• As an adult William drowned in Utah's Jordan River in 1915.  The death date given above is the day his body was found (the search for him had lasted for fifteen days).  Ancestry's index to the 1900 census gives the surname "Biler" but it should be "Bills."

Brigham Young Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 12

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• "Bishop Bills' Body Found In Jordan River," Salt Lake Telegram, 20 Apr. 1915, sec. 2, 1.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "First 100, report, 1848 June" in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849, Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 3.