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Betsy Jane Bybee

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Betsy Jane Bybee

Birth
Weber County, Utah, USA
Death
19 Mar 1859 (aged 18 days)
Weber County, Utah, USA
Burial
Uintah, Weber County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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"Soon after I came home from Mr. Stoddard's, I was offered the job of teaching school at Mountain Green, which I accepted. I had about twenty pupils and spent a very pleasant winter. The proposition they offered me was none too good, but it was better than I could secure elsewhere. It was what was known as a "Subscription School", that is, the parents of the pupils were to subscribe so much to me-- some provisions, some money, and others those things that they were best able to give. I got along fine with the school all winter. I had moved Jane up there with me, and we lived in a house quite close to the school house. School was dismissed about the middle of February, and we moved back down to East Weber. Here in East Weber on March 1, 1859, our home was blessed with the arrival of a baby girl, christened Betsy. She was the joy of our home about three short weeks, when death very suddenly took her away from us on March 19,1859. These were indeed sad and dark hours to us in which we were deprived of our first born. Levi Hammon made us a coffin, and Mother washed and dressed the body and placed it in the coffin. There were no services held, the body being taken directly from our home to the cemetery. Ira N. Spalding, John M. Bybee, David B. Bybee, and myself acted as pall bearers. We very carefully deposited the remains in the grave, and Ira N. Spalding dedicated the grave to the Lord, asking for protection from all harm and to care for it as the final resting place of our baby until the morning of the first resurrection. We covered the coffin over with the dirt very carefully and went back home."
Autobiography of Robert Lee Bybee pg 51
"Soon after I came home from Mr. Stoddard's, I was offered the job of teaching school at Mountain Green, which I accepted. I had about twenty pupils and spent a very pleasant winter. The proposition they offered me was none too good, but it was better than I could secure elsewhere. It was what was known as a "Subscription School", that is, the parents of the pupils were to subscribe so much to me-- some provisions, some money, and others those things that they were best able to give. I got along fine with the school all winter. I had moved Jane up there with me, and we lived in a house quite close to the school house. School was dismissed about the middle of February, and we moved back down to East Weber. Here in East Weber on March 1, 1859, our home was blessed with the arrival of a baby girl, christened Betsy. She was the joy of our home about three short weeks, when death very suddenly took her away from us on March 19,1859. These were indeed sad and dark hours to us in which we were deprived of our first born. Levi Hammon made us a coffin, and Mother washed and dressed the body and placed it in the coffin. There were no services held, the body being taken directly from our home to the cemetery. Ira N. Spalding, John M. Bybee, David B. Bybee, and myself acted as pall bearers. We very carefully deposited the remains in the grave, and Ira N. Spalding dedicated the grave to the Lord, asking for protection from all harm and to care for it as the final resting place of our baby until the morning of the first resurrection. We covered the coffin over with the dirt very carefully and went back home."
Autobiography of Robert Lee Bybee pg 51

Gravesite Details

The cemetery records do not list her, however there are 19 unknowns listed through out the cemetery. Pictures of 3 little crosses are in a Bybee plot.. The cemetery records show only one unknown in that plot.

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