Eveline Brown is the daughter of John Martin Brown I and Almeda Wilson. Eveline was born 6 March 1872 at West Weber, Weber, Utah. She was the fifth child born to John Martin Brown and Almeda Wilson.

John Martin Brown I, born 29 Jun 1824, Flat Creek Swamp, Rowan, North Carolina; died 13 Oct 1888, West Weber, Weber, Utah; buried at Ogden, Weber, Utah.

Almeda Wilson Brown was born 19 Apr 1838, Tinney Grove, Caldwell, Missouri; died 7 Oct 1922, Ogden, Weber, Utah; buried at Ogden, Weber, Utah.

Eveline’s paternal grandfather, Captain James Brown, was Captain of “C” Company of the Mormon Battalion. He was the founder of Ogden, Utah. Her maternal grandfather was Lewis Dunbar Wilson. He was a member of the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, and a bodyguard for Joseph Smith. His name is mentioned in the Doctrine of Covenants—Section 24—Verse 132.

Eveline Brown married her first husband,(1) Joseph Hyrum Jones on February 10, 1890. Joseph and Eveline were divorced on 21 Sep 1896. They had three chilldren [After the marriage of Samuel and Eveline, William (8) and Alvin (2) took the Sibbett name and carried this name to their graves]:

1) James William (Bill) Jones [Sibbett], born 22 Feb 1888, West Weber, Weber, UT; died 5 Sept 1948, Pocatello, Bannock, ID; buried at Riverside-Thomas Cemetery, Bingham, ID; married Virginia Henderson in 1934, Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas. Virginia, was born 23 Jul 1893; died 28 Jan 1994, Longview, Cowlitz, WA.
Virginia was a mail-order bride. Bill and his nephew, Darlo Sibbett, went to Fort Smith to meet Virginia. They stayed for two weeks. During this time, Bill and Virginia were married. They returned to Idaho with Virginia’s two children Jackie and Willie. Bill never had any children of his own.

2) Joseph W. Jones, born 11 Feb 1893, West Weber, Weber, UT; died 14 March 1893; buried at the Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, UT.

3) Alvin Lewis Jones [Sibbett], born 2 Jul 1894, Snowville, Box Elder, UT; died 2 Jul 1983, Rupert, Minidoka, ID; buried at Rupert Cemetery, Rupert, Minidoka, ID; married Olive Almeda Hansen on 5 Apr 1917, Preston, Bingham, ID. Olive Almeda was born 11 Jan 1897, Soda Springs, Caribou, ID; died 4 Oct 1982, Rupert, Minidoka ID; buried at Rupert Cemetery, Rupert, Minidoka, ID.
Alvin and Olive had three sons:
Dail Alvin Jones, born 12 Jan 1918, Shelley, Bingham, ID; died 8 May 2003, Logan, Cache, UT; buried at Providence City Cemetery, Cache, UT; married (1) LeOra Peterson Hopkins in Sep 194l, Rupert, Minidoka, ID, (Div); married (2) Fern Anna Leonhardt Jones on 19 Sep 1959. Fern Anna, born 22 Aug 1917, Providence, Cache, UT.
Darlo Melton Jones, born 17 Jul 1920, Shelley, Bingham, ID; married Ilene Margaret Lowder on 1 Jan 1942, Soda Springs, Caribou, ID. Ilene Margaret, born 7 Sep 1918, Rupert, Minidoka, ID.
Delmar Hans Jones, born 15 Aug 1924, Preston, Bingham, ID; died 19 Jan 1996, Boise, Ada, ID; buried at Rupert City Cemetery, Rupert, ID; married (1) Doris Emma Ashton on 2 Oct 1943, Soda Springs, Caribou, ID, (Div). Doris Emma, born 15 Mar 1925, Woodruff, Oneida, ID; died 15 Feb 1987; buried at Portage, Box Elder, UT. Married (2) Lola Joan Comish on 19 May 1956 at American Falls, Power, ID. Lola Joan, born 31 Oct 1935, Magna, Salt Lake, UT

Later Eveline Brown Jones married.(2) Samuel Alexander Sibbett on 27 Sep 1896 at Gray's Lake, Bingham, Idaho. They were married by one of the homesteaders, Harry Field, who was a Justice of the Peace. Samuel was a large man and weighed 220 pounds.

Samuel had been born 4 May 1854 at Funkstown, Quincy, Franklin, PA, of Pennsylvania Dutch/Deutsch/German heritage. He was the second child born to Hugh Greenfield Sibbett and Hannah LaBelle Robison Sibbett. Samuel was named after his paternal grandfather, Samuel Sibbett, Jr. and maternal grandfather, Alexander Robison. Hugh Greenfield, born 5 Aug 1826, Duquesne, Franklin, PA; died 22 March 1896, Evanston, Unita, WY; buried at Evanston, Unita, WY. Hannah LaBelle, born 15 Sep 1825, Mont Alto, Franklin, PA; died 1863, Farmington, Davis, UT; buried at Farmington, Davis, UT.

On 7 May 1860, when Samuel was only 6 years old, his family left Pennsylvania and started west to Zion. They traveled by rail and water 2,000 miles landing in Florence, Nebraska. Here they camped for two weeks while arrangements were being made for the company; which was one of the last of the handcart companies to cross the plains. The company, as organized, comprised 233 persons, with 43 handcarts and 10 tents. Six wagons, with 38 oxen, accompanied the train. Daniel Robison (Samuel’s uncle) was chosen to lead the handcart train. The Ninth Handcart Company left Florence at one o’clock on 1 Jun 1860 and arrived at Great Salt Lake City on 27 Aug 1860. The journey had taken eleven weeks. Young Samuel, except for maybe an occasional ride in one of the wagons, had to walk all the way across the plains.

The Sibbett’s and Robison’s settled in the Farmington, Davis, Utah, and Morgan City, Morgan, Utah areas. It is said that Samuel Alexander worked to help build the Union Pacific Railroad through Echo Canyon, UT, during the years of 1868-1869 when he was just 14 or15 years old.

In 1879, Samuel Alexander, James and his family and their father Hugh Greenfield Sibbett left Morgan City and headed for Star Valley, Wyoming. Hugh Greenfield became sick and had to remain at Evanston, Wyoming, while the rest of the family moved on. The family arrived in Star Valley in August of 1879 and located on land just south of Auburn, Lincoln, Wyoming. They built their log cabin at the Warm Springs.

There was a real bad blizzard the winter of 1879 and the cabins were almost covered over. The snow was said to be from four to eight feet deep where it was level. Food was so scarce that keeping alive was a grave problem. People lived on wild game and some beaver meat. The few families had to pool what they had in order to live.

While the Sibbett family lived in Auburn, they saw thousands of head of cattle being driven over the Lander Cutoff Trail. James and Samuel, along with the other men of Auburn, helped drive the cattle. For pay they were given all the newborn calves.

In 1880, the Caribou Gold Mines were being worked and salt was hauled from Stump Creek to the Montana Mines. This was the making of the Lander’s Trail.

In June of 1882, the Sibbett’s left Star Valley because they had lost so many cattle the previous winter. Samuel and his neighbors had to cut grass with a scythe and stack it. This was the only feed for the survival of the cattle and horses. Sam, his brother James, David Robison (Sam and James’ uncle), Gideon Murphy, William C. Simmons and H. B. Simmons settled at Grays Lake, Bingham (now Bonneville), Idaho. They followed the Lander trail from Salt River and Stump Creek. The Sibbett and Robison families were among the first settlers of Gray’s Lake. The Sibbett’s settled at the south end of Gray’s Lake Valley. They built a log house and other buildings on the west side of the road from where the James Lowry Sibbett home is today.

In 1883, James contracted a mail route from Grays, Idaho, to the Chub Springs Ranch. Samuel Alexander carried the mail for James as James had a contract with the Caribou Mines to furnish beef, milk, butter and eggs for the camps there. The supplies were carried with pack horses. The snow was so deep in the winters the only way they could tell where the barn was was by the air holes they saw made from the horses breathing. They really had to dig out every day in the winter time.

In 1891, Samuel helped build James’ big log house at Grays Lake. This was covered with siding later and it still stands.

From 1893 to 1895, Samuel helped James dig the mile long ditch with hand shovels from Eagle Creek to the meadows to irrigate the wild hay for their stock. Samuel carried mail into the Caribou Mines on skiis for his brother James in 1893.

After their marriage in 1896, Samuel and Eveline bought the David Robison homestead and it was here they raised their family. Samuel was a road supervisor for the roads to the Caribou mines and those around Gray’s Lake.

After the mines at Caribou City were abandoned and people were advised to get out, the family of Pat and Kate Maloy and children tried to live in that winter. There was a three story house they called “The Green House” there in 1880-1885. The Maloy family became snowbound and were starving. Samuel took four head of horses on a sleigh with food and waded in snow up to his arm pits to reach Caribou City. He brought the family out. One of the boys, Emmett, broke the only lantern they had so there was no light at night. Some of the Maloy’s stayed with Samuel and Eveline until spring when they went back East.

All the Gray’s Lake people had Ellis Kackley as their doctor. He came to Soda Springs, Idaho, in 1898. It is told Samuel was the first man that Dr. Kackley met and that Samuel helped him get patients.

The 1900 census states at the time of the census date Eveline had given birth to seven children with five living. Samuel and Eveline had nine children; all born at Gray’s Lake.

Children of Eveline Brown Sibbett and Samuel Alexander Sibbett:

1) Samuel Laurie Sibbett, born 3 Aug 1897; died 23 Jan 1976, Pocatello, Bannock, ID; buried at Riverside-Thomas Cemetery, Bingham, ID. Samuel never married and had no children. He worked for the forest service, at a lookout, as a Smoke Chaser. He ran the post office at Myers Cove and had a dude ranch at Myers Cove, which specialized in pack trips into the Salmon wilderness areas.

2) Ila Irene Sibbett was born 23 August 1898. She married Wesley LaVern Grover on 17 Jan 1918, Basalt, Bingham, Idaho. however, Ila caught the flu, which was epidemic in 1918, and died on 3 Nov 1918; within a year of her marriage. She was pregnant with her first child which was due in March of 1919; buried at the Sutton Cemetery, Archer, Madison, ID;
Wesley LaVern, born 13 May 1894, Lyman, Fremont, ID; died 22 Sep 1955, Archer, Madison, ID; buried at Sutton Cemetery, Archer, Madison, ID.

3) Elva Sibbett, a twin, was born 9 August 1899. She married David Landon on 3 May 1916, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID. They had two girls. Ila Landon and Evelyn Landon, both lived to adulthood. Elva died 6 Oct 1979, Pocatello, Bannock, ID; buried at Basalt Cemetery, Bingham, ID; David Landon was born 19 Jan 1885, Portage, Box Elder, UT; died 25 Jan 1950, Portage, Box Elder, UT; buried at Portage, Box Elder, UT.
David and Elva had two daughters and two sons:

Elizabeth Eveline Landon, born 9 March 1917, Basalt, Bingham ID; died 26 Nov 1998, Twin Falls, Twin Falls, ID; buried at West End Cemetery, Buhl, Twin Falls, ID; married Myron Lenton Wilde on 21 Jan 1941, Carey, Blaine, ID. Myron Lenton, born 8 May 1921, Carey, Blaine, ID.

Ila Minolla Landon, born 18 Oct 1918, Goshen, Bingham, ID; died 16 Feb 1993, Pocatello, Bannock, ID; buried at Portage, Box Elder, UT; married (1) John Hans Knudsen on 5 Aug 1936, Brigham City, Box Elder, UT. John Hans, born 22 Dec 1913, Portage, Box Elder, UT; died 19 Dec 1953, Portage, Box Elder, UT; buried at Portage, Box Elder, UT. Married (2) Michael Isaac Wakley on 1 April 1949, Pocatello, Bannock, ID. Michael Isaac was born 11 Mar 1906, Downey, Bannock, ID; died 1 Dec 1981, Downey, Bannock, ID; buried at Downey, Bannock, ID.

Elmer Landon, born 21 Apr 1921, Shelley, Bingham, ID; died 24 Jul 1921, Shelley, Bingham, ID; buried at the Basalt Cemetery, Bingham, ID.

David Landon, born 15 Aug 1922, Shelley, Bingham, ID; died 15 Aug 1922, Shelley, Bingham, ID; buried at the Basalt Cemetery, Bingham, ID.

4) Elmer Sibbett, a twin, was born 9 August 1899 and died the same day. Gray’s Lake, Bonneville, ID; buried at the Gray Cemetery, Muir Road, Gray’s Lake, Bonneville, ID.

5) Elsie Sibbett was born 8 Mar 1901, and died in infancy on 16 Apr 1901, at Gray’s Lake, Bonneville, ID; buried at the Gray Cemetery, Muir Road, Gray’s Lake, Bonneville, ID.

6) Lee Delmar Sibbett, a twin, was born 23 May 1902. Lee was interested in airplanes. He made one that would fly. When Lee was only thirty-nine (23 April 1941) he was commissoned Admiral of the Flagship Fleet by American Airlines, Inc. He spent most of his life in Argentina teaching flying. Lee died 24 Aug 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina; buried at Buenos Aires, Argentina; married (1) Emma and (2) Rosario R. Obligado. Lee never had any children.

7) Tressie Leona Sibbett, his twin, was born 23 May 1902. She married (1) Carey E. Gasper on 1 March 1921, Blackfoot, Bingham, ID (Div). Carey, born 5 Jun 1901, OK; died 3 May 1968, Kennewick, Benton, WA.
Carey and Tressie had a son and a daughter:
Charles Lee Gasper was born 15 Nov 1921, Presto, Bingham, ID; died 1 Dec 2004, Blackfoot, Bingham, ID; buried at Riverside-Thomas Cemetery, Bingham, ID; married Vivian Reese in 1946 (Div); (2) married Delores Faulkner (Div).
He was a paratrooper in World War II. He was wounded four times and spent six months in the hospital. He received 8 medals; including, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.
Evelyn Orella Gasper was born 9 Aug 1923, Presto, Bingham, ID; died 28 Feb 1984, Pocatello, Bannock, ID; buried at Riverside-Thomas Cemetery, Bingham, ID; married Theo Johnson (Div). She was a veteran of World War II. She served in the Medical Corps as an ambulance driver for which she received a gold certificate; married Mr. Galloway.
Tressie later married (2) Michael Anton Goeden on 22 May 1928, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID. Michael Anton, born 30 Apr 1900, Wadena, Wadena, MN; died 16 Dec 1974, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT; buried at Riverside-Thomas Cemetery, Bingham, ID. Michael had one of the first wells drilled and one of the first pumps for sprinkler irrigation on the desert west of Moreland, Bingham, ID. He died 14 Oct 1996, Blackfoot, Bingham, ID; buried at Riverside-Thomas Cemetery, Bingham, ID.
At an early age, due to the ill health of his mother (Evelyn Gasper Johnson), Mike and Tressie adopted their grandson Charles Dennis Johnson Goeden, born 14 March 1946, Blackfoot, Bingham, ID; died 20 June 1973, Fullerton, Orange, CA; buried at Riverside-Thomas Cemetery, Riverside, Bingham, ID; married Phylis Faulkner.

9) Virginia Sibbett, was the last child born on 8 September 1908, she died the same day. She is buried at the Gray Cemetery, Muir Road, Gray’s Lake, Bonneville, ID.

Dail Alvin Sibbett said his father, Alvin Lewis Jones Sibbett, told him that Samuel Alexander Sibbett was away on business when Eveline went into labor with her last child. She hemorrhaged to death. The midwife then determined that Mr. Sibbett could not take care of a newborn baby with all the other young children he already had; such as, a four year old boy--six year old twins—and five other children at home. She then put the baby in another room and let it die. The son, Alvin, told Dail that he remembered hearing the baby cry in the next room—then it stopped crying. When they buried the mother, they put the newborn baby on her stomach and buried them in the same grave.

Eveline Brown Jones Sibbett, died 8 Sep 1908, Gray’s Lake, Bonneville, ID; buried at

Gray’s Lake, Bonneville, ID. Samuel lost not only his wife that day, but his baby daughter, Virginia, too. One can only imagine how devastated and heartbroken he was at this time. Samuel lost his sheep about the same time and was discouraged. He went to help build a dirt-filled Blackfoot River Dam with horses. After the dam was completed, he sold his ranch at Gray’s Lake to George Muir and took the eight living children (William, Alvin, Samuel, Ila, Elva, Lee, Tressie and Bert) and moved to Upper Presto, Bingham, ID. They traveled by way of Wolverine Canyon in a sheep wagon and a white covered buggy. They had to live in a sheep camp until Sam built a log house. Sam planted apple trees and raised vegetables which he supplied to the neighbors.

Bert Robison Sibbett "World Champion Bull Rider" in 1927

Tressie Leona Sibbett Gasper Goeden, Ila Irene Sibbett Grover. and Samuel L. Sibbett

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