Parowan Times
8/2/1916
AGED CITIZEN DEAD
Nathan Benson Passed to the Great Beyond on the 25th, being nearly 90 years of age.
He was born in Lancashire, England in 1826, and joined the Mormon Church in early manhood. His parents were among the first converts in England under the preaching of Elder Heber C. Kimball.
Richard Benson, one of his brothers, was one of the first Pioneers of Parowan, while Nathan and other members of the family came in 1868.
Nathan Benson was a useful, industrious man who earned his living by the "sweat of his brow" running one of the old fashioned sawmills in this locality many years ago.
"Uncle Natty," as he was affectionately called, was the father of the Equitable Co-operation in Southern Utah, as he had a comprehensive understanding of the great success of the Rockdale co-operative business in England. He had much opposition to contend with, as all who advance new ideas have, but he finally made a success of the proposition which has proven a great help in this community.
Mr. Benson was never led astray by other people's thoughts. He thought for himself. While in his speech he was not a Lndley Murray, he was a giant in mathematical problems.
The funeral services were held on the 28th. The speakers being S.A. Matheson, David Matheson, Morgan Richard and John Stevens all of whom had something good to say about him, as they all had known him a lifetime.
I was born in 1826 in Lancashire England. As a teenager I worked along with my Father Thomas Benson as a Pavier. My father was one of the first converts to the Church in England having been baptized in 1837. I was 10 years old at the time. My brother's and sisters also joined the church. My father died when I was 16 in an accident wherein a cart that he was driving overturned. We were living in Hunter's Hill, Eccleston, Lancashire. Three years after my father joined the church there were 17 members in our branch at Hunter's Hill, with 1 Elder, 1 priest and 1 teacher. I was baptized at age 16 - the same year my father died. My Widowed Mother died in England just 3 years after I was baptized.
At Age 21, I married Ann Baybutt at the Parish Church in Eccleston, Lancashire. I worked at a stone quarry and we made our home in the cottage at Howebrook House in Heskin Lancashire.
Over the next 13 years we were blessed with 4 sons and 4 daughters. Our 3rd Son, Richard died at age 6 and We lost our baby daughter Mary 2 years later.
In 1868, we made preparations for our family of 8 to emigrate to Zion. We crossed the Atlantic on the steamship Colorado. It then took us about a week to travel by train from New York to the outfitting place in Benton, Wyoming where we met the teamsters led by Daniel D. McArthur from St.George. We left Benton a week later. Our company included 411 passengers and 61 wagons. Twenty-five of the wagons were loaded with goods destined for stores in Salt Lake, including the new Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. We traveled in a northwesterly direction from Benton through Whiskey Gap and northward from there until we reached the Sweetwater River and joined the old emigrant road. We arrived in Salt Lake on September 2. Seven of our people, mostly young children, died en route.
Our family including all our children arrived safely (Nathan Benson, Jr, Margaret Benson Pendleton). We settled in Parowan, Utah where I went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years. My wife Ann passed away in 1889. I subsequently married a widow name Emmeline Guymon Grimshaw.
8/2/1916
AGED CITIZEN DEAD
Nathan Benson Passed to the Great Beyond on the 25th, being nearly 90 years of age.
He was born in Lancashire, England in 1826, and joined the Mormon Church in early manhood. His parents were among the first converts in England under the preaching of Elder Heber C. Kimball.
Richard Benson, one of his brothers, was one of the first Pioneers of Parowan, while Nathan and other members of the family came in 1868.
Nathan Benson was a useful, industrious man who earned his living by the "sweat of his brow" running one of the old fashioned sawmills in this locality many years ago.
"Uncle Natty," as he was affectionately called, was the father of the Equitable Co-operation in Southern Utah, as he had a comprehensive understanding of the great success of the Rockdale co-operative business in England. He had much opposition to contend with, as all who advance new ideas have, but he finally made a success of the proposition which has proven a great help in this community.
Mr. Benson was never led astray by other people's thoughts. He thought for himself. While in his speech he was not a Lndley Murray, he was a giant in mathematical problems.
The funeral services were held on the 28th. The speakers being S.A. Matheson, David Matheson, Morgan Richard and John Stevens all of whom had something good to say about him, as they all had known him a lifetime.
I was born in 1826 in Lancashire England. As a teenager I worked along with my Father Thomas Benson as a Pavier. My father was one of the first converts to the Church in England having been baptized in 1837. I was 10 years old at the time. My brother's and sisters also joined the church. My father died when I was 16 in an accident wherein a cart that he was driving overturned. We were living in Hunter's Hill, Eccleston, Lancashire. Three years after my father joined the church there were 17 members in our branch at Hunter's Hill, with 1 Elder, 1 priest and 1 teacher. I was baptized at age 16 - the same year my father died. My Widowed Mother died in England just 3 years after I was baptized.
At Age 21, I married Ann Baybutt at the Parish Church in Eccleston, Lancashire. I worked at a stone quarry and we made our home in the cottage at Howebrook House in Heskin Lancashire.
Over the next 13 years we were blessed with 4 sons and 4 daughters. Our 3rd Son, Richard died at age 6 and We lost our baby daughter Mary 2 years later.
In 1868, we made preparations for our family of 8 to emigrate to Zion. We crossed the Atlantic on the steamship Colorado. It then took us about a week to travel by train from New York to the outfitting place in Benton, Wyoming where we met the teamsters led by Daniel D. McArthur from St.George. We left Benton a week later. Our company included 411 passengers and 61 wagons. Twenty-five of the wagons were loaded with goods destined for stores in Salt Lake, including the new Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. We traveled in a northwesterly direction from Benton through Whiskey Gap and northward from there until we reached the Sweetwater River and joined the old emigrant road. We arrived in Salt Lake on September 2. Seven of our people, mostly young children, died en route.
Our family including all our children arrived safely (Nathan Benson, Jr, Margaret Benson Pendleton). We settled in Parowan, Utah where I went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years. My wife Ann passed away in 1889. I subsequently married a widow name Emmeline Guymon Grimshaw.
Parowan Times
8/2/1916
AGED CITIZEN DEAD
Nathan Benson Passed to the Great Beyond on the 25th, being nearly 90 years of age.
He was born in Lancashire, England in 1826, and joined the Mormon Church in early manhood. His parents were among the first converts in England under the preaching of Elder Heber C. Kimball.
Richard Benson, one of his brothers, was one of the first Pioneers of Parowan, while Nathan and other members of the family came in 1868.
Nathan Benson was a useful, industrious man who earned his living by the "sweat of his brow" running one of the old fashioned sawmills in this locality many years ago.
"Uncle Natty," as he was affectionately called, was the father of the Equitable Co-operation in Southern Utah, as he had a comprehensive understanding of the great success of the Rockdale co-operative business in England. He had much opposition to contend with, as all who advance new ideas have, but he finally made a success of the proposition which has proven a great help in this community.
Mr. Benson was never led astray by other people's thoughts. He thought for himself. While in his speech he was not a Lndley Murray, he was a giant in mathematical problems.
The funeral services were held on the 28th. The speakers being S.A. Matheson, David Matheson, Morgan Richard and John Stevens all of whom had something good to say about him, as they all had known him a lifetime.
I was born in 1826 in Lancashire England. As a teenager I worked along with my Father Thomas Benson as a Pavier. My father was one of the first converts to the Church in England having been baptized in 1837. I was 10 years old at the time. My brother's and sisters also joined the church. My father died when I was 16 in an accident wherein a cart that he was driving overturned. We were living in Hunter's Hill, Eccleston, Lancashire. Three years after my father joined the church there were 17 members in our branch at Hunter's Hill, with 1 Elder, 1 priest and 1 teacher. I was baptized at age 16 - the same year my father died. My Widowed Mother died in England just 3 years after I was baptized.
At Age 21, I married Ann Baybutt at the Parish Church in Eccleston, Lancashire. I worked at a stone quarry and we made our home in the cottage at Howebrook House in Heskin Lancashire.
Over the next 13 years we were blessed with 4 sons and 4 daughters. Our 3rd Son, Richard died at age 6 and We lost our baby daughter Mary 2 years later.
In 1868, we made preparations for our family of 8 to emigrate to Zion. We crossed the Atlantic on the steamship Colorado. It then took us about a week to travel by train from New York to the outfitting place in Benton, Wyoming where we met the teamsters led by Daniel D. McArthur from St.George. We left Benton a week later. Our company included 411 passengers and 61 wagons. Twenty-five of the wagons were loaded with goods destined for stores in Salt Lake, including the new Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. We traveled in a northwesterly direction from Benton through Whiskey Gap and northward from there until we reached the Sweetwater River and joined the old emigrant road. We arrived in Salt Lake on September 2. Seven of our people, mostly young children, died en route.
Our family including all our children arrived safely (Nathan Benson, Jr, Margaret Benson Pendleton). We settled in Parowan, Utah where I went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years. My wife Ann passed away in 1889. I subsequently married a widow name Emmeline Guymon Grimshaw.
8/2/1916
AGED CITIZEN DEAD
Nathan Benson Passed to the Great Beyond on the 25th, being nearly 90 years of age.
He was born in Lancashire, England in 1826, and joined the Mormon Church in early manhood. His parents were among the first converts in England under the preaching of Elder Heber C. Kimball.
Richard Benson, one of his brothers, was one of the first Pioneers of Parowan, while Nathan and other members of the family came in 1868.
Nathan Benson was a useful, industrious man who earned his living by the "sweat of his brow" running one of the old fashioned sawmills in this locality many years ago.
"Uncle Natty," as he was affectionately called, was the father of the Equitable Co-operation in Southern Utah, as he had a comprehensive understanding of the great success of the Rockdale co-operative business in England. He had much opposition to contend with, as all who advance new ideas have, but he finally made a success of the proposition which has proven a great help in this community.
Mr. Benson was never led astray by other people's thoughts. He thought for himself. While in his speech he was not a Lndley Murray, he was a giant in mathematical problems.
The funeral services were held on the 28th. The speakers being S.A. Matheson, David Matheson, Morgan Richard and John Stevens all of whom had something good to say about him, as they all had known him a lifetime.
I was born in 1826 in Lancashire England. As a teenager I worked along with my Father Thomas Benson as a Pavier. My father was one of the first converts to the Church in England having been baptized in 1837. I was 10 years old at the time. My brother's and sisters also joined the church. My father died when I was 16 in an accident wherein a cart that he was driving overturned. We were living in Hunter's Hill, Eccleston, Lancashire. Three years after my father joined the church there were 17 members in our branch at Hunter's Hill, with 1 Elder, 1 priest and 1 teacher. I was baptized at age 16 - the same year my father died. My Widowed Mother died in England just 3 years after I was baptized.
At Age 21, I married Ann Baybutt at the Parish Church in Eccleston, Lancashire. I worked at a stone quarry and we made our home in the cottage at Howebrook House in Heskin Lancashire.
Over the next 13 years we were blessed with 4 sons and 4 daughters. Our 3rd Son, Richard died at age 6 and We lost our baby daughter Mary 2 years later.
In 1868, we made preparations for our family of 8 to emigrate to Zion. We crossed the Atlantic on the steamship Colorado. It then took us about a week to travel by train from New York to the outfitting place in Benton, Wyoming where we met the teamsters led by Daniel D. McArthur from St.George. We left Benton a week later. Our company included 411 passengers and 61 wagons. Twenty-five of the wagons were loaded with goods destined for stores in Salt Lake, including the new Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. We traveled in a northwesterly direction from Benton through Whiskey Gap and northward from there until we reached the Sweetwater River and joined the old emigrant road. We arrived in Salt Lake on September 2. Seven of our people, mostly young children, died en route.
Our family including all our children arrived safely (Nathan Benson, Jr, Margaret Benson Pendleton). We settled in Parowan, Utah where I went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years. My wife Ann passed away in 1889. I subsequently married a widow name Emmeline Guymon Grimshaw.
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