Benjamin Rouse Wright

• Residence: Pointon, Lincolnshire, England - 1851
• Residence: Brooklyn Ward 14 District 2, Kings, New York - 1860
• Residence: South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah Territory - 1870
• Residence: South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States - 1880
• Residence: Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah - 1910
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Mar 26 2016, 21:00:56 UTC

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Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel 1847–1868 Henry W. Miller Company (1862) Age at Departure: 17

Son of William Wright and Charlotte Rouse

Married Eliza Darton, 17 Feb 1866, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Samuel Benjamin Wright, William Herbert Wright, Jane Elizabeth Wright, Charlotte Wright

Married Mahala Darton, 19 Dec 1870, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Married Elizabeth "Bessie" Nichols, 8 Dec 1891, Layton, Davis, Utah

Children - Maud Wright, Erma Pearl Wright, Leo M. Wright, Flossie Wright, Lilly Leone Wright, Clifford Benjamin Wright, Harry Burdett Wright, Ruby Wright, Dewey Wright, Vilda Loretta Wright, Minnie "Bonnie" Wright

History - Benjamin felt the burden taking care of the children and trying to make a livelihood. So, he asked Eliza's sister Mahala to come in and take care of the children. This arrangement ended in a marriage. However, as the years went by, even though Mahala took good care of the three, and loved them as her own, there was no issue from the marriage of Mahala and Benjamin. There was a legal separation; however, we have not been able to find a divorce decree.

Then Benjamin met Bessie Nichols, and through this marriage many children came through.

Of the three living children from the union of Eliza Darton and Benjamin Wright, Charlotte became rather famous in the Salt Lake area, after she married Michael Mauss, and delivered triplets. Charlotte Rouse Wright bore to Michael two females and one male, Vynal, Vilma, and Velma.

Benjamin was injured at a Sugar Beet Factory in Lehi, Utah, when he slipped on some syrup and had severe head trauma due to a large pulley belt. He died at his home in Pleasant Grove.

Online Death Certificate

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 1 2016, 16:28:38 UTC