Daughter of John Baybutt (1790-?) and Ann Leatherbarrow (1785-1844)of Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. At Age 24, I married Nathaniel Benson at the Parish Church in Eccleston, Lancashire. 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 Nathan went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years.
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 Nathan went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years.
Daughter of John Baybutt (1790-?) and Ann Leatherbarrow (1785-1844)of Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. At Age 24, I married Nathaniel Benson at the Parish Church in Eccleston, Lancashire. 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 Nathan went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years.
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 Nathan went to work as a Sawyer / Lumberman and continued in this occupation for many years.
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In memory of Ann Baybutt the beloved wife of Nathan Benson, born at Burscough, Lancashire, England Feb 20 1823, died Feb 7, 1889.
I was so long with pain oppressed which wore my strength away,
But now I've entered into rest which never will decay
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