LIFE SKETCH OF ISABELLE WARDELL WRIGHT
Isabelle Wardell Wright, was born Nov.29,1848 in Reddington Row, Durham, England. Her parents, Martin D. Wardell and Barbara Smith emigrated to this country in 1851 when Mother was 3 years old. She had 4 brothers and 2 sisters, George, William, John, James, Annie and Hanna.  They settled in Rock Run, Penn. and lived there 10 yrs. or more, then they moved to Florence, Nebraska.
While living there in Florence the first winter the Missouri river froze over end the children would play and skate on the river. One day in early spring lo and behold George disappeared mother missed him and began looking for him near the melting  ice, when suddenly she saw his head appear above a hole in the ice and disappear again. She stood still and watched hole where she bad seen George and then he came up again she grabbed him by the heir and pulled him to safety. Though nearly dead she revived him and he lived to be en old man and raise a large family in Twin Falls County, Idaho.
Mother̓s parents decided to move to Utah but had to stay in Neb. longer than they had planned to help make tents and wagon covers for other pioneers. Mother helped a great deal in the house with the work doing work usually expected of much older girls (she was 11 yrs. old at this time).
One day when mother was carrying water from the river a terrible electric storm  came, the lightning̓ had struck a pile of lumber near by mother had noticed that a man was standing there just a few minutes before the lightning has struck, so she ran and called for help. The man had been complete1y buried under the burning lumber and would have smothered under it had not mother seen him there. AS it Was he escaped with a few broken bones and some minor  bruises.
Ear1y in spring the family started their journey across the plains, enduring. the  hardships incident to pioneer life. Uncle James was the baby at that time. The family number six. The entire company was divided into companies of ten and a captain placed over these tens arid cook provided for the same. John Young was the captain of the company. A young women cook of one of the companies ran away with one of the soldiers so her captain came to Grandfather Wardell and obtained his permission for mother, a girl of 11 yrs. to take charge of the cooking for his company during the remainder of the trip.
The men milked the cows that pulled the wagons in the morning and Mother would fix the milk in an old fashioned dash churn and it would be butter by night after the days ride on the side of the wagon.
‘“Mother saw a woman fall from a wagon be crushed to death leaving a small baby motherless. Mother helped ca re for this baby during the trek to Utah.
Mother turned 12 just a 1ittle while before the company arrived In the val1ey that Nov.. They were foot sore and weary for they  had traveled most of the way barefoot. Each child that was able had to find work to help earn his own way. Mother was hired out to do housekeeping for George Alexander and his family of 13.
When mother was l6 yrs. old she met John P. Wright and married him.. The first  of her marriage she dried 2 hundred pounds of peaches and her payment was one hundred of those dried peaches. She sold those to the soldiers for .75. per pound. A little girl was born to mother and  Father the next year, Eliza Ann While Eliza Ann was still a baby, a young Indian mother died leaving a small baby. Although mother wanted to keep the child they would not let her, but they brought the child to be nursed from mother̓s  breast twice a day so it would live.
One day the Indians came to the house while she had gone to visit they found the key and ste 2 gallons of preserved poaches Mother had just made. When they came down the road mother heard them laughing end talking and when they saw her they pointed at her and laughed harder mother grow suspicions and hurried home arid there round her empty peach preserves jar. The next thy When they brought the baby to be nursed she told them they would have to find someone else to care for the child because the Indians had wronged her by eating her preserves,

Indians who had been drinking were often very mean and one evening when mother was alone an Indian came to house end demanded entrance, Mother felt  sure he had been drinking and for her own protection refused to let him enter. He grew angry and threatening and for a long time kept going around the house and around the house trying to get in. He finally left but mother didn̓t sleep much that night.
Every two years a new baby came to mother and Father until there were four girls, Eliza Ann, Barbara, Mary Belle, and Rhoda Ann. On July 4th Father was home from working on the railroad when Mother told him to hurry to get the midwife. So father had to get a pair of mules, hitch them to a wagon and ride 4 miles to got the midwife because all the neighbors were at the 4th of July celebration in Salt Lake City. Before he returned I was born, Sarah Louise.

Work became more plentiful as time went along, so my father opened a tailor shop in his own home.. Mother was a good sewer so she helped father make overalls and jumpers. Often they would sew until the wee hours of the morning to get their orders filled.

My parents built an adobe family house 7  miles from Silt Lake City from adobo bricks they had made themselves. They built a home 1 ½  stories high and as their family grew they added to their house.

By now there were three more children in the family, and then the dreaded disease  diphtheria struck. I:t took many live of children and among them were my two  small sisters Rhoda Ann, and Mary Belle. Two years later the baby boy was born. Then another girl was born to my parents. Soon after that my father married another woman. They were all united and happy together, . Mother helped in all winds of sickness , helped those in need, besides  keeping her own  children and house in order. She was a belle among women and all the county loved her and called her Aunt Belle. My mother even helped  keep my father on a mission which he spent in Great Britain at the age of 60 for two years.  She kept the family and father, by cooking for large weddings and ce1ebrations and often traveled many miles to do her work.

On May 2, 1914, mother and Father celebrated  their 60th wedding anniversary at the old mi11 Creek home. Mother did all the planing and cooking for this affair. They lived happi1y together for four years aftor this. Then my father died Jun. 3, 1913. After my father̓s death mother 1ived aro:und with her children.

One evening at a family party they asked Mother to recite John” for the program. Just as she spoke the words, “John, will you bo there to open the gates for me?  She started to fall, the family caught her, and put  her to bed, but she never spoke again. By 2AM she died with a peaceful look on her face. We  believe John was there to open the gates end welcome her home to a hapy reunion, She was the mother of 14 children. The old home where all the children were born in.still stands and the youngest boy  lives there.

There was a little girl named Bell Wright,
who came from a country far away.
She gathered buffalo chips
Instead of Wooden Sticks
To keep the fires burning on the way.

And when she grew to be a young lady,
Decided to the alter she would go
Her gown it was a beauty,
The bride full fullfilled her duty.
By being wed in calico,

she helped her spouse to make a living
To care for the family needs.
She made a bunch of money
Chasing bees for honey
As a worker, you may judge her deeds.

She caters to the hungry and the needy
 She cooks for great and small
Wedding suppers were her best
But we must all confess,
We like her common cooking
Best of all.

And then in times of sickness
Matters not what the ailment be
Run with allyour might
And bring mister right
She̓s the doctor for our family.

LIFE HISTORY OF SARAH LOUISE WRIGHT BUTTERWORTH

 a hot Fourth of July in 1871 in Millcreek Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, during a big celebration, a baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs  John Prodger Wright. Her name was Sarah Louise Wright.  On a little homestead which John P  Wright, my father, had settled, they trade the adobes for the house and built a one and a half story building, which was two-rooms.

 I, Sarah Louise, was the fifth child in the family.  I was born on the floe? while everyone else had gone to the celebration except a baby girl two years old, who helped get the quilt ready, etc.  Mother and I lay there for two hours before anyone came.  My father came and brought Grandma Wardell and the doctor-lady Mrs. Rank.  Mother got up and walked fourteen steps to her room upstairs.

 Mother and baby did fine and we still lived on the little homestead,  At the age of six, I started to school in the little frame school house two miles away. I started to primary when it was first organized in the church.  We had home-made shoes and blue and brown Overall material made into clothing.

 At the age of seven years, we bad an epidemic of diphtheria, which went through the country.  Two of my older sisters died with it, Mary Belle and Rhoda Ann, ages eleven and nine.  I lay at the point of death with the disease.  From then until I was eleven~years old, I could not talk plain.  By then I had two more sisters and one brother. When I was eight, I was baptized into the Latter-day Saint Church by Oliver Monson and confirmed by Peter Hansen.

When I was ten years old, I went about twenty-four miles from home to do house-work and tend babies for 75cents a week.  I~stayed for eleven months.  I bought my own trunk, which I kept for forty years.

 At the age of fourteen, I joined the Mutual Improvement Association.  My father and mother went extracting honey from bees and I helped during the summer.  My father was a tailor by trade and my mother and he sat up many nights making overalls for the 7. C. M. I., David Brinton's store in Cottonwood, and many others.

 I well remember when father took his second wife and brought her home to live with us.  Her name was Elizabeth Rynearson, and she had four children altogether.

 At fifteen, I started courtship with Isaiah Butterworth, my future husband, in April, 1855.  Our courtship lasted about two and a half years.  continued working with my father in the summers of my fifteenth and sixteenth years and did housework in the winter.

 The epidemic of diphtheria came into our family again and my father's second wife lost two children, while I slept right in the same room with the oldest the night be-fore she died, but did not get the disease.

 In August 24, 1887, I married Isaiah Butterworth In the Logan Temple.  We lived in East Mill Creek with his father and mother for a short time.  Then we started keeping house. in one of the earliest pioneer homes in East Mill Creek.  It was a log house in which our first baby girl, Mary Louise, was born in May 23, 1888.  In making our living we hauled wood from the canyon for the Chinese laundry in Salt take City, sold hay and dried peaches,  We farmed twenty acres of land and raised wheat, potatoes, and had a few sheep.  In 1890 another baby girl, Isabelle, was born on 0ctober 11, in a little adobe house in East Mill Creek.

 We left there and went up on a piece of land on the sand ridge and received twenty acres of land which had belonged to Isaiah's brother Edmund, prior to his death, in Hooper Ward, Davis Stake.  We settled on a sage-brush flat and built a house.  They divided the Hooper Ward, and Isaiah became second counselor  in the bishopric and I was counselor in the Primary, teacher in Sunday School, and a Relief Society Teacher.

 In 1892. I went down to my Brother's Isabelle Wright, for the birth or our first son, Edmund Isaiah, on the twenty-first of December.  It took place at my parent's old home.  He was blessed~by this grandfather, William Butterworth.  While living  in Davis. County, we were raising wheat, oats, potatoes, and hay.

 In 1894 another baby came, a girl, Lenora Wright Butterworth December 6.  She was born in a little lumber two-room house that we had built on the twenty acres, and we were farming the twenty acres Uncle Edmund gave Uncle William, also.  Also, in 1894, we planted a two-acre orchard of all kinds of fruit trees.  It was a beautiful little orchard, as it grew, and in 1897 bore its first fruit.

In March, 1897, another baby came, a girl, Zelpha Naomi, on March 23. When Zelpha Naomi was eighteen months of age,, Isaiah decided be would like to raise cat-tie, and so sold his farm and possessions and took two cows, two. teams with a wagon-load of household goods, and a white-top buggy with one team, and I drove the team or horses and follows.  We traveled like pioneers to Star Valley, Wyoming in Freedom Ward.  We bought 160 acres of land.  This was the summer of 1898.  We lived here until May 1899, and sold out and traveled all summer looking for a new location.  We went back to Utah, then back up to Blackfoot, but didn't like the country around Blackfoot, Idaho. So we went on over to  Evanston and Big Piney,, Wyoming for the summer. It was a good cattle country.  But I was pregnant and couldn't stand to live in such a desolate country without any good schools for the children.

In the fall of 1899 in October, we went back to Star Valley where we had left sixty head of cattle on the summer range, and had to go and round them up and buy hay for them for the winter.  The children started school in Thayne, and 'we lived about two miles from the school house near the mountains.  That winter we had mountain rats in the house that ate our shoes up.  We also heard mountain lions roaring at night.  It was a quite wild country without railroads.  It was a cattle-raising country mostly.

Then in March, 1900, on the 8th day, a baby girl came, Nellie Josephine.  In April:1900, the government opened up some new land for filing.  Father filed on 160 acres and I filed on 40.  My 40 was meadow land and had pure spring water coming from several springs that furnished water for irrigating the land.  Fathers was sage and meadow land.  On that land he plowed and the children and I gathered all the sage and burned it.  Here we planted alfalfa and wheat and cut wild hay on the meadow.  We went to the canyon to get poles for fencing this land.

Besides the cattle, 'we had milk cows and sold milk.  As the years went by our dairy herd grew, I bought a cheese dairy outfit and made cheese for two summers   This cheese we sold by the load to Wyoming stores and Utah stores.  Isaiah used to haul freight from Montpelier for the stores in Thayne to make some money to buy wire for the fence on our place.  The land had been grazing land for summer range for hundreds of heads of cattle, and pole fences didn't keep them out.  Therefore, it was necessary to put a barbed wire fence in.

During this time, I was first counselor in the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association, a Sunday School teacher, and President of the Religion Class.  Isaiah was put in Bishop of Glenco Ward, which was later named Thayne Ward in August 18, 1901, and held this office for four years.  He was released September 3, 1905.  In the fall of 1904, we sold our homestead and moved to Willard, Utah, and stayed there all winter.  In February,1905, I went down to Salt Lake City and stayed with Mother to get ready for the birth of a child.  This child came February 25, and was a son, which was a very hard birth since he weighed ten pounds.  When be was three weeks old, I came home to Willard. This baby was Ralph Wright Butterworth.  My sister Eliza, was a midwife. She delivered this baby.  After going home a week the baby took pneumonia.  Aunt Eliza Zanger came up to help me nurse him.  He almost died and it was through faith and prayers and good work that he remained alive.  About this time, word came that the man who had bought our place had given it up, and we had to move back to Thayne, Wyoming, and take the place back in April, 1905.  Isaiah and Edmund took all our furniture. The children and I went in May on the train.

The two oldest girls, Louie and Belle, went to Salt Lake from Willard and stayed and worked all summer.  Louie  worked in the laundry and Belie did housework and picked fruit.  Father went to Utah for fruit in September and brought Belle home.  Louie came home after October conference.  Truman Hebdon, who had been on a mission for two years, came with her.  She bad been engaged to him while he was away.  I was busy sewing during October and November getting her ready for the marriage.  I made her a pale, blue wedding dress.  Our family being reunited, we had a happy time that fall.  She married December 13, 1905.

 In August, 1906, we left Wyoming and came to Lincoln, Idaho to work at the Sugar Factory.  Then we moved into Idaho Falls, Idaho.  Here I worked in the Relief Society, worked among the sick a~lot bringing babies, and went to work at Keyster's College where I learned how to sew for other people.  In November on the 17th day, 1913, my second daughter, Isabelle, married James Frederick Davidson, and moved to Rexburg, Ida.

 In February, l9l4, we moved to Menan, Idaho, on the big ranch and worked very hard as a farm woman.  I also worked among the sick.  We lived there for four years, and my husband went to work for Wood's Livestock Company in Rigby, Idaho in 1917. At this time my father John P.Wright, died at the age of 80 years.  In the meantime, Zelpha Naomi married James A Bush, on September 27, 1915 at Blackfoot Idaho

In October 1918 we had a son go to war and it was a very sad time in our lives. He just got in an San Diego and the Armistice was signed.  He had the flu while there. He was Captain of the soldiers that left from Rigby.  June 11, 1919, he, Edmund Isaiah married Gladys Francis Rogers in the 5alt Lake Temple.

In February, 1920, we were called to Camas, Idaho, to run a big ranch for the Woods Livestock Company.  Isaiah was to be the foreman.  Hay was very scarce and we had to ship in corn and baled hay for the cattle.  After we had been there just six weeks or on March 17, 1920, my husband was killed by horses while loading hay off the train.  The men had wagon at the train and he ~Ad just gone to get the mail.  As the train whistled it frightened the horses, and he stepped out of the Post Office just in time to see them run away. He ran out and grabbed one side and Mr. Spoo Savage grabbed the other.  The horses turned in Isaiah's direction, knocked him down, and the wagon wheels ran over his chest,

That was one of the saddest times of my life.  The men came down for me and by the time I got there, he couldn't speak to us.  We took him to Idaho Falls on the freight train, in the caboose.  He died four and one-half hours later without regaining consciousness.  My son, Edmund, and my son-in-law, James F, Davidson, came to the hospital, but father had died.  I fainted away and just regained consciousness as they came up the step.  When the nurse told the boys that father was dead, my son was struck dumb as it was such a shock to him.   We waited there and followed him to the undertakers in the car and stayed at a friend's place, Musgraves.

Friends came from far and near to attend the funeral in Idaho Falls, Idaho.These were the saddest hours of my life, I moved back to stay with my son a few days and then went to Montpelier, Idaho and stayed two months with my daughter, Lenora. We were lonely and sad as her husband was away with the sheep.  I came back from Montpelier to he here for decoration lay, and bought a tombstone to put at the grave.
After this I went to Woods Livestock to work at Spencer, Idaho.  I was the mistress of the house for the manager. I was too homesick, and soon came back to Rigby. I visited my children.  For two years I spent my life this way.  During that first summer, my sister's girl, Belle Christensen. was running the resort at Lagoon in Utah. Nell and I went down to work for the summer  I rented bathing suits and also kept a large house up for our room and board.

0n December 28, 1921. my youngest daughter, Nellie Josephine, married Harold Gates Marler, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  They were sealed in the Logan Temple on July 29, 1922.  They lived in Rigby.

In order to make a home for some motherless children and a home for myself, I decided to remarry.  On April 2, 1922, I married an old friend of my former husband, William Byram, who had been a widower for four years.  We lived in Ucon, Idaho on a large farm and found plenty to do and care for the children,  They were thrilled to have me come into their home and I was glad to enter.  I worked in the Relief Society and was secretary of the Utah Pioneers.  I sent m~ parent's history to the Utah State to have it put in Heart Throbs of the West.  A few of the Ucon people had a club called the Kennsington and later formed the club "Ulia" wool growers, a branch of the wool growers of Idaho, also the War Mothers in Idaho Falls, George ran the farm as he was the last of the children to he married.

Ralph,.. my youngest son, went to Ogden, Utah, to live with Naomi and Ward to learn the bakery trade from Ward in 1925.  Later he went to Seattle, Washington to continue his knowledge of the bakery business.  He married Mary Melva Bybee in 1931.

We retired from the farm in 1937 and spent the winter in Seattle, Washington, visiting Ralph and Naomi.  In April, I came home to see one of my oldest grandchildren buried, Eunice Rogers Butterworth.  In June I had a bad spell of kidney trouble.

We bought a little cottage in Ucon, Idaho.  Since then, we have spent some winters in Seattle, some in California, and some at home.  In March, 1947, my second husband, William Byram, entered the Sacred Heart Hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and underwent a major operation for ulcers of the storrach.  He was in the hospital for six weeks and came home to Ucon on the first day of April. I had several heart attacks at this time, but recovered to care for him.  William took sick with his stomach  for three years he was ailing.  After much care and suffering, he finally passed away at the home of his son, Arley in September of l949.

In April of l948 Ebbie and I carne to Seattle to visit Nell and Naomi as he had been poor in health for years.  The muscles of his body were hardening and he had rheumatism most of his life off and on.  We had a lovely visit and on our way home, he caught a bad cold.  He contracted pneumonia and passed away on May 3, 1948, at his farm in Menan Idaho, He left a wife, Gladys,  five sons and  one daughter.

On my 75th birthday on July 24, 1946 all my children, grandchildren were  present with the exception of Vadier Mumford and family, Harold Gates Marler, Jr, serving over seas, and Donald Bttenworth and wife.  We had lunch, then a program, and played games, and danced and visited.  I received several presents from the family among which was a ring given me by my children.

Eleven years have passed and we have had family reunions every year in July. Last year in April 1955 in Salt Lake City, Utah, I had a stroke at Rachel Wright's house and haven't been as active since then.  However, I still crochet, knit, sew, and embroidery and help with the housework wherever I go.

Our family reunion was held at the girls camp in Righy, Idaho July 4, 1955. There were between 55 and 60 members of the family there.  We had a very good time together for two days and one night.  That was a night to remember with all the caper that were going on and flash cameras in action.

We ere shocked and saddened on the 7th of May, 1956 when my granddaughter, Louise Parry passed away in Montivedeoc, Uruguay.  Her husband, Frank, was president of the L.D.S  Mission in Uruguay.  She was the Mission Mother for eleven months and had been very happy in her work.  They sent her body ty plane to Seattle, Washington to be buried.  Frank returned to the Mission to resume his work with the aid of his three lovely daughters.  I remained in Seattle after the funeral to corn fort her rnother and father (Naomi and Ward) and visit with Nell and Gates.  We are going to the Butterworths in Idaho July 20 and 21, 1956, at the same place as last year

The remainder of that summer she was at Louie Hebdon's home caring for her and helping through a nervous breakdown.  In the fall, the last of September, Belle, Jim, Naomi, and Ward, took Mother over to Nora's and By's at Montpelier to stay with~them while they went on a trip to California.  Before leaving Montpelier, we received the sad news of Glademere Mumford's death in Portland, Oregon.  The body was brought to Montpelier and funeral services held in October, 1956.  Mother remained there until October 30 when she suffered a severe stroke about seven o'clock in the morning.  She spent five weeks in the hospital, then was taken to Nora's home.  Nell and Naomi and Belle and Louie came, also Ralph and watched her slowly gain her strength.  She could finally feed herself and walk with help.  She stayed there until February 1, 1958;  She was then taken up to Rexburg to her daughter's home (Belle Davidson).  She recovered to a certain extent, but was never the same. She was cared for by her children for two years and three months.  She even made a trip out to Seattle in April of 1959, and spent the summer with Naomi, Ward, Nell, and Gates.  She traveled by car both ways and was a 'real good traveler.

 on January 19, 1960, she had a final stroke and passed away January 29, of 1960, early in the morning at the home of her daughter.  Thus ended the life of our Precious Darling Mother.
T.D. HEBDON'S MOTHERS MOTHER

Life sketch of Isaiah Butterworth,

In a beautiful little English town or Parish Winwick, in the country of Huntingdon shire, Northampton, England 1 was born to William Butterworth and Mary Rose Butterworth a lovely baby boy on July 8, 1868, whom they named Isaiah.  He was the baby of the family as be had three older brothers and six older sisters.
His father worked as a stable man tending horses tor rich people and making carriages ready for riding.  His father before him, John Butterworth, kept tine blooded horses and was very well~to~do in those days.  But as grandfather grew older, he had his choice of tending and caring for these fine horses or to take~ a trade..  He loved horses so much that he stayed until he was married to Mary Rose on November 2, 1848 at Huntingdon shire, England, and then he worked away from home at different jobs.  Grand-mother was a very, loving and strict mother, because when bedtime came, the children were put to bed promptly, and Grandfather would only get to see them in bed 1 as he went to work early and came home late.  It was during this time that they heard two Mormon missionaries preach the gospel.  It interested them very much because it answered all their questions about life and the hereafter.  So they were all baptized members of the Church of Jesus Chri 5t of Latter-day Saints.

This father and mother sent two of their oldest children to America with a company of Saints; and two-years later, they sent two more with another group of Saints.  They all worked hard to get enough money together so all of them could go to America and be reunited with their four children and live in a land where they could worship the Lord in peace and love.

It wasn't very long until the day arrived when they boarded a large steamship with a group of Saints coming to America.  They were leaving relatives, friends, and possessions behind for the love of the gospel.  But they were happy and would soon meet the older children they had sent on ahead.

Our own father was only two years old, and thought the ride on the big ship was wonderful.  When the ship would rock and dip as ships do on the ocean, he would put his little feet out and brace himself so he wouldn't fall Over.

After two weeks of ocean travel, they came into the harbor of New York.  Our father could remember (many years later told we children) seeing~ a large lady holding a lamp in her hand.  He could also remember walking down the gang plank on to the land.  He told of how happy they were to be on solid ground once again.

They came across the plains to Salt Lake, and from there the family made a home in Plain City, Utah, northwest, of Ogden.  While living here, some of the family were married and established their own homes.  After some years, they moved to Mill Creek,seven miles south of~Salt Lake, on a farm.  They lived there four or five years.  Then they bought a home in East Mill Creek, Utah, where the rest of the family grew up.

Father's sisters were lovely singers and would go into Salt Lake City- and other places to sing.  Their voices harmonized beautifully.-  They were called The Butterworth Sisters.  Our father had a beautiful voice and loved music.  He loved to play the snare drums in a little hand they had organized in the town.  He also had an accordion which he played.

In those days in the early evening in the summertime, the children would gather at each other's homes and play hide and seek and other games,  By now there were lots of children in this colony of English people.  One family by the name of Byram had some boys about father's age. When they would play hide and seek, the one Byram boy his name was Bill and later became Sarah Louise Wright Butterworth's second husband) "Oh I spy Ridy, the little lad.'- Many were the happy times they had as they all grew into young manhood.

Our~father was now in his teens, and worked away from home a great deal.  He went into the canyon and got wood to-take into the city to sell.  His best customers were the Chinese laundrymen. because they liked wood the best for their fires.  He received 10 to 12 dollars for a load of wood.

When the first electric street cars came into use in Salt Lake City, the old Chinese men that bought the wood from father would say to him as the cars went by "No pushy, no pullee, alle same go like hellee."---it seems they were so used to seeing their people push or pull everything

In the summer of 1685, he first met our mother, Sarah Louise Wright.  They went together for two years and were married in the Logan L.D.S. Temple on August 24, 168?. They were very happy together living in a little house in East Mill Creek.  Father would work in the canyon getting out wood and logs to sell,  She had to teach him to like all kinds of vegetables as he only liked potatoes and gravy and would eat a raw carrot. He didn't care much for meat,  He liked peaches and pears but didn't like any of the little fruits.

So the first winter Passed spring came and on the 23rd of May their first child, a girl. was born.  They named her Mary Louise after her grandmother Butterworth and for her own mother.  Life went on the same and two years later, another baby girl was born, whom they named. Isabelle after Grandmother Wright. Her birthday was October 11, 1890.  Mother was a good cook and seamstress and did all the sewing for her children. Anyone who ever ate at our table always praised her cooking.  After another two years, December 21, 1892, their first boy was born.  Father was Sc proud of Edmond Isaiah.

Times were changing in and around Salt Lake, so my father decided to move up to Hooper Ward, Davis Stake on a farm of. 40 acres.  This was in March 1892.  The house was so small so my father built another room for his family.  He began to clear the ground and plant crops.  They grew and Produced abundantly.  He had to dig a well for their drinking water.  It was 100 ft. deep and the water was drawn up with a rope and bucket.  He also built a nice barn for his horses and to hold hay.  An orchard was plant and as time went on, the farm began to be a beautiful and fruitful place.

Father had kept the snare drum and sticks all these years.  We children loved to hear him play thaw,  I remember how he would put the strap of the drum around his neck and get the sticks and four (another girl, Leonora Wright. had joined the family in the winter of 1894, December 6) of us children would put on old hats and follow him, marching to the time of the drum.  out to the barn and corral we would go, with the horses coming up to the fence to look at the parade we made.  All of a sudden, Father would give an extra loud bit with the sticks and away the horses would go and we would march on, laughing.  Father loved his family, and how we children loved our home life.

Father was first chosen to be a Ward Teacher.  Then was first assistant in the Sunday School for about 6 months.  When the little ward of Clinton was organized, Father was chosen second counselor to Bishop Glande Hadlock, which position he held until September, 1896.  In the spring of 1897, still another baby daughter came to live with them, Zeipha Naomi was her name,   In 1898 the family moved to Freedom, Star Valley Stake, Wyoming.  We moved in a wagon and a white topped buggy.  We had two cows tied behind the wagon.  Mother drove the horses on the buggy which was loaded with provisions for the family for the coming winter.  We had canned fruit, dried corn and apples.  We had sugar., cured meat, and flour.  Father made sure his family would not suffer.  We were ten days going from Ogden to Freedom, Wyoming.  Winter came early in that country and deep snow was always present.  We lived in three-room log house that first winter and were very comfortable.  The winter was long and we tired of it--so Father stored our belongings and bought a nice new wagon, bows, and cover.  We traveled all the next summer through Snake River Valley down to Ogden and Salt Lake.  In September we went to Big Piney, Wyoming, and stayed a month..   Then we went over the mountains into Star Valley again.  This time, we settled in Thayne, in the lower valley.  By thi 5 time, it was late October, 1899.  We rented a house Across the Salt River in the mouth of a canyon on the west side of Thayne; we could look over the entire valley from here and it was a beautiful place.  Here Father bad ten cows he milked and cared for.  It was in this little house, the baby daughter, Nellie Josephine, was born on a cold MARCH night, March 8, 1900.  The family was now five girls and one bo'

Father thought it was time he must get a home and settle down, so went across the river and north of Thayne and filed on 160 acres of land.  Here again he made a lovely far" home.  He and Mother and Isabelle milked cows and made cheese all that Sumner.

Time went on and Father was busy improving his farm, making ditches to irrigate the dry part and clearing sage brush and willows from some of the land.  He loved the green meadows above the house, also the pure spring water that started in those meadows.  It was in the fall of 1901 he was chosen to be the bishop of Glenco Ward, in which capacity he served until 1905.  In the fall of 1901*, be moved his family to Willard, Utah, to stay the winter.  In February of 1905, a son was born to them on the 25th, named Ralph Wright.

In the spring of 1906 he returned to Thayne and was released as Bishop.  They lived there all summer, but in the fall they sold their home and went to live in Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he worked for Coltman Lumber Company in 1907.  They lived in Idaho Falls until February of 1904, when they moved to Menan on a large farm he bought from Luxton an Idaho Falls businessman.  By this time all of his family were married except Nell, Ralph, and Edmond.  They lived here until 1917, when John W. Hart, vice-president of Woods Livestock came and talked to Father and offered him the job of managing their large ranch of 600 acres,  Mother was to cook for 15 to 20 men all during the Sumner. It looked like a good deal, so they sold their farm to William Barrett, and moved to the Cline Ranch 4 miles south of Rigby.  Here rather was happy in overseeing and running this large ranch.  He was a good farmer, and few men could do better.

The same company owned other ranches, one was at Camas, Idaho  this is where Mr. Hart asked Father to take over the management.  This ranch was mostly in hay and the raising of cattle.  So in the spring of 1920. they moved to Camas and were there only seven weeks when one day (17th of March) Father and some hired men were hauling baled hay from the railroad station at Camas back to the ranch.  They had worked all morning, then the cook had dinner ready, so they stopped to eat at noon.  About 2:30 they were  in Camas to get more hay.  They had loaded one load when Father decided to cross the tracks and pick up the mail at the Post Office.  He came back in front of the team and load of hay just as a freight train came by, making a lot of noise whistling letting off steam.  This frightened the horses.  Father grabbed the bridle of the horse nearest him and as the train came nearer. the horses gave a lunge forward~ knocked father down and the front wheels of the wagon ran over his chest on the right side.  The back wheels ran over his chest. The men picked him up and carried him into a house and went for Mother.

A freight train from the north came in and they put Father and mother and two of the hired men into the caboose, then telephoned ahead for Dr. Cline to meet them at the station. He had an ambulance there and took him to the General Hospital.  The Dr. examined him and knew the end was near.  At 7:00 p.m. he passed away, leaving a heart-broken wife and sorrowing children.  So ended the earthly life of our father, Isaiah Butterworth,.




T.D. HEBDON'S,  mothers,  father.

Life sketch of MARY LOUISE BUTTERWORTH HEBDON
Born 23 May 1888,  Mill Creek,  Ut.
Died  26 Dec. 1968,  Shelley, Ida.  Where she was staying with  her daughter Barbara Hovis
Married  13,Dec, 1905   to  Truman Ritter Hebdon

Mary Louise was the name given to a lovely daughter born May 23, 1888 in Mill Creek, Utah, to 19 year old Isaiah and 17 year old Sara Louise wright Butterworth.  She was the oldest of seven children that were born to this couple. They lived in Roy, Utah until Mary Louise was 10 years old, at which time her fattier decided to take his family and move to a cattle ranch and dairy farm in Star Valley, Wyoming, settling in Thayne. Here her father was called to serve as Bishop.

 When Louise was 14 she lived with her father's sister in Salt Lake City for a year to attend school.

 In the fall of her 15th year she had her first date with Truman Hebdon.  Love blossomed quickly for the couple and he gave her an engagement ring before he left for his mission in March,  She helped her father on the farm and also served as Assistant Ward Clerk while waiting for her missionary to return.

 Truman and Louise were married in the Logan Temple December 13,1905. Soon after this her parents sold their farm and moved to Idaho Falls Louise came to be with her mother when her first child, Truman DeWard, was born on October 2, l9O6.  Truman and Louise returned to Thayne where they farmed, milked cows and Truman hauled logs from the canyon in the winter to make a living.  Their second child, Wanda Louise, was born August 15, 1910, but when five months old died of pneumonia.  It was a great sorrow in the lives of this young husband and wife..

 In April 1913 another baby daughter, Erma, was born and in August 191? another son, Eldon Isaiah (named for his grandfather) was born. in the winter of 1918 the entire family had the "influenza" and in Louise's journal she described it as "an experience never to be forgotten".  She held positions in the Sunday School and Primary Star many years in Thayne.

 In the spring of 1920 her beloved father was killed in a farm accident--and later that summer Truman and "Louie as she was called, sold their Wyoming farm and came to Rigby, Idaho where be managed the Woods livestock Company ranch south of  town.  She cooked for as many as 38 men 3 meals a day, and there were always 8 or 10 steady hired men.  They lived here two years, during which time another daughter. Nelda, was born. The same fall they purchased a farm closer to town where they lived and raised their family.

In October,1925, a daughter, Donalue, was born. tonic was~ very busy caring for their family and helping on the farm.  In the winter of 1928 she was expecting another child and in February of 1929 she became extremely ill with an infection and abbess on her leg.  She was near death and at times her family felt she was leaving them.  Many, many times the little family knelt around her bedside to ask the Lord to spare her and night after night her devoted husband and her mother wrung towels out of very hot water to pack around her leg.  Her good mother Had come to help the little family and Erma discontinued high school during her senior year (graduation later by correspondence) in order to aid this little. family in their need.  The baby was born in late May, a daughter Barbara. Through the goodness of the Lord and the careful nursing of Truman and the children's grandmother, this lovely and much needed mother slowly recovered and regained her health and strength.

 Her children grew, attended and graduated from Rigby Schools and Louie delighted in them.  She was a wonderful example to her children always a clean apron, neat shiny hair, faithful in her church callings, and a good cook (Who can forget her fried. chicken, milk gravy, baking powder biscuits and apple pie?)  Her cuss words were few and far between and her patience and drive for her family boundless..

DeWard married and lived in St.George, Utah and Erma in American Fork, Eldon was called on a Mission to the Central State in 1941. When be returned he married Fontella Clifford, to which union a son was born.  Eldon was called to serve in World war 2 and after six month's training was sent overseas to Okinawa. Louies worst fears became a reality, for Eldon was wounded and died a day later on April 17, 1945.  Her journal says: "It nearly broke our hearts, words can't explain our grief."

But life goes on and time heals  and with the marriage of her other three daughters and the arrival of each new grandchild she rejoiced in life and God's goodness to her.  She was busy ii' church work, serving as 1st counselor in the Relief Society for C years, then teaching~ Theology lessons when they studied the Book 0.Mormon.  She throughly enjoyed these callings and has served for nearly 60 years as a visiting teacher.  Many homes were brightened by her sweet smile and her lovely voice as she bore testimony of her love of and her faith in God.

Truman's health began to fail in 1958, but he continued to farm, working hard no matter how he felt.  In the fall of 1960 he had a bad case of flu which resulted in a heart attack.  He passed away March 15, 1961   They had been married 55 years, and only apart one week. Her journal says: "The light of my life has gone out."




 In July 1963 Louie moved to Sister Mary Kinghorn'S apartments here  in town.  She so loved and appreciated Mary, Her family also appreciated all the kindness and the companionship Mary gave her, because never a day passed that she didn't miss Truman and her life on the farm.  Her family realized this, too and tried to keep close to her. They visited often and had her visit their homes.  Grief and worry over the farm brought on a heart attack in April, 1964.  However, with careful nursing and care she completely recovered..  She sold the farm(according to the doctor's advice) but part of her heart remained with the old home.

 On her 80th birthday, a month ago, her family honored her at an open house.  It was a lovely day.  She was happy and radiant visiting with dear friends and relatives.

 Two weeks ago she went to Seattle with Jack and Donalue and visited with her sisters there.


 On June 26th the day she passed away she visited with mast of her children and then went to spend the night at Barbara's in Shelley. She awakened during the night and passed away shortly after at 1:30A.M.

 She is survived by one son, DeWard, of Idaho Falls and by four daughters.: Erma (Mrs Harry Lee) of Rigby~ Nelda   Mrs. Ray Baker) of Teton Donalue (Mrs. Jack Hart) of Idaho Falls: and Barbara (Mrs Jerry Hovis) of Shelley. four sisters also survive: Belle (Mrs James F. Davidson)of Rexburg; Nora (Mrs B.E. Mumford) of Montpelier, Idaho; Naomi (Mrs Ward Newby of Seattle, Washington and Ne1l (Mrs Gates Marler also of Seattle. One brother also survived, Ralph Butterworth of Ogden Utah.

 May I add a personal note.  Sister Hebdon has been a member of the Gospel Doctrine Class of our ward.  Brother Bright and I have been taking the opportunity of welcoming each of the members at the classroom door I shall never forget Sister Hebdon last Sunday morning she seemed to radiate with joy.  She was simply "bubbling over with happiness".  I thought of it at the time as we were shaking hands and thought of it several times after-wards, and of course, many times since learning of her passing.

 Sister Hebdon loved life and was also prepared and ready to return to our Father in Heaven.. As her family has said of her "Her life was an example to all of them".  What greater tribute can be given?  I should like to testify that while her mortal body lies before us her spirit is alive, active, happy, and is enjoying a glorious reunion with other loved one who have gone before her.  She and her husband await the time when the rest of this lovely family, the mates, and their children and grandchildren in fact all of their fine and numerous posterity, can join them.  Her graduation has arrived.  Her work and progression is continuing in another sphere.  May these glorious truths be of comfort and encouragement to those who mourn this day.



Mary Louise was the name given to a lovely daughter born May 23, 1888 in Mill Creek, Utah


 On June 26th the day she passed away she visited with mast of her children and then went to spend the night at Barbara's in Shelley. She awakened during the night and passed away shortly after at 1:30A.M.

T.D. HEBDON'S MOTHER,     Truman R, Hebdon grandmother wife of Truman Ritter Hebdon

LIFE HISTORY OF JAMES RITTER HEBDON

LIFE HISTORY OF JAMES RITTER HEBDON

 Written by Mary Emma (May) Hancey his daughter

 Born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, September 21, 1886, son of Joseph William and Malinda Ritter Hebdon
He grew to manhood in Hull and learned the trade of mason as an apprentice to his father who also followed the masonry con-struction trade.
He was baptized by Joseph r. Smith, 20 Nov. 1865.  After joining the church he would walk 20 miles in order to attend meetings.  He did not tell his parents for sometime, however, when they found out that he had been baptized into the L.D.S. Church they became very bitter, and told him either to forsake the gospel, or leave his home.  He would not give up his new found faith, and was therefore driven from the home of his parentage, a disinherited young man.
He married Ann Usher in 1861.  TWO children were born to this union, Martin and Fredrick, after the birth of the second child they decided~to come to the United States, to Utah, where they could be among the saints, be free to worship, and be free from persecution. They left their homeland along with a group of saints, Ann's mother was coming to Zion with them.  They booked passage on a ship which was very slow and tiresome.  After several days out to sea his mother-in-law, tired of the journey, and very homesick , desired that she and Ann should return on the first passing vessel to their home in England. James felt very sad and could not think of returning after having given up everything, so he and his family could come to Utah.  His greatest desire was being fulfilled and to return would break his heart, be-sides causing all his plans to be forsaken.
With the realization there was but one alternative, he quietly poured out his feelings~to God; praying that something might be done, that in some way they might continue on their way to Zion.  Asking that the Lord would intervene and prevent his wife from going back to England with her mother, where he was sure, their faith would be so shaken that they would deny the gospel which they were all so proud of and were sacrificing so much for.  Ann would not listen to his pleadings.
She went on deck to see the captain to see if the next ship going to England would take her, and her mother and children aboard so they could go back to their home.  They were soon informed that the longed for ship was coming.  Ann in her joy and excitement slipped and fell down the hatch way breaking her leg, also causing premature birth to another child.  Three days later blood poison set in. Ann passed away and was buried at sea, a few days later the new baby, Francis, passed away following his mother to a watery grave.
James in his sorrow and grief sailed on to the United States with his other two sons.  After eight weeks the ship docked in New York, but none were able to go ashore as a state of quarantine was declared all aboard the ship.  When the quarantine was lifted they were taken from the ship.  Martin and Fredrick along with many others had had scarlet fever and after several days illness, passed away and were buried in Mount Olive Cemetery at New York.
Being alone in a new world, James, went to the mission head-quarters and spent sometime working as an elder in the mission. It was while working at the mission home that he met Mary Ann Kate White, whom he married, 16 Aug. 1867, at Williamsburg, New York, married by D. H. Miles.
James and Mary Ann Kate started across the plains some few months after their marriage, with a group of saints heading for Utah.  When they arrived at Omaha, Neb. their first child, Alice Malinda, was born the 29 Apr. 1868.  James left mother and baby in Omaha and came on with some of the group so he could make money to send for his family, however, after a few days of con-fined rest Mary Ann Kate started on with another company of saints doing washing and anything possible to pay for her way to Utah.. The company Mary Ann Kate was traveling with met another company at Laramie, Wyoming which had been waiting for the company to catch up so they~might travel together.  Some of the teamsters from the waiting company of saints came over to see Just who and what the new company contained, they were introduced to Mary Ann Kate and realizing that there was a fellow in their company by the name of Jimmy Hebdon, they asked if she knew him.  Mary Ann Kate became very excited and exclaimed that Jimmy was her husband and that she would go to their camp with them.  She took Alice in her arms and walked the three miles through sagebrush and sand to their camp. One of the men went and awakened Jimmy telling him, "We have a woman and a baby out there that claim you.,'  Jimmy had Just taken his shoes off and was sitting by the camp fire.  He Jumped up leaving his shoes behind and ran to meet her, it was a surprising and very joyous occasion.  They continued the trip in Captain Lovelands Company.
After arriving in Utah they were called to go settle Franklin, Idaho to help in settling that part of the new Zion.  Their first home in Franklin was a dugout in the side of a little  hill on the banks of Cub River (Aug. 1868).
James had been ordained to the office of an Elder in the Melchizedek priesthood and on 1 Nov. 1868 he and Mary Ann Kate with their daughter Alice were sealed together in the endowment house in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He also had Ann Usher and children sealed to him at this time.
In 1869, the Hebdon's moved to a new home, a one room log home which was very much in need of repairs.  Enos James was born at this home 28 Mar 1870, also Joseph Thomas 16 July 1872 at Franklin, Idaho.  James had taken up land in 1870, but soon after the birth of Joseph, he was sent to Paris, Idaho as a presiding Elder for several years.  while at Paris three daughters were born, Elizabeth Ann born 6 Apr 1875, Phebie Hannah, 11 May 1877; and Mary Emily 19 Nov 1879.  After his release as presiding Elder in Paris the family moved to Preston, Idaho where Truman Ritter, 8 Dec 1881 and William Francis 22 Nov 1884 were born.
About 1885 James asked Miss Glazer to be his wife and they were married.  Mary Ann Kate did not approve of this marriage even though polygamy was being practiced at this time, it was also being persecuted.  James took his family and Mary Ann Kate down into Escalante, Utah leaving his third wife in Smithfield, Utah with her family.  The law was moving in to stop polygamist practices and he went to Escalente Utah to get away from it. While in Escalante Edward Eardly was born 23 Jan. 1887.  They soon moved back to Idaho going to Whitney where Alvin White was born 20 Dec. 1889; and Lorenzo Lars 30 Dec. 1890.  The family then moved to Glendale, Idaho where Earl Milton wass born 1 Dec. 1894, passing away Feb. 1895.
Sometime in 1895 the Hebdon's moved to Star Valley Wyo. Where they lived in Afton and Thayne.  James very active in the church working as a home missionary throughout the valley and carrying on his livelihood as a mason, lime burner, plasterer and brick layer.  He helped build the Osborn owe Home, the tabernacle at Afton,Wyo.At this time his sons were doing the lime bujrning and handling the lime by team and wagon to Afton.  The lime kiln which they built themselves, was located just west o f Thayne and was used for many years.
James Ritter passed away 17 Jan. 1908, at Blackfoot Idaho of a sudden stroke.  Funeral and burial were at Preston Idaho 23 Jan 1908.  He was survived by Mary Ann Kate , seven sons; Enos, Joseph.Truman, William, Edward, Alvin and lorenzo; four daughters; Alice, Elizabeth, Phoebe and Mary.  His life was one of faith,service and determination, also being filled with many trials and tests of faith.  He lived about 13 years in Thayne, Wyo..



 JAMES "Ritter" HEBDON

As I received family research from England in the 1976-77 I realized that Grandpa was not named James Ritter Hebdon but James Hebdon   The records showed his christening and marriage to Ann Usher as James Hebdon and also as he arrives in America and Marries Mary Ann "Kate" White.   I had determined that at the time he married Jane Glazier, about 1885. and took Grandma to Escalante, Utah he decided to change his name to James Ritter but when does one travel to Escalante to check this out
Little did I know that as I climbed into our car in July 1996, on a beautiful Monday morning headed for Mesa, Arizona for a wedding that Ben had other plans.  As we got to Nephi, Utah Ben informed me that "we're on our way to Escalante, Utah so what is our route?" This was indeed a great surprise. We traveled through some very beautiful country but some that I would not have wanted to travel in the mode of travel in 1885 - 1886.
I must do some research to find out the exact date that Grandpa married Jane.  She was the sister-in-law to Aunt Alice, who had married Luther William or Pryor Glazier.  Alice later divorced Glazier and was married and sealed to Seth Thornley 20 July 1904.
As we arrived in Escalante the big question was "Who can help us and where do we go."  We were told at the city information office that the president of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers could help us the most.  We spent the next half hour trying to find her.  Finally success.  She took us over to the church house and located a small book "Escalante Story".  The index showed that there was mention of a James Hitter.  "Page 72 'James Hitter and his brother (Charles White) were here in 1687 and took part in church activities.   They left in 1888.'"   Page 159 "John C. Campbell was bonded for the privilege of operating a liquor store in Nay 1898, the earliest record of such license in Escalante. Nephi Johnson and his brothers, Seth and George R. Johnson, had a store in the adobe-stucco house that they bought from James Ritter, now used as a wash house by the S. James Alveys."  This was all that was mentioned but we know that Uncle Edward Erdley Hebdon was born in Escalante 23 Jan 1887.  Alvin White Hebdon was born in Whitney, Idaho 20 December 1888.
We could not find the church records that we needed to show
 Uncle Eds birth and that Grandma was there also. but we know from
our records that Grandpa and Grandma were in Escalante all of 1867
and traveling back to Idaho during the summer of 1888.
 The last question was "Where is or where was the adobe-stucco house that the Flitter's lived in?"  Here again we spent about an hour tracking down the different information that was given to us. We found the little home but the fellow living there said "This is not the home you are looking for."  He sent us over to talk to his uncle, Merlin Alvey.  As we visited with Merlin Alvey, who is now in his 80's (July 15, 1996) verified that we were at the home of the Flitter's.
This was a most interesting day and so neat to find the home that Grandpa built for his wife and lived in during their stay in Escalante, Utah.
T.R. HEBDON'S FATHER'S FATHER, FATHER, 2012

The Life of TRUMAN DEWARD HEBDON

The Life of TRUMAN DEWARD HEBDON

Truman R. Hebdon and Mary Louise Butterworth Hebdon were living in a little three room house in Star Valley, Wyoming a short distance from Thayne Wyoming it was time for their fist child to be born, there being no doctors in the valley, Truman hitched up the team of horses and made Louise as comfortable as possible, then started off to Idaho Falls, Idaho were Louise parents, Isaiah and Sarah Butterworth lived.   got a job harvesting sugar beets near Lincoln while Louie stayed with her parents.  Truman DeWard Hebdon was born on a beautiful fall afternoon Oct 2, 1906.  Ushered into this world by a Mrs. Roxberry, an excellent midwife.
When DeWard was three weeks old, Truman and Louise loaded a wagon with staple goods and went back to Thayne,  He was blessed at church the next Sunday , when they arrived home.
T.R. loved the life of a dairy~ Farmer, so little DeWard was taken to the barn by his mother to sit and watch while she helped milk the cows, if they would hold still long enough.
As he grew older he was trusted to take the herd to the pasture.  With his fishing pole and a nice lunch his mother packed, he was off for the day. He always caught a nice bunch of fish and was very proud to present them to his mother for the supper table.


 DeWard was four years old, a little sister, Wanda Louise, came to live with them a short while.  She passed sway when only six months old. When. DeWard was six and one half another beautiful baby girl whom they named Erma, was born to this family.  She and DeWard grew to be good pales, even tho DeWard was a big tease.  They shared many happy times together while living at Thayne.  Erma tells this:  When I was only four, DeWard helped me to know that Heavenly Father would hear and answer our prayers.  Out baby brother Eldon, was near death's door.  DeWard took me aside and told me we should pray, DeWard begged the Lord to help baby brother get well.  In Childish innocence we just knew be would.  Eldon did recover and it built my faith in Heavenly~Father and my big brother too.
As for being a big tease:  Santa brought me the most beautiful doll. She had curly hair, eyes that would open and shut. I put the doll in its bed one night and went into another room, when I came back my doll raised right up and held her arms out to me, I thought she had come to life for sure, so I screamed, seems as though DeWard had put strings on her neck and arms like a puppet then he pulled the strings and I though it was a miracle
Many, Many chores were done together and so we had lots of long talks. He was a choice understanding person and I shall miss him.
DeWard was baptized in Flat Creek near Thayne when he was eight.  There was ice on the pond and he had to be wrapped in a blanket to take him back home.  Melvin Hebdon a cousin was also baptized at the same time.
DeWard usually walked to school, But sometimes he rode a horse.  He liked school and got good grades.
 When he was about twelve, his folks sold the dairy farm and came to Idaho Falls once again.  At this time, his father was employed as a foeman at Wood livestock ranch, so DeWard learned how to work there.  Three years later they bought a farm south of Rigby.  It seemed their whole world revolved around making that farm pay and be a good one
DeWard tells the following story that happened when he was fourteen His father had been having attacks of appendicitis for some time but this one seemed different~in that nothing would ease the pain.  His mother called him and told him to get the Model T Ford running because old Dr. Cline had said they'd better get him in as soon as they could.  Of course it was cold blizzard night and the car wouldn't start.  Mother poured hot water from the tea kettle over the radiator and DeWard hitched up' his pony and pulled it his mother laid Dad in the back seat, covered him with quilts to keep him warm plus bottles of hot water and then kneeling between the seats he and Mother prayed that he could make it safely to Idaho Falls and the Dr. with his Dad 0 DeWard says he could not see any sign of the read, no tracks or landmarks, in as much as they were the first car out, so he just kept the car between the telephone poles, With every bump in the road, Dad would groan and fifteen miles seemed like a long way; but they did arrive safely.  The Dr. was amazed that a fourteen year old boy could bring his father all that long way alone.  It was not  too soon as the appendix had ruptured.  DeWard sat there thru the operation and prayed for his father.
His father recovered slowly and much of the farm work was on DeWard's shoulders till his father regained his health fully.
DeWard attend Rigby High School,  He was a class president to two years~and~took part in Band, Chorus and Drama.  He especially loved drama and can remember Fount Johnson as being  an outstanding director he worked under.
In one play he related telling his children how he took the role of a Negro mammy.  No one was supposed to guess who the mammy was and DeWard  portrayed the part so well that not until the end of the play did the audience discover the female Negro was really DeWard.  DeWard was also in several operas 1 as he had a fine singing voice.  He was ch6sen to play in a band composed of the best band students in southern Idaho, under a nationally known conductor.
 graduated from high school in  1926.  In  1927 he met Lulu Mae Hunt while working on a threshing crew at a neighbors place.  They were married on Nov 19,1927 and two weeks later he left for Chicago to enroll in an electrical school having already  planned to do this before he met Lulu.  He graduated from this school and then went back to Enterprise Utah, where his wife was living with her parents.
Their first born, a daughter DeLue was born there. the name was composed from part of DeWard's and part of Lulu's name.   next years were spent moving from southern Utah back to Idaho to help Dad on the farm~  Joy, Iris, Kay and Nelda Mae were born in the ensuing years.  When Kay was born she was a very thin beautiful baby but had a little malformed foot.
There just wasn't any heel or ankle.  The Dr. didn't know if she would ever walk right, but DeWard had faith in the Lord that something could be done for her. They took her to Primary Children Hospital in Salt lake City. DeWard stated he had faith that the Lord would show him a way.  A specialist in his field examined her and said ' yes" she would have a normal foot if they would massage it and exercise it.  She must also have special shoes wit braces, shoes mold and much therapy.  DeWard was devoted and faithful to this.  He wanted Her to walk normally and she did develop a normal foot.
A little son Truman R. was born Sept 22 1936, {n Idaho Falls, DeWard CUP Was filled to overflowing when Truman arrived.  A son to carry on his name.  Even though they never had many earthly things they had a close knit family and DeWard was very close to the Lord.  Those were depression days and DeWard tells of praying and fasting over Whatever he felt was important; the crops, the irrigation water, the cow would give more milk and that they could have a productive garden 9
It was hard indeed to keep the food on the table and the little growing family in food, but he always worked hard and relied on the Lord to help him. Then the war years came along with their heartache
Those were trouble times for everyone, also in their marriage and on Nov 30, 1945 they were divorced. moved back to Rigby with his folks and the next year he worked and earned enough money to go to a Swedish massage school in Chicago, Ill. His father gave him a blessing and said be would have an opportunity to be taught by the masters of physical therapy.  That he would possess a healing soothing quality in the touch so that many important people would come to him for his healing influence.  People from all over the valley have benefitted from his physical therapy treatments.  One lady attribute her longevity to Brother Hebdon's "magic fingers" to keep her old bones a moving'.  Many times he gave treatments and received no money from a person who really needed them.  He received his certificate as a graduate masseur Jan 16, 1947.
Upon his arrival back in Idaho Falls, he opened an office for physical therapy and massages.  His sister Barbara helped him.
His son Truman, lived with him there, they became very close and had some happy times together.  Truman was always a bright shining lighted in DeWard life.  He was so proud of him. Truman had visited him often and had great respect for his father.  Joy also visited and keeps track.
The bishop of his ward knew DeWard was lonesome and introduced him to Winona Larson Benson, who like himself was divorced.  He asked her to go with him to a stake formal dance,  That was the beginning of their courtship which often included Winona's two young sons, Rondo who was ten and Grant age eight.
Finding they had a lot in common they decided to be married and this marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple June 10, 1948. Their first child,.David Lyn was born May22, 1950.  He fitted right in with Rondo aud Grant 1  The next year July 2, 1951 Harvey was born and DeWard was so proud because now he had five daughters and five sons.
DeWard and Winnona's little family grew and a little ~daughter, Linda was born Dec 20 1952.  Then Gloria another daughter was born on July 19, 1957.
They have had many happy times together as a family, going to family reunions, camping and playing ball and going for walks.  DeWard always had a good garden and thought his children to work in taking care of it.
Last summer when he couldn't walk he would lay between the rows to pull the weeds.  He even raised watermelon and cantaloupe.


 always tried to make a better person of himself.  He had a curious mind and had several inventions, he constantly read and studied.  He completed the Dale Carnegie. Course to Success and used this knowledge to attract many people to his Health Salon, which he established on Basalt Street in the 1950.  Winona was his right hand helper here.
He worked at the L.D.S.Hospital several years and made many friends there.   He has always been mindful of his close neighbors and looking out for their welfare, giving them words of cheer when lonesome, giving them rides to church or town.  He was a gentle, kind man and had compassion for everyone.  He was a diligent home teacher and did not quit doing this till last Oct. He was especially interested in those  with health problems and went to the hospital every day to visit Uncle Will Hebdon from Thayne Wyo. He shaved him and combed his hair and cared for him when there was no one else to do so for nearly three weeks.



 was active in church work and served in many positions throughout the years.  At the time of his death he was serving as a High Priest.  He had been secretary to the High Priests, served a Stake Mission, been a Sunday School teacher, in the Sunday School Superintendence, on the Genealogy committee and was one of the Seven President of the Seventies, on the Sr. Aaronic Priesthood Committee.
Last winter, 1979 was a very hard winter for DeWard.  He had known he had a heart condition, and other illness but he developed a nasty little cough that would not go away.  In the spring the Dr. decided to see what made the cough and took a biopsy of the little growth they discovered. It proved to be malignant.


 felt very strongly that~ he should not under go surgery for this condition, so he placed himself in the Lord's hands.
There have been good weeks and some bad since that decision was made. His heart condition grew worse and he was hospitalize several times.
 This last Christmas time was a happy one for all of them even though DeWard was not so well.  They were all home togther.  On Jan 11, 1980 he entered the hospital once more, this time more serious than ever before. After some treatment they agreed to let him come home.  His suffering was intense last week.  On Jan 27, 1980 he passed away.  But he was home, where he was happy to be.
He is survived by his wife, Winona, Sons: Truman R. Hebdon of Meas Ariz. David, Harvey and Rondo of Idaho Falls, Grant of Rexburg.  Daughters: DeLue Lang, Nelda Mae Randall of St. George Ut. Iris Henderson of Cedar City Utah. Joy Cannon and Kay Nelson of Salt Lake City Utah. Linda of Idaho Falls and Gloria who is serving an L.D.S. mission in Venture California. Forty Three grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Sisters; Erma Lee of Rigby Nelda Baker of Teton, Donalue Hart of Idaho Falls and Barbara Hovis of Shelly Id.  He is preceded in death by his mother and father, a brother Eldon and a sister Wanda.

 DeWard was especially proud of Gloria, he encouraged her o go on her mission.  He has written to her faithful, till he was too ill.  He prayed for her not become too homesick and to work hard and be a good Missionary. It was his wish that she stay in Mission field and not come home at this  time.  We know that DeWard is pleased with her missionary work.
Sometimes sever pain and dependency on others brings an unseen blessing. A very strong bond between Linda and her father.  She was a comfort and help to him.  She always though first of his well being and living so close by she was able to take over the care of DeWard from Winona to rest her. The family will always be grateful to her.  It was she who held his hand as he slipped into eternity.  Linda's little son, Andrew was a source of joy to him as were all his grandchildren.
The other members of the family all looked for special little kindnesses they could preform for him in these last few months.  DeWard always stated that he didn't want to be a burden to anyone, but so appreciated what each one did for him.
The day the family brought DeWard home from the hospital last week, It seemed as if he just couldn't fill his eyes and heart full enough of how beautiful the sunlit was, how white the snow, how much he really loved life. Then he named each child and his dear Winona and told them how much he loved Them and~when he went into the house he called the sisters he could reach by home. He left a joyful legacy to his loved ones, full of determination. hope, and courage.
If we can follow DeWard's example and endure the pains of life well, even those times when the heavens seem to turn a deaf ear, our Heavenly Father will exalt us on high, and we will triumph over all, and our adversities and afflictions will be but a small moment.

Truman Hebdon
 Truman DeWard Hebdon, 73. owner and operator of Hebdon Health Salon, 256 Basalt, died Sunday at his home, from a heart attack.
He was born Oct. 2, 1906 at Lincoln, son of Truman R Hebdon and Mary Louise Butterworth Hebdon he attended school at Thayne, Wyo. Idaho Falls and Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School. He al-so attended a physical therapy and massage school in~Chicago. He has lived in Salt Lake City, St George, Utah, and Idaho Falls.
He was married to Lulu Mae Hunt Nov. 19, 1927. They were later divorced. He then married Winona Larson June 10, 1948 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. Besides owning and operating the Hebdon Health Salon with his wife, he has been a carpenter, farmer, salesman. and an engineer at the LDS Hospital.
He was a member of the LDS Church and at the rime of his death was a high priest. He has served a stake mission, as secretary of high priests' quorum, Sunday School teacher and. in the Sunday school supentendency. He has been active in choir, served on genealogy committee, was ac-tive In MIA and was stake drama leader. He was one of the seven presidents of seventy and also active in senior Aaronic priesthood program.
Survivors include his widow, Winona Larson Benson Hebdon six sons, David L.. Harvy D. and Andrew D. Hebdon and Rondo L.~Benson all of Idaho Falls, Grant T. Benson of Rex-burg, and Truman R. Hebdon of Mesa, Ariz.; seven daughters, Linda D,'Hebdon of~Idaho Falls; Gloria W. Hebdon serving an LDS Mission in Ventura, Calif., De Lue Lang, Nelda Mae Randall and Iris Henderson, all of St.George, Utah Melva Joy Cannon and Claresia Kay Hunt both Of Salt Lake City, Utah; 43 grandchildren, and four sisters, Mrs. Harry (Erma) Lee of Rigby, Mrs. Ray (Nelda) Baker of Teton, Mrs. Jack (Donna Lue) Hart of Idaho Falls, and Mrs. Jerry (Barbara) Hovis of Shelley. He was preceded in death by one brother, Eldon services will held Wednesday at I PM. at the LDS 6th Ward Chapel Family will receive friends Tuesday from 7 to 9p.m. at the Woed Funeral Home and On Wednesday at the church one hour prior to services.
 Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.