Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Elijah MALIN
Henry Elijah Malin, Jr., was born March 11, 1808, in Chester Co., Pennsylvania. His ancestors came to America in 1699 from England and settled on some of the original Wm. Penn land grants. Elijah married a Quaker girl in 1830. Ten years later this couple embraced the gospel, and the prophet Joseph appointed Elijah president of the Chester County Branch of the Church, which office he held until he moved to Nauvoo. On May 16, 1846 the family, consisting of Brother Malin, his wife Sarah Mcgukin, two sons, John and James, and a daughter Margaret started their westward journey. They had crossed the Missouri river and had made camp about seven miles west of Winter Quarters. When the decision was reached not to continue west the fall of '46, Elijah Malin built a house and planted such seeds as he could get. Then he was called to go back to Pennsylvania, his birthplace and preach the gospel. This call he accepted. He spent a year doing missionary work, then started back to the little settlement on the banks of the Missouri river, where he had left his family. When he reached St. Louis he became ill with cholera and passed away. He was buried in a nameless grave May 5, 1849.
His widow and her three children came to Utah in 1852.
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