• Willard was rebaptized in Salt Lake city on 3 June 1849.

  In the 1850 federal census of Utah Willard and his wife Martha are together with their son and her two sons from a previous marriage.  At the time of the 1856 Utah Territorial census Willard was in Weber County with members of his family.

Brigham Young Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 25
• Head of Household

John Hindley Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 32

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• “1st Company of 50 report, 1855.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 36)
• Benjamin Ashby autobiography, circa 1897-1904, 25-30.
• Cobb, Augusta Adams, to Charlotte Ives Cobb, 28 June 1855, in Theodore Schroeder Collection.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "First 100, report, 1848 June" in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849, Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division.
• "Immigration List," Deseret News, 12 September 1855, 214.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 7.
• Salt Lake Stake Record of Members, 1848-1917.
• William Knox journals, 1847-1864.