Image taken in the 1880s
- Birth Date
- 13 December 1799
- Death Date
- 19 October 1883
- Gender
- Male
Alva Benson
Captain of the 4th Company of Ten.
Uriah Curtis Company (1852)
- Age at Departure: 52
- Head of Household
Traveled with
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.