NOYES Fredrick Franklin^{[1, 2]}

1847 - 1922  (74 years)

• Name	NOYES Fredrick Franklin
  Birth	25 Dec 1847	Albany, Albany, New York, United States   [1, 3]
  Baptism	1 Dec 1863  [4]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	25 Sep 1865	Utah, United States   [3]
  _UID	6F6A0D38EB9ED5118A064445535400004D20
  Death	4 Dec 1922	Sunnyside, Carbon, Utah, United States   [5]
  Burial	7 Dec 1922	Victor, Emery, Utah, United States   [5]
  	Now a ghost town.
  Notes	LIFE SKETCH OF FREDRICK FRANKLIN NOYES, AND HIS WIFE, HANNAH MARIA WILLIAMS. posted: 25 June 2014 Written from memory by their daughter Ada Louisa Noyes Ostberg. Fredrick Franklin Noyes was born December 25, 1847, at Albany, New York. He was the son of John Henry Noyes and Sarah Burrows. They were born about 18 14, and 1822, respectively. While still very young he moved with his parents to Alabama, where they had purchased a lovely large plantation on which all the work was done by slaves. My father often told of his childhood. How he fished or hunted possum and coon in the summer time, and went to school where he was taught by a private tutor in the winter. He used to tell of the ginger bread and corn pone, which were given his by an old Negro Nanny when he would come home hungry. His mother and sister Ada were musicians, and they also did much beautiful handwork. When he was fourteen years of age war was declared between the northern states and the southern states, and some of the latter groups seceded from the Union. His father was called to serve in the Confederate Army, and as he was the oldest child in the family, he was allowed to choose whether he would stay with his mother or go with his father. The two younger children, William and Ada would stay with their mother, of course, and since he hated to see his father go to war alone, he enlisted and went with him. Although he was so young, the government of the Confederacy allowed him to go with his father. Because of the destruction of the homes and property in the South, his mother was forced to take the younger children and go to relatives in England, and she wrote letters to him frequently from England. Due to the lack of other means of identification, these letters were carried on his person. One day when the army was retreating rapidly, his vest was caught by a limb, as they were passing through a strip of woodland, and it was torn so that he had to discard it. He just had time to catch the bundle of letters, which was in the pocket, and he was holding them in his hand. One of his buddies offered to carry the letters for him until they could encamp for the night. He had not had the letters very long when he was shot and killed, and as the only letters which he happened to be carrying that day were those belonging to Fredrick Franklin Noyes, his mother was notified that he had been killed. His father was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, and so in spite of frequent attempts on his part to get in touch with his mother, he found that she had moved to another place, and he never heard from her again. While in the services he received a severe bayonet wound in his right knee from which he suffered a great deal. When peace was declared, and he was released from the army, he returned to his home, but he found that everything been destroyed, there wasn't even a fence post left standing. Since he had no place to go, and very little money, he took a job as teamster with the Caldwell Transportation Company. He was to drive a team through to California. When they reached Salt Lake City, he was so favorably impressed with the country and the people that he decided to get work and stay there. He was converted to and joined the L. D. S. Church, and met Hannah Maria Williams, Daughter of Gustavis and Hannah Maria Andrews, and they were married for time and all eternity in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, January 29th, 1869. Early in the spring of 1870, President Brigham Young called Grandfather Williams and his family to go with a group of people to establish a settlement at St. Thomas Nevada. Their oldest son, Gustavis W. Noyes was born there June 11, 1870. The climate was lovely warm climate, in fact Mother said that she could take water from the creek in January and it was warm enough to wash dishes in it without heating it further. They raised all kinds of fruits and vegetables, but due to the laws of Nevada, the settlement had to be abandoned after three years of hard struggle. They then moved to Parowan, where they continued their work in the church. They bought a dairy ranch near town where they milked cows and made butter and cheese, which they sold, at that time they got from fifteen to twenty cents per pound for their butter, and ten cents per pound for their cheese. Three of their children were born there; they were Diantha Maria, born May 25th, 1872. Fred W. born September 22nd, 1874, and John Henry, born March 27th, 1877. From there they moved to Washington near St. George where one child Ada Louisa was born March 16th, 1879. After living there a short time they moved to Ascalanta where Howard S. was born January I5th, 1882. In the fall of 1882 they were called with several other families to settle the little town of Teasdale in what was then a part of Pyute county, but is now Wayne county. During the first winter, each family lived in a tent, and I recall the campfires by which we kept warm and the deer the men brought in for food, as there were no game laws at that time. The town site was surveyed and each family obtained a city lot. There was much timber in the mountains, and the men all worked together getting out the logs for the different houses and getting them constructed. After the houses were completed all the people moved to town, and the land on which they had camped was used for fields. Father was chosen to be postmaster and my oldest brother drove the mail route from Teasdale. He used a horse and cart. This route ran through four towns, Therbar, Liman, Loa, and Fremont a distance of some twenty-two miles. He met the driver from Burville at a spring near the foot of Rabbit Valley Mountain where they ate their lunch, fed their horses and exchanged mail sacks after which each made the return trip home. This was done twice each week, Tuesdays and Fridays. He would leave home at six a.m. and if nothing happened to delay him he would return by six p.m. On the evenings when the mail was to be distributed, people from all over town gathered at our house to wait for the mail. While the adults visited, we children busied ourselves by playing games such as Steal Sticks and Run Sheep Run and many other games. Father had a small shop in which he made furniture. I remember once when he bought cloth for a suit of clothes, which he hired one of our neighbor women to make, in payment for this work she received furniture. In case of death in town Father would make the coffin and the sisters would cover and line it. He was active in all civic affairs and he helped complete the schoolhouse, which was also used for meetinghouse. He also served on the school board as trustee for seven years and was often called to serve on a jury and in this capacity was detained in Burville for three weeks on one occasion. He was very patriotic and was always chosen to give an oration on the Fourth of July. Father owned forty acres of land a short distance from town where he raised hay and grain. He also had the mail route to Cainsville, which was a distance of forty-five miles and was ridden once each week by my brother Fred. He took the mail to Cainsville on Wednesday and returned on Thursday. Mother was a practical nurse, and in addition to taking care of her own family during illness, she was often called on to help those of her neighbors who were sick. She carded the wool, spun the yarn and knitted the stockings for her family as well as doing the required sewing for them. She had to make her soap, and also the salt which they used, and did her washing on the washboard, and ironed with stove irons. As well as drying or preserving her vegetables for winter. In the spring of 1891 Father sold the farm, and we moved forty-five miles Kainsville. As our ranch was located five miles from town, we spent most of our evenings at home, so Family Night was common to us. We had several musical instruments in our home, and we all learned to play on them and sing. We also read scriptures and listened to our Grandmother Williams as she told faith-promoting stories of the events, which took place during the trip across the plains. People traveling through the country usually stopped at our home to spend the night, where they received food for their horses and often meals for themselves, which was all free to them, as Father always said that he didn't believe in charging his friends. The neighbors often gathered at our home to spend the evening where we sang danced or played games, or sometime pulled molasses candy during the evening. Besides raising the cane from which the molasses was made, we had a nice orchard in which was a variety of fruit, and we also raised melons and vegetables for our own use. Besides making the molasses, father made the barrels to put it in, and hauled it a hundred miles or more to sell it, and this would take about two weeks from the time that he left home until he would return. Mother was a mid-wife, and she was taken from one end of the country to the other. She made these trips either on horseback or in a lumber wagon. Caring for those who needed her help. On one occasion Mr. Giles had driven thirty miles from Giles to our ranch and back, part of the trip leading over a steep rocky dug-way, and had to be made in the night. The next morning he discovered that there was only one inch of the king bolt holding the wagon together. One time Mother rode seventeen miles on horseback to take care of Grandma Hanks. Sister Hanks died the following morning and Mother sat on some quilts, which had been spread on some hay in the bottom of a wagon boy and held the bodyfrom rolling around during the trip home, after which she helped to prepare the body for burial. My oldest brother, Gustavis died December third, 1893, of Typhoid Fever. Father made his coffin and the funeral was held in our home, due to the fact that the Diphtheria was raging in Kanesville. After my brother was buried, Mother would go into Kanesville and help with the sick, as there was Diphtheria in most of the homes there. She would nurse the sick and help to lay out the dead. The disease was so severe that winter that most families lost from one to four members from it. After staying a few days, Mother would ride a horse home where she would bathe and disinfect her clothing before mingling with the family. Then she would get some much-needed rest and return to town to continue helping those who needed her so much. When someone would die, some of the men would make the coffin, and the sisters in homes where there was no sickness would make the clothes, and then near sun down the corpse would be buried. Due to the precautions, which Mother took in disinfecting herself and her clothes, none of the family took the Diphtheria. My two youngest brothers Sylvester and Hyrum bought a donkey when they were just youngsters. This donkey was a real attraction in the neighborhood, and all the children would gather at our home to ride it. As many as could hang on would get on his back at once, then when they donkey got tired of being ridden, he would kick up his heels, and the children would roll off, and he would be free of them, which he seemed to enjoy doing, and the children enjoyed it too, for none of them ever seemed to get hurt. Grandmother Williams spent the last four years of her life in our home. Although she was unable to walk alone, she was always cheerful, and remained a true Latter Day Saint to the last. She passed away January 12th, 1901, at the age of 89 years, and five months. In the spring of 1907 my parents moved to Victor, which is located in Emry County where they took part in all church and community activities. Father died December 3rd, 1922 and was buried at Victor. After this Mother lived with her children, spent the last few years of her life in my home, she passed away January 4th, 1926 and was buried at Victor beside Father. https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/8098307 NOYES Fred F. (son of John Henry Noyes and Sarah Barrus, former of Connecticut, latter of St. Augustine, Fla.). Born Dec. 25, 1847, Albany, N.Y. Came to Utah Sept. 25, 1865, Caldwell overland transportation company. Married Meria Williams Jan. 22, 1869, Salt Lake City (daughter of Gustavious Williams and Meria Andrews, pioneers Sept. 24,. 1848, Heber C. Kimball company). She was born June 29, 1849, Salt Luke City. Their children: Gustavious b. June 11, 1870; Diantha b. May 25, 1872, m. John W. Forsyth Sept. 10, 1892; Fred W. b. Sept. 22, 1875, m. Nettie Behanen March 15, 1897; John H. b. March 27, 1877, m. Edith McDougal March 7, 1903; Add b. March 16, 1879, m. Frank Ostburg Dec. 12, 1899; Howard S. b. Jan. 15, 1882, m. May Woolsey Nov. 7, 1905; Emma b. Dec. 28, 1884, m. William H. Heaps June 12, 1907; Frank b. Oct. 11, 1886; Sarah b. Jan. 10, 1888, m. David Rolleyt Sept. 2, 1908; Sylvester b. Dec. 23, 1890; Hyrum b. May 6, 1892. Farmer; carpenter.
  Person ID	I4195	Noyes Family Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2015

  
  

  Father	NOYES John Henry,   b. 1814, Hudson, Columbia, New York, United States d. 24 Jul 1865, Petersburg, Virginia, United States (Age 51 years)
  Mother	BURROWS Sarah,   b. 1822, Saint Augustine, Saint Johns, Florida, United States d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F1637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	WILLIAMS Hannah Maria,   b. 29 Jun 1849, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 4 Jan 1926, Wellington, Cabon, Utah, United States (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	19 Jan 1869	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States   [2]
  Children	1. NOYES Gustavus,   b. 11 Jun 1870, Saint Thomas, Lincoln, Nevada, United States d. 3 Dec 1893, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States (Age 23 years)   2. NOYES Diantha Maria,   b. 25 May 1872, Glendale, Kane, Utah, United States d. 23 Apr 1926, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 53 years)   3. NOYES Frederick William,   b. 22 Sep 1874, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States d. 18 Oct 1955, Torry, Wayne, Utah, United States (Age 81 years)   4. NOYES John Henry,   b. 27 Mar 1876, Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States d. 23 May 1953, Delco, Cassia, Idaho, United States (Age 77 years)   5. NOYES Ada Louisa,   b. 16 Mar 1879, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States d. 26 Jan 1961, Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States (Age 81 years)   6. NOYES Howard Spencer,   b. 15 Jan 1882, Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States d. 1 May 1959, Price, Carbon, Utah, United States (Age 77 years)   7. NOYES Emma Josephine,   b. 28 Dec 1883, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States d. Jan 1964, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 80 years)   8. NOYES William Franklin,   b. 11 Oct 1886, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States d. 16 Dec 1968 (Age 82 years)   9. NOYES Sarah "Sadie",   b. 10 Jan 1888, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States d. Yes, date unknown   10. NOYES Sylvester,   b. 23 Dec 1890, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States d. 19 May 1957 (Age 66 years)   11. NOYES Hyrum Albert,   b. 6 May 1892, Cainville, Wayne, Utah, United States d. 31 Jul 1958, Hanksville, Wayne, Utah, United States (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F1638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2024

  
  

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  		Fredrick Frank Noyes
  		Fredrick Frank Noyes ca. 1900
  		Fredrick Frank Noyes family Fredrick Frank Noyes

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] CD-Family Archives #17. [S405] Book-Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Genealogies and biographies; F, Privates. [S405] Book-Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Fourteenth Ten Privates. [S5143] Correspondence-Email-DUBE Mark, Re: Mark; 11 December 2010; Paul M. Noyes. [S621] Correspondence-Internet-Toinette (Noyes) Thomas, 26 Mar 1999 4:41 pm.