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David Morgan Williams

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David Morgan Williams

Birth
Brecon, Powys, Wales
Death
23 Oct 1924 (aged 92)
Saint Johns, Oneida County, Idaho, USA
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David's father, Morgan Williams, died at the age of thirty-eight of Scarlet Fever. His mother, Ann, came to America and lived to be eighty-one years of age. She died at Council Bluffs, Iowa on December 29, 1891. He had a brother, Edward, and one sister, Ann. She drowned when she was a small child.

He heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was 16. He writes in his journal: "I was 16 years of age, in my native land; one Sunday morning a woman came with a pamphlet in her hand and gave it to me. It's name was 'Yr hen grefydd', which means 'The Old-New Religion'. I believed it for I wanted the religion that Christ taught. But I waited about two years before I was baptized. After my baptism, I had to wait a few weeks before I got a testimony from heaven that I had done the will of God."

He was the first of his family to join the Church, as far as he knew, and was baptized and converted at the age of 18.

David came to America in February 1854 and continued on to Utah. Soon after reaching Salt Lake City, he was married to Elizabeth Richards, daughter of William and Harriet Jones Richards. They were married July 3, 1856.

He chose farming as his profession and moved his family to California. They also lived in Nevada, Iowa, then back to Utah.

Eventually, they chose the Malad Valley to spend the rest of their days. They were the parents of ten children - all but two girls lived to maturity. David lived the last two years of his life without his eye sight. He lived to be ninety-two.

(Excerpts taken from David's life history, penned by his granddaughter, Artella Williams Larsen)
David's father, Morgan Williams, died at the age of thirty-eight of Scarlet Fever. His mother, Ann, came to America and lived to be eighty-one years of age. She died at Council Bluffs, Iowa on December 29, 1891. He had a brother, Edward, and one sister, Ann. She drowned when she was a small child.

He heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was 16. He writes in his journal: "I was 16 years of age, in my native land; one Sunday morning a woman came with a pamphlet in her hand and gave it to me. It's name was 'Yr hen grefydd', which means 'The Old-New Religion'. I believed it for I wanted the religion that Christ taught. But I waited about two years before I was baptized. After my baptism, I had to wait a few weeks before I got a testimony from heaven that I had done the will of God."

He was the first of his family to join the Church, as far as he knew, and was baptized and converted at the age of 18.

David came to America in February 1854 and continued on to Utah. Soon after reaching Salt Lake City, he was married to Elizabeth Richards, daughter of William and Harriet Jones Richards. They were married July 3, 1856.

He chose farming as his profession and moved his family to California. They also lived in Nevada, Iowa, then back to Utah.

Eventually, they chose the Malad Valley to spend the rest of their days. They were the parents of ten children - all but two girls lived to maturity. David lived the last two years of his life without his eye sight. He lived to be ninety-two.

(Excerpts taken from David's life history, penned by his granddaughter, Artella Williams Larsen)

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