William Henry TEBBS

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    He was a doctor.
                  

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                       1880 Census of Utah, Iron County, Severe City, Panguitch Pct. SF530, J to
    Z640. Vol. 1 FD 20, sheet 27, line 15.
    Fouchie's are Huegonots from France.
    Birth and death dates are from tombstone seen in Panguitch City Cemetary.
    and photographed by Alice Barney Wiggins, great grand daughter.
    Death Date from Panguitch Ward Records.
    History of Daniel Fonchie Tebbs and Susan Ellen Burnes Tebbs by Lydia Ellen
    Tebbs Winters

    My Father, Daniel Fonchie Tebbs, son of William and Lydia Tebbs - was born in
    Prince Williams County, Virginia, September 2, l830.  His parents owned a plan-
    tation and a number of negro slaves there.  In Father's early youth he moved
    with his parents to Platte County, Missouri, taking part of their slaves with
    them.  A tract of land was purchased there which was farmed by the negroes
    under my Grandfather's supervision while he lived and under my Grandmother's
    direction after his death.  My father was the youngest of a family of twelve
    children; was not a strong or robust child but succeeded in attaining a very
    liberal education, completing the courses prescribed by the public schools,
    high schools and college of his time. He was a man that read extensively,
    having in his childhood formed the habit of daily reading, from the example
    set by his Mother who would devote at least fifteen minutes each day to
    reading, and as much more time as possible. It made no difference what work a
    day brought she would not allow it to pass without the fifteen minutes of
    reading; and my Father has told me, that as a result of this, Grandmother
    possessed a great amount of information--that she was well acquainted with the
    popular literary people of her time and was so familiar with the laws of the
    country that her advise was sought by many and she was laughingly called "Mrs.
    Tebbs the lawyer".

    My Mother, Susan Ellen Burnes Tebbs, daughter of Fielding Burnes and Mary Jane
    Arnold Burnes, was born in Platte City, Platte County, Missouri, May 28, l845.
    She was one of five children, born to her mother.  She was the only one to live
    to maturity.  Her mother died when my Mother was about ten years old, leaving a
    large estate (which she had inherited from the Arnolds) to my Mother.  About a
    year after the death of Grandmother, Grandfather married Lizzie Summers a young
    woman, only five years my Mother's senior.  Mother attended school in Platte
    City until she was about thirteen years old when she was sent to St. Louis,
    Missouri, and placed in a Catholic Convent.  She attended this school for four
    successive years.  Mother said she never had felt that she could embrace the
    Catholic faith, but said she became very much attached to the "Sisters" of the
    convent--that during her entire stay there, she never heard an unkind word
    spoken.  The harshest rebuke given was always prefaced with "My Dear".

    Mother always spoke in the highest terms of praise regarding the treatment she
    received at the convent, but thought the girls were all robbed of self-reliance
    by being waited on too much.  Each girl had a room and her bed which she
    occupied alone and at night a "Sister" went in with her, combed her hair,
    washed her feet, undressed her, and tucked her into bed. The girls were not
    allowed to associate with men or boys at all.  Dancing was taught the same as a
    branch of study--the girls dancing with each other--the ones taking the place
    of boys wearing a blue ribbon around the left arm.  If a male relative or
    friend came to visit a student he sat on one side and she the other of a
    lattice partition and conversed through same.  In the partition was a small
    receptacle that turned on a pivot and if a small article--a letter, box of
    candy, or any other small parcel needed to be passed from one to the other, it
    could be placed in this little box which would turn on the pivot and carry it
    to the opposite side.

    Mother told me that there were three kinds of "Nuns" or "Sisters" in the
    Convent, "the Visitation", "Sacred-heart", and the "Cloistered".  The last
    named were those who never left the building.  They knew when they took the
    "Veil" that the rest of their lives must be spent within the walls of the
    convent and yet Mother said they were so happy.  They had a trial year of
    wearing the veil before they had the ceremony performed that made them a full
    fledged "nun".  After they had worn the veil for a year if they did not wish to
    continue they were at liberty to leave, but if they were satisfied and wished
    to go on, they were dressed as a bride-(often very expensively) and married to
    the Savior.  They were placed in a coffin--an emblem of being dead to this
    world and its pleasures--and quite a lengthy discourse delivered over
    them--(one at a time, of course.)  The part of which I remember was "We place
    this veil upon thee to shield thee from the face of men."

    Daniel Fonchie Tebbs and Susan Ellen Burnes were married in Platte City,
    Missouri, August 30, l863.  This was during the war between the Northern and
    Southern States, (the Civil War).

    Owing to a defective shoulder my Father was not pressed into Service.  But I
    have many times heard him say that in the State of Missouri one was safer in
    than out of this Army: as the state was over-run with a lawless band, or bands
    of men known as "Bush Whackers", who committed many terrible deeds throughout
    the entire state, and besides that owing to Missouri being both "Slave" and
    "Free" you were ever in danger of being reported for treason as you never knew
    whether you were talking to one in sympathy with the "Frees" or the "Slaves"
    and should an opinion be expressed at variance with the ideas of the one to
    whom you were talking they could so easily construe it to sound treasonable and
    report it as such.

    At one time Father and Mother were visiting with friends who lived some
    distance from Father's sister whose husband was a Southern Colonel, and Mother
    wrote a letter to this sister telling her that she and Father had been
    entertained by Colonel S--of the Northern Army that he and family were so kind
    to them and were very nice high class people, etc.  Sometime later an officer
    rode up to where Father and Mother were and said he had a warrant for Mother's
    arrest.  Father told him that he must be mistaken in the party that Mother was
    nothing but a girl, and had not been away from where he was at any time.  The
    officer assured him that Mother was the person he was looking for.  Father then
    asked what the charges against her were and the officer said she had given
    information regarding an officer to an opponent.  The evidence they had against
    her was the letter she had written to Father's sister.  Through influential
    friends Mother was released with a severe reprimand for mentioning officers
    names in letters.  The supposition was that this letter had been found on the
    body of Father's nephew who may have been killed by Bush Whackers, or as a Bush
    Whacker; as the son of the sister to whom Mother wrote the letter left home to
    join his father-Colonel Winston--and he did not reach his father-nor did he
    ever return home nothing was known of his death.

    One day Father was riding on horseback through a bisbered section when he met
    a number of men who were also riding horses.  Father had a very fine outfit,
    good horse, new saddle and bridle and when he rode up even with these fellows
    one of them who appeared to be the leader, said for Father to halt and
    dismount.  Father did so and the man did likewise; then swung himself into
    Father's saddle and rode away leaving his outfit for Father.  The horse was a
    small miserable animal at best and was now so poor and tired out that Father
    could hardly make it "crawl" along and the saddle and bridle was so shabby that
    Father could hardly make up his mind to use them, but he knew there was nothing
    to do but take the outfit as it was and go his way, which he did.  He told of
    many other incidents that transpired which are too numerous and too terrible
    to relate.  Father's family was sadly divided politically.  His oldest brother,
    Algernon Sidney Tebbs, was a Colonel in the Northern Army and his brother-in-
    law--which I have mentioned before--was Colonel in the Southern Army.  He had
    cousins fighting against each other also.

    In 1864 Father and Mother decided to leave Missouri and go to California.
    Owing to the danger of being killed or taken prisoners, by the Indians-people
    crossed the plains in "Companies" and Father was trying to find one of these
    going that Fall.  He heard of one that was to leave from a town some miles
    distant from where he and Mother were, and rode there to see if they might join
    them; but when he arrived at the place he found that they had gone a short time
    before, but he learned that a "Band of Mormons" would be starting at an early
    date.  When telling Mother of it he said, "I declare, Susie, I would about as
    soon trust the Indians as those Mormons"  They were very desirous of making
    the journey and after talking it over between themselves it was decided that
    Father go and talk to these much-feared Mormons; when he returned he told
    Mother that "They really talked like quite sensible men: and "he thought that
    they might be safe to go in their Company", and they started with them.  During
    the journey Father and Mother grew to like many of the members of the Mormons,
    and upon arriving in Salt Lake, decided to spend the winter there and go on to
    California in the spring.  Father had sixty-seven head of oxen and a span of
    black French Coach horses.  The wagons drawn by the oxen were loaded with flour
    and bacon and the horses were the team that Mother drove attached to a wagon
    fitted as a room for herself and young baby.  The latter being our oldest
    brother, Daniel Fonchie the second.

    During the winter my parents purchased the L. D. S. Church works and one of
    them would take a church book and the other the Bible and they read and
    compared them and by Spring they were Converted to Mormonism, were baptized and
    remained in Utah. Just after having decided to spend the winter in Salt Lake,
    Father hired a man by the name of John Strange to take care of his oxen until
    Spring.  Strange took them and turned them out down by Utah Lake and when
    Father got them back in the spring there were only three oxen left.  It was
    very muddy around the lake and many either died in the mud or from the effect
    of having been in it.

    In 1865 my parents settled in Cedar Fort, a small town in Utah County near old
    Camp Floyd where my Mother taught night school and one child was born there.
    In 1867 my parents left Cedar Fort and settled in Mona, Juab County, Utah,
    where they lived for eight years.  It was there they joined the "United Order of
    Enoch".  Father taught school the greater part of the time while living there,
    both before they joined this "Order" and during the time they belonged to it.
    The "Order" was a financial failure for the majority of those who attached
    themselves to it, and yet Father always said he was happly while he worked
    there.

    Four children were born to Father and Mother during the time they lived at
    Mona. In 1878 they moved to Southern Utah to a farm called Lowder Spring which
    was at that time in Iron County.  Later the county was divided and that part of
    it was thrown in Garfield County and Lowder Spring became Tebbsdale.  There
    Father was "Presiding Elder" for many years. The opportunity for children to
    attend school was very meager, though  Father usually taught for a few months
    each winter and the children within a radius of two or three miles would
    attend, and sometimes when those living a greater distance, from our home
    wished to attend they would stay at our home and go from there.  When no
    regular school was being taught in our home every evening we children gathered
    around a study table where we would hear, and prepare our lessons and either
    Father or Mother would help us.  They were ever willing that any of the
    neighbor's children should study with us and would as cheerfully help them with
    their lessons, and hear them recite them as they would those of their own.
    Five children were born at the Tebbsdale home and one in the town of Panguitch,
    making a family of eight boys and four girls.  The youngest of these, Henry
    Lazelle died in infancy, the remaining eleven grew to maturity; and one
    daughter, Mamie, died when she was nineteen years of age and Nellie when she
    was twenty four.  Both of these girls were married.  The first named Mary Tebbs
    Hatch died when her first baby was born and Susan Ellen Tebbs Barney, at the
    birth of her second baby.  The remaining nine children are living at this time.

    Both Father and Mother were very hospitable and their home was a place where
    both old and young congregated.  They were good conversationalists and made
    many friends both at home and away from home.  Our home on the farm was but a
    short distance from the road that led through Bear Creek Canyon and was
    traveled by those going to the Silver Reef and Leeds, Utah and hundreds of men
    went there on foot.  It seemed to us that every one making this trip (walking)
    stopped at our home to beg for food and though some times mother would of a
    necessity delay her other work while she made and baked biscuits to feed them I
    never saw one refused food.  My Father possessed a strong sense of honor, was
    very sympathetic and generous to a fault.  He was ever and always a gentleman
    having a keen sense of right and wrong, was always able to see both sides of an
    argument fairly.  He was also a natural musician; any tune he heard, with a few
    minutes practice, he would reproduce on his violin.  (Every one of his Mother's
    twelve children played some musical instrument.)

    He was an ardent church worker, would at any time neglect his own work to do
    that of the church, was kind to those with whom he associated and never seemed
    happier than where sacrificing himself to give pleasure to others.  He was very
    modest and unpretending, and as a friend was one of the gentlest, kindest and
    truest.  He had many friends who enjoyed his genial kindly nature, and they did
    no relinquish that friendship without regret.  He was ever courteous to and
    tolerant of the views of those who differed from his own and moreover I know
    that his life was clean and honorable.

    I wish I had the power to speak of my dear parents as they deserve to be spoken
    of, but I have not, and the simple words I write seem but a betrayal of a
    weighty trust.

    My Mother was a woman of more that ordinary ability, and accurate reasoner, a
    gifted conversationalist, a lover of beauty, and was generous and tender.  She
    loved her fellow associates and her heart and hand was quick with warm response
    and generous natures.  She had great strength of will, unfaltering integrity,
    and a high sense of justice.  Those who understood and knew her best lover her
    most.  She was endowed with very good judgment which seldon, if ever, failed to
    secure her a safe and ready counselor.  She seldom lost her presence of mind
    but met difficulties as they arose without fear, was courteous in bearing,
    affable in manner and true to friendship, regardless of a friend's station in
    life.  She was sympathetic, charitable, generous and just.  Her faith in God
    was strong and she trusted her future to Him as a babe