Erastus BINGHAM, Jr.

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Name:
Erastus Bingham married first, Olive Hovey Freeman October 29, 1843. Their children: Olive Louise Bingham, Erastus Perry Bingham, Lucinda Marie Bingham, Lydia Roxina Bingham, Isaac Farwell Bingham, Mary Ann Bingham, Lorenzo Freeman Bingham, Diana Bingham and Ophalia Cedenia Bingham.

He married his second wife Susan Green November 15, 1855. Their children: Susan Melvina Bingham, Nephi Bingham, Lucy Ann Bingham, Marintha Eltharia Bingham, Edda Bingham, Enoch Bingham, Daniel Bingham, Harriet Adeltha Bingham, Mary Jane Bingham, Erastus Alma Bingham, Violetta May Bingham, Benjamin Wisdom Bingham, Myrtle Adell Bingham, Clara Isabella Bingham, Rozina (Zina) Diantha Bingham and Jacob Moroni Bingham.

When the exodus begun in 1846, leaders of the church called upon Erastus to make the roads, build the bridges, and plant the crops the Saints would need in their trek acroos Iowa. His wife, Olive and his two small children joined him in Council Bluffs, with the main body of the church, just in time to hear the call for the "Mormon Battalion".

Erastus was president of the 38th Quorum of Seventies. In 1858, having served in the Mormon Battalion and then in state militia, Erastus was called to serve again, with the rank of Major, in the Echo Canyon campaign against Johnston's Army.

In 1860, Erastus took his second wife, Susan and her small children to Slaterville, where he farmed and herded cattle. He served the Lord as a missionary in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, to many of his cousins which lived in the area. By 1879, polygamy laws made it difficult to live in South Fork, so he moved Olive (his first wife) and Susan (wife #2) to southeastern Utah. They then moved to Macious, Colorado and finally Tucson, Arizona.
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Erastus Clarence Bingham was born in "Concord, Essex County, Vermont". He moved to Mesa Arizona from Tuscon in 1904 and died Wednesday, 04 Apr 1906 at 11 o'clock A.M. in Mesa, Maricopa Co., Arizona, his tombstone is marked
incorrectly. He married Olive Hovey Freeman,29 Oct 1843 at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois.

1880 US Federal Census
Ogden, Weber Co., Utah
Erastus ( C.) Bingham

Arizona Daily Republican
Mesa, Arizona Feb 19, 1904
Mr. E. Bingham came in from Tuscon
yesterday, and has arranged a home
for his father and mother and sister,
who will make their future home here.

Arizona Daily Republican
Mesa, Arizona Thursday Morning- April 5, 1906
Erastus Bingham, aged 83 years,
died yesterday at 11 o'clock. Mr Bing-
ham was a member of the Mormon
faith the greater part of his life. He
leaves a wife and a large family. In
the short time he had lived in Mesa he
had made many friends and the fami-
ly has the sympathy of the whole
community.

Arizona Daily Republican
Mesa, Arizona Friday Morning April 6, 1906
The funeral service of Erastus
Bingham was held in Relief Society
Hall at 2 P.M. a good crowd being in
attendance. Mr. Freeman, President
Leusuer and bishop Horne being the
speakers. Four of Mr. Bingham's sons
arrived on the morning train to attend
the funeral

-Thanks to an unknown visitor
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Middle name "Clarence" provided by 2nd great granddaughter, Nancy Day. Thanks Nancy

My father, Great grandson of Erastus Bingham, Jr., says his great grandpa was never known by a middle name of Clarence. Somehow on the 1880 US Census that middle initial was attached to his name but it is an error. I hate to argue with my cousin Nancy Day, but this really needs to be corrected. My daddy, who is 90 years old, was born after the decease of his Great grandpa, but he, his dad, mother, and older brother, visited with the relatives in Tucson and Mesa when he was a little boy. My daddy bears the surname Bingham and the middle initial E
for Erastus, but not the full name, thank goodness, and has always been quite clear that this middle name of Clarence was added by error. Thank you for considering this clarification. Colleen Bingham Reep

Erastus married Olive Hovey FREEMAN on 29 Oct 1843. Olive was born in 1820; died in 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Erastus married Susan Melvina GREEN on 15 Nov 1855. Susan was born in 1839; died in 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Elisha Warner Bingham and Sally Perry
• Census: 1850, Living in Weber Co., Utah Territory
• Census: 1860, Living in Ogden City, Weber Co., Utah
• Census: 1870, Living in Ogden City, Weber Co., Utah
• Census: 1880, Living in Ogden City, Weber Co., Utah

Notes:

Name:
Erastus married Lucinda Gates in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on March 20, 1818. When he married Lucinda, he had a farm in Concord, where he and his bride resided and where the first four of his children were born. About 1825, the family removed to Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Lucinda and Louisa Maria were born there in 1826 and 1828, after which the family returned to the farm in Concord.

In the spring of 1836 Erastus sold his farm, and the following June he traveled with his family to Kirtland, Ohio. The family stayed there until September 1836, then continued the journey to Far West, Missouri, arriving on November 4, 1836. Erastus rented a farm on Shoal Creek, about 2 1/2 miles from Far West, and built a log house, into which he moved his family. Governor Boggs issued an exterminating order for LDS Saints to leave. Church leaders called Erastus a member of the commitee to orchestrate the exodus.
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At 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, May 3d, a large congregation of friends assembled in the meeting house at Lynne, to pay their last respects to the mortal remains of Bishop Erastus Bingham.

The assembly was called to order by Bishop D. F. Thomas; the choir sang: "Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb; Take this new teasure to thy trust."

Elder Joseph Hall then offered a very impressive prayer, after which the choir sang: "He has finished his work and his journey is over, The war is accomplished, the triumph's begun."

Then the congregation was addressed by Presidents, D. H. Peery and Lester J. Herrick, Elders Lorin Farr and R. J. Taylor and Bishop Thomas, all of whom spoke of the history of the departed veteran, his early connections with the Church, his toils, trials, sufferings and persecutions for the truth's sake, his integrity and unswerving fidelity to the principles of the Gospel, which he maintained to the latest hour of his earthly existence. At the close of the addresses the choir sang--

"Mourn not the dead who peaceful lay. Their wearied bodies down."

and Elder Warren G. Child delivered the benediction.

The funeral cortege, which was half a mile long, was then formed and took up its march to the Ogden Cemetery where the tenantless tabernacle of our aged father in Israil was deposited in its last earthly resting place.

The deceased, Erastus Bingham, was born at Concord, Essex County, Vernont, March 12th, 1798. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, November 11th, 1833. He was intimately acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith, was a member of Zion's Camp and participated with the Saints in nearly all the persecutions, mobbings, drivings and privations which they endured for the testimony of Jesus, in the early history of the Church. He also shared with them in the exodus from Nauvoo.

He came to Salt Lake City in 1847 and to Ogden in 1850.

Erastus Bingham, Sr., was Bishop at Bingham's Fort (now called Lynne), and at Ogden City, from 1850 to 1862, during which time, by his faithful solicitude for the welfare of his people, his wise counsels, and strict integrity to truth and duty, he made hundreds of friends in whose afflictions his name and memory will be embalmed as long as they live.

As before published, he died May 2nd, 1882 and was 84 years, 1 month and 20 days old when he died. He had ten children, nine of whom are still living. His grandchildren and great-grandchildren are numerous--in fact his descendants now number about three hundred and forty or three hundred and fifty.

-Ogden Standard Examiner, May 4, 1882, transcribed by Rhonda Holton

Son of Elisha Warner Bingham and Sally Perry

Married Lucinda Gates, 20 Mar 1819, St. Johnsbury, Cldn, Vermont

Married Patience Perkins, 4 Apr 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Married Sally Maria Barber, 7 Apr 1853, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Married Katherine Mehitable Sawyer, 11 Sep 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Married Emma Nye Wilson, 13 Dec 1862, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah


Bio by: Rhonda

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Erastus married Lucinda GATES on 20 Mar 1819 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Lucinda (daughter of Thomas GATES, Sr. and Patty PLUMLY) was born on 19 Sep 1797 in Acworth, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire; died on 3 Jan 1874 in Ogden, Weber Co., Utah; was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber Co., Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Weber Co., Utah Territory
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Ogden, Weber Co., Utah
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Ogden, Weber Co., Utah