His wife: Sarah Lovina Ross, married February 15, 1880 in Leamington, Utah.

William Thomas Morgan was the sixth child and the first child born in America to Ann (Nancy) Ollen Watkins and Thomas William Morgan. There were two major factors that shaped the early life of William Morgan. The first was his own obedient nature. The second was the compulsive pioneering of his father.

William Morgan was an obedient son. Neither rebellious nor angry, he is most accurately described as 'orthodox' in the sense that he believed in following the rules and lived the way his parents wanted him to live. In his youth and throughout his life he was dedicated to the LDS church. It was his nature to want to please people. He was shy around people and easily taken advantage of by those who were willing to expliot his mild nature.

William's father, Thomas Morgan, continually pushed on to new frontiers from the time he arrived in Utah in 1855 until he settled in Idaho in 1891. He was involved in the founding of at least seven communities in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Thomas didn't move from one community to another. He moved to new, raw, frontier land and participated in the founding of a new community where none had existed before. This meant the family lived in dugouts until log buildings could be built and then moved on to repeat the process in a new place. Living quarters were primitive and crowded. Farm work (clearing land of trees and brush and digging ditches to get water on the land) was brutal. And the process of building places to live must have seemed never ending.

William Morgan was an English/American hybrid. His parents were farm laborers in England who had five children in England (one of whom lived less than three months) and were about 34 years old before they left England in 1855. They brought the four surviving children to America and William was the first child born in America. So William was raised on the frontier in Utah by parents who were English by birth and with siblings who had been born in England.

The Thomas and Ann Morgan family was a deeply religious family, the parents having converted to Mormonism in England during a period of religious fervor that saw large numbers of people convert to the Mormon church. This was more than just a conversion. The church was bringing the converts to America so they could be sent to Utah to build a new Zion. So conversion also meant saying goodby to England and their families there. For these converts, their faith in the church was the source of their sustaining strength for the dangerous journey to America and the unknown frontier. Once in America the church remained important in their lives but a new vista opened to them. These landless laborers from England could now obtain title to land through the homestead act and own their own land.

On being a good person. This aspect of William Morgan's personality is a little difficult to describe. He was a good person, but more than that, he was a person who wanted to be a good person. Not wanted to look good or make others think he was good. He just wanted to be good. It came naturally to him. He wanted to do the right thing. He believed in his religion, even at a young age when boys are often rebellious or distracted, and he followed the teachings of his religion all his life. He was a remarkable man in this respect.

After William's wife Sarah Lovina Ross Morgan died in 1919 William sold his farm in Neeley, Idaho and moved to Rudy, Idaho (Now Clark). At the time of this move he still had two children at home, Kenneth Morgan and Orlean Lovina Morgan. He bought a farm in Clark where he lived for a number of years. Ada Morgan married Daniel H. (Dee) Radford in 1906. Kenneth Morgan married Mary Finn in 1925. This picture was probably taken somewhere between 1925 and 1930.

When he became too old to care for himself he moved into a trailer house that was placed on the front lawn of his daughter Orlean Morgan Nield's home near Idaho Falls, Idaho. He lived there until he died 10 February 1946. He was taken back to the American Falls, Idaho area and buried beside his wife Lovina in the Neeley cemetery.

- life history for William Morgan written by his grandson James Morgan.