Benjamin blev gift med Ida Fadella Jenkins den 5 jan. 1891 i Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Ida (datter af George Washington Jenkins og Rebecca Ann Roberts) blev født i 1/15/1862 i Farmington, Cedar, Iowa, USA; døde i 12/15/1938 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• Indvandring: 2 okt. 1847, Utah, USA
• Dåb: 1848

Notater:

Benjamin was born in Pennsylvania, where his father operated a flour mill. His parents and the older children joined the LDS Church in 1843, a year before Joseph Smith's death. The whole family joined the exodus to Utah when Benjamin was twelve, traveling with the third wagon company to go west.
“The adventure excited me,” he said. “We enjoyed the march across the plains. We were aroused by a bugle call every morning at 6:00 a.m. We traveled until mid-afternoon, the speed and distance covered was regulated by the slowest wagons. Often we traveled no more than five or six miles. When we could travel ahead, we raced to see who could be the first to gather wild berries, or shoot quail, grouse or rabbits. One morning a stampede was produced among camp livestock when someone shook a big buffalo robe. Animals raced around, trampling on one another and some of them got their horns knocked off.”
When he had grown to manhood, Benjamin was one of the favorite uncles for the families of his brother John. “Colorful, with charm and a generous nature, he was a handsome man.” He married Martha Ann Bitner in 1859, and they moved to a homestead in the south part of the valley. Benjamin farmed and raised cattle there, and operated an inn known as Neff's Station for travelers between Salt Lake and Provo. Before the railroad extended from Salt Lake to Provo, the trip between the cities took two full days.
His first wife died in 1868, and in 1870 he married two other women on the same day. Maria Bowthorpe was a widow who had been keeping house for him, and Mary Ellen Love was a young woman from Nephi who had been working as a telegrapher and who was introduced to Benjamin by Benjamin's cousin, a superintendent of the Deseret Telegraph Company.
Because of the mining activity in Little Cottonwood Canyon, the Deseret Telegraph Company placed a telegraph station at Neff's Inn, and Benjamin's wife Mary Ellen operated the station until the railroad line extended past Point of the Mountain, and the telegraph station was moved to Sandy. She also worked in Sandy for a short period of time, bringing her three-month-old baby to work every day.
Benjamin's children remembered him with affection. One of them remembers that her mother would usually refer difficult childish requests to Benjamin. “When appealed to, he would sit down with the child. In a quiet, sober way, he would ask questions. After full discussion he would remark gently “You don't want to do that,” or “You don't want to have that.” Then, the matter was dropped with everyone feeling happy. The same child remembers traveling to Church with him on Sunday: “When attired in his Sunday best, she thought him the handsomest man in the world.”

Benjamin blev gift med Martha Ann Bitner den 26 feb. 1858 i Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Martha (datter af Abraham Bitner, Sr og Anna Barr) blev født den 13 nov. 1840 i Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA; døde den 24 jul. 1868 i Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

George blev gift med Rebecca Ann Roberts den 23 apr. 1861 i Farmington, Van Buren, Iowa, USA. Rebecca blev født den 21 apr. 1843 i Kirkland, Lake, Ohio, United States; døde den 11 maj 1915 i Sandy City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

John blev gift med Mary Iris Barr den 12 jan. 1822 i Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary blev født den 1 dec. 1801 i Bart, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA; døde den 1 dec. 1875 i East Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Abraham blev gift med Anna Barr den 12 maj 1835 i Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA. Anna blev født den 4 dec. 1803 i Bart, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA; døde den 20 maj 1893 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

William blev gift med Hannah Marks den 1 sep. 1836 i Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Hannah blev født den 19 feb. 1820 i Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; døde den 1 dec. 1858 i Farmington, Van Buren, Iowa, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]