Person:Jacob Tueller (3)

Quality: 4 Jacob Tueller, Senior<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Sep 18 1831 - Boltigen, Bern, Switzerland<br>Marriage: Spouse: Margaretha Tueller (born Kunz) - Dec 14 1854 - Switzerland<br>Death: Nov 1 1904 - Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States<br>Burial: Nov 5 1904 - Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho<br>Wife: <a>Margaretha Tueller (born Kunz)</a><br>Children: <a>Annie Davis</a>, <a>Jacob Tueller, Jr</a>, <a>Johannes Tueller</a>, <a>Johannes Tueller</a>, <a>Christian Tueller</a>, <a>Gottlieb Tueller</a>, <a>Rudolph Tueller</a>, <a>Annie Davis</a>, <a>Edward Tueller</a>, <a>David Tueller</a>, <a>Annie Davis (born Tueller)</a>, <a>Joseph Benjamin Tueller</a> EVEN: Record
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Quality: 4 Jacob Tueller&lt;br&gt;Gender: Male&lt;br&gt;Birth: Sep 7 1831 - Boltigen, Bern, Switzerland&lt;br&gt;Christening: Sep 18 1831 - Boltigen, Bern, Switzerland&lt;br&gt;Marriage: Spouse: Margaretha Kunz - Dec 14 1854 - Saanen, Bern, Switzerland&lt;br&gt;Immigration: 1884&lt;br&gt;Residence: 1900 - ED 15 Paris, Dingle Precincts Paris city, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States&lt;br&gt;Death: 1904 - Idaho, United States&lt;br&gt;Death: Nov 2 1904 - Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States&lt;br&gt;Burial: Nov 4 1904 - Paris Cemetery, Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States&lt;br&gt;Occupation: JACOB WAS A DAIRYMAN & MASON - Idaho, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika&lt;br&gt;There seems to be an issue with this person's relatives. View this person on FamilySearch to see this information.&lt;br&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additional information: <br> <br>LifeSketch: Tueller HistoryI will begin the history of the Tueller family with a sketch of the life of Jacob Tueller Sr., born on September 15, 1831 in Boltigin, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Very little information concerning the family prior to his time is available at present. He was the sixth child of Jacob Tueller and Anna Krahling Tueller. There were eight children in the family, five boys and three girls.Jacob (whom we will call Jacob, Sr. in this sketch) and John K. came to America and settled in Utah and Idaho where most of the members of their families now reside. Anna also came to America but remained in the eastern states. The last known address was Anna Buhler, Elmgrove, Wauschkia County, Wisconsin. She moved to America about 1875. Magdelina also came to Ohio.The parents and forefathers of this family for several generations back had engaged in agriculture and dairying. They were land-owner and considered well-to-do. After the death of their parents Jacob and John K. bought the share of the other members of the family and became the owners of their father’s estate.Boltigen was a small village with a population of about 500, situated about 30 miles southwest of the city Bern. Dairying was the principal occupation. Here the Tueller brothers mad e a comfortable living. Jacob had married Marguritha Kunz on December 14, 1854. She was the daughter of Samuel Kunz and Magdalina Klosser of Dimtigen, Bern, Switzerland. John K. was unmarried and the two brothers worked together. About the year 1861 they were prevailed upon by some relatives to sell their possessions and invest their money in a cotton factory, where they should be able to double their money in a short time. They went into business without any previous experience, and needless to say they lost everything they owned.I mention this incident because of its importance in determining the future of the family. They had always been their own masters and enjoyed financial security, now they were reduced to the necessity of seeking work and being dictated to by others. It was indeed a trial to them and one that humbled them and made them ready for events to follow.They were unprepared to do anything but common labor and their wages were so meager that it was hard for the family to subsist on what they earned. So Jacob Sr. and John K. and Jacob Jr. (who was only a young lad) applied for work as stone masons, although they knew nothing about the trade. They were accepted and for three years worked on the Thuner Hotel on the Thun Lake. Here they learned the mason trade.While working her Jacob Sr., walked about 18 miles on Saturday nights after work to spend Sunday at home with his family. On one of these occasions he was walking through the night to reach his destination in time for work on Monday morning. Being tired, he sat down to rest and fell fast asleep. Suddenly he awoke and started off on a brisk walk hardly knowing the direction he took. After walking a short distance he discovered he was walking back towards his home. He turned right about face and soon met up with an old acquaintance by the name of Hershi, and they walked on together. During their conversation Herschi, told Jacob that several families of their acquaintance were shortly leaving for America.“But why are they leaving? They all have comfortable homes and plenty to live on?” Jacob asked.“They have joined a new religion that requires them to move to America.”They Herschi explained as best he could about this new religion and said they could obtain more information by attending meetings held in Bern every week where missionaries explained this strange religion. Jacob was much interested and obtained the address of John U. Stucki, who was then president of the Swiss and German mission.He procured literature concerning the doctrines of the church and was especially impressed with the writings of Parley P. Pratt in “The Voice of Warning.” He read carefully the literature and made comparisons with the Bible; finding them in harmony. He also learned facts that were in Keeping with the longings of his soul and was soon convinced that this was the true church. His brother, John K., joined him in his investigations and was also convinced. They applied to Brother Stucki for baptism and he tried to persuade them to wait awhile until they should have time to learn more about the gospel; but they replied “We know it is the true church and we are ready to obey its teachings, then why should we wait?” So Brother Stucki baptized Jacob Sr. and his brother John K. and also Jacob’s son John (who was only fifteen years of age). He had heard his father’s and his uncle’s discussions and also believed. They were baptized on the 30th of May 1875 in the river Aar, Bern, Switzerland.This over, Jacob went home to tell his wife that now he knew why they had lost everything. It was because they belonged to the wrong religion and this had happened to prepare them to receive the true gospel. His wife was not converted to this and felt this insane idea was just another blow toward their downfall. She was greatly worried and decided to ask the advice of her minister. Of course she received little consolation and for sometime Jacob was quite worried as to the outcome. This was the first time she had ever opposed anything her husband said and he didn’t know what to do about it. Several of her children say that they can never remember another occasion when she opposed her husband, but they remember that she was certainly wrought up about his and many an argument occurred before it was settled.About 1875 the family moved into the city of Bern where they could more readily obtain work and where they could come in closer contact with activities of the church. As they learned more about the church Mrs. Tueller became convinced of the truth and was baptized.As soon as the family had joined the church they desired to gather with the saints in Zion and so the problem of emigration presented itself.In the spring of 1877 a company of saints from Switzerland and Germany were leaving for America and it was decided that Christian Tueller now nearly fifteen years of age should go with them. He was small for his age and travelled on half fare. That is why he was the first to come. Brother Daniel Seegmiller was at that time doing missionary work in Switzerland and arranged for Christian Tueller to be sent to his brother William Seegmiller of Richfield, Severe County, Utah. William Seegmiller was at that time president of the Stake. Christian remained with this family for two years, and then Brother Seegmiller was called on a mission to Canada and his brother Daniel returned from Switzerland and Took Chris to leave with him in St. George, Utah in the fall of 1879. The following year Chris went to Arizona with Brother Daniel Seegmiller to work on the construction of the transcontinental railroad.The Next one of the family to immigrate was John Tueller. His sweetheart Anna Schaffer had immigrated before and earned the money and paid for his immigration. She worked in the home of Nelson Empy in Salt Lake City and John obtained work in Hustler’s flour mill. They were married in the endowment house on the 11th of August 1881. The following year they moved to Providence, Utah where first two children were born.John K. Tueller (brother of Jacob Tueller Sr.) came to America in June 1882 bringing two of Jacob’s sons with him – namely, Rudolph and Edward. Rudolph was thirteen years of age and Edward was ten. They were located among friends of the family.Next Gottlieb and Annie came in May 1883 and finally in June 1884 the parent and two youngest boys (David and Joseph) and Annie Tueller (wife of Jacob Jr.) and their two boys Jacob A. and Fred came. The following September 1884, Jacob Jr. immigrated and joined his wife and children, who were living in Mr. Pleasant, Utah. He obtained work helping to cut stone for the finishing of the Manti temple. Then he joined his parents in Paris, Idaho and helped to build the stake tabernacle.Gottfried Tueller was in military training when the rest of the family left Switzerland and he was left alone to await the termination of hi training and until his family could earn the money to send for him. When he was released from training he found himself alone and no place to go. He took sick and died and was buried in his native land. This was always a great sorrow to his family.The whole family had now been brought from their native land and transplanted in a strange country where they had to learn a new language and new customs. It had been a hard struggle to come here. It had taken the endurance of the whole family. Those who came first worked hard and saved their earnings always making sacrifices that they might send for those who were left behind. And the struggle was by no means over when they landed in Zion.The parents of the family came first to Logan, Utah and when they inquired where they could find work, President Budge told them that stone cutters were wanted to work on the Stake Tabernacle in Paris. So Jacob Sr., came to Paris where his children, now scattered about, all joined him.Christian, who had been attending school in Provo during the winter of 1884, joined his parents in Logan and came with them to Paris. John followed and in February 1885 Jacob Jr., came. He did stone cutting of r the tabernacle while his father and John and Christian laid rock. William Shepherd stenciled the letters on the inscription stone on the front of the building and Jacob Jr. cut the stone and it was placed in the wall by Jacob Sr., and his sons, John and Christian.Shortly after the family came to Paris, Jacob Sr. bought the old Broomhead home on the southwest corner of the block east of the tabernacle block, and began to establish a home there. The sons located as near the parents’ home as possible and they all worked together. They worked at the mason trade when they could get work and also engaged in dairyi EVEN: Record
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