• William was re-baptized in the Salt Lake Valley on 8 August 1847.  The inscription on his gravestone in Minnesota confirms his birth and death dates.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 23

Sources

• Find a Grave
• 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.