Wheatley, Heber Kimball (Dec 25, 1856 – Apr 3, 1920) by Michael Wheatley
[History of Heber Kimball Wheatley written by his son
Michael]
Heber Kimball Wheatley was born in Grassmore England 25 – Dec – 1856. He came to America while a young man with his parents. He was an
only child & received a good education for those days, & taught school in the different vilages [sic] of Utah.
He also played the violin & accordion & entertained at dances in surrounding towns. While teaching school in Portage Utah he met a young lady by the name of Isabella Nish whom he later married. Isabella was a student in his school at West Portage.
They lived for a time in Honeyville UT but later accepted a job as a section foreman on the narrow gage railroad that was being built from Utah to Montana. They knew the hardships of early day life & finally homsteaded [sic] a tract of land at Clarkston Utah. Unto this couple nine children were born. Two died young. Seven lived to adulthood and all married well & in the temple. All have families of their own. At the family reunion in June 1959 five living children were present.
Heber K. Wheatley and Isabella Nish Wheatley separated about 1897 and Heber later married Sarah A Nye and to this union two daughters were born, Vera born 25
November 1899 and Athalia born 22 August 1902 both in Fielding Utah where Heber & Sarah Nye Wheatley made their home for a number of years. Heber was the mail carrier in Fielding for some time.
In 1906 they moved to Magna Utah and stayed there six years. Heber worked & saved his money in order to build a better home and this he did when they returned to Fielding. His wife Sarah was in poor health after the birth of her second daughter. The eldest daughter Vera was not strong either and died of Bright‘s Disease while a young woman.
Heber Kimball Wheatley was the son of Michael Wheatley and Martha Ann Varley Wheatley born in Glassmore, Devnshire [sic] Co England.
The Wheatley family were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [sic] by apostle Heber C Kimball while in their native England and Heber was named after this good man.
Hebers [sic] father & mother lived in Honeyville Utah most of their lives after coming to this country.
The mother Martha Ann died at Honeyville 20 July 1905.
When the father Michael became ill in his old age the son Heber went to Honeyville & cared for him. After Michaels [sic] death in January 1916 Heber moved his family into the old home and lived there the rest of their lives. The wife Sarah A Nye Wheatley died in [no information written]
Heber Kimball died of cancer on 3rd April 1920. He had been taken to the L.D.S. hospital in Salt Lake City for treatment some time before but nothing could be done to stop the ravages of this dread disease. He is buried in the cemetery at Honeyville Utah.
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WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT
UNCLE MIKE WHEATLEY
HE WASN'T A TALL MAN, AS I REMEMBER HE STOOD ABOUT FIVE FT.
EIGHT OR NINE INCHES TALL AND HAD A STOCKY BUILD. HE HAD BLUE EYES A FULL BEARD
AND WAS PARTLY BALD. LATER IN LIFE HE USED A CANE TO WALK WITH.
HE RAISED CATTLE, LUCERNE, OATS, WHEAT AND CORN, AND ALSO
HAD FRUIT TREES. HE HAD ONE APP'LE TREE THAT HE HAD GRAFTED LIMBS FROM OTHER
APPLE TREES ON SO HE HAD ONE APPLE TREE WITH FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF APPLES ON
IT. HE HAD A RASPBERRY PATCH, AND PICKED AND SOLD THE BERRIES "FOUR QUARTS FOR
A DOLLAR". HE ALSO HAD GRAPEVINE'S.
HIS HOUSE STOOD BACK AWAY FROM THE ROAD I'D GUESS ABOUT 60
FT.
THE PATH UP TO IT WAS LINED WITH SHRUBS AND LILAC BUSHES.
ONE SHRUB WAS CALLED A SNOW DROP BUSH, IT HAD WHITE BERRIES ON IT AND ALSO
SOMETHING CALLED A TEA VINE THAT HAD ORANGE BERRIES ON IT. THERE WERE LOTS OF
PURPLE VIOLETS GROWING AROUND THE HOUSE. HIS WELL STOOD SOUTH OF THE HOUSE
ABOUT FIFTEEN FEET AND HAD A WINDLASS TO LET THE BUCKET UP AND DOWN.
HE LET PEOPLE WHO WERE PASSING THROUGH STAY AT HIS HOUSE
OVER, NIGHT, SORT OF LIKE LETTING OUT ROOMS. HOW MUCH HE CHARGED OR
WHETHER HE CHARGED AT ALL I DON'T KNOW. HE WAS GENEROUS WITH
WHAT HE HAD.
MY FATHER AND MOTHER, MY HALF BROTHER AND BROTHER ALL LIVED
WITH UNCLE MIKE THE SUMMER OF 1910 WHILE THEY BUILT A NEW HOME. THEIR OLD HOME
HAD BEEN DAMAGED BY AN EARTH QUAKE IT WAS BUILT OUT OF OLD HOME MADE BRICK AND
HAD GRACKED VERY BAD.
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UNCLE MIKE SMOKED A PIPE AND ONE MORNING HE CAME INTO OUR
HOUSE AND MY BROTHER WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE PIPE, UNCLE MIKE TOOK THE PIPE AND,
PUT THE STEM IN MY BROTHERS MOUTH, I GUESS MY BROTHER DIDN'T LIKE THE TASTE OR
MAYBE THE STEM WAS HOT, ANYWAY HE SHOOK HIS HEAD AND PULLED AWAY.
SOMETIMES A WIND WOULD COME AND BLOW THE FRUIT OFF THE
TREES, THEN THE PEOPLE WOULD GET BUSY AND GATHER UP WHAT THEY COULD AND DRY IT
ON DRYING RACKS TO HAVE SOME FOR WINTER.
UNCLE MIKE HOMESTEADED A TIMBER CLAIM UP ON THE MOUNTAINS
WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME OF THE ORME'S WERE TO SHARE IN IT. FOR SEVERAL
YEARS MY FATHER HEBER ORME PLOWED AND PLANTED AND IRRIGATED THE TREES. UNCLE
MIKE HAD AN INTERES'T IN SOME SPRINGS ON THE MOUNTAINS AND THE ORME FAMILY HAD
SPRINGS UP THERE, THIS WATER WAS USED TO WATER THE TREES ON THE CLAIM. IN MY
FATHERS [sic] DIARY HE SAID THEY HAD 4,000 TREES GROWIN UP THERE. WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE TREES I DON'T KNOW. AS A GHILD I REMEMBER HIKING ON THE HILLS AND,
SEEING FURROWS IN THE GROUND. THE SPRINGS HE HAD AN INTEREST IN WERE SOLD, TO
HONEYVILLE FOR DRINKING WATER.
THE ROAD IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE.USED TO BE FARTHER WEST,
LATER THE ROAD WAS MOVED EAST AND THIS LEFT A STRIP OF UNCLE MIKES [sic] GROUND
WEST OF THE ROAD. HE LEFT THAT FOR A CAMPGROUND FOR THE TRAVELERS GOING
THROUGH, I REMEMBER PEOPLE CAMPING THERE ESPECIALLY THE GYPSIES.
JOE WHEATLEY A GREAT NEPHEW USED TO STAY WITH UNCLE MIKE
AFTER HIS WIVES HAD DIED AND WAS ALONE. HE WAS WITH UNCLE MIKE THE NIGHT HE DIED
AS WAS MY FATHER.
AS I REMEMBER HE WAS WELL LIKED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
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History of Michael Wheatley
Michael Wheatley, son of John and Sarah Moore Wheatley, was born 19 August 1835 at Dale Abby, Derbyshire, England.
My great-grandfather, John Wheatley, was born 18 August 1806. My great-grandmother, Sara Moore Wheatley, was born 16 July 1798.
The Wheatleys were real coal miners and had been for generations. My great-grandfather, John Wheatley, worked underground in the coal pits for 60 years. My grandfather (Michael) worked in the pits also. His brother Thomas started working in the pits when he was 6 years old and worked there for 25 years before coming to America.
My grandfather’s brother, Richard, was killed in the Birchil pit by a blast 12 October 1852 at the age of 24. They all had many narrow escapes from losing their lives, and when they left England their backs were scared [sic] from falling coal.
Great-grandfather John had 7 children, 5 sons and 2 daughters. Two of the children died at an early age. Three of the children, 2 boys and o [sic] girl were converted with their marriage partners to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Grandfather Michael Wheatley married Martha Ann Varley 24 February 1851.
On April 19, 1861, Michael with his wife Martha, his brother Thomas Wheatley Sr, his wife Catherine Varley and a sister and her husband, Mary and George Whitworth and their families, sailed from Liverpool, England, on a vessel named “The Underwriter.” This was the same boat President Charles W. Penrose came to America on. (This was the Milo Andrews Co.) They were 30 days on the water before reaching land. The officers on the ship were very cruel to the sailors, and would lash them. The women could not stand to see this, so they went to see the Captain and begged him to intercept, but the captain told them that was their custom and the only way the sailors could be controlled.
While on the ocean, the food consisted mainly of salt pork, very salty dry crackers and split peas.
There were 624 Saints under the presidency of Milo Andrews, Homer Duncan, and Charles W. Penrose, coming to America.
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They arrived in New York City May 22, 1861. From there they sailed to New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They traveled up the river to Florence, Nebraska. While there, grandfather’s sister Mary gave birth to a baby girl. They named her Florence after the city which is just out of Omaha. She was born on the banks of the Mississippi River in a tent. They remained there long enough for Mary to get her strength. While there, the men took a walk along the river bank and came upon a camp of Indians. They (the white men) made a hasty retrest, [sic] as they had heard of Indians in America, but these were the first they had ever seen and they were frightened.
At Omaha they bought a yoke of oxen and a wagon each, and provisions for the trip to the west. After a few days journey on the plains, some of the oxen died and they had to change the new wagons for old ones, and cows to pull the wagons.
Coming thru [sic] the states they were enlisting men for the army, that being the year the Civil War began and all was excitement. Food was surely
cheap. Eggs were three cents a dozen, and “we enjoyed the different food very much after faring so poorly on the boat.”
Some of the children walked most of the way to the valley. “We saw many Indians and buffalo but we were never molested by them. We arrived at Salt Lake City, Sept. 12, 1861.”
They settled in Bountiful, Utah, where Thomas’ wife Catherine gave birth to a baby boy named Abraham, October 16 1861/ [sic] The first winter was hard, they took some of their best clothes to buy hay for the livestock. They built log cabins near where the Bountiful Tabernacle now stands. They had boxes for tables and sawed logs for chairs.
In 1863 the oldest boy, Thomas, and his family left for Dayton, Nevada, with a company of Saints, and Michael’s sister, Mary Whitworth and family and Michael and family left for Honeyville, Box Elder County, where they bought farms.
After nine years, Brother Thomas returned from Nevada and bought a farm nearby in Honeyville and that is where they raised their families and prospered very well.
Grandfather Michael and Grandmother Martha Ann had two children. Both
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were born in England. The first was a boy (Heber Kimball) and the second a girl (Catherine). Catherine died the same year she was born (1867).
Heber taught school in Box Elder County towns, and married Isabelle Nish, from Plymouth, Utah. This marriage was blessed with seven children, three boys and four girls. The
family lived on a farm in Clarkston, Utah. Later Izabelle and Heber separated, and Heber married Sarah Alice Nye of Honeyville, Utah.
Two children were born of this marriage, Vera (who died at the age of 21) and Athalia, who now resides in Ogden, Utah. Athalia married Eldred L. Wight, of Brigham City, Utah and to this union were born 5 daughters. Mrs. Clyde (Marion) Demler, Providence, Utah; Mrs. Carlisle (Beth) Gibson, Ogden, Utah; Mrs. Parley Smith (Charleen) of Livermore, California: Mrs. Ronald D. Hales (Loraine) of Ogden; and Mrs. Robert (Janet) Taylor of Ogden, Utah.
Michael Wheatley died December 28, 1916 at Honeyville, Utah and Heber died April 3, 1919, at Salt Lake City, Utah.
[Handwritten note]
Michael Wheatley
Born Aug 19, 1835
Buried in the
Calls Fort Cemetery
3 miles So of
Honeyville
East of Road
& up a lane
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