Tibbetts, Tibbets and Tebbets

This morning was informative and historically intriguing. I started to conduct research on my site today. I chose the cemetery near one of the homestead cellar holes. Steph is developing the cellar hole site. I am really fascinated with the families that are buried here. Why is the oldest person only 21? There are many children and there are at least three family names. Are there three family homesteads at The BH or did they all live in the one house? I have so many questions.

This afternoon I started to read through the research from one of the previous EE groups, and their wonderfully thorough work provided answers to most of my questions. Apparantly Tibbetts, Tibbets and Tebbets are the same family, and some of the descendents married into the Hanson and Choate families. This explains why all three names appear in the cemetery.

Here are some pictures I took of the gravestones. They are incredibly beautiful, and many are carved with nature images and poetic epitaphs.


Joseph Hanson's gravestone once read (compliments of The Cemetery Group):

He'll no more weep with those who weep
Nor with the afflicted pray
For where his ransomed spirit dwells
All tears are wiped away.
He'll no more say that he is sick
Nor be perplexed with care
No gloomy shades annoy him now
No dreary night is there.




The stone of Anna Tebbets once read:


Darling mother, precious wife!
Thou hast found a higher life.
Angels know thy priceless worth,
And they wafted thee from the earth.







What can we learn about their history just from the epitaphs?