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Elizabeth Gollaher


Birth30 December 1832Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, Memorial #61511410.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), PID:2WN2-CF4.
Death4 May 1903Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States
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     Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946, Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Elizabeth G. Benson, 4 May 1903; citing Cache County, Utah, p. 20, no. 186, series 83782; Utah State Archives Research Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; FHL microfilm 431094.

    Salt Lake Herald, Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah: W.C. Dunbar & E.L. Sloan, 1870-1920), "Ms. Elizabeth G. Benson, A Pioneer, Dies at Residence of Daughter", Pg. 8, Col. 4.
BurialLogan City Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
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FatherWilliam Culbertson Gollaher
MotherElizabeth Orton
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   • Ezra Taft Benson
Married5 June 1852Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), p. 750.
          Children:
               Fred Gollaher Benson
               Brigham Young Benson
               Luella Benson
               William C. Benson
               Hyrum Smith Benson
               Edith Benson
               Lizzie Gollaher Benson

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• 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1840Adams County, Illinois, United States
• 1850Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States
• 1860Cache County, Utah Territory, United States
• 1870Logan City, Cache, Utah Territory, United States
• 1903Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States
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• 1840 Population CensusQuincy Township, Adams, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population CensusKeosauqua, Van Buren, IowaExtractImage
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• 1860 Population CensusCache County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1870 Population CensusLogan City 1st Ward, Cache, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1880 Population CensusLogan City precinct, Cache, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1900 Population CensusLogan township, Cache, UtahExtractImage
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Crossing the Plains

• Benjamin Gardner CompanyView Source
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
       Departure2-10 Jun 1852
       Arrival24, 27 Sept 1852

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