When Abraham Robert Johnson Marchant was born on 25 December 1870, in Peoa, Summit, Utah, United States, his father, Abraham Robert Marchant, was 27 and his mother, Mary Ann Barter, was 20. He died on 15 January 1871, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Peoa Cemetery, Peoa, Summit, Utah, United States.