Almon Butterfield

Almon was born on July 14th, 1844 in Nauvoo, IL in the United States to Thomas Jefferson Butterfield and Mary Jane Parker. He was the fourth of seventeen children, eight girls and nine boys.

When young Almon was only four years old,he left Nauvoo with his parents and three siblings, Mary Jane, George and Sarah. They traveled with the Allen Taylor Company. The company departed from Illinois on the 5-6 July 1849 and arrived in Salt Lake City 10-20 October 1849. The history and details of this company can be read here.

In 1850 he lived in Great Salt Lake in the Utah Territory with his parents and four siblings. His father was a farmer.

In 1860 he lived with his parents, seven siblings and his father's second wife (Mary Jane Farmer Butterfield, 38) in Salt Lake in the Utah Territory. Their farm was valued at $800.

On January 27th, 1866 Almon married Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Farmer in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City when he was twenty one years old and she was seventeen.

Almon and Lizzie Butterfield

They had sixteen children together, all were born in Herrimann ,UT.

Their first child, Elizabeth Emma, was born on November 5th ,1866. She died on September 12th, 1867 at ten months old, only seventeen days before Agnes was born.

Their second child, Agnes Ann, was born on September 29th, 1867, and died the same day.

Their third child, Almon Thomas, was born on July 5th, 1868.

Copied from Our Pioneer Heritage , vol 6, p. 457 -458

Their first home consisted of one room with dirt floor and roof, but they were very happy until their first two babies died rather suddenly. Their third child and oldest son was born just before "Lizzie" was twenty years of age.

In 1870 the family lived in West Jordan, UT with two year old Almon Thomas on their farm in the one room cabin.

Their fourth child, Joseph James, was born on November 14th, 1870.

Their fifth child, Sarah Jane, was born on March 24th, 1872.

Their sixth child, Olive Jeanette, was born on November 14th, 1873.

Their seventh child, George Samuel, was born on March 16th, 1876.

In 1876 Almon and Lizzie moved with their six children from the one room cabin to a stone house in Herriman*. 

Their eighth child, Mary Emily, was born on June 12th, 1877.

Their ninth child, Frederick Richard, was born on April 14th, 1879.

In 1880 they lived in Fort Herriman, UT on their farm with seven children.

Their tenth child, John Edward, was born on September 23rd, 1880.

Their eleventh child, Willard Franklin, was born on December 29th, 1882.

Their twelfth child, Zachariah Trussler, was born on December 24th, 1885. He died on October 26th, 1886 at ten months old.

Their thirteenth child, Mahonri, was born on October 19th, 1887.

On March 9th, 1888 at the age of forty three, Almon took a second (plural) wife, Sarah Mitchell. She was twenty four years old. They married in Logan UT, and had two children together, both born in Herriman.

Almon and Lizzie's fourteenth child, Parley Parker, was born on December 27th, 1889.

Almon and Lizzie's fifteenth child, Hannah Persylvia, was born on April 17th, 1891.

Almon and Sarah's first child, Alice Elizabeth, was born on May 6th, 1891.

Almon and Lizzie's sixteenth and last child, Lyman, was born on June 15th, 1893. He died the same day.

Almon and Sarah's second and last child, William Henry was born on August 3rd, 1895.
 

Almon and Lizzie

 On the 1900 federal census, Almon is shown to live with Lizzie and eight of their children on their farm. Sarah and their two children were listed in a separate household nearby.

Almon and his sons

In 1920 Almon lived with Lizzie, one daughter and two grandsons in Precinct 9 of Salt Lake City, UT.

He died of acute pneumonia with secondary senility on February 5th, 1926 in Herriman, UT at the age of eighty one and was buried in the Herriman Cemetery.

*If they had six living children when they moved in to the stone house, it may have been 1877 or 1878.

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