Class of 1877 H.S.


Alphabetical Alumni
Daniels, Caroline Ameilia [Caddie]

Daniels, Caroline Ameilia [Caddie]
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Caddie and Frank Mills

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Caroline Ameilia "Caddie" Daniels. BYA High School, Class of 1877. One of three Class of 1877 graduates: Amelia Kristina "Teenie" Smoot, Samuel Moore, and Caroline "Caddie" Daniels. Source: 1920 BYU Banyan, school history written by Alice Louise Reynolds. ~ ~ ~ ~ One of the First BYA Faculty & Staff. The first Normal graduate of Brigham Young Academy, she joined the BYA faculty upon her graduation in 1877. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. Caddie Daniels, Training School, 1876-1884. She is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Caroline Ameilia (Caddie) Daniels was born on December 9, 1860, in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Aaron Daniels and Hannah Caroline Rogers. [First marriage for her mother. Second marriage: James Davis (Caroline Rogers Davis). Third Marriage: Abraham O. Smoot (Caroline Rogers Smoot). ] Caddie Daniels entered Brigham Young Academy in 1876, and graduated as a Normal high school student in 1877, at about 17 years of age. She became a faculty member at BYA upon graduation in 1877, and taught there through 1884. She married Charles Frank Mills (Frank) on March 22, 1883. She was 22 years old when she married. Frank Mills was born on December 14, 1861 in Kaysville, Utah. He died on July 21, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Caroline "Caddie" Daniels Mills died on August 24, 1934, in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 73. Interment, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Moore, Samuel D. Sr.

Moore, Samuel D. Sr.
Provo, Utah US

Sam Moore

BY Academy High School, Class of 1877. Samuel Drollinger Moore. Faculty & Staff, Normal Department, 1879-1880. One of three Class of 1877 graduates: Tennie Smoot, Sam Moore, and Caddie Daniels Mills. Source: 1920 BYU Banyan, school history written by Alice Louise Reynolds. ~ ~ ~ ~ Burial Information: Samuel D. Moore was born on May 2, 1855 in Payson, Utah. His parents: John Harvey Moore and Clarissa Jane Drollinger. He married Clara Ann Huish on October 10, 1881, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on November 5, 1945, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Interment, Payson City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ About 150 "oldtimers" gathered for the first Alumni Emeritus Banquet during commencement week of 1941. Diantha Billings Worsley, Emma Stubbs Taylor, Alice Smoot Newell, Mary E. Cluff Little , Charles Albert Glazier, and Samuel D. Moore, members of Brigham Young Academy's first classes in 1876-77, attended the banquet.

Smoot, Anna Kristina [Teenie]

Smoot, Anna Kristina [Teenie]
Provo, Utah US

Teenie and George Taylor

BY Academy High School, Class of 1877. Anna Kristina "Teenie" Smoot (sometimes her nickname is incorrectly spelled "Tennie"). One of the First BYA Faculty & Staff, Training School, 1876-1877. One of three Class of 1877 graduates: Anna Kristina "Teenie" Smoot, Sam Moore, and Caroline "Caddie" Daniels (Mills). She actually joined the faculty before her graduation, and Caddie Daniels joined just after her 1877 graduation. Source: 1920 BYU Banyan, school history written by Alice Louise Reynolds. The nickname "Teenie" came from the last two syllables in Kristina. ~ ~ ~ ~ Anna Christine Smoot was born on June 7, 1858 in Salem, Utah County, Utah. Her parents were Abraham Owen Smoot II and Anne Kirstine Mauritzen. She married George Shephard Taylor on February 9, 1882 in Salt Lake City, Utah. "Teenie" Smoot Taylor died on March 2, 1904 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Provo, Utah.

Webster, Francis, Jr.

Webster, Francis, Jr.
Cedar City, Utah US

Frank Webster

Class of 1877? Francis Webster Jr. ~ ~ ~ ~ Parson U. Webster wrote this outline of the life of Francis Webster Jr.: Francis Webster Jr. was born April 7, 1858 in Cedar City. He was the first son and the second child born to Francis and Elizabeth Parsons Webster. He was reared in a large family. His father’s diary records that at the age of five, “November 18.63 a heavy load of Wood ran over my son Francis Body without injuring him.” Little more is known of young Frank’s childhood. He grew as a normal healthy boy learning at an early age how to work. He experienced many privations common to dwellers on the frontiers. At the same time there was being woven into the warp and woof of his character the influences and qualities of his surroundings strength and sturdiness. His father was a farmer and raiser of livestock, and being the first son, many responsibilities were put upon his young shoulders. He attended the schools of Cedar, and was also given much help on the side by his mother who was an exceptionally well trained woman for those days. While a young man he attended the Brigham Young Academy. Returning home he was called to serve a mission in Great Britain. Later he was called to fill a second mission in the Southern States. While he was on his second mission, his mother died. Upon his return home, I was sent to Lund with a Team and a white topped buggy to bring him home. When we got near his home he commenced crying, because of the loss of his mother. Later when John U. Webster, Uncle Frank and I were fencing on the mountain at Miners Peak, he said one day while were working and talking “No better woman ever lived than my mother”.... Francis Webster Jr. had a very strong testimony of the Restored Gospel and was very sincere and honest in the payment of his Tithes and offerings. He was very active in building up the Kingdom of God upon the earth. Prior to his death he deeded the better part of his land holdings to the Church and said to the members of his family that he was going to deed all he had to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He always rode his horse to town to Sacrament Meeting from down on the meadow north of Cedar City, about 8 miles, and was sincere about bearing his testimony and doing all he could for the church. Besides these experiences he was a farmer and livestock man of high standing. He had a fine herd of cattle, and some of the best horses in this part of the country, and cared well for them. He was sent to pick stallions to bring into this part of the country, for breeding purposes. At one time he was interested in the sheep with his brothers and he drove the first wagon and started the road west, from the Webster’s flowing well at the Butte on the west desert to the upper Nole, one of the three Webster Noles across the desert, and thence on to Wooley Springs. These two places were then the headquarters of the Webster sheep business. No one could drive a straighter line or pick a better road than he did, for the distance of about 25 miles. Francis Webster Jr. attempted to establish dry farming in the Cedar Valley west of town, at one time. Francis Webster Jr. was industrious, was honest, was a man of few words but good deeds. He was kind, prayerful, and had a high moral standard of living. He was a faithful ward teacher. He was active in helping to establish the San Juan Mission, had the experiences of the Hole-in-the-Rock crossing of the Colorado River. Francis Webster Jr. always said, “It’s never too late to make a wrong right.” Francis died July 20, 1928 and was buried in the Cedar City cemetery by the side of his father and mother. John U. Webster told why Francis Webster, Jr. never married. My experiences with uncles, aunts, cousins etc. were those of seeing them at school, church, parties and community gatherings in the common ways of association talking, playing, singing, etc., also working together farming and handling livestock. As a small boy I often wondered why Uncle Frank Webster never married, so I asked father [John James Godson Webster] one day and he told me the story of a courtship of uncle Frank and a very lovely young lady, a Miss Nielson of a good Latter Day Saint family. Her father and family were chosen to go to San Juan to settle and help build up a community. Uncle Frank didn’t want to leave Cedar City and go to San Juan. Bro. Nielson made the statement that, a young man who would not accept an invitation to go with his family to San Juan was not worthy of his daughter. Uncle Frank became so offended, that he never wanted to see any of the Nielson family again, not even his sweetheart. She made a visit back to Cedar to try to make up with Uncle Frank. Uncle Frank was hauling freight from Milford Utah to Pioche a mining town in Nevada. Father made a trip to Uncle Frank to take his place, so Uncle Frank could come back and make up with his sweetheart but Uncle Frank refused to come. This story made a terrific effect on me and right then and there I decided that I would never let anything like that ever stop me from choosing a mate and having a family. ~ ~ Parson U. Webster