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Benjamin Gideon Rolfe

Benjamin Gideon Rolfe

Male 1919 - 1944  (24 years)

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  • Name Benjamin Gideon Rolfe 
    Born 27 Nov 1919  Hunter, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Census 19 Jan 1920  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Military Service 17 Jun 1949  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Lieut Benjamin G. Rolfe (1919 - 1944) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Lieut Benjamin G. Rolfe (1919 - 1944) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Person ID I2661  clanSoren
    Last Modified 19 Sep 2014 

    Father Ancestors William Benjamin Rolfe,   b. 21 Nov 1888, Hunter, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Mar 1927, Hunter, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Mother Mary Ellen Anderson,   b. 18 Mar 1883, Orangeville, Emery, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 1971, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Family ID F900  Group Sheet

    Family Living Married: 2x2x  
    Children 
     01. Living
    Last Modified 14 Jan 2011 
    Family ID F1458  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S157] Findagrave.com, (Findagrave.com), Memorial# 61462067 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S82] 1920 United States Federal Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, (Ancestry.com), Year: 1920;Census Place: Precinct 5, Salt Lake, Utah; Roll: T625_1864; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 41 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S99] 1930 United States Federal Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, (Ancestry), Precinct 5, Salt Lake, Utah; Roll: 2417; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 109; Image: 349.0; FHL microfilm: 2342151. (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S306] 1940 United States Federal Census, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls., Salt Lake, Utah; Roll: T627_4216; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 18-27. (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S276] Utah, Military Records, 1861-1970, Utah State Archives and Records Service; Salt Lake City, Utah; Military Service Cards, ca. 1898-1975; Creating Agency: Department of Administrative Services, Division of Archives and Records Service, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3).
      Name: Benjamin Gideon Rolfe
      Birth Date: 27 Nov 1919
      Birth Place: Hunter, Utah
      Mother: Mary E Rolfe
      Age: 23
      Military Service Year: 1942

    6. [S329] U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, Applications for Headstones, compiled 01/01/1925 - 06/30/1970, documenting the period ca. 1776 - 1970 ARC: 596118. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774–1985, Record Group 92. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., (Ancestry) (Reliability: 3).
      Name: Benjamin G Rolfe
      Birth Date: 27 Nov 1919
      Death Date: 26 Nov 1944
      Cemetery: Wacatch Lawn Memorial Park
      Cemetery Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

    7. [S157] Findagrave.com, (Findagrave.com), Memorial 61462067 (Reliability: 3).