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1847–1868

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Birth Date
16 August 1811
Death Date
8 November 1872
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William Wesley Willis

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  • 3rd Lieutenant; Willis Sick Detachment.  William was re-baptized at Salt Lake City on 8 August 1847.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 35

Sources

  • Franklin Allen diary, 1846 July-1848 October.
  • Hayward Thomas reminiscences and journal, 1848-1851, 14-16.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 244-45.
  • Salt Lake Stake, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.
  • Treasures of Pioneer History, volume 4, p. 474.
  • William W. Willis letter to the Church Historian.