William Oliver Tuttle

• Name source ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8}
• Sex: M
• Born: AUG 1861 in Wisconsin ^{9 10 11 12 13 14 15}
• Born: 6 AUG 1860 ¹⁶
• Died: 7 JUN 1933 in Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona ^{17 18 19}
• Buried: 8 JUN 1933: Fort Thomas Cemetery, Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona ^{17 22}
• Cause of Death: Pneumonia
• Census 1870: 8 AUG 1870: Pepin, Pepin, Wisconsin; age 9 ¹
• Census 1880: BET. 1 - 2 JUN 1880: In and about Maxley, Pima, Arizona; age 19 ²⁰
• Census 1900: JUN 1900: San Carlos Indian Reservation, Navajo, Arizona ²⁸
• Census 1910: 26 MAY 1910: San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila County, Arizona; age 48 ²⁷
• Census 1920: 6 JAN 1920: Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona; age 58 ²⁶
• Census 1930: 22 APR 1930: Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona; age 68 ²³
• Occupation 1: 1880: Laborer ²⁰
• Occupation 2: 1900: Indian Agency farmer ²¹
• Occupation 3: BET. 1910 - 1930: General merchant ^{29 30 31}
• Residence 1: 1870: Living with Paphirus N. Tuttle ¹
• Residence 2: ABT. 1920: Globe, Gila, Arizona ²⁴
• Residence 3: BET. 1883 - 1933: Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona ²⁵
• Notes:

  Name: William Oliver TUTTLE [Source: National Archives pension claim # 243175 for Samuel H. Tuttle]
  Sex: M
  Birth: 1 AUG 1861 in Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin [Source: Marriage License; Page: #2042, Marriage book #4, page 51, Hidalgo county, New Mexico; Text: William O. gives his date of birth as 1 Aug. 1861.]
  Death: 7 JUN 1933 in Globe, Gila County, Arizona (or Ft. Thomas, Graham county, Arizona of pneumonia
  Occupation: 1891 merchant, general merchandise
  Occupation: Marshall at San Carlos Indian Reservation
  Occupation: 1900 Rancher
  Occupation: 1910 general store
  Occupation: 8 JUN 1933 burial, Ft. Thomas, Graham county, Arizona
  Burial: 1933
  Religion: Methodist
  Census: 1870 Pepin, Pepin county, Wisconsin
  Census: 1 JUN 1880 Pima County, Territory of Arizona
  Census: 26 MAY 1910 San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona
  Census: 5 JAN 1920 Ft. Thomas, Graham County, Arizona
  Residence: 1910 San Carlso Indian Reservation, Arizona
  Medical Information: short man
  Note:
  7/15/99 from Cynthia Moe, email <cyntut@[...].com> in the home of Paphyrus Tuttle and William Whitmarsh in 1870 census.
  William Oliver moved to Arizona in 1880/1890's.
  7/15/99 from Cynthia Moe, email <cyntut@[...].com> William Oliver Tuttle owned a Mercantile Store in St. Thomas, AZ. which is on the Indian Reservation. Cynthia remembers her grandpa Bill sitting on the sidewalk in Globe (where we lived) with all the old Indian men talking in Apache.
  Source: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram. <http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schwindt&id=I0195>
  
  In pension claim # 243,175; dated January 6, 1885, William Oliver Tuttle living in Camp Thomas, county of Graham, territory of Arizona. Still in same town in June 1891.
  General affidavit filed by Jane Whitmarsh states William Oliver Tuttle was born 6 August 1860. And that Jane was present and assisted Mrs. Frances C. Twells, the midwife, at the birth of William.
  Source: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram. <http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schwindt&id=I0195>
  
  Standard certificate of death filed by Arizona State Board of Health.
  Source: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram. <http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schwindt&id=I0195>
  
  HISTORY OF ARIZONA; BIOGRAPHICAL VOLUME III. Issued in Four Volumes, profusely illustrated.
  Publishers: Record Publishing Co. Phoenix 1930, Page 329.
  
  WILLIAM OLIVER TUTTLE
  For fifty-three years W. O. Tuttle has been a resident of Arizona and During the greater part of that period has been actively identified with Indian agency affairs. During the past twenty-five years he has conducted a trading post, in which he has met with very satisfactory success. Mr. Tuttle was born in Pepin County, Wisconsin on the 1st day of August 1861. He is a son of Samuel and Emma Agnes (Sibley) Tuttle, the former of whom was killed in battle during the Civil War, in which he served as a member of the Sixteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. W. O. Tuttle was educated in the public schools of his native state, and in 1876, when fifteen years of age, he came to Arizona. he drove a team through and was six months on the way. For many years he was employed here as a message carrier and then, in 1891, he went to work for the government as an Indian agency farmer. Later he was detailed as chief of police on an Indian reservation, in which capacity he served until 1905, when he decided to embark on an independent business career. He established a trading post on the San Carlos Indian reservation. Which he carried on until 1913, when he opened a general merchandise store at Fort Thomas. This proved a successful venture and has been carried on to the present time. In 1924 Mr. Tuttle suffered a severe loss in the destruction of his store by fire. However, he rebuilt and opened for business again in the following year and now commands a large and prosperous business.
  In November 1888, Mr. Tuttle was united in marriage to Miss Jane Tague, of Fort Thomas and they are the parents of twelve children, of whom four are living. Mr. Tuttle married (2d) April 1929, Mary Smithee of Texas. In his political affiliation Mr. Tuttle is a Republican and served as a member of the county central committee in 1912 and from 1916 to the present time. he belongs to Globe Lodge No. 489, B.P.O.E. and is a very popular member of the circles in which he moves, while his business record has gained for him the uniform confidence and respect of those who patronize him.
  
  Information from <cyntut@yahoo.com> 6/2000
  According to the Globe mortuary records, William O. and Jane buried three
  children at San Carlos Cemetery. One child two years old that died on 29
  January 1902, no sex or name listed. On 2 July 1903 and 19 Dec 1906 two
  more children were buried there and again no age, name or sex listed.
  
  William O. Tuttle was short in stature
  Source: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram. <http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schwindt&id=I0195>
  
  Dec. 27, 1921, No Name of paper given
  Deputy Sheriff Wight and Kinsey and Policeman Tuttle broke up a "tulapia" party in the arroya south of town and dashed the hopes of a group of Apache bucks and their squaws who had counted on an old time celebration.
  
  NO name or date of paper given
  Deputy Sheriff William E. Tuttle returned late yesterday afternoon with a Mexican woodchopper whose feet are frozen so badly that he may lose both of them. Tuttle brought the man in from the mountains near Chrysotile where there was 20 inches of snow on the ground. Tuttle recited a story of deep snow, intense cold, slippery roads and a night spent in a closed car before a tractor finally plowed its way to the rescue.
  
  Deadwatch---Ft. Thomas, text by John B. Prescott
  Deadwatch. After 74 years, the dead alone remain, still keeping post on the high ground above the Gila Valley floor; looking north toward the breaks and canyons of the Gila mountains, whence at times the Apaches came with lance and arrow and fire.
  Founded in August of 1876, Thomas was designed to give protection to the swelling tide of travel over the great Gila River highway. The initial garrison comprised units of the 8th Infantry and 6th Cavalry, to be followed by various elements of the 12th Cavalry, 3rd Cavalry, 24th Infantry, 1st Infantry and others.
  For 16 years the post maintained its vigil on the mesa, while below passed the westering emigrants; prospectors, land seekers, forturne hunters, bad men and good. It lent a military presence to the silver strikes at Superior and Glove. It weathered the Coyotero outbreak of 1881. Its troops were active in the long and bloody siege of nerves now sometimes called the Gernonimo "disturbance."
  Many a scout and reconnaissance passed through its gates by night, some to return, others not.
  By December of 1892 the frontier was gone and in common with many other forts, outposts and camps, Thomas was abandoned. Soon it frames and timbers disappeared, perhaps to serve the early generation of farmers and ranchers in the valley; its adobe walls began to sink back into the earth from which they had risen.
  Today, back a quarter mile from the modern highway, only the graveyard is left, the headstones and monuments deep in greasewood. Among those still legible, there appears to have been a high incidence of young women and children; and it is known that typhoid fever and malaria were more lethal than hostile Indian action.
  One couple, Jane and William Tuttle, trudged five times up the ridge in 13 years; each time burdened with a child; each child an installment on the price of settlement.
  (This article is in reference to Ft. Thomas, Arizona.)
  Source: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram <http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schwindt&id=I0195>
  

• Married: 7 NOV 1887: Arizona ^{32 33 34}
• Divorced: BET. 1909 - 1926 ^{35 36}
• Divorced:
• Notes:

  Name: William O. Tuttle
  Gender: Male
  Spouse: Mrs. Jane Stitt
  Spouse Gender: Female
  Marriage Date: Nov 7, 1887
  Source: Arizona Marriage Collection, 1864-1982 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7847>
  
  Recorded Vol. 1, page93, Graham County Clerk Court, Arizona
  Source: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram.

1. Lovina Tuttle, b. ABT. 1882 in New Mexico
2. Emma Agnes Tuttle, [I], b. 17 AUG 1888 in Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona
3. William Edward Tuttle, b. 4 FEB 1891 in Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona
4. Frank Jay Tuttle, b. 4 DEC 1892 in Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona
5. James Thomas Tuttle, b. APR 1895 in Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona
6. Minnie Bell Tuttle, b. 1897 in Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona
7. Grace Tuttle, b. 24 MAR 1900 in Rice, Gila, Arizona
8. America Jane Tuttle, b. 13 JUN 1902
9. Emma Agnes Tuttle, [II], b. 20 JUN 1904 in Rice, Gila, Arizona
10. Mildred Genevieve Tuttle, b. 4 FEB 1909 in Rice, Gila, Arizona

• Married: APR 1926: Graham County, Arizona ^{37 38}

1. Title: Census - 1870 US Federal; WI; Pepin Pepin
   Media: Census
   Page/Cite: p. 14; entry 111 112
2. Title: Census - 1930 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
   Media: Census
   Page/Cite: School Dist. 7; ED 10, Sheet 2A; entry 36 35
   Text: "Tuttle, William O."
3. Title: Fort Thomas Cemetery, Complete Survey
   Author: Hinton-Fox, Sharon
   Publication: July 3, 2005
   Comment/Location: See also http://azhintons.com/contact.htm
   Comment/Location: http://files.usgwarchives.org/az/graham/cemeteries/ftthomas2gcm.txt
   Media: Electronic
   Text: "Tuttle, William O."
4. Title: Graham County, Arizona Marriages
   Comment/Location: http://files.usgwarchives.net/az/graham/vitals/marriages/grooms.txt
   Media: Electronic
   Text: "TUTTLE William Oliver"
5. Title: Death Certificate for William O. Tuttle
   Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
   Media: Electronic
   Text: "William Oliver Tuttle, Jr."
6. Title: Census - 1920 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
   Media: Census
   Page/Cite: ED 61, Sheet 2B; entry x 29 31
   Text: "Tuttle, William O."
7. Title: Census - 1910 US Federal; AZ; Gila San Carlos Indian Reservation
   Media: Census
   Page/Cite: ED 38, Sheet 4A; entry 63 63
   Text: "Tuttle, William O."
8. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; AZ; Navajo San Carlos Indian Reservation
   Media: Census
   Page/Cite: ED 83, Page 335; entry [868] 24
   Text: "Tuttle, William O."
9. Title: Census - 1870 US Federal; WI; Pepin Pepin
   Media: Census
   Page/Cite: p. 14; entry 111 112
   Text: "Age 9, Wisconsin"
10. Title: Census - 1880 US Federal; AZ; Pima Maxey
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED #8, Sheet #288B, p. 2; entry 16 16
    Text: 'Age 19, Wisconsin"
11. Title: Fort Thomas Cemetery, Complete Survey
    Author: Hinton-Fox, Sharon
    Publication: July 3, 2005
    Comment/Location: See also http://azhintons.com/contact.htm
    Comment/Location: http://files.usgwarchives.org/az/graham/cemeteries/ftthomas2gcm.txt
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "1861"
12. Title: Death Certificate for William O. Tuttle
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "Age: about 72, Birthplace: Wisconsin"
13. Title: Census - 1920 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 61, Sheet 2B; entry x 29 31
    Text: "Age 58, Wisconsin"
14. Title: Census - 1910 US Federal; AZ; Gila San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 38, Sheet 4A; entry 63 63
    Text: "Age 48, Wisconsin"
15. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; AZ; Navajo San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 83, Page 335; entry [868] 24
    Text: "Aug. 1861, age 38, Wisconsin"
16. Title: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram
    Publication: Last updated: 6/24/2007
    Comment/Location: http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schwindt&id=I0195
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "6 Aug 1860"
17. Title: Fort Thomas Cemetery, Complete Survey
    Author: Hinton-Fox, Sharon
    Publication: July 3, 2005
    Comment/Location: See also http://azhintons.com/contact.htm
    Comment/Location: http://files.usgwarchives.org/az/graham/cemeteries/ftthomas2gcm.txt
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "1933"
18. Title: Death Certificate for William O. Tuttle
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "Arizona, Graham, Fort Thomas ... June 7, 1933"
19. Title: Death Certificate for William O. Tuttle
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "Pneumonia"
20. Title: Census - 1880 US Federal; AZ; Pima Maxey
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED #8, Sheet #288B, p. 2; entry 16 16
21. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; AZ; Navajo San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 83, Page 335; entry [868] 24
    Text: "Indian Agency 'Farmer'"
22. Title: Death Certificate for William O. Tuttle
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "Ft. Thomas, 6/8/33"
23. Title: Census - 1930 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: School Dist. 7; ED 10, Sheet 2A; entry 36 35
24. Title: Letter from Cynthia Moe, December 9, 2002
    Media: Letter
25. Title: Death Certificate for William O. Tuttle
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "Length of residence in city where death occured: 50 years"
26. Title: Census - 1920 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 61, Sheet 2B; entry x 29 31
27. Title: Census - 1910 US Federal; AZ; Gila San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 38, Sheet 4A; entry 63 63
28. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; AZ; Navajo San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 83, Page 335; entry [868] 24
29. Title: Census - 1930 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: School Dist. #7; ED #10, Sheet #2A; entry 36 25
    Text: "General merchant"
30. Title: Census - 1920 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 61, Sheet 2B; entry x 29 31
    Text: "Merchant, General Merch."
31. Title: Census - 1910 US Federal; AZ; Gila San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 38, Sheet 4A; entry 63 63
    Text: "Merchant, Gen. Store"
32. Title: Arizona Marriage Collection, 1864-1982
    Author: Upper Snake River Family History Center, Ricks College (Rexburg, Idaho), and Ancestry.com
    Publication: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.
    Comment/Location: Original data:
    * Upper Snake River Family History Center and Ricks College (Rexburg, Idaho). The records were extracted between 1982 and 1996. Specific source information is provided for each entry.
    * Index to marriage records for Maricopa County, 1969-1978. Microfiche. Superior Court, Phoenix, Arizona.
    Comment/Location: http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7847
    Media: Book
    Text: "Nov 7, 1887"
33. Title: Census - 1910 US Federal; AZ; Gila San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page: ED 38, Sheet 4A; entry 63 63
    Text: "23 [years ago]" [sic]
34. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; AZ; Navajo San Carlos Indian Reservation
    Media: Census
    Page: ED 83, Page 335; entry [868] 24
    Text: "13 [years ago]" [sic]
35. Title: Known Descendants of Mathaus Marti and Verena Bram
    Publication: Last updated: 6/24/2007
    Comment/Location: http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schwindt&id=I0195
    Media: Electronic
    Text: [last child born 1909; William married Mary Horlacher 1926]
36. Title: Census - 1930 US Federal; CA; Imperial Brawley
    Media: Census
    Page: ED 1, Sheet 3B; entry 68[5] 49 64
    Text: "D[ivorced]"
37. Title: Census - 1930 US Federal; AZ; Graham Fort Thomas
    Media: Census
    Page: School Dist. 7; ED 10, Sheet 2A; entry 36 35
    Text: [youngest stepchild is 19]
38. Title: Graham County, Arizona Marriages
    Comment/Location: http://files.usgwarchives.net/az/graham/vitals/marriages/grooms.txt
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "April 1926"