Alva Benson (1799 - 1883) Profile

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Deseret News

16th Company

"16th Company", Deseret News, September 18, 1852, Page 2.

16th Company, Uriah Curtis, Capt., wife and 3 children; Elizabeth Barnum [Curtis]; Wm. Elmore [Elmer], wife and 3 children; Sally [Sarah] Williams and 4 children; Lyman Sweat [Swett]; Wm. Depew; John Depew; A[lfred] B[osworth] Child, wife and 2 children; Sally M[aria] Wilder; Hannah Wilder; John Child, wife and 2 children; Lehi Curtis and wife; Wm. Manning, wife and 2 children; Jacob Stump; Levi Bracken and wife; Wm. B[ailey] Maxwell, wife and 2 children; S[hadrach] F[ord] Driggs, wife and 6 children; Henry D[ill] Gifford wife and 2 children; Mary Ewel[l] and 6 children; Isaac Matthews [Mathis], wife and 5 children; John Matthews [Mathis], wife and 2 children; Allen Matthews [Mathis], wife and child; John Cummings, wife and 9 children; Wm. Ainscough, wife and 2 children; Lucinda Wakefield and Jane Wakefield; L[uther] C[ollins] Ramsay, wife and 2 children; Josep[h] Rooker, wife and 4 children; Hiram Elmer, wife and 6 children; Ira Elmer, wife and 6 children; Edward M. Webb, wife and 5 children; James Hofer; James W. Webb, wife and 4 children; Chas. Stoddard, wife and 3 children; B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Stoddard, wife and son; John Webster and wife; Ann Webster and 6 children; Wm[.] Bevin [Bevan]; Wm. Chatwin; Alva Benson, wife and 3 children; Hezekiah Benson; John Wilson and wife; Mary and Martha Hoff [Huff]; David Benson, wife and child; Wm. Stub[b]s and wife; [Benjamin] Gardner Curtis, wife and 5 children; Richard Stub[b]s, wife and 2 children; Abisha[i] Wyra [Wyer] and wife; John Stub[b]s; Wm. J[ackson] Jolley, wife and child; Geo. Wilson, wife and 6 children; E[lisha] H[ildebrand] Davis, wife and 3 children; James Rodaback [Rodeback], wife and 5 children; John P[idding] Jones, wife and 3 children; John Ashworth, wife and 2 children; John Greer and son; Thomas Davenport, wife and 4 children; Samuel Briggs, wife and son; Geo. Noakes, wife and 3 children; Sarah Perkins and 2 children; Edwin Holden. R[uia] A[ngeline] Holden and 5 children; Wm. W[ells] Maguire [McGuire] wife and 2 children; Margaret Tweed; John P[earson] Smith, wife and 5 children; Louisa Montieth; James Temes [Toms], wife and son; Caroline Stoddard; Erastus Curtis, wife and child; Eli Curtis, wife and child; Wm. A. Barton and wife.

Transcript for "16th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2

Deseret News.

Powell, Delna Swapp. Eleventh Pioneer Emigration Company 1852 (Las Vegas, NV: Maureen S. Bryson, 2002), 108-109

Powell, Delna Swapp. Eleventh Pioneer Emigration Company 1852 (Las Vegas, NV: Maureen S. Bryson, 2002), 108-109.

Presiding Bishopric immigrant location committee minutes

Presiding Bishopric immigrant location committee minutes, September 20, 1852.

Presiding Bishopric immigrant location committee minutes.

Wilson, Lucy Benson. "Autobiography," in Historical Resource Materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, Utah State Historical Society; Cache Valley Chapter, reel 22, item 1

Wilson, Lucy Benson. "Autobiography," in Historical Resource Materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, Utah State Historical Society; Cache Valley Chapter, reel 22, item 1.

We started to Utah the 28 &amp; crost the Misoury [Missouri] river the 29 of June—we came with father Benson! he had 2 lite wagons, 2 yoke of oxen[,] 2 yoke of cows. we had 1 cow &amp; a few duds (there was 12 of us in them 2 wagons)



we have had good health in camp till this morning (July the 12) The cohlery [cholera] came &amp; took Bro Bracken &amp; Sister mathews [Mathis] from our midse



we traveled on our journey till the 23 when Brother Mathews [Mathis] died. their was 2 more deaths before we reached Laramie. at that place our company was divided in to 2 Com. so as to travel faster. our Com. No. 1 proceded on our journey.



at the Pasifick [Pacific] Springs we met my Brother James Benson with provision for us, which was thankfuly received[.] we traveled up hill &amp; down hill &amp; over Mountains &amp; threw valleys &amp; all manner of creekes &amp; turns &amp; snow &amp; rain &amp; cold. Still we felt to rejoice to know we would soon reach the valleys of the Mountains



we arieved in Salt Lake City September the 29 in good spirits.

Transcript for Wilson, Lucy Benson. "Autobiography," in Historical Resource Materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, Utah State Historical Society; Cache Valley Chapter, reel 22, item 1

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