Elthura Roseltha Merrill

1842 - 1915  (72 years)

• Name	Elthura Roseltha Merrill
  Born	13 Sep 1842	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	13 Jul 1915	Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States
  Buried	15 Jul 1915	Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States
  Person ID	I2151	My Family Tree | Collett-Williams
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	Samuel Bemis Merrill,   b. 4 Jan 1812, Smithfield, Madison, New York, United States ,   d. 10 Apr 1891, Mapleton, Oneida, Idaho, United States  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Gardner Runyon,   b. 16 Aug 1818, Greenwich Township, Warren, New Jersey, United States ,   d. 2 Jul 1906, Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States  (Age 87 years)
  Married	1836	Utica, Macomb, Michigan, United States
  Family ID	F771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Reuben Collett,   b. 19 Jul 1839, Pendock, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 21 Jan 1920, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States  (Age 80 years)
  Married	17 Jan 1861	Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States
  Children	1. Phoebe Theresa Collett,   b. 24 Jul 1862, Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 16 Jan 1863  (Age 0 years)   2. Reuben Samuel Collett,   b. 26 May 1864, Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 20 Sep 1946, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  (Age 82 years)   3. Sylvester Daniel Collett,   b. 15 Dec 1866, Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 5 May 1889, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico  (Age 22 years) + 4. Sylvanus Collett,   b. 15 Dec 1866, Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 29 Apr 1932, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States  (Age 65 years)   5. Julia Ann Collett,   b. 20 Feb 1869, Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 17 Sep 1961, Logan, Cache, Utah, USA  (Age 92 years)   6. Adelbert Teancum Collett,   b. 3 Nov 1872, Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 23 Mar 1959  (Age 86 years)   7. Charles Merrill Collett,   b. 4 Jun 1875, Bennington, Bear Lake, Idaho Territory, United States ,   d. 27 Feb 1969  (Age 93 years)   8. Princetta Collett,   b. 11 Jan 1878, Escalante, Iron, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 7 Apr 1939, Meeker, Rio Blanco, Colorado, USA  (Age 61 years)   9. Orrin Collett,   b. 16 Jul 1882, Lehi, Maricopa, Arizona Territory, United States ,   d. 22 Dec 1888, Lehi, Maricopa, Arizona Territory, United States  (Age 6 years)   10. Roseltha May Collett,   b. 29 Apr 1884, Lehi, Maricopa, Arizona Territory, United States ,   d. 18 Oct 1967, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, USA  (Age 83 years)   11. Clarence James Collett,   b. 5 May 1886, Lehi, Maricopa, Arizona Territory, United States ,   d. 27 Jun 1973, Bluffdale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  (Age 87 years)   12. George Collett,   b. 15 Sep 1888, Naples, Uintah, Utah Territory, United States ,   d. 6 Nov 1982, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  (Age 94 years)
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F769	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 13 Sep 1842 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA Married - 17 Jan 1861 - Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States Died - 13 Jul 1915 - Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States Buried - 15 Jul 1915 - Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories » Slide Show		The Ancestral Chart from Adam to Elthura This chart shows the lineage from Adam through the Collett and Merrill lines
  		An Excerpt from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah by Frank Esshom Containing family information on Daniel Collett who married Esther Jones; Reuben Collett who married Elthurah Roseltha Merrill; Samuel Merrill who married Phoebe Odell.
  		Biography of Sylvanus Collett Written by his brother, Charles M. Collett in 1965 at the age of ninety. An Excerpt: "Father sold his sheep and bought cattle, so he had 300 head. So RS and Vest became the cowboys. They drove all those cattle for six months thru desert infested Indian land. The water was so scarce, they had to keep a sharp lookout for water signs made by the Indians. The water holes often had a scum on it filled with wigglers, so it had to be strained thru a cloth, then boiled. ... One day the water sign was missed, so we had to travel two days and one night to find water, the cattle became crazy, one cow chased Vean and on the edge of a steep gully he managed to dodge her, she went down the hill to her death, he barely escaped."
  		Sylvanus Collett Biography A 1952 account of the life of Sylvanus Collett by his son Orin. An Excerpt: "In the month of April 1881, they (the family) answered the call to move to a new place. This time it was Arizona. At this time my father was fourteen years old and his brother Ruben was sixteen. They left Escalante with 200 head of cattle, 100 head of horses and three wagons and one thousand dollars in cash. Father and his brothers Ruben and Sylvester had to drive the loose cattle and horses. The country was rough and there were no roads for the wagons. It was slow and hard work. Many times the wagons had to be lowered down over the steep banks and sandstone ledges with ropes and saddle horses." - See more at: http://www.myfamilyonline.com/getperson.php?personID=I37&tree=T6#sthash.8LDbF6cI.dpuf