John BUSHELL

                   BIRTH & CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #093,855, Huyton Parish Records, Lancashire, England. Ann, daughter of John and Martha Rowland of Roby was born 18 September and christened 18 October, 1812.
   DEATH:

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                   BIRTH & CHRISTENING: Not located.
DEATH: F.H.L. Film #1,068,859, Huyton Parish Records, Lancashire, England. #33 Edward Bushell of Roby Buried December 23, 6 weeks old.

BAPTISM &  ENDOWMENT: Infant
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                   BIRTH:
CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #1,068,859, Huyton Parish Records, Lancashire, England.  #118 Baptized 11 Sep 1814 James son of John & Martha Bushell Roby, Labourer.
DEATH:

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This James died. Child # 7 was also named James - after his maternal grandfather.
                  

                      BIRTH: Hyton Parish Records F.H.L. Film #1,068,850, Item #7.
   CHRISTENING: Hyton Parish Records F.H.L. Film #1,068,850, Item #7.
   MARRIAGE: Marriage Certificate, General Registration Office, London, Copy included.
   DEATH: Salt Lake City Death Records, F.H.L. Film #6498, pt 1, p. 128, 5118.

   BAPTISM: West Jordan Ward Records, F.H.L. Film #027,416 p. 3. Originally baptized in Salt Lake City, 1848.  Have not yet located a record of original baptism.'
RE-BAPTISM: 12 Mar, 1857, F.H.L. Film #027416 p.17, no #. North Jordan Records.
   ENDOWMENT: F.H.L. Film #183,398 EHOUS, President's Office, p.51, #1379.
[Those participating in the endowment session were: O. Pratt, A Carrington, W E Staines, W.W. Phelps, J.W. Cummings, S.L. Sprague, J. Ure, E.A. Whitney & E.R. Snow.]
   SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.  Film #284,698  Salt Lake Temple Sealings, Children to Parents.
   SEALED TO SPOUSE: F.H.L. Film #183,393 EHOUS, p 57, #728.

OBITUARY: DIED "In West Jordan Ward, April 24th, after five weeks illness, of typhoid fever, MARY BUSHELL, wife of Samuel Bennion, agec 56 years, 1 mongh and 24 days." Deseret News, April24, 1872.

   PATRIARCHAL BLESSING

Great Salt Lake City, Utah	                 Mary Bushell Bennion, wife of Samuel
5 March, 1848	                                  Died 24 Apr 1872

	A Blessing by John Smith, patriarch, upon the head of Mary Bennion, daughter of John and Martha Bushell, born Lancashire, England 1 March, 1816.
	Sister Mary, beloved of the Lord, I place my hands upon thy head by virtue of my office in the name of Jesus of Nazareth and seal a fathers blessing upon thee. Thou are a daughter of Joseph who was sold in to Egypt and a lawful heir to all the blessings which were sealed upon the children of Ephraim in company with thy companion, with power to heal the sick in thine house; to preserve the lives of thy children and to do all the miracles which are necessary for the health and happiness of thy family and thy sisters who are round about thee. Thou shalt have power to instruct those who are ignorant in things pertaining to the gospel of salvation. Thy posterity shall be numerous and mighty; thy name be held in remembrance amongst them forever. Thy table shall be well supplied with peace, and plenty shall dwell there; shall live until thou art satisfied; have all you desire and in the end, eternal life, if your faith does not fail. Even so, amen.	Recorded by John Smith

OBITUARY
   DIED 	"In West Jordan Ward, April 24th, after five weeks illness, of typhoid fever, MARY BUSHELL,  wife of Samuel Bennion, aged 56 years, 1 month and 24 days."  Deseret News, April 24, 1872.

In response to a letter from Eliza Harker Bennion, to ease the loneliness Lizzie sometimes endured, Mary Bushall Bennion wrote:
January 28,  1872
Dear Children,
Sunday evening  Dear Lizzie as I am alone I embrace this opportunity of writing a few lines to you hoping they will find you all well as this leaves us at present.  (Illegible)  have had a very nice social party  They are all well   Your mother is well and was there also.  Dear Lizzie  you say you would like me to write you a good Mormon letter   I have no other desire in my heart but to do you all the good I can.  A word of kindness  how good it is  I expect you will all be tried sometimes   It seems we would falter by the way but never mind  we will put our trust in our heavenly Father and he will bring us safe into the Kingdom of our Lord.  We must try and overcome our own feelings.  That seems to me to be the hardest thing I have to overcome   We have had some very cold weather lately  Last Wednesday was the coldest day I have felt for some years    I was thinking many times through the day whether the boys were out.  We are going to have our Anual (sic) Relief Society Party on the 10th of February next  I think the Sisters fell (sic)  well  our last meeting was a very good one    there seemed to be very good feelings amongst the sisters.  I must bring these few lines to a close   give my kind love to Hyrum  I often think of you all and pray for you to   I hope you will rember us in your prayers  You must forgive me for not writing to you before   I hope you will write as often as you can  If anyone comes home from Rush It seems quite natural to me to ask them for letters   please excuse all mistakes   Good night
		I remain your        affectionate Mother
       Mary [Bushall] Bennion
Out at Rush Lizzie wrote in her journal for February 17, (Sat) " Cleaned my  room  went home  to Father's out  Helped to . . .  Went to Shurtliff's to a kissing with Sharp's.

Back in West Jordan Alice Jane Bennion sent the following  account of activities at the Samuel Bennion  home.
                                   (Sunday)	February 18, 1872
Dear Sisters
	I embrace this opportunity of sending you a few lines hoping it will find you all well and I am happy to say it leaves us at present except Emma Jane is not very well.  There was a leap year party here last friday night  Becca Mantle got it up   It was very crowded wherefore we did not get to dance a great deal   Otherwise it was a good dance   There is going to be another dance next friday night to the mill.  The Relief Society Dance is coming of the first tuesday after fast meeting in three or four weeks  I wish you could be here   Do try to come if posible   We were very glad that Hyrum wrote to us   he said when he was at home he would send us a song   I wish he would do so if oportunity affords   I have been up to Bringhursts today  It has been like a summer day   it is blowing up a storm tonight.  I should like and I will come out as soon as I can  did you get any Valentines out your way   they were scarce here   It did not seem like Valentine day to me.  when you come home you get tired of traveling and so on as this    wherefore if you could first come and just come and eat a Sunday dinner and then go home and know your home was all right and close by you would be all right, but blow me by way of adventure there is a great many worse things than that to encounter.  Mother is well and sends her best love to you all.  I cannot think of any more at present - please excuse all gross errors   write as often as you can and I will do the same [           ?] Do try to come home for Conference.
	I remain your affectionate sister
	Alice Bennion

Correspondence between the two Bennion establishments seems to have been a frequent pastime, especially for the women.  The men and boys seem to have been out to the herds frequently or occasionally, but we do not have record of Mary Bushall Bennion having gone out there.  Consequently, corresponding was the only way to keep in touch, unless the women from Rush came in to Taylorsville.

Mary made a visit to Lizzie's mother, Eliza Ann  Harker, on Sunday.  The following day she penned this note to Lizzie:

FEBRUARY 19, 1872 Monday, (TAYLORSVILLE)
Dear Lizzie
	I have just returned from your mothers have been taking tea with her  she wished me to write and tell you she has not got you those things yet but will get them and send them the first chance.
	Relief dance is coming of soon  there is going to be an exhibition in the day time    I would like very much if you could make some little thing and senf it in.
	Beck is going to make a white shirt and baby's petticoat.  I should like to see you all very much    excuse haste   write every chance   my peace abide with you

	from your affection Mother
		 Mary Bennion

The Relief Society Sisters had some sort of regular contributions to the Society to assist the needy, etc.  In the minutes of the West Jordan Ward the following contributions were made by Mary Bushall Bennion in 1872:
Jan 9	By cash .50  Labor .25	   .75
Feb	By cash                  .25
Mar	Cloth                   3.00                                  3.75
Total contributions for 1872 $4.00
Her contributions abruptly ended.  About the middle of March Mary became ill, suffering from typhoid fever.  The illness progressed in spite of all that could be done for her by the loving care of her family and the limited knowledge and ability of the physicians of the time.  Her condition continued to deteriorate - and on the morning of April 24 she slipped away from this life.  Even so, the Deseret News published her death in the evening news that night as follows:

April 24 1872  Death  Mary Bushall Bennion  "In West Jordan ward, April 24, after five weeks illness, of typhoid fever. Mary Bushall, wife of Samuel Bennion.  Aged 65 years, 1 month and 24 days.  Died Wednesday morning, twenty minutes past eight o clock a.m."   Deseret News, Wednesday Evening, April 24, 1872, p. 2.

The news of Mary's death reached Rush Valley.  Lizzie H. Bennion recorded the following in her journal for that day.
APRIL 24 1872  (Wed) Got breakfast  made bread  mended (7) pairs of stockings  finished two caps   Made another [block?] for my quilt  Made Joshua's vest  Joseph Lindsay came for us to [prepare for] Mother's funeral

The day after Mary died the following item appeared in the Deseret News: Important Announcement: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sanits will by adjourned Sunday April 28th, to the 6th of October  next 10 a.m.  in the New Tabernacle.  A large attendance is expected.  Tickets from the settlements over the U.P. and U.S. will no doubt be half price."
The funeral was Friday.  No doubt those who were coming in for conference came early for the funeral.  What a privilege to have Elder John Taylor speak.  Many friends gathered for the occasion.  Many of them would have stayed on for April Conference.

Lizzie's journal entry for the day of Mary's funeral read:
APRIL 26 1872  Helped the girls to do a few chores  there was a large Funeral  John Taylor spoke  the choir sang three hymns  We then went to the graveyard  [Salt Lake City Cemetery]

The Salt Lake City Cemetery records have the  following information concerning her death and burial:

"#5118  West Jordan Mary Bennion wife Samuel [born] 1 mch 1816
	Roby, Lancs., Eng., 24 April 1872 [cause] Typhoid  [Medical Attendant] D. Davis  [Plat] A Block 2 Lot 4.

The day after the funeral Lizzie's journal entrie reads:
APRIL 27 1872 Went over to Mother's  Mary and sat in the afternoon  went back to supper   felt bad

APRIL 28 1872  Went over to Mothers  felt bad   went to John's

John Bennion was in the southern part of the state on his mission there.  It was a shock when Esther Ann learned of the news sometime later.

Samuel felt the loss of this dear wife so deeply.  He took the opportunity to receive a comforting blessing from the Patriarch of the Church a couple of weeks after Mary's burial.  It read:
MAY 13 1872  A blessing given by John Smith, Patriarch, upon the head of Samuel Bennion, son of John and Elizabeth Bennion.  Born at Hawarden, Flintshire, North Wales December 11, 1818.

	Brother Samuel, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I place my hands upon thy head and seal the Blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob upon thee, and say unto thee, be of good faith and of good cheer, for the Lord knoweth thine integrity.  He hath heard thy petitions and will answer thee according to thy faith.  Thou shalt live until thou hast finished thy mission.  Thou are also entitled, through obedience, to the gospel, to the blessing of the New and everlasting covenant, with the gift of the priesthood.  Thou art numbered among the fathers in Israel and thy name shall be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.  Thou has seen many changes and passed through trying events, for which thou shalt verily receive thy reward.  Again, I say unto thee, be of good cheer and let thy heart be comforted, for thy last days shall be thy best days.  Thy posterity shall be numerous and shall be honorable in the land.  Thou shalt assist in gathering scattered Israel, and shall comfort the heart of the poor and needy, and feed many in time of scarcity.  Thou shalt also be a saviour among thy kindred and rejoice with many hereafter.  This, with thy former blessing, I seal upon thy head and I seal thee up unto eternal life with power to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection among thy kindred and friends.  Even so, Amen.
	H. E. Lewis, recorder

And Samuel, though lonely, was comforted.

   It is noteworthy to say that Aunt Mary Bushell Bennion did not join the Church until some time after her settlement in the Salt Lake Valley. It is also noteworthy that after she did join she was one of the most worthy and faithful saints that ever tabernacled in the flesh. Everybody now old enough to have known her can never forget her kindness and love. I have heard my father tell how in those early starvation days whenevr he called on at her home she would so urge him to eat that he was sure to be sick that  night or the next day - that his stomach was so contracted to the small rations allowed that it could not stand for the expansion of his feed without disorder. I will relate another story though may not be suitaable for publication. [Joseph Bennion.  Do not know which Joseph this was, but not Samuel's son.]

    Samuel Bennion was happy and fortunate in his marriage to Mary Bushell, the daughter of John Bushell, a well-to-do farmer, and Martha Rowland, his wife, of Roby Parish, Huyton, Lancashire, England. She was born at the family home on March 1st, 1816, the family consisting also of a brother, Edward R., and a sister, Martha, who afterwards married William Henry Harrison.
    John Bushell and his family were refined and cultured people, staunch and devout Methodists, all of which characteristics were handed to Mary by parents, together with what was then a good education. She received further training in bearing and deportment through several years service as a lady's maid, a training that afterwards meant much to her as a wife and mother and made her respected and beloved by all who had the good fortune to know her. [In consultation with an archivist at the Hyton Record Office I was told that Mary probably would have served in Lord and Lady Darby's service but, since Lord Darby's papers have not been cataloged, no research could be done to prove that, H.S. Madsen]
    She was married to Samuel Bennion in Saint Nicholas Church, Liverpool, England, on April 28th, 1839, assisted him in his business at Liverpool for a period of five years, came with him to Nauvoo in 1845, shared in the exodus from that city only a year later and made the journey to the Rocky Mountains by ox team as hereinbefore recited. During all this time she had clung to the religious faith of her parents, but in the summer of 1848, having become fully converted to the Gospel as taught by the Latter-day Saints, she was baptized by Bishop Hoagland of the Fourteenth ward, [Great] Salt Lake City.
    During the sojourn in Liverpool, England, there had been born to them four children, John Rowland, James Bushell, William and Elizabeth. James Bushell and William, however, died of scarlet fever, within two days of each other, November 28 and Dec. 1, 1844, James at the age of three years and seven months and William at two years and six months. Elizabeth died and was buried at Nauvoo, Ill. During her lifetime Mary Bushell Bennion became the mother of eleven children.
    Mrs. Bennion was genial and hospitable in the extreme. With a song on  her lips while at her work, a word of cheer and comfort to those in distress, a material contribution to those in want, wise counsel and advice to the young and inexperienced, and above all a sweet and sunny disposition in her own home, she was abundantly qualified to be, as she was, the guiding star and pilot to the large family of children she brought into the world and reared to manhood and womanhood, and to be companion and helpmeet to her husband in his many positions of trust and reponsibility as a leader among the people with whom he was called to labor.
    She  was called to act as first counselor to Elizabeth Pixton, president of the Taylorsville Relief Society when it was organized on Feb. 4th, 1869, Alice Moses being second counselor and Rachel Bennion Spencer secretary, which position she held to the time of her death from typhoid fever on April 34, 1872. Mary E. Coo
                  

                   BIRTH:
CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #1,068,859, Huyton, Lancashire, England. 10 May Baptized William son of John & Martha Bushell, Huyton, Labourer.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH:

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                   BIRTH
CHRISTENING: : F.H.L. Film #093,874, St. Peters Parish Records, p 263. Liverpool, Lancashire, England. #2,102 2 April 1820  John, son of John and Margaret Bushell St. Andrews Street, Labourer.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH:

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                   BIRTH:
CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #093,875, p.62 St. Peters Parish Records, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. #1,442 11 August 1822 James son of John and Martha Bushell St. Andrews Street, Labourer.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH:

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This child was named the same as child #3 because James, chilld #3 died.
                  

                      BIRTH:
CHRISTENING:  F.H.L. Film #093,876, St. Peters Parish Records, p.419, Liverpool, Lancashire,  England. #3,345 3 November 1824, Martha (twin) daughter of John & Martha Bushell Olive Street Carter.
MARRIAGE: Marriage Certificate from General Registration Office, London, England.  Copy attached to William Henry Harrison Family Group Sheet.
DEATH:

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                   BIRTH:
CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #093,876, St. Peter's Church, p.419, Liverpool,  Lancashire, England.     #3,346,    3 November 1824, Margaret (twin) daughter of John & Martha Bushell Olive Street, Carter.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH:

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                   BIRTH:
CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #093,876, St. Peter's Church, p.386, Liverpool,  Lancashire, England.
#3,084 15 October 1826 John son of John & Martha Bushell Olive Street, Labourer.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH:

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                   CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #093.878, p. 14, St. Peter's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, England.   #105 30 May 1830 Edward son of John & Martha Bushell Olive Street, Labourer.
MARRIAGE: (1) Mary Hansen 4 Dec 1853 Not located in St. Peters nor St. Nicholas Parish Records.
	(2) Mary Rimmer 16 Sep 1866 Not located in St. Peters nor St. Nicholas Parish Records.

   DEATH:

BAPTISM: F.H.L. Film #183,384 EHOUS, p.235, #11,270.
ENDOWMENT: F.H.L. Film  #170,544 SGEOR, p.228, #3893.
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L. Film #184,698 SLAKE, Children to Parents, p.757, #26544.
SEALED TO SPOUSE: (1) Mary Hanson, Computer IGI.
	                 (2) Mary Rimmer s/s Computer IGI.

CHRISTENING: F.H.L. Film #093.877, page 188, St. Peter's Church,  Liverpool, Lancashire, England. #1,499 30 December 1828 Edward son of John & Martha Bushell Olive Street, Carter.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH:

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