Sagwitch Timbimboo
Other Names
Born
Died
Birthplace
Death Place
National/Ethnic Identity
Northwestern Shoshone (Tribal Nation)
Native American (Ethnicity)
Born in Bear River City, Utah, United States
Date Details
Occurred Between 1811 – 1822
Notes
In 1912, Sagwitch Timbimboo's oldest son, Soquitch, performed proxy sealing ordinances for his father in the Logan Temple. At that time, Soquitch reported that his father was born around 1811. Mae Timbimboo Parry, Sagwitch's great-granddaughter and Northwestern Shoshone tribal historian, later dated Sagwitch's birth to 1822.
Relationships
Father
Peneneatsey
Mother
Woo-ve-Tadse-gih
Married in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Mo-yo-gah Timbimboo
Date Details
Started Circa 1863
Joined Northwestern Shoshone Mission
Start Date Details
Notes
Sagwitch went to Bannock Creek on the Fort Hall Reservation after the 1875 expulsion from the Bear River City farm near Corinne, Utah. He was evidently still at Bannock Creek in 1878 for a reservation census. However, he was possibly back in northern Utah by 1879, when his son Yeager donated labor to the construction of the Logan Temple. (See biographies of Sagwitch Timbimboo and Yeager Timbimboo at churchhistorianspress.org.)
End Date Details
Ended Circa 1880
Additional Information
Baptism
Confirmation
Performed By
George Washington Hill
Ordination to the Office of Elder
Performed By
Dimick B. Huntington
Initiatory and Endowment
Sealing To Spouse in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Mo-yo-gah Timbimboo
Joined Washakie Ward
Start Date Details
Notes
Although Sagwitch lived at Bannock Creek in the late 1870s, he may have moved to Washakie by the time of its establishment in 1880. His son Yeager was in northern Utah by 1879 when he donated his labor to the construction of the Logan Temple. He is first documented in historical sources as living at Washakie when he applied for a homestead in 1883. (see biographies of Sagwitch Timbimboo and Yeager Timbimboo at churchhistorianspress.org).
End Date Details
Ended Circa 1887
Died in Washakie, Utah, United States
Date Details
Occurred Between 1885 – 1887
Notes
Sagwitch's headstone dated his death to March 20, 1884, but it was installed by the Sons of the Utah Pioneers in 1963 and is inconsistent with historical sources. Sagwitch attended the Logan Temple in March 1885, indicating he lived at least a year beyond the headstone's date. Sagwitch's eldest son, Soquitch, reported to the Logan Temple clerk in 1912 that his father died in 1886. However, Sagwitch's grandson Moroni Timbimboo recounted that his grandfather died after spending the winter camping in Davis Canyon above Washakie, helping Bishop Isaac E.D. Zundel avoid arrest on cohabitation charges during the federal government's efforts to prosecute polygamists. Historical evidence indicates that Zundel went into hiding on November 1886 (Letter to John Taylor, 8 November 1885, CR 1 180, Church History Library). Moroni reported that Sagwitch “got sick towards the spring”--presumably of 1887--and died while being transported to the Washakie townsite on a stretcher. He was buried where he succumbed, becoming the first grave in what became the Washakie cemetery (see also Christensen, Sagwitch, 185-186).
Notes
Sagwitch's headstone dated his death to March 20, 1884, but it was installed by the Sons of the Utah Pioneers in 1963 and is inconsistent with historical sources. Sagwitch attended the Logan Temple in March 1885, indicating he lived at least a year beyond the headstone's date. Sagwitch's eldest son, Soquitch, reported to the Logan Temple clerk in 1912 that his father died in 1886. However, Sagwitch's grandson Moroni Timbimboo recounted that his grandfather died after spending the winter camping in Davis Canyon above Washakie, helping Bishop Isaac E.D. Zundel avoid arrest on cohabitation charges during the federal government's efforts to prosecute polygamists. Historical evidence indicates that Zundel went into hiding on November 1886 (Letter to John Taylor, 8 November 1885, CR 1 180, Church History Library). Moroni reported that Sagwitch “got sick towards the spring”--presumably of 1887--and died while being transported to the Washakie townsite on a stretcher. He was buried where he succumbed, becoming the first grave in what became the Washakie cemetery (see also Christensen, Sagwitch, 185-186).