William Cox Smithson

Birth Date
On 1804 March 30 (Born)
Death Date
On 1889 March 2 (Died)
Gender
Male

In 1846 the Smithson family traveled from Mississippi to Fort Pueblo in what is now Colorado; in 1847 they journeyed from Pueblo to Salt Lake City.  Church ordinance records prove that William was in Utah by August 1847.  In Book of the Pioneers he appears in the entry for his daughter (Martha Smithson Summers).

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