William Madison Wall

William Madison Wall
Personal details
Born William Madison Wall
(1821-09-30)September 30, 1821
Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina, United States
Died September 18, 1869(1869-09-18) (aged 47)
Provo, Utah, Utah Territory
Resting place Provo City Cemetery,
Provo, Utah, United States[1]
Children 31
Parents Isaac Wall and Nancy Duncan

William Madison Wall (September 30, 1821 – September 18, 1869) was a Mormon pioneer, explorer, colonizer, military officer, and church leader[2] in Provo, Heber, and Wallsburg, Utah, and a settler of Utah Territory.[3]

Early years

Wall was born September 30, 1821 in North Carolina.[2]

Pioneer

In 1842, Wall and his family were introduced to missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and were baptized. Wall helped establish[4] the early Mormon settlement of Ramus near Nauvoo, Illinois. He was known for being a large man, called alternatively by Joseph Smith "the most expert wrestler in Ramus" and "the bully of Ramus." (History of the Church, 5:16 p. 302).[5]

In 1850, Wall crossed the plains to Utah with the Warren Foote Company.[6] He was a Captain of 50 and Captain of the Second Division.[7]

Settler

Wall was an early Bishop (Latter Day Saints) in Provo,[8] where he also served as a local military captain. He was ordered to Fillmore, Utah in 1853 for a year.[9]

Wall then was called on a mission from Utah to Australia.[10]

Wall was a licensed attorney in Utah, a prosecuting attorney,[11] and the second[12] sheriff of Utah County, Utah.[13]

Fort Wallsburg, Markers and Monuments Database, Utah Division of State History, https://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/markers/detailed_results.php?markerid=1630, accessed June 11, 2018.</ref> Also in 1862, Wall served as a delegate for Utah County to the constitutional convention for the State of Deseret.[14] Wall directed[15] the building[2] of the first road from Provo up Provo Canyon to what was then known as Little Warm Valley or Round Valley and what eventually was named after him[2] as Wallsburg, Utah.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18676132 accessed June 13, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names: a Compilation. Google Books: University of Utah Press. p. 388. ISBN 9780874803457. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ Esshom, Frank, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah: Comprising Photographs, Genealogies, Biographies (Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Pioneers Books, 1913) p. 1227 at https://archive.org/details/pioneersprominen00esshrich, accessed July 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Jenson, Andrew LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 4:659; Rowena Miller Files, Lands and Records Office, Nauvoo Restoration, Inc.; Black, Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848, 44:618-25; Black, Nauvoo Seventy Membership: Annotated Index. See https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/6570/william-madison-sr-wall (summarizing sources), accessed July 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Joseph Smith Papers, 13 March 1843, at https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/volume-5-chapter-16, accessed July 17, 2018
  6. ↑ https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/6570/william-madison-wall accessed June 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/6570/william-madison-wall accessed June 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ Tullidge, Edward William (1885). Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3. Google Books: University of Iowa. p. 242. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  9. ↑ Deseret News, Dec 1, 1853, G A Smith Reports Moving Families to Fillmore and Intervening Settlements, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret News Pub. Co., https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews1/id/174517, accessed June 11, 2018.
  10. ↑ Deseret News, Feb. 27, 1856, (originally reporting calling to the "East Indies") Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret News Pub. Co., https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews1/id/3661, accessed June 11, 2018; Elder's Certificate, April 20, 1856, https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/52456020, accessed June 11, 2018; see also Newton, Marjorie, Southern Cross Saints; the Mormons in Australia, at page 108; https://history.lds.org/missionary/individual/william-madison-wall-1821?lang=eng accessed July 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ Boren, Kerry Ross & Lisa Lee (1999). Gold of Carre-Shinob. Google Books: Cedar Fort. p. 131. ISBN 9781555174118. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  12. ↑ "First Sheriffs of Utah County" Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3, 1885, Page 392, at https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/46400242 accessed on June 7, 2018 (includes list of sheriffs through around 1876); Deseret News, March 30, 1859, ("the Sheriff of Utah County, Wm. M. Wall, Esq."), Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret News Pub. Co., https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews2/id/6757, accessed June 11, 2018.
  13. ↑ Deseret News, March 28, 1860 at 8, https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews2/id/1946 accessed July 17, 2018; Deseret News, Jan. 6, 1859 ("Last Friday evening when William Madison Wall, Marshall of Provo, was walking down the city streets, a ball was shot through his hat and grazed his head, knocking him down.")
  14. ↑ Constitution of the State of Deseret : with the journal of the Convention which formed it, and the proceedings of the Legislature consequent thereon, Brigham Young University, p. 11, https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/14625/rec/1 accessed July 11, 2018.
  15. ↑ Deseret News, Sept. 19, 1855, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret News Pub. Co., at https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews1/id/2483, accessed June 11, 2018.
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