Mima Melissa Murdock

Brief Life History of Mima Melissa

When Mima Melissa Murdock was born on 26 November 1879, in Charleston, Wasatch, Utah, United States, her father, Joseph Royal Murdock, was 21 and her mother, Margaret Ashbridge Wright, was 19. She married David Albert Broadbent on 1 May 1901, in Wasatch, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. She lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1940 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 1 years. She died on 30 December 1957, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Heber City Cemetery, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Albert Broadbent
1871–1962
Mima Melissa Murdock
1879–1957
Marriage: 1 May 1901
Joseph Grant Broadbent
1902–1979
Vida Broadbent
1903–2001
Naomi Broadbent
1906–1939
Leah Broadbent
1908–1991
Margaret Broadbent
1909–2002
Dee Albert Broadbent
1911–1996
Mary Broadbent
1913–1976
Mima Broadbent
1914–2005
Emer Elwood Broadbent
1915–1980
Harvey Murdock Broadbent
1917–2008
Clara Broadbent
1919–1919
Sarah Melissa Broadbent
1920–2004
Helen Broadbent
1922–2012
Zina Broadbent
1926–1926

Sources (88)

  • Mima M Broadbent, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mima Murdock, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Mima Melissa Broadbent, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota

After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

Scottish and Irish: variant of Scottish Murdoch .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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"I doubt if there be anybody in the Church who has a better record, or even an equivalent one--to rear a family of fourteen, all of whom marry in the Temple, all of whom have college degrees, and all …

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