Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Elliot Butterworth 1853 - 1939



Elliot Butterworth was my Great Great grandfather. He was born in England in 1853. In About 1869, at the age of 16, he traveled with his mother , sister Alice and Lizzie Butterworth to America and then to Utah to be with the Mormon Saints. His father came later. He married Fanny Lee in 1880 and they had thirteen children, four of whom died at very young ages. In 1819 he founded the Franklin relic Hall in Franklin, Idaho. He lived to be 86 and died in 1939.