William Howard Wyckoff

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• Initiatory (LDS): 14 Jan 2012, REXBU

Spafford + Eliza Adelaide Rance. Eliza (daughter of Frederick George Rance and Leah Caroline Whipple) was born on 7 Feb 1902 in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States; died on 10 Oct 1976 in Kern, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 17 Jan 2012, MTIMP

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Frank + Elizabeth Anna Corel. Elizabeth was born on 15 Jul 1857 in Horseheads, Chemung, New York, United States; died on 28 Mar 1933 in Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 5 Apr 2019, PROCC

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• Initiatory (LDS): 7 Jun 2002, ARIZO

Frederick married Leah Caroline Whipple on 26 Feb 1900 in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. Leah (daughter of Eli Whipple and Caroline Elida Lytle) was born on 12 Apr 1880 in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States; died on 14 Mar 1936 in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States; was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Apr 1938, ARIZO

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Samuel married Sarah Eliza Symons on 22 Feb 1858 in St. Luke's Church, London, Middlesex, England. Sarah was born on 10 May 1838 in Kensington, Middlesex, England; died on 8 Dec 1912 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; was buried on 11 Dec 1912 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 8 Mar 1875, EHOUS

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• Initiatory (LDS): 29 Oct 1859, EHOUS

Eli married Caroline Elida Lytle on 19 Dec 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Caroline (daughter of John Lytle and Christena Diana Whitner) was born on 18 Apr 1840 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States; died on 6 Dec 1912 in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States; was buried on 9 Dec 1912 in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 25 Apr 1856, EHOUS

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Caroline was born April 18, 1840 in Nauvoo, Illinois to John Lytle and C h ristina Diana Whitner. She was the sixth of nine children in their fami ly .

Her father was a blacksmith working in Ohio when he married Christina Wh i tner February 27, 1827.
He was eighteen years of age when he first heard the gospel and in May 1 8 36 he went to Kirkland, Ohio and after learning more about the church d ec ided to be baptized. Eleven months later, he moved his family to Far W es t Missouri, where he had some land and worked it to grow crops.

Due to the persecution of the Mormons there, they moved west to Nauvoo , I llinois. While there he was appointed to Chief of Police, serving a s a gu ard to the Prophet Joseph Smith. John and his brother Andrew wer e both po licemen. The summer of 1844, a group of seceders from the Churc h of Jesu s Christ of Latter Day Saints founded a newspaper titled the “N auvoo Expo sitor”. The single edition of the newspaper was very critica l of Joseph S mith and others. In response to the newspaper publication , the Nauvoo cit y council declared the paper a public nuisance, and orde red the printin g press destroyed. John and his brother Andrew along wit h others destroye d the printing press.
In October, the case for John and Andrew were brought before the court a n d a man named Rollison was the principal witness against them. When ask e d to identify if it was John or Andrew who committed the crime, he sai d i t was the policemen. Since both were policemen, he said it was the bl acks mith and since they were both blacksmiths the jury acquitted them.

In 1846, John and Christina’s family and many others had to leave Nauv o o and move to Winter Quarters, Nebraska. John and his brother Andrew br ou ght their families in wagons across the Mississippi River and then wen t b ack to bring five more families across. Christina delivered a baby so on a fter they arrived. They were staying in a one room building with twe nty p eople. Unfortunately, the baby girl died due to exposure and cold w eather . Christina herself almost died.

Blacksmiths were sorely needed to help repair the wagons for the cross c o untry trek and crops were needed to store up for food for the journey . Be cause of this, John and his family stayed at Winter Quarters until J une 1 849 when they finally set out for Salt Lake City themselves. They t ravele d in the Allen Taylor Company.

Caroline was nine years old when they began the trek to Salt Lake. She h a d to walk most of the way because riding in the wagons wasn’t allowed u nl ess someone was sick or injured. She had younger brothers that she ha d t o help take care of and watch over. For the Lytle family, the trip ac ros s the plains was comparatively easier than those who had traveled bef or e them. They were well provisioned and prepared. They had a couple o f mil k cows and Caroline’s mother would put the morning milking in the c hurn a nd put it in the wagon. By evening when they camped there would b e a pa t of butter and sweet buttermilk to drink. Caroline’s older sister , Mar y Jane Lytle, wrote in her autobiography, “When we camped at night , we ma de big bonfires and the young folks sang, danced and played games .” “We s aw great herds of buffalo, and had plenty of meat both fresh an d dried. ” “Of course it was not all sunshine and pleasure, we had some v ery disas trous stampedes, and many dangerous accidents, but take it al l around, w e fared much better than most of the Emigrants who came so ea rly.”
They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley October 17 1849.

Caroline married Lyman Peters, in April 1856, at the age of sixteen. W e d o not know how Caroline and Lyman met. Lyman Peters was born in Jeffe rson , New York to Alphonso and Mercy Prentiss Peters. He was born May 24 , 183 7 and was the second child in a family of seven children. The famil y move d to Grand Rapids, Michigan when he was young. When he was sevente en year s old, he and a friend ran away. They walked fifty miles to Kalam azoo, Mi chigan hoping to get to the gold rush in California. In Kalamazo o they jo ined a wagon train headed to Utah with the Mormons. His famil y did not kn ow his whereabouts until years later. The wagon train made i t to Salt Lak e City and after his arrival he decided not to continue hi s journey to Ca lifornia. Later he joined the church and was baptized Mar ch 22, 1855.

In April 1856, John Lytle and his entire family, including Caroline an d L yman, were called to colonize the Carson Valley in Nevada. They sol d al l of their belongings and moved to establish a home in Nevada. Caro lin e was pregnant during the move and their daughter Harriett was born M arc h 7, 1857 in Nevada.

The hopes of starting a colony in Nevada were soon crushed with the thre a t of military invasion in Utah in 1857-58. Brigham Young instructed al l m issionaries who were in Carson Valley, Nevada and San Bernardino, Cal ifor nia, to return to the main body of the church. He also recalled al l missi onaries serving in the United States and Europe as well. Caroline , Lyma n and baby Harriett, along with Caroline’s parents and family, ret urned b ack to Salt Lake City. Two years later, Edgar John Peters, was bo rn to Ca roline and Lyman on March 14, 1859.

Times were tough and money not easy to come by. Caroline worked as a dom e stic for the Decker family from 1859 to 1861 in Salt Lake City. In th e 18 60 census it shows she was living with her parents and her two child ren , Harriett and Edgar, with no mention of her husband Lyman. (NOTE - s inc e writing this article we have found a written divorce agreement betw ee n Lyman and Caroline dated the 18 December 1868 in Salt Lake City Utah . C aroline then married Eli Whipple the next day in the Salt Lake Temple .)

John Lytles family was called by Brigham Young to the Cotton Mission t o h elp grow cotton and establish the city of St. George Utah in Octobe r 1861 . Caroline and her children, Harriet and Edgar, moved with her par ents an d siblings that year to southern Utah .

Lyman Peters became partners with his good friend, John Lehi Ivie, i n a s ilver mine in Utah. In the 1870 and 1880 census, they record Lyma n as liv ing in Sanpete County, Utah where John and Lyman had their silve r mine. T his is where he met his second wife Mary Catherine Barton, wh o was John I vie’s second polygamous wife. She divorced John Ivie and mar ried Lyman Pe ters February 14, 1881. Then Lyman and Mary Catherine move d to Wood River , Idaho. Later he bought a farm in East Fork, Idaho. In 1 888 Mary Catheri ne Barton Peters was involved in a horse accident and di ed a few months l ater.

In 1907, one of Edgar’s children, Cornelia, learned where her grandfathe r , Lyman Peters lived and contacted him, through a letter. He was livin g a t the time in Ketchum, Idaho on a ranch. Cornelia persuaded Lyman t o com e and visit the family. In December, he came to St. George and Pin e Valle y where Edgar and his family lived. It is not mentioned, but I ho pe, Harr iet and her family and Caroline as well, also visited with him a t that ti me. He later went back to Idaho. Lyman Peters died October 30 1 923 and i s buried in Hailey, Idaho.
It had been nearly 50 years since Harriet and Edgar had seen their fathe r .

After moving to St. George and living with her family, Caroline marrie d E li Whipple on December 19, 1868. Caroline was his second wife and El i rai sed her two children as his own. Edgar took the Whipple name, howev er Har riett remained a Peters. Edgar was known to say of Eli Whipple, th at he w as a good father and always assisted him.

Caroline and Eli had seven children together; Ivenette Whipple 1869, E l i Whipple Jr. 1871, John Lytle Whipple 1874, Willard Whipple 1876, Char le s Whipple 1878, Leah Caroline Whipple 1880, and Effie Christina Whippl e 1 882.

Eli and his first wife, Patience Foster, came to Utah by way of sailin g t hrough the Isthmus of Panama from New York. They settled in Redwood C ity , California, where Eli and Patience went into the store and lumber b usin ess. They soon had three lumber mills and was doing very well, howev er tw o of the mills burnt down and they became discouraged and moved t o Provo , Utah in 1858. In the fall of 1861, Eli and family were called t o the Co tton Mission, and settled in St. George by the first winter. A y ear late r in 1862, Erastus Snow asked Eli and Patience to move to Pine V alley t o set up the first sawmill. Here Eli resumed his lumber and hom e buildin g business which gave him great success.

He also bought land and cattle and raised potatoes in Pine Valley. Peop l e often referred to him as being the “Potato King of Utah.” In 1872, h e w as called on a mission to Ohio. Upon his return he started making but te r and cheese. He even has a trail leading to the top of Pine Valley Mo unt ain named after him. He would take his diary herd to the top of the m ount ain via this trail which is today known as the “Whipple Trail.” He s oon b ecame known as one of the wealthiest men in southern Utah.

In 1877, Eli married a third wife, Mary Jane Legg with whom he had nin e c hildren.

Years later, because of the enforcement, by Federal Marshals, of The Edm u nds-Tucker Act of 1887, Eli had decided he needed to move his familie s an d himself to Mexico. This legislation allowed Federal Marshals to ar res t any man involved with polygamy and put them in jail. Many church me mber s went into hiding, in Mexico, during this time. Patience and Caroli ne re fused to move to Mexico with him. Eli then had to make the hard dec isio n to leave two of his wives and their children. In the spring of 188 7, Ma ry Jane and her children went with Eli to Mexico and Patience and C arolin e stayed in Pine Valley and St. George. Eli died in 1904 in Coloni a Dubla n, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua Mexico. He is buried there in t he Colon ia Dublan Cemetery, Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua Mexico.

Eli and Caroline had a house in St. George, located at 44 East 100 Sout h . Caroline stayed in that house and continued to raise her children. Wh e n Eli and Mary Jane left, Harriett and Edgar were already married, an d Ca roline’s children with Eli were of the ages 16 to 5 years. In the 19 00 ce nsus, Charles and Effie are still noted as living with Caroline i n her ho me. Charles marries in 1901 and the 1910 census list Effie at ho me stil l taking care of her mother. We learn later that soon after the 1 910 cens us, Effie moved to Salt Lake City and Charles and his family mov ed into C aroline’s home and took care of her. After Caroline passed awa y Charles a nd his family continued to live in the home.

No doubt Caroline had many struggles as she continued to raise her fami l y and be involved with the community and her church. Caroline’s fathe r ha d helped build the St. George Temple and before her mother’s death i n 188 1, her parents were both Temple Ordinance workers. Caroline volunte ered a s a Temple Ordinance worker as well. It was noted in Caroline’s ob ituar y that “she had appeared in usual health and gave no sign her end w as nea r. The evening before she ate a hearty supper and remarked durin g the cou rse of the meal that she did not want to suffer a lingering ill ness befor e death came to her and a few short hours afterwards, her desi re was grat ified.”
Caroline passed away in her home on Friday morning, December 6, 1912.
She is buried in the St. George City Cemetery.