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Sgt William Smith Muir

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Sgt William Smith Muir

Birth
Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
Death
27 Nov 1896 (aged 74)
Woods Cross, Davis County, Utah, USA
Burial
Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Son of Stephen Muir & Elizabeth Blackwood

Married Jane Stewart Robb, 1 Jan 1844, Parish of Ligie, Sterling, Scotland

Married Mary Ann Berry, 23 Oct 1853, Salt Lake City, Utah

Married Lucy Darke, 7 Jun 1862, Salt Lake City, Utah

Married Elizabeth Staples, 17 Jun 1865, Salt Lake City, Utah

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4

Muir, William Smith, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company A, was born July 19, 1822, at Bannockburn, Sterling, Scotland, a son of Stephen Muir and Elizabeth Blackwood. He was baptized in Scotland Jan. 17, 1842, by Robert Menzes, and emigrated to America in 1844, locating at Nauvoo. He enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, marched to California serving as a private, corporal and sergeant, went to San Francisco after being discharged, worked at the mines, passed through Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848 on his way to Winter Quarters, where he found his family, whom he had left in Nauvoo. He brought them to the Valley in 1849, and located in Bountiful. He filled a mission to England in 1855-1858, having been ordained a Seventy in Nauvoo in 1844. Bro. Muir died Nov. 27, 1896, at Woods Cross, Davis, Utah.

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Son of Stephen Muir & Elizabeth Blackwood

Married Jane Stewart Robb, 1 Jan 1844, Parish of Ligie, Sterling, Scotland

Married Mary Ann Berry, 23 Oct 1853, Salt Lake City, Utah

Married Lucy Darke, 7 Jun 1862, Salt Lake City, Utah

Married Elizabeth Staples, 17 Jun 1865, Salt Lake City, Utah

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4

Muir, William Smith, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company A, was born July 19, 1822, at Bannockburn, Sterling, Scotland, a son of Stephen Muir and Elizabeth Blackwood. He was baptized in Scotland Jan. 17, 1842, by Robert Menzes, and emigrated to America in 1844, locating at Nauvoo. He enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, marched to California serving as a private, corporal and sergeant, went to San Francisco after being discharged, worked at the mines, passed through Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848 on his way to Winter Quarters, where he found his family, whom he had left in Nauvoo. He brought them to the Valley in 1849, and located in Bountiful. He filled a mission to England in 1855-1858, having been ordained a Seventy in Nauvoo in 1844. Bro. Muir died Nov. 27, 1896, at Woods Cross, Davis, Utah.

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