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1847–1868

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Birth Date
20 October 1825
Death Date
27 October 1854
Gender
Male
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Benjamin B. Richmond

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  • After serving with the Mormon Battalion, Benjamin returned East and brought his family West. Circumstantial evidence from census and genealogical records prove that the Richmond Family traveled to Utah in 1850.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 21

Company Unknown (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 24
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Sylvina Richmond (Age: 17)
  • Benjamin Boyce Richmond (Age: Infant)
  • Julia Ann Richmond (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census, Utah County.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 244-45.