This letter is written to Edith Parker from Elizabeth Matilda (Tillie) Sargent Sears. This is part of the letter:
"I have the Sargeant genealogy, a book which I got for my father many years ago. It happened to be the last copy published except one that was to be placed in a cornerstone of some church in Malden Mass.
It traces our first known history back to Hugh Sargeant (then spelled Sariant as the spelling has been spelled many ways as the years passed. Some of our relatives, years ago, dropped the "a" from the last syllable in the name).
Hugh Sargeant (Sariant) lived in Courtenhall, Co. of Northhampton, Eng. He was born about 1530.
William, grandson of Hugh is first spoken of in the Am. Ancestry. He came from Northhampton with his 3rd wife Sarah and two daughters of his first wife to Charleston, Mass in 1638.
My father is a direct descendant, was born in Fayston, Vermont, June 26, 1823.
"This book goes to Willis Sargeant, Byron's only son. My father had a brother, Austin Sargeant but he died many years ago. He had two sons and a grandson but they are gone so Willis is the only one to perpetuate the Sargeant name in our branch of the family and he is unmarried. A fine young man, got to know him while I was in Oreg.
Many people say they don't want to know just what might be up their family tree. In reading, I have never found anything but goodÂ, perhaps all is not recorded. I don't think my mother's genealogy was ever traced to Am. She was born Isabel, daughter of Charles & Mary Graves of Leeds, Eng. She was only two years of age when she came to Am. Lived her early life in N.Y. State... "
Information provided by K E Tuttle.
Ethel was born to John and Julia Tuttle during their homestead try in the Dakota Territory during 1886-1887. They settled in Red Bluff (no longer a town) and were probably flodded out or frozen during the winter. The family returned to Wisconsin and restarted to Iowa to farm and were there during the 1900 Census. They again returned to Wisconsin, then they moved to Fort Collins Colorado in 1904. Ethel attended schools in town while her father and brothers farmed (beets for the sugar factory).
Ethel attended Fort Collins High School (where the Lincoln Center now stands) and while walking to school passed by the workers building a new Post Office on the corner of Oak and College streets. Each day, she passed a young mason from Scotland who was employed to work on the new building. Frank McCafferty eventually asked her for a date and they were married after Ethel finished school.
Frank and Ethel traveled the country as he worked on Federal building (like the Lincoln Memorial and the buildings at the University of Boulder). Ethel raised her children and they also worked a farm located near the farmstead of her parents, John and Julia Tuttle. John was born in 1915 while they were in Lincoln Nebraska; Ethel lost a baby girl in 1918 (buried with Ethel's aunts Elma and Tillie Sargent Sears); Frankie was born in 1920 in Fort Collins but died at 6 years old when he was kicked by a horse; Robert was born in 1921 and stayed with Ethel and the farmstead until his death in 2002; James was born in 1926 and made his home in the Northern Colorado area. Jim lived at the farm during his last years and died in 2000.
Frank died in 1960 and Ethel remained on the home place with Bob caring for the farm and animals while he ran a floor sanding business in Fort Collins. Ethel had Parkinsons disease and went into a nursing facility just before her death April 25 1974. She is buried in Grandview Cemetery, not far from her parents, brothers and aunts. Bob and Jim are buried on the same grave plots as Frank and Ethel.
Art was born in Wisconsin. He moved with his family to the territory of Dakota where the family set up a farm and his sister was born. They then moved back to Wisconsin probably due to a drought, bad winter and flooding which are comon to that area. They moved for a while to Iowa only to return as well. Then the last move was to Colorado in 1900.
They farmed East of Fort Collins on the county line of Larimer and Weld Counties. They also had a homestead West of Fort Collins in Bellvue and a home in town on Smith Street, where Art and his sister Ethel and brothers Walter and Roy attended Fort Collins High School. Ethel met and married a mason from Scotland who was building the new Post Office in Fort Collins where she passed walking to school. Ethel and her children (McCafferty) remained close to Art and his family.
Art farmed near his father and married Bessie Marie Fritz in Jan 14 1907. They made their home on the bluffs now over Highway 287 near Livermore CO. in 1923, he and Bessie had a son, Arthur Delbert Tuttle Jr., whom they called Delbert . During the depression years and hard times of the era, Art went to work with the WPA building roads and park facilities in Poudre Canyon. He later worked for the Ideal Cement Company until he retired in 1954.
He and Bessie had moved to a house in the North West part of Fort Collins at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Here they had pasture land, orchard and gardens. They raised gladiolas as well as cherries, seven kinds of apples and grapes. Art was known for the cider he and his neighbors would make in their neighbor, Mr. Hodgkiss', press.
Art later acquired a '54 Dodge pickup on which he built a camper [This pickup named "Eleanor" after Eleanor Rosevelt is now owned by his great grand daughte and gggrandson.]. He and Bessie enjoyed taking the pickup to the mountains to camp and fish. They often joined or were joined by Bessie's brothers and sisters (the Fritz family).
Art enjoyed working on cars and taught his son to be an auto mechanic. In an accident, Art lost his ring finger to a fan belt. He would often tell jokes and do tricks with his stump of a finger that remained.
Art would have a giant cup of tea every morning for breakfast as taught him by his grandmother from England. In retirement Art played cards every afternoon with his best friends and neighbors Mr. Rumsey and Mr. Tarr.
He died quickly one morning of a massive heart attack, preceeded by his parents, brother Roy (and Roy's wife and baby, during the flu epidemic of 1918), brother Walter, and nephew Frankie.