William Randolph Teeples, 1834–1883 (aged 48 years)
- Name
- William Randolph Teeples
- Given names
- William Randolph
- Surname
- Teeples
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Marriage |
Marriage: — |
himself |
1834–1883
Birth: June 7, 1834 — Huron, Huron, Michigan, USA Death: June 5, 1883 — Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA |
3 years
younger brother |
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20 years
younger sister |
himself |
1834–1883
Birth: June 7, 1834 — Huron, Huron, Michigan, USA Death: June 5, 1883 — Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA |
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wife |
1844–1933
Birth: October 28, 1844
25
21 — Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Death: October 31, 1933 — Sun River, Cascade, Montana, USA |
Marriage |
Marriage: August 21, 1859 — Goshen, Utah, Utah, USA |
20 months
daughter |
1861–1876
Birth: April 25, 1861
26
16 — Goshen, Utah, Utah, USA Death: August 8, 1876 |
3 years
daughter |
1864–1942
Birth: March 31, 1864
29
19 — Paris, Oneida, Idaho, USA Death: May 24, 1942 — Fillmore, Millard, Utah, USA |
2 years
son |
1866–1870
Birth: April 14, 1866
31
21 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: October 27, 1870 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA |
4 years
son |
1870–1951
Birth: May 10, 1870
35
25 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: April 23, 1951 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA |
3 years
daughter |
1873–1908
Birth: March 30, 1873
38
28 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: January 14, 1908 — Garden City, Rich, Utah, USA |
23 months
son |
1875–1875
Birth: February 6, 1875
40
30 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: March 4, 1875 |
3 years
daughter |
1877–1928
Birth: September 18, 1877
43
32 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: August 20, 1928 — Garden City, Rich, Utah, USA |
3 years
daughter |
1880–1958
Birth: December 3, 1880
46
36 — Pima, Graham, Arizona, USA Death: October 4, 1958 — Choteau, Teton, Montana, USA |
himself |
1834–1883
Birth: June 7, 1834 — Huron, Huron, Michigan, USA Death: June 5, 1883 — Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA |
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ex-wife | |
Marriage |
Marriage: 1856 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA |
Divorce |
Divorce: — |
himself |
1834–1883
Birth: June 7, 1834 — Huron, Huron, Michigan, USA Death: June 5, 1883 — Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA |
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wife |
1852–1935
Birth: November 3, 1852 — Newcastle upon Thyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom Death: October 17, 1935 — Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA |
Marriage |
Marriage: October 11, 1868 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA |
11 months
son |
1869–
Birth: September 4, 1869
35
16 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: |
2 years
son |
1871–1946
Birth: August 25, 1871
37
18 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: August 27, 1946 — Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA |
2 years
son |
1874–1908
Birth: January 4, 1874
39
21 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: December 22, 1908 |
2 years
son |
1876–1877
Birth: March 8, 1876
41
23 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: April 21, 1877 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA |
23 months
son |
1878–1879
Birth: February 10, 1878
43
25 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA Death: August 10, 1879 — Holden, Millard, Utah, USA |
2 years
daughter |
1880–
Birth: May 30, 1880
45
27 — Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA Death: |
3 years
daughter |
1882–
Birth: November 1, 1882
48
29 — Pima, Pima, Arizona, USA Death: |
Note | 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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Note | 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." |
Note | 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. |
Note | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b772.html Also found on Ancestral File |