• William initially came to the Valley in 1852, but crossed the plains again as a teamster for William S. Warren's 1864 out-and-back company. In one record, he was described as a "water captain."

Uriah Curtis Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 15

William S. Warren Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 27
• Out-and-Back Teamster

Sources

• 16th Company of 50 report, 1852 July 4.
• 1860 Utah Census, Utah County.
• Edwards, Elizabeth. "Biography" in Biographies of Elizabeth Edwards Hanks, Pioneer of 1864, Sarah and Morgan Edwards, Pioneer of 1864, and George William Hanks, Pioneer of 1857, Ilene Hanks Kingsbury (Salt Lake City, Utah: privately printed, [1944]).
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 106.
• "Parowan Items," Iron County Record, 17 November 1911, 5.
• "Recent Deaths," Deseret Evening News, 17 November 1911, 10.
• Utah Death Certificates.