Name |
Benjamin Gideon Rolfe |
Born |
27 Nov 1919 |
Hunter, Salt Lake, Utah, USA [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
19 Jan 1920 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA [2] |
Census 1920
Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Pct 4, Dist 146, 19 Jan 1920, SD 2, ED 41, Sheet 3B, Dwelling 47, Family 49 (Farm)
William Rolfe, head, 34. Mary E., wife 36. Children: Lapreal, daughter 11; Guila, daughter 9; Florence, daughter 5; Mabel, daughter 2 2/12; Benjamin, son 1/12. They own their own home free of a mortgage; a farm. He is a general farmer working on his own account. Lapreal and Guila are attending school. All can read and write except Florence, Mabel and Benjamin. All are born in Utah; his parents in Utah anc Colorado; hers in Sweden and Denmark. Next door to Alfred J. and Sarah Jones; David and Susie Vaughn. |
Age: 1/12 |
Census |
27 Apr 1930 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA [3] |
Census 1930
Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, 27 Apr 1930, Precinct 5, SD 2, ED 18-109, sheet 13A, dwelling 26, family 29
Mary Roffe, head, 47, widow. Children: Lapreal, daughter 21; Guila, daughter 19; Florence, daughter 15; Mabel, daughter 12; Benjamin G., son 10. Owns a farm; general farming working on her own account. Lapreal is a a comptometer (illegible) in a dairy for wages. Florence, Mabel and Benjamin are attending school; all can read and write. All were born in Utah. Her father was born in Sweden; mother in Denmark. The children's father in Utah. Next door to Joseph and Sara A. Bullock.
Note: surname transcribed as Roffe, not Rolfe |
Age: 10 |
Census |
10 May 1940 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA [4] |
Census 1940
Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake rural, precint 5, 10 May 1940, SD 2, ED 15-27, sheet 18B, 3500 South, dwelling 314
Mary E. Rolfe, head 57, widow. Benjamin G., son 20. She is a farmer working on her own account; income for 1939 was zero; has other source of income. Benjamin is a foundryman helper in a copper mill for private wages; income for 1939 was $1,320; no other source of income. Highest grade attended: Mary H-1; Benjamin H-4. Living in the same house as on 1 Apr 1935. Both were born in Utah. |
Age: 20 |
Military Service |
28 Sep 1942 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA [5] |
#WWII, World War II Enlistment
Local Board 15. Benjimen Gideon Rolfe, serial number 19116700, Army; enlisted on 28 Sep 1942 in Salt Lake City. Born 27 Nov 1919 in Hunter, Utah. Parents Mary E. Rolfe, RFD 1, Box 99, Magna, Utah; father deceased. Single. |
Age: 23 |
Died |
26 Nov 1944 |
Germany |
Military Service |
17 Jun 1949 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA [6] |
U.S. Headstone Application for Military Veterans
Application for flat granite marker by mother, Mary E. Rolfe, 17 Jun 1919 for Benjamin G. Rolfe; date of birth 27 Nov 1919, date of death 26 Nov 1944; 1st Lt. USAAF. Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Buried |
Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA [7] |
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Lieut Benjamin G. Rolfe (1919 - 1944) - Find A Grave Memorial
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Person ID |
I2661 |
clanSoren |
Last Modified |
19 Sep 2014 |