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Derby, Erastus H.

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14 Sept. 1810

Hawley, MA, Births, Marriagess, and Deaths, 1727–1854, p. 20, microfilm 768,339, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Hawley, MA, Town Records, 1730–1855, p. 601, microfilm 886,463, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

–3 Dec. 1890.

Le Sueur Co., MN, District Court, Indexes to Death Records, 1870–1849, vol. 1, p. 196, microfilm 1,320,254, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Ruhamah B. Derby, Civil War Widow’s Pension Files, Ohio, pension no. 316,418, in Record Group 15, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, National Archives, Washington DC.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Records of the Department of Veteran Affairs. Record Group 15. National Archive and Records Administration. Washington DC.

Tailor, carpenter, farmer, joiner.

1850 U.S. Census, District 21, Pottawattamie Co., IA, 71[A]; 1860 U.S. Census, Brady Township, Williams Co., OH, 140[A]; 1870 U.S. Census, Brady, Williams Co., OH, 12[A].

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Born in Hawley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Son of Edward Darby and Ruth Phoebe Hitchcock.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Knowlton, Ezra Clark. The Utah Knowltons: History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and His Descendants. Salt Lake City: No publisher, 1971.

Moved to Ohio, by 1834.

Hamilton Co., OH, Probate Court, Restored Marriage Records, 1808–1873, vol. A, p. 363, microfilm 344,452, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Knowlton, Utah Knowltons, 15.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Knowlton, Ezra Clark. The Utah Knowltons: History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and His Descendants. Salt Lake City: No publisher, 1971.

Married Ruhamah Burnham Knowlton, 10 Aug. 1834, in Carthage, Hamilton Co., Ohio.

Hamilton Co., OH, Probate Court, Restored Marriage Records, 1808–1873, vol. A, p. 363, microfilm 344,452, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Ruhamah B. Derby, Civil War Widow’s Pension Files, Ohio, pension no. 316,418, in Record Group 15, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, National Archives, Washington DC; Knowlton, Utah Knowltons, 15.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Records of the Department of Veteran Affairs. Record Group 15. National Archive and Records Administration. Washington DC.

Knowlton, Ezra Clark. The Utah Knowltons: History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and His Descendants. Salt Lake City: No publisher, 1971.

Moved to Hancock Co., Illinois, soon thereafter.

Knowlton, Utah Knowltons, 15–16.

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Knowlton, Ezra Clark. The Utah Knowltons: History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and His Descendants. Salt Lake City: No publisher, 1971.

Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, early 1840, in Hancock Co.

Knowlton, Utah Knowltons, 16.

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Knowlton, Ezra Clark. The Utah Knowltons: History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and His Descendants. Salt Lake City: No publisher, 1971.

Appointed aide-de-camp in Nauvoo Legion, 13 Nov. 1841.

“The First List of the Officers of the Nauvoo Legion, as Made Out by John C. Bennett. M.Gl,” Nauvoo Legion Files, CHL; Rank Roll of the Nauvoo Legion, ca. May 1842, BYU; Illinois Militia Commission Records, 43; Militia Returns, Nauvoo Legion, 13 Dec. 1841, Illinois Governor, Military Correspondence, CHL.

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Nauvoo Legion Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3430.

Rank Roll of the Nauvoo Legion, ca. May–June 1842, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, BYU.

Illinois Militia Commission Records, 1841–1844. CHL. MS 2834.

Illinois Governor. Military Correspondence, 1839–1844. Microfilm. CHL. MS 8716.

Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., by 1842.

“Erastus Durbey,” in Platt, Lyman, Nauvoo, Illinois Tax Index, 1842[database online], Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, 1999, in Ancestry.com (accessed 14 Feb. 2013).

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Ancestry.com. http://ancestry.com.

Member of Nauvoo Masonic Lodge.

Knowlton, Utah Knowltons, 20; List of Members, Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book, 7.

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Knowlton, Ezra Clark. The Utah Knowltons: History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and His Descendants. Salt Lake City: No publisher, 1971.

Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book. / “Record of Na[u]voo Lodge Under Dispensation,” 1842–1846. CHL. MS 3436

Traveled to Missouri, July 1842, to ask Governor Thomas Reynolds to remit arrest warrant for JS.

George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 26 June 1855, Northern Islander, 16 Aug. 1855, [3]–[4]; “Astounding Mormon Disclosures! Letter from Gen. Bennett,” Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 8 July 1842, [2]; Calvin A. Warren, Quincy, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 13 July 1842, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Journal, 12 July 1842; JSP, J2:75n303.

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Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.

Sangamo Journal. Springfield, IL. 1831–1847.

Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.

JSP, J2 / Hedges, Andrew H., Alex D. Smith, and Richard Lloyd Anderson, eds. Journals, Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843. Vol. 2 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011.

While in hiding with JS, served as a scribe for JS’s journal, Aug. 1842.

JSP, J2:8.

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Ordained a seventy.

Nauvoo Seventies List, 1:111.

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Nauvoo Seventies List. Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration. 3 vols. [Salt Lake City]: By the author, n.d.

Moved to Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, by 1850; to Ohio, by late 1850; to Chicago, by 1855; and to Williams Co., Ohio, by 1860.

1850 U.S. Census, District 21, Pottawattamie Co., IA, 71[A]; Knowlton, Utah Knowltons, 21; “Derby, Erastus H.,” born 14 Sept. 1810, submitted by Harry Jack Ford, Sr., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family Group Records Collection; Archives Section, 1942–1969, microfilm 1,273,937, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; 1860 U.S. Census, Brady Township, Williams Co., OH, 140[A].

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Knowlton, Ezra Clark. The Utah Knowltons: History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and His Descendants. Salt Lake City: No publisher, 1971.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Fought in Civil War.

Ruhamah B. Derby, Civil War Widow’s Pension Files, Ohio, pension no. 316,418, in Record Group 15, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, National Archives, Washington DC; Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 5:639.

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Records of the Department of Veteran Affairs. Record Group 15. National Archive and Records Administration. Washington DC.

Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. vols. 12. Akron, OH: Werner, 1886–1895.

Moved to Le Sueur, Le Sueur Co., Minnesota, 1872.

Erastus Derby, Civil War Invalid Pension Files, Ohio, pension no. 164,233, in Record Group 15, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, National Archives, Washington DC.

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Records of the Department of Veteran Affairs. Record Group 15. National Archive and Records Administration. Washington DC.

Died in Le Sueur.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Records of the Department of Veteran Affairs. Record Group 15. National Archive and Records Administration. Washington DC.

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