Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 10 February 1816
- Death Date
- 9 November 1894
- Gender
- Male
William Casto
William traveled with one of the sick detachments. As mentioned in his obituary, he traveled back across the plains with his family in 1851. Further research is needed to determine with which company they traveled.
Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)
- Age at Departure: 31
Company Unknown (1851)
- Age at Departure: 34
- Head of Household
Traveled with
Sources
- 1860 Utah Census, Salt Lake County.
- Find a Grave (Website)
- John Steele, Journal, 24 May-30 July 1847.
- Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
- "Obituary Notes," Deseret Weekly, 23 November 1894, 735-736.
- "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright.