- Birth Date
- 10 February 1816
- Death Date
- 9 November 1894
- Gender
- Male
William Casto
William traveled back east with one of the sick detachments after being discharged from the Mormon Battalion. He traveled back across the planes with his family in 1851, as mentioned in his obituary. Further research is needed to determine which company they traveled with.
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)
- "Obituary Notes," Deseret News [Weekly], 23 Nov. 1894, 31.
- "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852." In Wright, Norman Edgar, ed., Key to Migration Sources Great Britain and North America.
- Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.
- Steele, John, Journal, 24 May-30 July 1847, in John Steele, Reminiscences and journals, 1846-1898.