Willard Bingham

Willard Bingham, Dean Bitton's Great Grandfather
Son of Erastus Bingham and Lucinda Gates Bingham
Father of 36 children.
Our ancestor is his daughter Rebecca by Amanda Melvina Snow.

Willard Bingham, born in Concord, 19 February 1830; died 19 March 1913 in

Smithfield, Cache, Utah; buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah.

He married Jennet [Genet] Gates in Salt Lake, 29 April 1853. Born 12 January 1836, she was the

daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Downer) Gates.

By her, Willard had fifteen children:

 (1) Flora Genet, born in Ogden, 16 May 1854, married Levi J. Taylor in Salt Lake, 3 February 1873; died in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, 9 or 10 August 1940;

 (2) Willard, born in Ogden, 30 October 1855, married Cynthia Ann Melissa Shurtliff in Salt Lake, 5 November 1876, and Elizabeth McFarland in Salt Lake, 28 February 1878; died in Wilson, Weber, Utah, 26 June 1884; had four children by each of his two wives;

 (3) Josephine born in Wilson, 9 May 1857, married Levi J. Taylor, Sr., in Salt Lake, 30 November 1874; died in Harrisville, 11 July 1920; Flora and Josephine gave Levi twenty-two children

altogether;

(4) Jedediah Grant, born in Ogden, 6 October 1858; married Margaret McCormick Peterson in Salt Lake, 8 May 1879; died in Ogden, 19 January 1889;

 (5) Parley Pratt, born in Ogden, 30 December 1859, married Margaret McFarland in Salt Lake, 8 May 1879, and Isabelle McFarland in Mexico, 15 April 1896; had twelve children by the first wife, ten by the second; died in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, 11 April 1933;

 (6) Ida, born in Slaterville, Weber, Utah, 9 February 1861; married William Lake, 27 March 1879; died in Ogden, 13 August 1881;

(7) Elijah, born in Ogden, 2 June 1862, married Jennie Lind Wilson in Salt Lake, 17 January 1884; died in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, 27 July 1940;

(8) Elisha Gates, born in Slaterville, 2 June 1862, married Emma Bonnerud in Salt Lake, 13 January 1881; died in Ogden, 12 May 1942;

 (9) Ezra, born in Ogden, 7 July 1864, married Annie Shurtliff in Logan, 18 March 1885; died in Ogden, 24 February 1900;

 (10) Erastus La Grand, born in Ogden, 17 February 1866; died of accidental shooting, 28 July

1875;

 (11) Lydia Maria, born in Huntsville, 29 February 1868; died 27 September 1869; (12) Lucinda, born Huntsville, 13 March 1870, married Peter Stephenson in Logan, 2 February 1887; died in Ogden, 9 November 1926;

(13) Zilpha Isadore, born in Huntsville, 14 October 1871; died 20 September 1879;

 (14) Nancy Jane, born in Wilson, 19 April 1876; married David Rawson in Salt Lake, 26 September 1895; died in Oakland, Alameda, California, 13 March 1957;

 (15) Emmaretta, born in Wilson, 16 July 1878; married Joseph Horace Rawson in Salt Lake, 15 December 1899, and Charles William Hancock in Salt Lake, 7 December 1915; died in Oakland, California, 15 February 1966.

By his second wife, Amanda Melvina Snow, daughter of Willard and Amanda (Harvey) Snow, Willard had ten children:

(1) Willard Eugene, born 3 October 1856, married Hannah McFarland;

(2) Amanda Melvina, born 30 August 1858, died 25 April 1862;

(3) Wilford, born 14 October 1860; died 23 September 1862;

(4) Rosetta, born 23 September 1862, married Philip Dance;

(5) Susan, born 1 December 1864, married Charles Gates Cazier;

(6) Mary Ellen, born 25 November 1866; married Louis Kendall Bitton;

(7) Rebecca, born 13 April 1869; married George James Bitton;

(8) Florence Adelaide, born 19 April 1871, married Nels Peter Lee;

(9) Tyler, born 1 October 1873, married Christina Thompson; and

(10) Isabel, born 4 December 1875, married Carl Erickson and Philip Dance.

 By his third, Clara Elizabeth Smith, he had eleven children:

(1) Clara, born 25 November 1890, married Ernest Deppi;

(2) William, born and died 30 April 1892;

(3) Willard, born 28 June 1893; married Mary Bright;

(4) Leroy, born 6 January 1895, married Frances Christianson;

(5) Adella, born 26 December 1896, married Hazen R. Hurst;

(6) Thomas, born 8 May 1899, married Esther Baker;

(7) Uvada, born 21 September 1901; married Archie Jarrard;

(8) Hyrum S., born 23 March 1904; married Nellie E. Hoffer;

(9) Viola, born 9 January 1908; married Vernon Scrowthers;

(10) Leah, born 12 January 1908; married Vernal Horn; and

(11) Eldon S., born 21 March 1910; married Helen Baker.

Willard was in the goldfields of California in 1849 with his brother Erastus and Albert King Thurber. While on a mission to California in 1857, he was sent into the goldfields again to raise money for printing the Book of Mormon, but was recalled to Utah in 1858 to opposed Johnston's Army. He returned to the goldfields with his brother Thomas in 1859. On his return from California in

1860, Willard took up residence in Weber County, first in Huntsville, where he operated shingle and lumber mills with his brother Thomas. Having purchased his brother's share of the mill, he moved in 1878 to Monte Cristo. About that time, he sold his interests in Huntsville and acquired land in Wilson, four miles west of Ogden, and in the Cache Valley, near what is now Trenton. In 1890 he married his third wife, Clara Smith of Smithfield, and took her to Mexico. When he returned to Utah, he sold his property in Wilson and settled in Smithfield.

Source: http://www.familyhistorypages.com/Bingham.htm#ErB