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War 0f 1812 Veteran Was Nephi Settler

Click to see original imageBy RENEE C. NELSON Herald Today Editor During th War of llllil the British burned the U.S. Capitol and gllihite House. which was the home of the fourth President of the United states. James Madison. It was also during this war A with the bombardment of Fort McHenry e that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the words to “The Starspangled Banner.” Timothy Bradley Foote. born Dec. 29, 1799, now buried in Nephi. was part oi this historical event. . At the age of 14, hand-in-hand with his father Stephen Foote. he joined up to light the British. A private in the New York Colony Militia Regiment, he served as a drummer boy. while his father was a trumpeter. Records show that he was paid $24.51 from the period of Jan. 20 to April 30, 1813, while sewing at Sackettis Harbor. N. Y, Later. in IB33. prior to the Nauvoo period, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A true Irontiersman, he came West in 1848 and went on to Nephi in 1851. Timothy’s Iirst wife Jane Ann Russell, died in Illinois in 1843, and he married Nancy Jane Riley in IBA7. Enroute to Utah in 18-ill, they had a son. Cyrus Riley Foote. who was the grandfather oi Ernestine Vest. Nephi; Vanda Foote Fairchild, Provo; Lavelle Frazier, Springville and Lucille Ingram. Lehi. (Their cousin is Elmo Miller. Provo, and a second cousin is Richard Foote. 0rem.l Timothy Bradley Foote – honored today – was their great-grandfather. and the first settler and postmaster in Nephi, Easily the wealthiest man In Nephi, he built and kept the first hotel. and was also one of the first to manufacture salt from salt water. Always a patriot. Foote served as major of the Juab Military District and led preparations Ior the possible confrontation with Johnston’s Army when it came to Utah. Besides being instrumental in building the first LDS Stake Tabernacle in Nephi, he also built the first home. A monument in the nortlu-ast section of the Juab County Fairgrounds marks the site of this first Nephi structure. His stubborn streak surfaced in a complaint he made during the Indian troubles of 1853. His adobe house was outside the mud walls of the Nephi fort. He was wl it wasn’l safe from the Indians. and must be “thrown dovni” , and rebuilt inside the fmt. He wrote to the genualz “‘Ihe Brethren generally are of opinion that the house can stand with safety. Now sir, i you should think it but to throw it down, it shall be – ””1”’;. ‘; ‘ ; ‘ .4.. v-we W n -4-…-9- . – M ‘ ations e. – A strong lead;. settler and family rnan – father to ll children. seven by his first wife and seven by his second he died ii-118% at the age of 87.