 1862 - 1953 (91 years) Has 6 ancestors and 9 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Ruth Sweetnam Talbot |
| Birth |
17 Feb 1862 |
Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States  |
| Christening |
4 May 1862 |
Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
27 Sep 1878 |
EHOUS |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWC1-HQJ |
| Death |
11 Jun 1953 |
Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, United States |
| Burial |
16 Jun 1953 |
Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I23214 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Henry Talbot, b. 16 Oct 1812, Church of St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England d. 15 Dec 1895, Layton, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 83 years) |
| Mother |
Ruth Sweetnam, b. 4 Feb 1817, Sittingbourne, Kent, England d. 15 Mar 1903, Layton, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 86 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Mar 1833 |
St. Michael and St. George Cathedral, Grahamstown, Albany, South Africa |
| Family ID |
F10941 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Teancum William Heward, b. 11 Dec 1854, Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 18 Aug 1915, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States (Age 60 years) |
| Marriage |
27 Sep 1878 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Eliza Elizabeth Heward, b. 27 Jul 1879, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States d. 26 Sep 1965, Roy, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 86 years) |
| | 2. Esther Marella Heward, b. 12 Jun 1882, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States d. 4 Apr 1961, Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States (Age 78 years) |
| | 3. Ruth Clarissa Heward, b. 22 Dec 1888, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 13 Feb 1985 (Age 96 years) |
| | 4. Rachael Alberta Heward, b. 4 Jul 1890, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 26 Jan 1963 (Age 72 years) |
| | 5. Aseneth Emmeline Heward, b. 1 Mar 1892, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 12 Feb 1981 (Age 88 years) |
| | 6. Teancum William Heward, b. 14 Aug 1894, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 21 Mar 1958, Driggs, Teton, Idaho, United States (Age 63 years) |
| | 7. Hyrum Basil Heward, b. 28 Oct 1897, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States d. 17 Mar 1982 (Age 84 years) |
| | 8. Russelletta Gedenia Heward, b. 28 May 1900, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States d. 30 Jul 1900, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States (Age 0 years) |
| | 9. Lehi Talbot Heward, b. 24 Feb 1904 bur. 27 Jun 1914, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States (Age ~ 10 years) |
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| Family ID |
F10970 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 17 Feb 1862 - Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States |
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| Christening - 4 May 1862 - Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 27 Sep 1878 - EHOUS |
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 | Marriage - 27 Sep 1878 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Death - 11 Jun 1953 - Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, United States |
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 | Burial - 16 Jun 1953 - Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States |
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| Notes |
- Ruth Sweetnam, was the sixteenth child and sixth daughter of Henry an d R uth Sweetnam, born 17 Feb 1862, at Kaysville, Utah. She was their on ly c hild that was born in America, with the other fifteen being born i n Sout h Africa. She was baptized 15 Jun 1873, by John Ellison and confi rmed th e same day by John Weinel and/or A. Alder.
Ruth lived on the family farm on Holmes Creek, in Kaysville, and like t h e other children she went to school at “Five Points” in a little one ro o m school between Kaysville, and Layton, Utah.
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She recorded, “When I was old enough, I had to walk two miles to get t o s chool. I hated the teacher. He would appoint monitors to take ove r th e class while he slept. If we were late or did something he did no t like , he would send us to the coldest part of the room, which he calle d “Sibe ria”. How different from the clean, comfortable schools of today !
Church, as well as school, was quite a distance from our home then. W e h ad no night meetings. The meetings were held in the afternoon, and o the r meetings through the week.
Mother used to go among the sick. She was a midwife, and Father was a m a son. He used to play for dances. He played the flute and there was qu it e a few in the band.
I remember once of the Indians coming to the top of the hill. They frig h tened us, but said nothing. Also once a circus came to town. We wen t a t night, but the owners made us go home because the wind came up an d it w as unsafe.
I went to Salt Lake, too, quite often, and can remember the men workin g o n the Temple. We used to go down to the Salt Lake and gather salt . We c ould shovel up enough in one trip to last for months. We also ga thered a nother substance, which we used to make bread – salaratis, whic h made ou r bread rise.
On another occasion the grasshoppers got so bad that we all had to go o u t and fight them to save our crops. The only method we knew then wa s t o tie a white rag on the end of a stick and drive them into the ditch . O nce in, they could not get out.
Once Steve came in with a squash. Squash was the only thing that the gr a sshoppers wouldn’t eat. “Squash for dinner!” he said, and slammed i t u p against the wall. Well, that’s all we had to eat, was squash and g reen s. Very little bread, I tell you.
I only went to bed hungry once. Then mother woke me up in the middl e o f the night to feed me. She had got flour from one of the neighbors. ”
Ruth was visiting her sister, Susannah, in Lewiston, Utah, when she fir s t met Teancum Heward. Teancum was the brother of Susannah’s husband , Le hi. The girls used to tease her about him and she said, “I wouldn’ t marr y that thing if he was the last man on earth!” But, after her vis it in L ewiston, he escorted her home on the train. This started a roman ce whic h led to their marriage in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City , 27 Se p 1878. Teancum was a graduate of the University of Utah, wher e he major ed in Music and Education, and about this time he began teachi ng school i n Kaysville.
Shortly after they were married, he was called to fill a mission to th e S outhern States, where he labored mostly in Georgia. While he was o n thi s mission their first child, Eliza Elizabeth, was born, 27 Jul 1879 . A t this time she was living with her parents, or rather, her mother , as He nry was then with Agnes Goddard, his other wife. She was support ed by di vidends from her husband’s interests in a Co-op store in Draper , Utah, wh ere his parents lived.
When Teancum returned from his mission, they resumed their married lif e w hile he taught school at Draper, Kaysville, and Lewiston, all in Utah , an d then they moved on to Rockland, Idaho, where he served as a schoo l teac her for a number of years, until he was elected Probate Judge an d Superin tendent of Schools for Oneida County. Then they moved to Malad , Idaho, th e county seat.
Politics embittered Teancum, so the family moved to the upper Snake Riv e r Valley, but they continued to run a little farm up toward the Malad D iv ide, until after their son, Lee, was killed in a haying accident, in 1 914 . So they sold out there and moved permanently to the Snake River Co untr y, where Teancum worked for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. He was wo rkin g on their sugar farm, at Wapello, when he took sick, and was operat ed o n for gallstones. He died shortly afterward, 18 Aug 1915, and is bu rie d in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Ruth then moved to Shelley, Idaho, which became her permanent home, an d t here she spent much of her remaining life. She lived with some of he r so ns and daughters for a time, and finally her widowed daughter, Clari ssa , joined her there, in Shelley, and cared for her during her declinin g ye ars.
In her possession, at this time, were several heirlooms from South Afric a n days in the family history, including crested silverware and an ornam en tal plate bearing the British coat-of-arms .
Always a warm, kindly mother, she made a comfortable, though plain hom e f or her family, and transmitted to them, perhaps, some small part of h er a rdent zeal for the Gospel. She always lived her religion and her fai th wa s strong. She lived a full life and was blessed with nine children , an d a large posterity.
Her accomplishments, in addition to Temple Work, were a Primary teache r , Relief Society block teacher, and knitting instructor for the Red Cro ss .
Ruth passed away 11 Jun 1953, at Shelley, Idaho, beyond 91 years, most l y from complications of senility and old age. She was buried in Blackfo ot , Idaho, 16 Jun 1953, beside her husband.
(There is no Death Certificate Available)
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