
February 6, 1875 (aged 40 years)
Birth of a sonJames Teeples
March 8, 1876 (aged 41 years)
Birth of a daughterAlice Aurelia Teeples
September 18, 1877 (aged 43 years)
Birth of a sonSidney Lee Teeples
February 10, 1878 (aged 43 years)
Birth of a daughterCaroline Huldah Teeples
May 30, 1880 (aged 45 years)
Birth of a daughterEunice Rosella Teeples
December 3, 1880 (aged 46 years)
Birth of a daughterMargaret Ellen Teeples
November 1, 1882 (aged 48 years)
Death June 5, 1883 (aged 48 years)
Burial June 7, 1883 (2 days after death)
Unique identifier
1DCB56821D7E420BB9B2B99B1FD9DEF9367F

Last change December 18, 2019

Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage
Marriage:
himself
3 years
younger brother
1837
Birth: February 10, 1837Far West, Missouri, USA
Death:
20 years
younger sister
Family with Harriet Betsy Cook
himself
wife
18441933
Birth: October 28, 1844 25 21Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Death: October 31, 1933Sun River, Cascade, Montana, USA
Marriage
Marriage: August 21, 1859Goshen, Utah, Utah, USA
20 months
daughter
18611876
Birth: April 25, 1861 26 16Goshen, Utah, Utah, USA
Death: August 8, 1876
3 years
daughter
18641942
Birth: March 31, 1864 29 19Paris, Oneida, Idaho, USA
Death: May 24, 1942Fillmore, Millard, Utah, USA
2 years
son
18661870
Birth: April 14, 1866 31 21Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: October 27, 1870Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
4 years
son
18701951
Birth: May 10, 1870 35 25Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: April 23, 1951Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
3 years
daughter
18731908
Birth: March 30, 1873 38 28Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: January 14, 1908Garden City, Rich, Utah, USA
23 months
son
18751875
Birth: February 6, 1875 40 30Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: March 4, 1875
3 years
daughter
18771928
Birth: September 18, 1877 43 32Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: August 20, 1928Garden City, Rich, Utah, USA
3 years
daughter
18801958
Birth: December 3, 1880 46 36Pima, Graham, Arizona, USA
Death: October 4, 1958Choteau, Teton, Montana, USA
Family with Catherine Chamberlain
himself
ex-wife
1834
Birth: about 1834Huron County, Michigan, USA
Death:
Marriage
Marriage: 1856Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Divorce
Divorce:
Family with Caroline Ann Scofield
himself
wife
18521935
Birth: November 3, 1852Newcastle upon Thyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Death: October 17, 1935Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA
Marriage
Marriage: October 11, 1868Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
11 months
son
1869
Birth: September 4, 1869 35 16Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death:
2 years
son
18711946
Birth: August 25, 1871 37 18Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: August 27, 1946Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
2 years
son
18741908
Birth: January 4, 1874 39 21Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: December 22, 1908
2 years
son
18761877
Birth: March 8, 1876 41 23Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: April 21, 1877Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
23 months
son
18781879
Birth: February 10, 1878 43 25Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
Death: August 10, 1879Holden, Millard, Utah, USA
2 years
daughter
1880
Birth: May 30, 1880 45 27Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA
Death:
3 years
daughter
1882
Birth: November 1, 1882 48 29Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA
Death:
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BIRTH: (Garden City Ward Record of Members 1889-1894, Manuscript, Original record book Church History Library, LR 3095 7, p. 142-145.) Wm. R. Teeples, son of Geo. B. Teeples and Huldah Colby b. 7 June 1834, Huron, Michigan. Ordained a HP 25 Sept 1880 by Lot Smith. Died 5 June 1883.

DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH 1850 CENSUS: Davis County, Utah. He was born 1833 in Michigan living with his mother Hulda Teeples. Hulda was age 41, William was 17, Sidney age 13, Henry age 9, Eunice age 3, Harriet Sessions age 21, James Session 4, David H. Sessions 4 months.

WEBER COUNTY, UTAH 1860 CENSUS: Weber County, Utah. Living alone. He was 27 years old, born 1833 in Michigan On 21 Jan. 1861 William and his brother Sidney appeared on a list of stock owners in Goshen (Goshen History File, LR 3259 11, Item 36, Page 1, Side 2)

GOSHEN, UTAH In the Goshen Ward minutes, the testimony of William Teeples was recorded: "September, 1859 - William Teeples said he hoped that we might have good feelings in the meeting as we had had today in the meeting. He intended to do right. He felt his weakness. He always feels the best in time of excitement. He was glad our enemies are so near for he thought it was necessary to cleanse the saints. Felt to be on hand for anything that he was called upon to do and do the best he could. Bore testimony to the truth of the work."  (Goshen Ward <i>Document Folder Item 44, page 2, side 1)

</i>HOLDEN, MILLARD, UTAH 1870 - Census Utah, USA (Holden not named on census transcription) Father, Wm R. Teeples, age 35 Mother Harriet, age 25. Children are Sarah E. Female, age 12; Harrt R, Female, age 9; Beatrice, Female. age 6; Wm G, Male, age 4; Alonzo, Male age 1 month.

SMITHFIELD, PIMA, AZ 1880 CENSUS: Smithfield, Pima, Arizona. He was listed at age 46 with his wife Harriet (age 36) and children E. R. (male), age 10; Phebe H., age 7; Alice A. age 3. Also listed with wife Carolina age 27 and children Fucious H. (son) age 11, Albert J. age 7, Chas J. age 6 and Johanna age 1 month.

HISTORY Teeples, William Randolph, a counselor in the bishopric of the Pima Ward, Graham county, Arizona, was born June 7, 1834, at Huron, Huron county, Michigan, the son of Geo. Bentley Teeples and Hulda Colby. His parents joined the Church and he went with them, about 1843, to Nauvoo, Ill., where William was baptized by Elder Zenos H. Gurley. He remembered Joseph and Hyrum Smith, though only ten years old when they were killed. He emigrated to Utah in 1848 with his parents, crossing the plains in Heber C. Kimball's company, and drove an ox team across the plains for Mary (Fielding) Smith, mother of Pres. Jos. F. Smith. Together with his parents he became one of the first settlers of Provo, Utah county. 1st Marriage: He married Catherine Chamberlain in 1866 and the only child by this marriage was Sarah Elizabeth. In 1859 (August 21st) 2nd Marriage: He married Harriet B. Cook, daughter of Bishop Phineas W. Cook and Ann E. Howland (also pioneers of 1848). She was born at Richland, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, Oct. 28, 1844. The children by this marriage were Harriet Rita, Beatrice, Ann Eliza, Wm. George, Alonzo R., Phebe Henrietta, David Wolcott, Alice Aurelia and Eunice Rosalia. 3rd Marriage: Bro. Teeples married Caroline Ann Scofield in October, 1868; she was the daughter of John and Margaret Scofield of Sunderland, England, was born Nov. 3, 1851, at Sunderland, and came to Utah about 1859. This marriage was blessed with seven children, namely, Phineas Henry, John Albert, Chas. Welcome, James, Sidney Lee, Caroline Hulda and Margaret Ellen. Bro. Teeples learned the blacksmith trade when a young man, participated in the early Indian wars in Utah, served in the Echo canyon campaign during the Johnston Army troubles, assisted in starting the cotton industry in Southern Utah, made a trip to California in 1858-59, moved to Salem, Utah county, and afterwards to Provo, continually working at his trade. He was one of the first pioneers of Bear Lake valley, Idaho, in 1863, built a small log house at Paris and went to Montpelier as a pioneer settler of that place in May, 1864. In 1865 he moved to Holden, Millard county, Utah, where he followed blacksmithing and farming until 1879, when he was called to Arizona, where he became the first Mormon pioneer in the Gila valley. He had been instructed to go there and find a place that suited him. Raising a company of ten men (only four families), he settled with them at a place now known as Pima, Graham county, on the south side of the Gila river, near the foot of Mt. Graham. At a conference held Sept. 25, 1892, he was ordained a High Priest by Lot Smith and set apart as a Bishop's counselor. He put forth all his energy in building up that part of the country and died June 5, 1883, at Pima, 49 years of age. Bro. Teeples was generous to a fault and would give his last dollar for the benefit of the community in which he lived. (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b772.html)

If any one man should be named responsible for the settlement of the village we know as Pima, that man would be William R. Teeples. Wm Teeples was living in Holden. Utah when Apostle Erastus Snow came and asked him to act as captain, to form a company of ten families, to help settle Arizona. Upon arriving at Forest Dale they discovered the Moses Cluff family they had known in Utah. It was especially good to see these friends, as it was Christmas Eve. While living in Forest Dale. Wm Teeples and five others, upon the advice of Mr. Cooley. went south to look over the Gila Valley. Mr. Teeples was much impressed with the Valley, the others were not so favorably impressed. In February he went with three others Hyrum Weech. Ben Pearce. John W. Tanner, to again look at the Valley. All liked what they saw. After gaining permission from the Church Authorities. Wm Teeples again, on March 17, 1879. started to the Gila Valley. In the company were twenty-eight men. women, and children, a small enough group, to start the settlement in the Gila Valley. These twenty-eight souls located and founded the town we now call Pima. Wm R Teeples had not long to live in the Town he helped settle He died June 5, 1883. at age forty-nine His passing left an empty space in the small community that was difficult to fill. (http://genealogytrails.com/ariz/graham/bios.html#teeples)

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Autobiography of Harriet B. Cook Teeples, in possession of Janet Porter. "(William Randolph Teeples, son of) George Bentley Teeples, courted me and won my hand in marriage when I was 15 years old. My father performed the ceremony. Three years later we were able to be sealed in the Endowment House."

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Ancestral File. No children listed for this marriage. She did not move with him to Pima, Arizona. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b772.html states the marriage took place in Provo.

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