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1847–1868

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Image taken in the 1880s

Image taken in the 1880s

Birth Date
13 December 1799
Death Date
19 October 1883
Gender
Male
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Alva Benson

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  • Captain of the 4th Company of Ten.

Uriah Curtis Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 52
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Keziah Benson (Age: 72)
  • Cynthia Benson (Age: 51)
  • Moroni Benson (Age: 19)
  • Polly Elvira Benson (Age: 13)
  • Cynthia Elizabeth Benson (Age: 11)

Sources

  • "16th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
  • 1860 Utah Census.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Powell, Delna Swapp.  Eleventh Pioneer Emigration Company 1852 (Las Vegas, NV: Maureen S. Bryson, 2002), 108-109.
  • Presiding Bishopric. Immigrant Location Committee Minutes, (20 September - 13 October 1852).
  • 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.