(Trent's GGrandfather - Father of Verla Bingham Hickman)
Born on 18 September 1886 in Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States
Died 19 January 1965 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
Buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Weber County, Utah, USA; Plot: E-6-6-1E
Married Ellen GARNER 20 January of 1909
Son of Sanford BINGHAM and Agnes Ann FIFE
Father of 6 children (Ralph, Melvin, Walter, Ellis, Lorna and Verla)
From ebook The Descendants of Erastus Bingham and Lucinda Gates
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/none/the-descendants-of-erastus-bingham-and-lucinda-gates-eno/page-23-the-descendants-of-erastus-bingham-and-lucinda-gates-eno.shtml
Speaking of Norman . . . "He lived all his youth in Riverdale, going to school, attending to his church duties and in general living a good wholesome life. He was a good-natured, happy fellow and loved by all who knew him. He served in the Deacon's Quorum Presidency and when he was ordained a Teacher he served as a Ward Teacher. At the age of 16, he was called to serve as a Sunday School teacher.
After finishing elementary school, he attended the Weber Stake Academy. David O. McKay was President of the institution at this time and Norman said "I am very grateful for his leadership through those wonderful school years. " A highlight in his life was that President McKay was his teacher of the New Testament and what an inspiration he was.
In October 1906, he left to fill a mission to the Eastern States returning in 1908.
On 20 January 1909, he married Ellen Gamer in the Salt Lake Temple and to this union were born six children, 4 sons and 2 daughters."
(continuing the entry on Ellen in the same book)
"After Ellen and Norman were married they lived in Ogden a little more than a year then in the spring and summer of 1910, they built a home in Riverdale just west of Norman's mother and spent many happy days there and the children enjoyed being close to their Grandma Bingham.
They spent most of their married life in Riverdale and Ogden where Norman followed several lines of occupation other than farming, such as: Telephone Company employee, teller at Ogden State Bank, buying, feeding and selling cattle, buying and selling horses for the Army during World War I, Treasurer of Weber County School Board for six years, some Real Estate business, worked for the Government at Utah General Depot in Ogden in the Auditing Department and as agent for the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., which business he followed so long as he was able to work.
He worked in all the auxiliary organizations of the church, serving diligently and faithfully as Sunday School teacher, Stake Religion Class Board Member, and Home Missionary in Riverdale, Weber Stake. He also served as counselor to Bishop Murray K. Jacobs in the Riverdale Ward, Ward Teacher, Counselor in the Presidency of the High Priest Group and two years as President of the High Priest Group. His last assignment was Chairman of the Genealogical Committee of the 23rd Ward in the Mount Ogden Stake.
His wife, Ellen, also served faithfully in the different auxiliaries of the church. She was a wonderful companion to her husband and a devoted mother to her children. Norman and Ellen were real sweethearts all their married lives and stood faithfully together side by side through all the joys and sorrows of their married life. They just lacked one day of having been married 56 years when Norman passed away of a heart ailment on 19 January 1965, after a month's illness."
Source: Find A Grave - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26392867
Additional information from his sister, Maria Louisa Bingham Campbell can be found here:
http://www.wk77.net/wiki/images/6/69/Maria_Louisa_Bingham_Campbell.pdf
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