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Erastus Curtis, Sr.

15 May 1828—20 January 1902

1 Born at Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio; son of Phoebe Martin and Uriah Curtis. 2 Married Mary Caroline Barton, 1848; participated in plural marriage. 3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852. 4 Early settler of Cottonwood Creek, Emery County, Utah Territory, 1877. 5 Served as the first sheriff of Emery County. 6 Died at Barton, Custer County, Idaho. 7 (See Document 4.25)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Erastus Curtis KWNK-GFP. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 16483519, Erastus Curtis; Barton Flat Cemetery, Mackay, Custer, ID.

  2. 2 “Family Tree,” database, Erastus Curtis.

  3. 3 “Family Tree,” database, Erastus Curtis and Mary Caroline Barton KWJZ-W58. Edward A. Geary, A History of Emery County (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society and Emery County Commission, 1996), 78.

  4. 4 “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Apr. 2014), Erastus Curtis.

  5. 5 Geary, History of Emery County, 65–66.

  6. 6 Ibid., 124.

  7. 7 “Family Tree,” database, Erastus Curtis. Find a Grave, memorial no. 16483519.