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| Name |
Phoebe Whipple |
| Birth |
13 Aug 1813 |
Deposit, Broome, New York, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
18 Nov 1846 |
Zarahemla, Lee, Iowa, United States |
| Burial |
21 Nov 1846 |
Zarahemla, Lee, Iowa, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
11 Jun 1884 |
LOGAN |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWVM-HH2 |
| Person ID |
I689 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Daniel Whipple, b. 27 Aug 1779, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States d. 27 Sep 1839, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States (Age 60 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Tiffany, b. 17 Jun 1777, Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States d. 12 Sep 1845, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States (Age 68 years) |
| Marriage |
1804 |
Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States |
| Family ID |
F68 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Benjamin Bengraw Shaw, b. 1808, Carlisle, Warren, Ohio, United States |
| Marriage |
1832 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Clymenia Azuba Shaw, b. 2 Feb 1834, Carlisle, Warren, Ohio, United States d. 10 Aug 1920, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 86 years) |
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| Family ID |
F594 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Benjamin Gibson, b. 9 May 1805, Patrington, Yorkshire, England d. 26 Nov 1897, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 92 years) |
| Marriage |
21 Dec 1834 |
Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Hannah Gibson, b. 24 Apr 1836, Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States d. 31 Oct 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States (Age 10 years) |
| + | 2. Isabella Amy Gibson, b. 20 Mar 1838, Litchfield, Medina, Ohio, United States d. 11 Feb 1898, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 59 years) |
| + | 3. Mary Jane Gibson, b. 5 Feb 1840, Litchfield, Medina, Ohio, United States d. 12 Jun 1912, Milburn, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 72 years) |
| + | 4. Susan Jane Gibson, b. 11 Oct 1842, Chatham, Medina, Ohio, United States d. 25 May 1929, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 86 years) |
| | 5. Jemima Gibson, b. 1847, Conesville, Muscatine, Iowa, United States |
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| Family ID |
F595 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 13 Aug 1813 - Deposit, Broome, New York, United States |
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 | Marriage - 21 Dec 1834 - Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States |
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 | Death - 18 Nov 1846 - Zarahemla, Lee, Iowa, United States |
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| Burial - 21 Nov 1846 - Zarahemla, Lee, Iowa, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 11 Jun 1884 - LOGAN |
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| Notes |
- Phebe died in Zarahelma, Iowa of fever.
The story of the life of Phebe Whipple, which begins in childhood happin e ss, in an affectionate family of parents, brother and sisters, cannot f ai l to bring sadness to the hearts of her descendants, knowing that he r lif e was taken so young and at a time of great distress among her rela tive s and friends. She was one of those gallant women who were destine d to gi ve up their lives for a sacred cause.
This history is taken principally form the journals or Phebe’s brother N e lson Wheeler Whipple, and her husband Benjamin Gibson; which he wrot e a t Fort Union, after coming to Utah in 1852. His journal was partiall y des troyed by age, but was treasured- together with family letters- b y his yo ungest daughter, Jane Gibson Sanders, until her death in Mesa Ar izona o n May 25, 1929. She was among the little ones of that period wh o knew chi ldhood without a mother’s care and love.
Phebe Whipple was born August 12, 1813 in Broome Co. New York, in the Vi l lage of Sanford, four miles from Deposit, New York. Her parents were Da ni el Whipple and Mary Tiffany; Mary being the young widow of Zenoa Aldri dge , and the mother of two children a little son and daughter. So Pheb e wa s born into the home of six children, and after her were born a sist er Ge rua, two years younger, and a brother Nelson Wheeler, five years yo unge r than Phebe. They helped to care for her children, following Phebe’ s unt imely death.
Phebe’s father was in partnership with his eldest brother Samuel in a sm a ll lumber mill, when she was born. The brothers had moved to this plac e f rom Pennsylvania, and had purchased a small tract, of between twent y an d thirty acres of timber land and built a home and a mill on Aquag o Creek . Daniel was away from home much of the time, cutting timber an d transpor ting the lumber down the Delaware River to Philadelphia to b e sold.
Phebe and her sisters learned to spin flax and wool when quite young, be c ause their mother was an expert in spinning, dyeing and needlework, an d m ade all the clothes, which she and the children wore.
In the summer of 1827, when Phebe was fourteen, the Whipple Family inclu d ing the Aldridge Children, moved to Newfield in Tompkins Co. New York . Ne lson Whipple writes in his journal: “My mother’s kin, the Tiffany an d Cur tis families, had moved there form Courtland Co. New York. It wa s a thre e day trip to Uncle Jarrid Putchin’s”. And later “Our house wa s on a hig h hill with a good view in almost every direction- I helped bu ild fence s and chopped wood though only 9 years old. The winter of 1828- 20 was ver y severe and hard to keep the cattle alive.
Daniel Whipple, although a strong and energetic man, found that tryin g t o farm such unproductive land was not to his liking, but he remaine d in N ewfield for six years and several of their young people were marri ed in t hat place.
Phebe was age nineteen when she married Bengraw Shaw, a man much older t h an she (as shown by the U.S. Census returns). Her family was unhappy ab ou t this marriage; so Phebe joined with them in making plans for movin g t o Ohio in 1833, and went with her parents.
Returning again to the journal of Nelson W. Whipple: “My brother-in-la w G eorge Tiffany and two of my sisters had moved to Ohio the year before . M y father Daniel Whipple sold our home, the stock and everything: eve n th e household goods. We started in November 1833, we traveled 3 days t o rea ch the port at Lake Cayuga, because of heavy rains, and took passag e on t he small steamboat, the “Dewitt Clinton”, the only steam boat on L ake Cay uga; there were many other ordinary boats.
“Our next boat was on the canal to Buffalo, where we arrived in six day s . Here we took passage again on board the steamboat, ”Pennsylvania”, o n L ake Erie, on out way to Cleveland. The first night we were on this bo at , we witnessed the long remembered signs in the heavens.” (The showe r o f meteorites on the night of November 13, 1833).
Their destination was Eton Ohio, where Phebe’s sisters and their famili e s lived; and was about twenty miles from Cleveland. With all of Daniel ’ s endeavor to find transportation for his family in this busy town, h e fi nally was forced to give up and he hired a “cart-boy with his cart” . Thei r luggage was loaded upon this and the Whipples proceeded to wal k to Eton .
Phebe was quite ill by the time they reached George Tiffany’s home, whe r e they were made welcome and stayed several days because housing was ve r y scarce. The men folk obtained work in a saw- mill in the neighborin g to wn of Carlisle and Phebe moved there with her parents. A very tiny b aby w as born to her in February 1834 and was named Clymenia Shaw. The ba by wa s loved by all her family. (The tradition concerning the baby’s siz e is t hat she was small enough to hide in a sugar-bowl). (Clymenia Sha w Evans w as buried in Bountiful, Utah.)
While in her parents home in Carlisle, Phebe was made happy again by mee t ing a young English named Benjamin Gibson, who lived in the neighborin g v illage of Grafton and who was a friend of her brothers. She was marri ed t o him in the fall of 1834 and they moved to the small farm, which Be njami n owned near Litchfield in Loraine Co. Ohio. A one-room log cabin w as o n the farm. The country was new and sparsely settled. Not many year s ha d passed since hostile Indians had skulked through the woods near th e set tlement. Panthers were large and vicious wild animals and were amon g th e wild beasts seen and heard around this village. Men always carrie d a gu n, and were alert on the trails lest one of these animals spring u pon th e horse and rider from the high limb of a tree.
One night Phebe was alone with two little ones, her husband having le f t that day with a load of grain for the gristmill, which was more th a n a days journey away. While putting the babies to bed, she heard a dre ad ful cry, which sounded like a woman in great agony of pain. She was te mpt ed to go outside to determine what it was, but remembered her husban d ha d told her never to go outside at night, not even for wood, so she l eft t he door and window barred. The screaming came up to the cabin; so s he the n realized it was a panther and was probably the mate of the one t he me n had killed the day before, and had nailed its hide on the outsid e wal l of the cabin to dry. Suddenly she heard the angered animal sprin g to th e roof and advance to the chimney. She had no time to quiet the c hildren’ s crying for she had to keep the fire in the fireplace in a hig h blaze si nce the chimney was large enough for the panther to drop throu gh. It wa s an all-night ordeal. When the wood was gone, Phebe broke up t he wood-bo x, and then the table and chairs were used for fuel. When the y were gone , she wrapped her children in a quilt and put them in a chest , leaving a n opening for air then she opened her feather mattress and fe d the flame s with a hew handfuls of feathers at a time. The panther didn ’t leave th e chimney until daybreak; then he went back to the woods afte r killing so me domestic animals.
Benjamin Gibson, in his journal written in 1845-55, tells of their marri a ge and the principal events of their life together with their childre n i n short clear statements.
“In the year 1829, at the age of 23, I sailed from Hull England on the 1 4 th of April, across the western ocean and landed in Quebec on the las t da y of May. I then took passage to Montreal; from there to Niagara an d Buff alo: then to Cleveland Ohio, then to Grafton in Loraine Co. Ohio , wher e I arrived about the 1st of July. I remained in Ohio six years, s ingle . In 1834 I was married to Phebe Whipple and we continued to live i n tha t state until we heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as taught by tw o Latte r-Day Saint missionaries. We obeyed, it and were baptized by the m on Janu ary 15, 1842, while living in Litchfield. Together with my wife ’s family , we desired to go to Nauvoo, so we sold out and started on Sep t. 7, 1843 . We traveled, with some delays, until we came within twenty m iles of tha t city; then we learned that a mob of ruffians were destroyin g lives an d property there. I left my family there with relatives and we nt to Nauvo o and saw and heard the Prophet Joseph Smith. We (Nelson W. W hipple) wen t to stay with brother George Tiffany who had built a good-si zed log hous e near the Temple. He helped us find homes to bring our fami lies to. Whil e I was there I stood guard to help protect the Prophet. O n being dismiss ed, I returned to my family and while I was gone, Josep h and Hyrum were m urdered, on the 27th of June 1844 .
“I then moved my family to Nauvoo and stayed until the mob came again . W e then crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, with some of the Sain ts , while some others had gone to Buffalo.”
“We remained in this camp until the remainder of the Saints were drive n o ut by the Mob. I was then taken sick with all my family. My wife an d daug hter died; my daughter Hannah the last of October; her mother on t he 18t h of November 1846. I was left with four little girls. I put the t wo olde r ones with good families, transacted some business, took the tw o littl e ones and came on to Garden Grove Iowa. Early in July I went t o Vorce, W isconsin.
This part of his journal is aged and dim, but their history during thi s p eriod is given in the journal of Nelson Whipple. He writes in 1846 th at h e had not seen his sister Phebe since the two of them had left Nauvo o. “D uring this winter”, he says; “We plainly saw that our property in N auvo o would bring us very little or nothing; so we saw it best to leav e to th e wilderness as best we could”. “In this camp, many people are li ving i n shanties built of sacks and sticks.” He wrote of their mother’ s death ( Mary Tiffany Aldridge Whipple) in Nauvoo, September 17, 1845. S he had bee n baptized with the others of her family while they were all i n Ohio an d had lived, since the death of her husband in Sept. 1839 in th e homes o f her children. Mary Tiffany had been a small woman, he wrote : “With fai r complexion and with dark hair and eyes. She told her childr en that if s he could live long enough to see Nauvoo and the Prophet Jose ph, she woul d be well content to die. Under the date of July 1847, Nelso n writes: “M y sister Phebe Gibson died of a fever while in Zarahemla Cam p, some month s past, and her little girl died there shortly before.” “Br other –in-la w Gibson and I started the 1st of July for Wisconsin to ende avor to colle ct or regain some property taken to Vorce by a Mr. Edwards , who had colle cted it when B. Gibson had sold his farm in Ohio. This Ed wards turned Str angite (one of the religious cults of that period) and w ent to Vorce wit h property. I went for the purpose of seeing my half bro ther Aldridge an d his family in that state.” “ We took our clothes on ou r backs, with pro visions enough to last. We reckoned the distance to b e 180 miles. The wea ther was hot and there was little water much of th e way. After 8 days wal king, we reached Keokuk, Iowa on the Mississipp i River, and then we saile d on the boat “Lynx to Gavania. B. Gibson wa s sick most of the way.”
Whether the business with Mr. Edwards was satisfactory or not is not ma d e known in either journal, but Nelson returned to Iowa first having be e n received coldly by Mary Tiffany’s eldest son, because of his brother ’ s unpopular religion. “I returned to Keokuk,” writes Nelson; “and wen t t o see the little Gibson girls. They were both well. Clymenia is wit h Bro . Williams’s family. Amy is with a family named Millgate.” Later h e write s, “My sister Gerua has died in Canesville, and little Jane Gibso n is tak en into the home of George Tiffany.” (Gerua had married Benjami n Gibson a nd they had a small daughter named Jemima. Gerua died in 1848 . George Ti ffany married Phebe’s sister Almira, they may have been cous ins?) So Pheb e Gibson’s little girls were separated from one another an d from their fa ther until he married again and could have a home. In hi s journal is writ ten: “On December 5, 1848, I married Mrs. Asenath Jane s (the U.S. censu s of Pottawattami Co., Iowa shows Asenath Gibson to b e several years olde r than Benjamin. Her daughter Henretta Janes is ag e 15 and in the home ar e Mary and Jane Gibson) “On Sept. 13, 1850 I wen t from council Bluffs t o Keokuk, Iowa to bring Bro. Williams among the S aints with my two childr en, together at that place. We returned to the B luffs on October 25th. O n May 2, 1852, I baptized my three children, Amy , Mary and Jane”. “On Jun e 12th I started with my family for the Salt La ke Valley. We arrived Sept ember 12, 1852. The family of Gibson, after en tering the Great Salt Lak e valley, made their first home in Union fort , but later in Lehi. With hi s daughters married Benjamin Gibson was alon e in his fifty- fourth year . His wife Asenath returned with friends to t he Eastern States. This goo d and quiet man went to live in Logan and gav e several years to the build ing of the Logan Temple; hauling stone and c utting stone. His love for th e Gospel and his family are shown on the Lo gan Temple record of 1884 an d 1888.
In his old age he retired to the home of his daughter Amy Coleman in Smi t hfield, Cache, Utah, where he died Nov. 26 1897 at the age of 92. He w a s born May 9, 1805 in Patrington, Yorkshire, England, the son of Henr y Gi bson and Diana Pearson.
Children of Benjamin and Phebe Whipple Gibson who lived and became Uta h P ioneers:
1.Clymenia Shaw, born F3b. 2, 1834- Married David Evans, Feb. 1854 (3 ch i ldren) died 10th of Aug 1920 buried in Bountiful, Utah.
2.* Amy Gibson, born Mr. 25, (20) 1838. Married William Coleman 3 June 1 8 56 (civil) Died 11 Feb. 1898 Smithfield, Cache. Utah. Buried there in t h e same lot as her father, Benjamin Gibson.
3.Mary Gibson, born 5 Feb. 1840 Married Orson Kelsey, 1858. Died 12 Ju n e 1902, at Fairview, Utah 12 children
4.Jane Gibson, born 11 Oct. 1842, Chatham Co. Ohio. Married John Frankl i n Sanders, March 22, 1858 in Brigham Young’s office. Died 25 May 192 9 i n Mesa Arizona. Children 6
5. Hannah Gibson died at Camp Zarahemla October 1846.
6. Another daughter Jemima, was born to Gerua Gibson she married a m a n by the name of Goodman. (Info. Index Bureau.)
This history was searched out and compiled by Amy Jones Doyle, daughte r o f Phebe Jane sanders and Wesley L. Jones. Phebe was the daughter of J an e Gibson and John Franklin Sanders Jane was his 2nd wife.
Benjamin Gibson was baptized by John Gilead (Info. Patriarchal Blessing ) . He was a high Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain ts . (Obit, info.) He had 4 wives: Phebe Whipple, Gerua Whipple, Asenath a J anes (separated), Jemamia Duckworth, (separated). His daughters actin g a s proxy: had him sealed to Mary Hadkinson (Temple Ord. Manti 21 Apri l 190 5) a friend from England. And Mrs. Mary Gibson (Temple Ord. Manti 2 1 Apri l 1905) a nice of Benjamin Gibson .
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