Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameDavid BRINTON 
3355
3355Birth Date29 Dec 1814
Birth PlaceThornbury Township, Delaware Co., PA, USA
Death Date17 May 1878 Age: 63
Death PlaceHolladay, Salt Lake Co., UT, USA
Burial PlaceBrinton Cemetery, Holladay, Salt Lake Co., UT, USA
OccupationBlacksmith and Operator of a General Store
ReligionChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
FatherJohn BRINTON (-1818)
MotherPriscilla BRANSON
Misc. Notes
David Brinton (1814), Utah Pioneer
(Head of the Mormon branch of the American Brintons)
A Descendant of William Brinton, Sr. (1635-1699)
Biography
David Brinton was born 29 December 1814, to John and Priscilla Branson Brinton in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
As a young boy, David lived in The William Brinton 1704 House, near West Chester, Pennsylvania. After his father died in 1818, he was raised by his Uncle Benjamin Cope, who was a Quaker.
At age 16, David was "bound out" as an apprentice blacksmith to Joshua Hodges, who taught him the trade. David remained with Mr. Hodges until age 20 or 22. He married Sarah Piersol in 1836, in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
David and Sarah joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1840.
After Sarah and three of her four children died, he married Elizabeth Hoopes, who bore one child.
Because of religious persecution, they joined the Mormon exodus organized by Brigham Young, from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters*, which is near Omaha, Nebraska. Elizabeth and son died in Winter Quarters.
David then married Harriet W. Dilworth, whose family had been West Chester neighbors. After a two-year stopover in Savannah, Missouri, during which two sons were born, the new family continued westward.
They arrived in the Utah Territory on 17 September 1850. David established his home and blacksmith shop in Holladay, an area ten miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Harriet gave birth to seven more children.
While in the Salt Lake region, David also married Hilda M. Bradesen, a plural wife with whom he had four children.
David served as a Mormon missionary in both England and the eastern United States† and as Bishop of his congregation for 21 years. In addition to blacksmithing, he started the Big Cottonwood Co-op, a general store at Brinton's Corner.
David died on 17 May 1878, and is buried in the (Brinton) Holladay Cemetery.‡
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David in-all fathered 18 children. 14 of them may have survived to maturity. For more about David see his wife Harriet’s notes.3
As homes were built, commercial ventures developed, first at the intersection of Highland Drive and Murray-Holladay Road, with David Brinton’s Mercantile Co-op and Brinton-Gunderson Blacksmith Shop.3356
*Winter Quarters was an encampment formed by approximately 2,500 members of the LDS church as they waited during the winter of 1846-1847 for better conditions for their trek westward. It was located in present-day Nirth, Omaha overlooking the Missouri River, the settlement remained populated until 1848.3357
†According to this source David also served a six month mission to Iron County, UT in Dec 1850 and answered a colonizing mission to help construct Ft. Supply near Ft. Bridger, Wyoming in Nov 1853.3358
‡I’ve been unable to locate a Brinton Cemetery anywhere in Utah nor is David’s grave among those listed at the Holladay Cemetery. However his son Joseph Hammond is buried at Holladay Memorial Park.3
(Head of the Mormon branch of the American Brintons)
A Descendant of William Brinton, Sr. (1635-1699)
Biography
David Brinton was born 29 December 1814, to John and Priscilla Branson Brinton in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
As a young boy, David lived in The William Brinton 1704 House, near West Chester, Pennsylvania. After his father died in 1818, he was raised by his Uncle Benjamin Cope, who was a Quaker.
At age 16, David was "bound out" as an apprentice blacksmith to Joshua Hodges, who taught him the trade. David remained with Mr. Hodges until age 20 or 22. He married Sarah Piersol in 1836, in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
David and Sarah joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1840.
After Sarah and three of her four children died, he married Elizabeth Hoopes, who bore one child.
Because of religious persecution, they joined the Mormon exodus organized by Brigham Young, from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters*, which is near Omaha, Nebraska. Elizabeth and son died in Winter Quarters.
David then married Harriet W. Dilworth, whose family had been West Chester neighbors. After a two-year stopover in Savannah, Missouri, during which two sons were born, the new family continued westward.
They arrived in the Utah Territory on 17 September 1850. David established his home and blacksmith shop in Holladay, an area ten miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Harriet gave birth to seven more children.
While in the Salt Lake region, David also married Hilda M. Bradesen, a plural wife with whom he had four children.
David served as a Mormon missionary in both England and the eastern United States† and as Bishop of his congregation for 21 years. In addition to blacksmithing, he started the Big Cottonwood Co-op, a general store at Brinton's Corner.
David died on 17 May 1878, and is buried in the (Brinton) Holladay Cemetery.‡
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David in-all fathered 18 children. 14 of them may have survived to maturity. For more about David see his wife Harriet’s notes.3
As homes were built, commercial ventures developed, first at the intersection of Highland Drive and Murray-Holladay Road, with David Brinton’s Mercantile Co-op and Brinton-Gunderson Blacksmith Shop.3356
*Winter Quarters was an encampment formed by approximately 2,500 members of the LDS church as they waited during the winter of 1846-1847 for better conditions for their trek westward. It was located in present-day Nirth, Omaha overlooking the Missouri River, the settlement remained populated until 1848.3357
†According to this source David also served a six month mission to Iron County, UT in Dec 1850 and answered a colonizing mission to help construct Ft. Supply near Ft. Bridger, Wyoming in Nov 1853.3358
‡I’ve been unable to locate a Brinton Cemetery anywhere in Utah nor is David’s grave among those listed at the Holladay Cemetery. However his son Joseph Hammond is buried at Holladay Memorial Park.3
Spouses
ReligionChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Misc. Notes
Sarah with her husband David joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1840.
Sarah and three of her and David’s four children died.
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Sara Piersof had four children with David. She and three of her children died leaving a son, Evans. 3358
Sarah and three of her and David’s four children died.
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Sara Piersof had four children with David. She and three of her children died leaving a son, Evans. 3358
Death PlaceWinter Quarters, Nebraska (North Omaha), USA
Misc. Notes
After the death of David’s first wife Sarah he married Elizabeth. Together they had one son.
Because of religious persecution, David and Elizabeth joined the Mormon exodus organized by Brigham Young, from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters, which is near Omaha, Nebraska. Elizabeth and her son died while at Winter Quarters.
Because of religious persecution, David and Elizabeth joined the Mormon exodus organized by Brigham Young, from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters, which is near Omaha, Nebraska. Elizabeth and her son died while at Winter Quarters.
Family ID6183
Children[Son]
Birth Date24 Feb 1822
Birth PlaceUwchlan, Chester, PA
Death Date19 Nov 1896 Age: 74
Death PlaceSalt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, USA
ReligionChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Misc. Notes
Harriet was the seventh of thirteen children. She first married David Dutton Yearsley and then David Brinton, being the third wife. David and his first wife, Sara Piersof, had four children; Sara and three of her children died leaving a son, Evans. David’s second wife, Elizabeth Garret Hoopes, had one son when both mother and son died.
David, Harriet, and son Evans, left Winter Quarters* in May, 1848, for the West, but death of their oxen caused them to drop out and to make a stop in Savannah, Missouri. They remained there where David worked at his trade of blacksmithing until June 1850. Two sons were born to them while living there. The youngest child was just 9 months old† when they reached the Salt Lake Valley, in September.
Three months after their arrival, Dec 1850, David went on a six month mission to Iron County. While he was away, Harriet and the three boys lived in their wagon and with her Grandmother Dilworth’s one-room log house. [sic]
In 1852, this family moved to Holladay, Salt Lake County, and settled in a log house they moved to what is now Highland Drive and Murray-Holladay Rd., the present [1998] site of Cottonwood Mall.
Again in Nov 1853, David answered a colonizing mission to help construct Ft. Supply near Ft. Bridger, Wyoming. A month later, Harriet gave birth to her fourth son Samuel.
When Johnston’s Army, threatened the invasion of SL [Salt Lake] Valley, in 1858, Harriet moved her family to Lehi. Evans was twenty years old now and was away from home, so Caleb, age nine, drove the livestock, and eight year old David, drove a wagon load of flour as they went south for the threat. Missionaries were called home and David rejoined his family in Lehi before returning to their Cottonwood home.
Harriet was a healthy woman of staunch Pennsylvania Quaker stock. Her pioneer life developed her skills as seamstress and tailoress, which included clipping, washing, carding and spinning of wool. Even during a period of draught [sic] or cricket invasion, Harriet shared the family’s crops, never turning anyone away hungry. She became the first President of the Relief Society in the Big Cottonwood Ward, in 1868.
Home and church were the focal points for pioneer refuge and recuperation. Harriet, like most women of that era, brought refinement into her home while teaching manners, literature, music, art, and love, in a country noted for it’s hardshness. Pioneer women made men of their boys and ladies of their girls, while all cooperated to subdue and conquer a wilderness.3359
[This source includes a photo of Elizabeth.]
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Following the death of his second wife Elizabeth David then married Harriet, whose family had been West Chester [PA] neighbors.
After a two-year stopover in Savannah, Missouri, during which two sons were born, the new family continued westward.
The family arrived in the Utah Territory on 17 September 1850 where David established his home and blacksmith shop in Holladay, an area ten miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
Seven more children were born to Harriet and David after their arrival in the Salt Lake valley. [Together they had nine children.]
David also married Hilda M. Bradesen, a plural wife with whom they had four children.3360
*Winter Quarters was an encampment formed by approximately 2,500 members of the LDS church as they waited during the winter of 1846-1847 for better conditions for their trek westward. It was located in present-day Nirth, Omaha overlooking the Missouri River, the settlement remained populated until 1848.3357
†Youngest child David would have been seven months old in Sep of 1850 when his family reached the Salt Lake Valley.3
David, Harriet, and son Evans, left Winter Quarters* in May, 1848, for the West, but death of their oxen caused them to drop out and to make a stop in Savannah, Missouri. They remained there where David worked at his trade of blacksmithing until June 1850. Two sons were born to them while living there. The youngest child was just 9 months old† when they reached the Salt Lake Valley, in September.
Three months after their arrival, Dec 1850, David went on a six month mission to Iron County. While he was away, Harriet and the three boys lived in their wagon and with her Grandmother Dilworth’s one-room log house. [sic]
In 1852, this family moved to Holladay, Salt Lake County, and settled in a log house they moved to what is now Highland Drive and Murray-Holladay Rd., the present [1998] site of Cottonwood Mall.
Again in Nov 1853, David answered a colonizing mission to help construct Ft. Supply near Ft. Bridger, Wyoming. A month later, Harriet gave birth to her fourth son Samuel.
When Johnston’s Army, threatened the invasion of SL [Salt Lake] Valley, in 1858, Harriet moved her family to Lehi. Evans was twenty years old now and was away from home, so Caleb, age nine, drove the livestock, and eight year old David, drove a wagon load of flour as they went south for the threat. Missionaries were called home and David rejoined his family in Lehi before returning to their Cottonwood home.
Harriet was a healthy woman of staunch Pennsylvania Quaker stock. Her pioneer life developed her skills as seamstress and tailoress, which included clipping, washing, carding and spinning of wool. Even during a period of draught [sic] or cricket invasion, Harriet shared the family’s crops, never turning anyone away hungry. She became the first President of the Relief Society in the Big Cottonwood Ward, in 1868.
Home and church were the focal points for pioneer refuge and recuperation. Harriet, like most women of that era, brought refinement into her home while teaching manners, literature, music, art, and love, in a country noted for it’s hardshness. Pioneer women made men of their boys and ladies of their girls, while all cooperated to subdue and conquer a wilderness.3359
[This source includes a photo of Elizabeth.]
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Following the death of his second wife Elizabeth David then married Harriet, whose family had been West Chester [PA] neighbors.
After a two-year stopover in Savannah, Missouri, during which two sons were born, the new family continued westward.
The family arrived in the Utah Territory on 17 September 1850 where David established his home and blacksmith shop in Holladay, an area ten miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
Seven more children were born to Harriet and David after their arrival in the Salt Lake valley. [Together they had nine children.]
David also married Hilda M. Bradesen, a plural wife with whom they had four children.3360
*Winter Quarters was an encampment formed by approximately 2,500 members of the LDS church as they waited during the winter of 1846-1847 for better conditions for their trek westward. It was located in present-day Nirth, Omaha overlooking the Missouri River, the settlement remained populated until 1848.3357
†Youngest child David would have been seven months old in Sep of 1850 when his family reached the Salt Lake Valley.3
Family ID6185
Marr Date14 Jan 18483358
ChildrenCaleb Dilworth (1849-)
David Branson (1850-)
Joseph Hammond (1852-1915)
Samuel (1853-)
William Henry (Died as Child) (1855-)
Franklin Dilworth (Twin) (1857-)
Harriet Dilworth (Twin) (1857-)
Sarah Elizabeth (1859-)
Eliza Dilworth (1863-)
Misc. Notes
Hilda and her husband David together had four children in a plural marriage.
Family ID6186