William heard President Woodruff preach the first sermon preached in Herefordshire - he was one of the United Brothers.
William was baptized by Elder John Cheese in 1840.
He immigrated April 6, 1841, crossed in the ship "Caroline", and reached Nauvoo July 4.
He lived in Nauvoo until the spring of 1846 then crossed the Mississippi river and camped by a slew for twelve weeks.
All of the company had chills and fever.
William's mother and family had gone twenty miles West. She returned and got him and took him to Winter Quarters - he had chills every other day all the way there.
In the Spring William had Black Scurvy. They dug artichokes, onions, and horse radish.
William went to Missouri for provisions and started back. He met his mother's team and sent her driver on to Winter Quarters with his load and went back for provisions for starting West.
Traveled in Bishop Hunter's hundred, Joseph Horn's fifty, and William Taylor's ten.
Arrived in Salt Lake City October of 1847. He went to California in the Fall of 1849 and returned in the Spring of 1852.
He moved to Nephi in the Fall of 1852. He reached Nephi November 18, 1852.
He was married to Emma Jenkins by Bishop Jacob G. Bigler in Nephi. They were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City.
William was ordained a High Priest by William Paxman September 3, 1892.
Marriage IGI ref. M183396 0992. Early Member Records SLFHL (1993) gives baptism date as 16 Aug 1840. Rebaptised Jun 1841 (he indicated this on his endowment record.) TIB card for marriage date to Elizabeth Sarah Jenkins.