Derby, Erastus H.

Biography

14 Sept. 18101–3 Dec. 1890.2 Tailor, carpenter, farmer, joiner.3 Born in Hawley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.4 Son of Edward Darby and Ruth Phoebe Hitchcock.5 Moved to Ohio, by 1834.6 Married Ruhamah Burnham Knowlton, 10 Aug. 1834, in Carthage, Hamilton Co., Ohio.7 Moved to Hancock Co., Illinois, soon thereafter.8 Baptized into LDS church, early 1840, in Hancock Co.9 Appointed aide-de-camp in Nauvoo Legion, 13 Nov. 1841.10 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., by 1842.11 Member of Nauvoo Masonic Lodge.12 Traveled to Missouri, July 1842, to ask Governor Thomas Reynolds to remit arrest warrant for JS.13 Served as a scribe for JS's journal, Aug. 1842.14 Ordained a seventy.15 Moved to Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, by 1850; to Ohio, by late 1850; to Chicago, by 1855; and to Williams Co., Ohio, by 1860.16 Fought in Civil War.17 Moved to Le Sueur, Le Sueur Co., Minnesota, 1872.18 Died in Le Sueur.19

Links

• papers

• History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
• History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
• History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
• Journal, December 1841–December 1842
• Letter from Calvin A. Warren, 13 July 1842
• Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book
• Quit Claim Deed to Smith Tuttle, John Gillet, and Horace Hotchkiss, 7 July 1843
• The Book of the Law of the Lord
• Times and Seasons, 15 February 1842