Benjamin Franklin Barrus
Birth Date
On 1838 May 30 (Born)
Death Date
On 1921 August 29 (Died)
Gender
Male
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Born in Chautauqua, Chautauqua, New York, United States
1838 May 30
Mother
Huldah Abigail Nickerson (1816 - 1872)
Father
Emery Barrus (1809 - 1899)
Date Details
Occurred On 1838 May 30
Baptized by Peck
1847 (Age 8)
Traveled in
Appleton M. Harmon Company (1853)
1853 June 15 – October 16 (Age 15)
Pioneers in Company
Traveling Group
Orrin Eleazar Barrus (Age 7)
Emery Alexander Barrus (Age 5)
Emery Barrus (Age 44)
Huldah Abigail Nickerson (Age 37)
Ruel Michael Barrus (Age 2)
Mary Hulda Barrus (Age 10)
Date Details
Started On 1853 June 15
Joined Company
Ended On 1853 October 16
Company Arrived
Married
Lovina Ann Steele
1861 September 29 (Age 23)
Served in
Eastern States Mission
1871 October 10 (Age 33)
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Mission Type
Proselytizing
Marital Status
Married
Priesthood Office
Elder
Residence When Called
Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States
Set Apart By
Orson Pratt
Location Served
United States
Date Details
Started On 1871 October 10
Set Apart
End Date Not Found
Died in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States
1921 August 29 (Age 83)
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Benjamin Franklin Barrus (1838 - 1921) Profile
Benjamin Franklin Barrus (1838 - 1921)
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Person
Deseret News
"Tooele Stake Patriarch Answers Call of Death", Deseret News, (30 August 1921), Page 3.
Frank Esshom, Pioneers and prominent men of Utah: comprising photographs, genealogies, biographies (1913)
Frank Esshom, Pioneers and prominent men of Utah: comprising photographs, genealogies, biographies (1913), Page 738.
Frank Esshom, Pioneers and prominent men of Utah: comprising photographs, genealogies, biographies (1913), Page 366.
Tooele Transcript Bulletin
"Biography of Barrus Family", Tooele Transcript Bulletin, (26 January 1923), Page 8.
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"B. F. Barrus a Grantsville Pioneer Called by Death", Tooele Transcript Bulletin, (2 September 1921), Page 1.
Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967
Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.
Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949
Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.
Mission
MISSIONARY Department missionary registers, 1860-1959
MISSIONARY Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, 10 October 1871, Vol. A, Page 20, Line 823.
MISSIONARY Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, 10 October 1871, Vol. B, Page 21, Line 823.
Pioneer
Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862
"Appleton M. Harmon Company report, 1853.", Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862, Page 1-16.
Genealogical surveys of LDS members: autobiographies and ancestors
"Barrus, Benjamin Franklin", Genealogical surveys of LDS members: autobiographies and ancestors, 2, Page 258-261.
Tooele County Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: from the edge of the Great Basin frontier. Tooele, Utah: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc, 2012
Tooele County Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: from the edge of the Great Basin frontier. Tooele, Utah: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc, 2012.
