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1847–1868

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Birth Date
12 March 1821
Death Date
17 July 1908
Gender
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William Wallace Casper

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  • William's wife, Mary Ann and daughter Sarah Jane also came to Utah in 1847 but with the Jedediah M. Grant/Willard Snow Company. William and Mary Ann were both rebaptized in Salt Lake City on 5 December 1847.

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 26

Sources

  • "Death of William Caster [Casper]," Deseret Evening News, 18 July 1908, 1.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Salt Lake Stake, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.