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| Sealing record |
Died 18 Aug 1851 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources:
Marriage record: Family Search
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| Marriage Record |
Children: Rachel, Mary, Ruth, Daniel, Annie, Nathaniel, Fanny, Lucy, Byron
Died: 9 Jun 1912 Draper, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried: Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources:
Marriage record: Family Search
Headstone:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7510579/lois-mitchell
Family Search
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| Lydia Maria Day |
5) Lydia Mariah Day
Parents: Hugh Day and Rhoda Ann Nichols
Born 1 June 1833 Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada
Married Benjamin:30 June 1851 Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
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| Sealing record |
Children: Hugh, Amelda, Abram, Franklin, John, Jedediah, Lois, Rosanna, Rhoda, Bernetta, Marion
Died 8 Apr 1886 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried
Sources
Marriage record: Family Search
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| Marriage record |
Children: Rosanna, Frederick, Brigham, Benjamin, Mark, Annie, Alice, Henry, George
Died:21 April 1917 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried: Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources
Marriage record: Family Search
Headstone:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7543984/catherine-frederikke-mitchell
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| Susannah Houston |
7) Susannah Houston
Parents James Houston and Mary Madelina Ettleman
Born 11 Feb 1826 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married 1) Gideon Cooper Matlock about 1848 Iowa
Children: Cameron Alexander Matlock (a.k.a. Alex Campbell Matlock)
2) Benjamin Trotter Mitchell 6 Mar 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
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Marriage to Benjamin
Recorded in Benjamin's journal with a list of his other wives. See the clips I made below for each. They are not written by the same person, so I'm not sure who wrote them. On the inside of the front cover was written: return to Zadock L Mitchell
163 N 7th West
Transcription: Susan Huston on the 6th day
of March 1857 |
Died 6 May 1900 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried 7 May 1900 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
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3rd Great grandmother |
Life Sketch, my correction in red:
Susanna Houston Matlock Mitchell was born in Jackson, Stark County, Ohio (not Pennsylvania). She was the sixth child in a family of seven children. Her parents and other relatives joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. Mormon Church) soon after it was organized in 1830. Susanna was seven years old when her family left Canton, Ohio to travel to Adams County, Missouri, then to Caldwell County, and from there to Nauvoo, Illinois. Some of these moves were caused by anti-Mormon mobs driving the family from their home.
In 1846, the Houston family, with thousands of other Saints, found themselves in makeshift homes in Winter Quarters. After all kinds of privations, exposure to cold and inadequate diet, Susanna's parents died.
In 1848, after surviving so many trials and hardships, Susanna's life was made happy with her marriage to an intelligent young lawyer, Gideon Cooper Matlock. On 12 Jun 1849, their son, Alexander Cameron Matlock, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Susanna's husband was familiar with some of the Indian languages and had often acted as an interpreter. He was sent on a mission by the U. S. Government to an Indian tribe. Weeks lengthened into months and Susanna received no word from him. To support herself and her son, she began to sew for some of the families in the neighborhood. She tried every way possible to get some word about her husband, but communication was slow. Perhaps he was being held by the Indians, but would somehow escape and return home.
Most of the Saints had left for the West, but Susanna refused to leave her home. She thought that her husband might come and find her gone. Finally, after six long years, she decided to make the journey to Utah and join the other members of her family. She later learned that her husband had died of Smallpox on his journey into the Indian Country. Susanna met Benjamin Thomas Mitchell in 1855 when she was in the emigrating party that he led across the Plains. She was a widow with a six-year-old son.
Benjamin was returning from a three-year Church mission. Susanna became his seventh wife on 6 Mar 1857. Seven sons were born to this couple. Her husband tried to deal fairly with his wives and children and they were congenial and happy with each other. His family grew so large that he had to have land to till in order to raise food for over fifty people. As a result, he helped settle Kamas, Utah. Here, they farmed and raised cattle and sheep: Benjamin died in Salt Lake City on 9 March 1880 at the age of sixty-four.
Susanna, who was ten years younger than her husband, lived for twenty years after he died. Her grandchildren remember the large orchard in front of her house, her pantry shelves that were always stocked with goodies, fruit and pies for those who visited her often and were always made to feel welcome.  |
Susanna's headstone
in Salt Lake City Cemetery |
Susanna died on 6 May 1900 in Salt Lake City. She left a large posterity that honors her name.
Six years later, her son, Alexander Campbell Matlock, drowned. |
Alexander Campbell Matlock
Enhanced and colorized pic |
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Notice in the paper about
the circumstances of his death. |
Article written by Pearl Mitchell Boyce for the Daughters of Pioneers 20 Dec. 1943 available on Family Search that tells Susannah's history.
Book: Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude Vol 3 M-R page 2026 published by Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Alexander Campbell Matlock's body found: 7 Jul 1906 issue of Mariposa Gazette
Note: There is a trail excerpt from her journal that she wrote while traveling to Salt Lake on the overland pioneer trail available at http://www.lds.org/.
It covers May-Aug 1854 from her viewpoint as a pioneer member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints
1880 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 142 (widowed, age 54, living with her son Alex Matlock)
Note: Her name in the census was given as SusanFamily Search
ancestry.com
Headstone:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7543293/susanna-mitchell
CHILDREN (With Susannah)
all but Edward are my 2nd great grand uncles/aunts
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| Thomas H Mitchell |
Thomas Houston Mitchell
Born 22 Jan 1858 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Occupation: Gold Miner (1910) Stone Cutter
Married Elizabeth Ann Blythe 25 Apr 1878 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Thomas, Louie, Blythe, John, Pearl, Wallace, Lila
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| Thomas H Mitchell headstone |
Note: On his death certificate and 1900 US Census, it claims he was divorced, but on the 1910 Census, he is listed as widowed.
Died 1 May 1914 St Mark's Hospital, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
COD: Meningitis, Cirrhosis of liver
Note: The informant on the death certificate was his son, Louie, and perhaps it was Louie that was divorced - this could use some research.
Buried 3 May 1914 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Plot: U-26-010-01-E
Sources
1860 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 152 (age 2)
1870 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 3
1900 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah
1910 US Census for Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah page 9 (widowed, living with daughter-in-law, age 53)
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59473663/thomas-houston-mitchell
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| Edward H Mitchell |
*Edward Hunter Mitchell
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2nd Great Grandfather |
Born 17 Aug 1859 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Blessing 1 Dec 1859 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Occupations: Stonecutter for SL Temple, Farmer
Married Mary Emery 7 Jul 1881 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Lenora, Mary, Edna, Edward, Elizabeth, Frank, Hubert, Lucille, George, Alfreda, Bernice, Ida
Died 14 Jul 1924 Woods Cross, Davis, Utah
Buried 17 Jul 1924 Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah
1910 Picture: Back Row: Elizabeth, David, Alfreda, Lucille, Frank, Mary, Ella, Edward (Ben), Henrietta, Hubert, Leonora
Front Row: George, Mary, Ida, Howard, Bernice
His Obituary
Edward Hunter Mitchell, prominent Davis County resident and stone cutter on the Salt Lake Temple, died at his home in Woods Cross at 12:25 A.M. Monday morning (July 14, 1924) of diabetes at the age of 65 years, after a serious illness of six weeks. He had been ailing for some ten years, and but a week before his death he had been removed to his home from the L.D.S. hospital where for a month he had taken the newly discovered serum treatment for the disease. Only momentary relief was afforded by the treatment and the disease returned in all its acuteness after he left the hospital.
Mr. Mitchell is a son of the late Benjamin T. and Susan Huston Mitchell and was born in Salt Lake City, August 17th, 1859.
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| Headstone for Edward |
As a young man, he learned the stone cutting trade and cut stones for the Salt Lake Temple throughout its erection, for the Catholic Cathedral of Brigham street, for the Deseret News building, the McCune residence, now the building occupied by the L.D.S. school of music and many other public and private buildings in Salt Lake City and vicinity. He also worked at the Working Men's
Co-op for a few years.
In 1892 and for the succeeding seven years, he was engaged in the sheep business as a sheep owner in Toole county. In 1899 he moved to Davis county where he purchased the Frank Grant farm and engaged in farming and dairying which occupation he had continued to pursue until the time of his death.
By nature public-spirited, interested in education, and all things for the betterment of the community, country, and state in which he lived, Mr. Mitchell served a four-year term as school trustee of the West Bountiful School District before the consolidation of the several school districts of the county during which time he superintended the building of the best Bountiful schoolhouse, and again as a member of the Board of Education of the Davis County School District immediately after the consolidation for one term.
Continuously active in a religious way, Mr. Mitchell was counselor to Bishop William Winegar for a number of years and filled various offices in the Latter-Day Saint Church.
As a representative of the Utah Fire Clay Company of Salt Lake City and various other corporations of the intermountain area and as a businessman, he was distinguished by his scrupulous honesty, which trait he stressed and exemplified.
Mr. Mitchell was essentially a home man. He married Mary Emery on the 7th of July 1881 and raised a family of fourteen children, all of whom survive, a really remarkable witness of the parental qualities, the care, and tender family devotion of Brother and Sister Mitchell.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Emery Mitchell children, Mrs. Alma Hepworth, Mrs. Andrew Smith, Herbert B., David, Georgia, Lucille, Bernice, Alfreda„ and Ida all of Woods Cross; Edward E. Mitchell of Bountiful; Mrs, Ray Stringham of Holden; Mrs. Alma Taylor, and Mrs. Roy Taylor of Salt Lake City, and Frank H. Mitchell of Ophir and thirty-nine grandchildren.
Sources
1860 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 152 (age 0)
1870 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 3 (age 10)
1880 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 142 (age 20)
1900 US Census for Davis County, Davis, Utah page 11A (no age given - gives birth month/year)
1910 US Census for West Bountiful, Davis, Utah page 2 (age 50)
1920 US Census for Davis County, Utah page 2 (age 60)
Headstone:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50168504
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| Erastus Snow Mitchell |
Erastus Snow Mitchell
Born 22 Jan 1862 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Occupations: Sheep Business (1900) Sand and Gravel Contractor (1910) Cement Contractor (1920) Watchman (1930)
Married Loverna Ruth Williams 30 Aug 1888 Kamas, Summit, Utah
Children: Evelin, Erwin, Arnold, Harold, Viola, Leona, Arvilla, Veretta, Zola, Delphin
Died 6 Jan 1935 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
COD: Lobar Pneumonia, Diabetes, Senility
Note: his daughter Evelyn was the informant
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Erastus Snow Mitchell death certificate
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Erastus Snow Mitchell
and Loverna's headstone |
Buried 9 Jan 1935 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Plot: A-07-005-03-S2W
Sources
Marriage: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 429054 Batch M73739-7 Reference Number bk B page 23 # 511
1870 US Census
1880 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 142 (age 18)
1900 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 6B (no age given)
1910 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 1 (age 48)
1920 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 15 (age 58)
1930 US Census for Magna, Salt Lake, Utah page 13B (age 68, widowed, listed as a lodger)
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52139315/erastus-snow-mitchell
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Charles James Mitchell
enhanced picture |
Charles James Mitchell
Born 30 Jul 1864 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Occupations: Sheep Herder (1880) Stone Mason (1900) Builder (1910) Bricklayer (1920-30)
Married Signa Amelia Bonneru abt 1888 California
Children: Mabel, Ole, James, William, Paul, Gilbert, May
Died 11 Nov 1932 Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
Buried Unknown - two years earlier, he was living with son, Gilbert. It stands to reason he was likely buried in California - possibly in the same cemetery his son Gil is buried in (Forest Lawn Memorial Park)
Sources
1880 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 142 (age 15)
1900 US Census for Peoa, Summit, Utah page 10A
Note: lists his wife as Sisne
1910 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 11 (age 46)
Note: 1910 Census incorrectly lists his father's birthplace as Massachusetts and his mother's as Iowa. His wife is going by Amelia B, not Sonia
1920 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 10 (age 54)
1930 US Census for Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California (age 65, widowed, living with son Gilbert)
http://www.archives.state.ut/ lists a criminal case brought against him filed 12 Jul 1882 Case 830
Note: could no longer find this as of 2021
Memorial (no headstone):
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80553811/charles-james-mitchell
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| Lehi's Death Certificate |
Lehi Houston Mitchell (twin to Nephi)
Born 7 Sep 1866 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Occupation: Common Labor
Unmarried
Died 7 Jul 1931 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
COD: Asphyxiation by fumigating gas (see the below information. It was later ruled to be suicide). The informant on the death certificate: his younger brother, Walter
Police Blame Gas Death to Suicide
Suicide was the verdict of police Wednesday after investigating the death of Lehi Mitchell, 65, whose body was found in a room filled Hued with fumigating gas In the Lincoln house 68 East First South street.
James Hanson night clerk who discovered the body told City Detectives E.R. Apelgren and W.C. Smith that Mitchell had inquired about the lethal power of the gas and later had entered the room despite a warning sign on the door. Mitchell was said to have been worried over financial difficulties.
Police resumed their search for relatives of the dead man after learning that former Sheriff Frank Emery tentatively identified by Patrolman J.Y. Smith as a relative, had no connection with Mitchell or his family. NOTE: while the Sheriff wasn't directly related to Lehi, his sister, Mary, was the Sheriff's sister-in-law. I'm sure the patrolman knew this and therefore, that is what he had based his information on.
Burial 10 Jul 1931 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
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| Lehi's headstone |
Sources
1880 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 142 (age 13)
Note: His name is spelled Lehigh in the record
1920 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 6 (age 53)
1930 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah Page 7B (age 63, listed as single, 'roomer')
Suicide: Newspaper Salt Lake Telegram 8 July 1931 issue
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Walter Houston Mitchell
Enhanced and Colorized picture |
Walter Houston Mitchell
Born 8 Nov 1869 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Occupation: RR car checker (1900) Inspector Whipper (safety inspector) (1910) Supervisor of Coal Weights (1920) Supervisor of Weights (1930) Supervisor of Wright (1940)
Married Margaret (Maggie) Hutchinson Simpson 22 Feb 1893 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Edith, Walter, Stella, Howard, Bessie, Vilate, Margaret, Afton |
Walter Houston Mitchell
original headstone |
Died 21 Jan 1944 Provo, Utah, Utah
COD: Coronary Occlusion, Heart disease, Senility
Buried Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Note: Plot: S-17-10
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| Walter's second headstone |
Sources1880 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 142 (age 10)
1900 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 6A (no age given)
1910 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 11 (age 40)
1920 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 4 (age 50)
1930 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 28A (age 60)
1940 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah (age 70)
Note: his name is misspelled Walker Mitchal
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37754331/walter-houston-mitchell
