CHAPMAN, Fidelia Amelia

1846 - 1909  (62 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	CHAPMAN, Fidelia Amelia
  Birth	11 Oct 1846	Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
  Gender	Female
  WAC	14 Jun 1869	EHOUS
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  Burial	Jul 1909	Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States
  Death	16 Jul 1909	Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States
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  Person ID	I21498	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	CHAPMAN, Welcome Sr. ,   b. 24 Jul 1805, Reedsboro, Bennington, Vermont, United States Reedsboro, Bennington, Vermont, United Statesd. 9 Dec 1893, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 88 years)
  Mother	RISLEY, Susan Amelia ,   b. 24 Aug 1807, Madison, Madison, New York, United States Madison, Madison, New York, United Statesd. 18 Feb 1888, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F11673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BABBITT, Richard ,   b. 2 Jul 1842, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Dublin, County Dublin, Irelandd. 27 Mar 1917, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	12 Apr 1862	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F11692	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  From "Times and Places of Welcome Chapman and His Ancestors in North America." Complied by Arlene Mickelson Smith 1996 Fidelia was the ninth child of Welcome and Susan Amelia Chapman. She was born October 11, 1846 at Winter Quarters. She was only a baby when her parents crossed the plains to Utah. In Septmber of 1850, Fidelia, at age 3, moved to Sanpete with her parents. Her mother served in the first Relief Society Presidency in Sanpete. Her father was called in 1854 to serve as the president of the Sanpete region of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She was in Manti during the time the settlers and the Indians were trying to live peaceably in the same area. The Indian Chief Wakara, was a very unpredictable individual. Although he had invited the Mormons to move to "his valley," he was very temperamental and would get his feelings hurt for some reason, he and his warriors would then attack the pioneers. This was a very precarious situation. Finally, "The Walker War" was ended in 1854 when an agreement was reached. When Wakara died and Arrowpine became the chief of the Utes things became somewhat better. Fidelia was listed, as age 13, on the 1860 Federal Census of Manti. On June 14, 1869, she and Richard Babbitt married. The following was submitted by Mollie B. Coon. It was told by Reuben Hurd; a grandson, in 1962. Grandmother Babbitt was a great herb doctor. She traveled around the country(county?) doctoring people. One time her son got shot through the foot; she used her herbs on the foot and he had no trouble with the foot. Her grandson got shot in the leg. She also treated him with her herb treatment. At one time there was a child that lived in Marsh Valley that was very ill, the town doctor had used all the methods he knew to save the child's life, but finally he told the parents nothing more could be done. The frantic father rushed to get Grandmother Babbitt to bring her herbs and to come to his house to treat his child. She stayed at his home and gave the child constant treatment with her knowledge of herbs, the child's life was saved. Grandmother used to gather her own herbs, the ridge logs of the upstairs part of the house were always full of bunches of herbs drying and curing she would also gather the roots to make root beer. She made lots of root beer, and it carried quite a wallop. Oh, how good it was! About 1905 there was a lady by the name of Louise Leavitt that lived in Elba, Idaho. She was having trouble with her back, which was so bad she could hardly get around, Mrs. Leavitt's sister, Alice, was a daughter in-law to Grandmother. Alice knew of Grandmother's ability with herbs, so she persuaded Louise to go with her to visit Grandmother and be treated with Grandmothers herbs. The treatment was successful and after a few weeks, Mrs. Leavitt returned to her own home cured of her ailment. Grandmother raised us children after our mother, Amelia Elizabeth(Lizzie) died. She cared for us as if we were her own children. One evening when Grandmother and grandfather lived on their homestead on Devils Creek, Grandmother was out in the corral milking the cows. The children heard a noise outside like a lady crying. When the noise became closer, the children could see it was not a lady crying, but it was a cougar. It went to the corral where Grandmother was milking the cows and put it's feet up on the bars and looked around. Then it just trotted off. Grandmother never saw the cougar, but the tracks it made proved that it had been there. After the sheep had been trailed through the fences to and from the summer range, Grandmother used to go to the fences to gather any of the wool that had been pulled from the sheep as they passed through. This wool was washed, corded and spun into yarn and then knitted into stockings for her family. Her family consisted of 7 boys and 5 girls so this meant a lot of knitting. She also corded batts for her quilts from this wool Their mode of travel was by horses and wagons. It took a day when they traveled the eleven miles from their home in Devils Creek to the town of Malad, Idaho and back. Grandfather said that when people would drive by their place, he would hear them say, "the damn fool will starve to death here." However, they continued to live there until 1904 or 1905 until he sold that place and moved to smaller place a few miles west of Malad. They lived in the smaller place until 1909 when Grandmother died. Posted by Scott Hepworth Richard was born 2 Jul 1842, in Dublin, Ireland, son of Henry William Babbitt and Elizabeth Tyler. He was a young child when he immigrated with his parents to America. He was baptized UNKNOWN. Fidelia was born 11 Oct 1846, in Winter Quarters, Douglas, NE, daughter of Welcome and Susan Amelia Risley Chapman. She was baptized UNKNOWN time. They were married 12 Apr 1862, in UT, when he was 19 and she was 15. There were each endowed and were sealed 14 June 1869, in the Endowment House, when he was age 26 and she was 22. He died 27 Mar 1917, in Malad, ID, at the age of 76. She died 8 years earlier 16 Jul 1909, in Malad, ID, at the age of 62. Richard Babbitt arrived in Elba, ID – see Elba Ward history, “The First One Hundred Years, Cassia-Oakley Idaho Stake, 1887-1987. Reply DragonflyNovember 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM This is cool..These are my Great Great Grandparents! I wish there were pictures!