Overview | Personal Life | Mission to Indians | Community

Grave | Life Back Then | Conclusion | Sources

Highlights in Social History
Highlights in this collection related to social history are

• Attending school barefoot because of poverty, the cost of shoes
• Where is that other wife on the census?
• Comparisons made by Gilbert himself to the Puritans
• Sayings of the time
• Comparisons from then to now and what the future holds

Overview
This Web site focuses on the last half of the life of Gilbert Belnap, starting just before 1850, including his arrival in the Salt Lake valley. The bulk of the content on this site is taken from numerous writings contained in Gilbert’s own journals. Pictured below are the generations that have preceeded me from the time of Gilbert Belnap up to the present.

Gilbert Belnap is my third great-grandfather. He was orphaned in Canada at the age of 10.

William James Belnap was the first son of Gilbert and Henrietta Belnap.

John Austin Belnap was the seventh of 14 children.

Thelma Belnap was the oldest of six girls whose father (John Austin) died when she was just 12 years old.

Patricia Beattie, my mother, is the youngest child of Thelma Belnap.