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Iowa, U.S., Pottawattamie County, Annotated Record of US Census, 1850
Name: William Moroni West Age: 8 Birth Date: 9 Feb 1842 Birth Place: Wadesborough, Calloway, Kentucky Father: Samuel Walker West Mother: Margaret Cooper
Household Members:
Name Age
Samuel Walker West 46
Margaret Cooper West 46
John Anderson West 19
Susan Elizabeth West 16
Emma Seraphine West 14
Margaret Fletcher West 12
Lydia Clementine West 10
William Moroni West 8
Nancy Malinda West 6
Levira Annette Clark Smith 36
Levira Annette Smith 9
Utah, U.S., Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Records, 1847-1868
Name: William Moroni West Birth Date: 9 Feb 1842 Record Type: Arrival Departure Date: 17 May 1851 Arrival Date: 25 Sep 1851 Arrival Place: Deseret, United States Death Date: 3 Feb 1874
Business Name: Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Wm M West Age: 18 Birth Year: bt 1842 Birth Place: Kentucky Home in 1860: Parowan, Iron, Utah Territory Post Office: Parowan Dwelling Number: 1541 Family Number: 1244
Household Members Age
Saml West 56
Margt West 55
Lydia West 20
Wm M West 18
1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Wm M West Age in 1870: 27 Birth Date: abt 1843 Birthplace: Kentucky Dwelling Number: 58 Home in 1870: District 7 Parowan, Iron, Utah Territory Post Office: Parowan
Male Citizen Over 21: Yes Personal Estate Value: 200 Real Estate Value: 200
Household Members Age
Wm M West 27
Tryphena West 23
Tryphena A West 9/12
From pub. Samuel Walker West : families and genealogies by James Edwin West - Washington, UT 2007
BIRTH,,,
William Moroni West was bom 9 February, in Wadsbaron, Galloway County, Kentucky.
MARRIAGE
William married Tryphena Jane Hobbs 27 May 1868.
TRYPHENA'S BIRTH/BAPTISM
Tryphena was born 29 April 1847, in Hersham, Surrey County, England. She was baptized 28 Jun 1847 in the Church of England at Walton on Thames, Surrey, County, England.
LDS BAPTISM
Tryphenas parents were Mary Ann Pope and William Down Hobbs.i They were baptized into the LDS Church in 1851. Then Tryphena was baptized 27 Jun 18S5.
CHILDREN,
William and Tryphena had three children; Tryphera Annie, born 2 September 1869; Margaret Alice, 30 March 1871; and William Moroni Jr.. 17 April 1873 -all bom in Parowan, Iron County, Utah.
DEATH
A band of thieves had stolen horses and cattle for several years. It was early January 1874 when they stole cattle again. William was known for his skill as a tracker. The Iron County sheriff asked Constable William West to do it. During the three weeks that he and his men were tracking, Williim was "taken with inflammation." Exposure to the snowy weather weaken him. He died 3 February 1874 at Lake Creek, Nye, Nevada.
findagrave
William Moroni West BIRTH 8 Feb 1842 Wadesboro, Calloway County, Kentucky DEATH 3 Feb 1874 (aged 31) Parowan, Iron County, Utah BURIAL Parowan City Cemetery Parowan, Iron County, Utah PLOT 06-05-01
MEMORIAL ID 11706027
Parents Samuel Walker West 1804-1873 Margaret Cooper West 1804-1882
Spouse Tryphena Hobbs West 1847-1936
Siblings
Sarah Esther West Barton 1829-1906
John Anderson West 1830-1917
Susan Elizabeth West Smith 1833-1926
Emma Seraphine West Smith 1836-1910
Margaret Fletcher West Smith 1838-1864
Margaret Fletcher West Smith 1838-1864
Lydia Clementine West Freeman 1840-1912
Nancy Malinda West Rollins 1844-1917
Half Siblings
Isaac Walker West 1859-1908
Phebe Maria West Pendleton 1860-1928
Minerva Ann West 1862-1866
Christiana Elizabeth West Woods 1866-1900
Hannah Rebecca West Allen 1867-1887
George Albert West 1869-1915
Children
Annie Tryphena West 1869-1954
Margaret Alice West Bentley 1871-1910
William Moroni West 1873-1898
Taken from page 52, Our Heritage As It Glows From The West, by Mary West Riggs and Roy A. West. Posted 15 Oct 2010 by DBFSailor
William Moroni West was born the 9th of February 1842. He was a child in arms, five months old, when the family left Kentucky for Nauvoo, Illinois. He was too young to have many vivid recollections of the days spent there. Still, he remembered well their exodus from Nauvoo, leaving their home, their land and their dreams of the future. It was always said of William that he had a very quiet, lovable disposition. When they left for the Rocky Mountains, he was ten years of age. What a memory he retained of the crossing of the Missouri River, and of the fearful stampedes when the wagon trains ran away and they lost sixty head of their cattle. William never forgot that. He was frightened a good part of the rime, but was always glad for the pleasant evenings when everybody seemed happy and they danced, sang and prayed. Yes, William learned to pray as a very little boy and to have a faith so strong that it lasted throughout his life. But he often told his mother he was afraid they would never reach the Rocky Mountains. So when they at last reached Parowan where he knew they were really going to live, he was happy. He was just twelve years old when his older brother John was called upon his mission and from that hour William felt he had to be a man and help his father take care of the family. He carried responsibility well. He took his turn at herding the community cattle and his father said, "that at a very early year William seemed to have the ability of the Native Indian in locating horses and cattle that had strayed."
When William was sixteen, his father states in his diary, "we feel a lot of our horses have been stolen. We had hopes of finding them, but since Brother Hamblin left we can't find the trail." But William would not give up the hunt for the horses. Two days later he found the trail in an entirely different direction from which the men had been looking. The horses had not been stolen but had only strayed.
William was a happy boy in May of 1858, for the mail from California brought the word that John would be in tomorrow. He hurriedly went for the team and the carriage and he, his father and mother, Susan, and Nancy went to meet John. From that moment, William felt he had a partner. Although John was much older, he, too, was glad to have a brother. The father's diary carried such bits of information, to quote:
John has started right in and has been a great help to us. William and I are new helping him plant his oats.
John and William cutting hay.
John and William have gone to the lake for salt.
William went to Hamilton's for a party. They will stay all night. John will meet him there and they will come home together.
The boys and I went to the canyon for posts. We had a good time camping out.
And so it was: the three of them were almost always found together. How proud Samuel was of his two sons He was fifty-four, John was twenty-eight, and William was just sixteen. Despite the difference in years, in love and respect they were as one.
As William grew older, he often wrote to his sister Susan in Salt Lake City. Once he said: "I am writing for mother. She is called away to the sick. I fear it is too much for her. She has so many cares at home." And then in 1860 he wrote, I just got home from Minersville. I took Mother and Aunt Mary over for a short visit with Nancy. I went over there last spring and took up some land and farmed. I moved a log house from here and set it up. They were preparing for winter again. Christmas was always a wonderful time in these pioneer villages. William always seemed to have a good time. Everyone liked him for his wit and humor. His brother John was teaching a dancing class and all the girls seemed happy when William invited them onto the floor, but his family was beginning to worry a bit. William should be singling out one girl, but instead he liked them all, William again writes a letter to Susan: (In 1861) I guess you knew that father moved Christianna and Mary down to Washington where he expects to raise cotton. Father likes the place, for it is much warmer there. He says he has been able to do more work than he has since he has been in the mountains, but I think he is working too hard trying to get this new home going. Christianna and Mary get along real good.
Posted 02 Dec 2019 by Daniel Craw
William Moroni served in Captain Edward Dalton’s Company of the Mormon Battalion in 1866 as what I think was referred to as the Black Hawk Wars. Other history shows that this company mustered in on 21 March 1866 in Parowan and marched to the mouth of Bear Creek on the south fork of the Sevier River where they built a picket fort, block houses and several other structures. During this time they also conducted scouting services and kept guard of Panguitch as well as assisted two other settlements to move to a safer location. They were disbanded upon their return to Parowan on 22 Jun 1866, being on detached service for 94 days.
January 27, 1868: John's wife, Mary Jane, is writing to Susan: Mrs. Susan E. Smith; Dear Sister, I gladly embrace the opportunity of writing you a few lines. John, Father and Mother reached home after being on the road twenty days from your home. They had a very hard trip. The roads were bad, but they returned without any serious trouble. I am always glad to have John return from a long trip.
Emma and children are tolerably well. The girls are going to school. Emma and Janet get along the best kind. Janet is a good girl and Emma is an extra good noble woman. But you know without my tell you that I am proud of all of my sisters-in-law. William is the same old William. He is not married yet. He is so afraid some of the girls will think he wants them that he can't take much comfort. I don't know which he would rather do, pay the wager $200 (John's wager) or get married. William gave a lecture on the 19th at a Seventy's Meeting on education. John said it was good.
Jesse to give a public lecture next Thursday evening on the history of the Prophet Joseph Smith, which I expect, will be splendid. We all calculate to go. But William didn't lose the wager. Here is a little humor written by Emma to Susan, on June 21, 1868:
. . . Your husband, George A., Joseph Young and others who had all been to Dixie came on in to Parowan and we all met at meeting and had a first rate time. The brethren preached to the young men so urgently for their to get married that our brother William Moroni could not resist any longer, so on the 27th of May be and Miss Tryphena Hobbs were married at our house by Bishop Dame. Of course, we would rather that he would have gone on to the city if his girl could have gone. But she could not go at this time, and William said he would not risk it again. She might grow cold. He left today for the immigration.
William didn't like to leave town now for he had found the girl of his dreams. He had been slow, indeed for that day he had been very slow. He was twenty-six years of age when he took the competent, cheery English convert girl to a home of her own. A few people living today who knew this quick, slender girl say there was just enough of the opposite of William in her to make for happiness complete.
By some it was said she was much the disposition of William's brother John, who liked to be up in the early morning and to bed at dusk, while William liked those early morning hours to sleep and dream. He loved to sit about the fire or out in the moonlight just to talk things over. But they managed, William and Try, and they lived most happily. William's first child, little Annie, as she was lovingly called, but correctly known as Tryphena Annie, was born the 2nd of September 1869, Margaret Alice the30th of March 1871, William Moroni West, Jr., the 17th of April 1873.
In the early part of January, 1874 the sheriff of Iron County, D. P. Clark, came to consult with William who was the constable known for his bravery, and for his skill in tracking animals. The people were losing their horses and cattle. These depredations were of such a state that the men decided something must be done at once. The people had been troubled for many years from this band of thieves. The officers had tried but never yet had been able to apprehend them. It was a cold time to go; still it might be the best time. These fellows surely could not be far away because cattle had been taken only the night before. Snow would be helpful in tracking, so it was arranged they would go at once.
Again we are indebted to our Aunt Susan West Smith for this letter written by Josephine, Margaret Cooper West's granddaughter and Emma's daughter: Parowan, Utah
February 5, 1874
Dear Aunt Susan,
I am writing these lines by Grandmas request. She could not bear to write the terrible news of our dear Uncle William's death. Uncle William went out from home three weeks ago Saturday by request of our sheriff, D. P. Clark, and President Dame, to capture the cattle thieves that have stolen the cattle from the range for years.
As you know, he has always been very anxious to do his part and has never been afraid of danger. He was taken with inflammation as near as we can learn.
The men wanted to bring him back but he would not come. He lay suffering out on the desert 160 miles from home with no shelter and no where near a settlement. He suffered that way, his only shelter being a cedar tree, for eight or ten days. He was then moved from there one mile and a quarter to an old rock building, but the cover had been burned off He there breathed his last. Edward Dalton, one of the men that was with him, came in five days ago and brought all the word from him that we have had except the telegram which we got tonight. He told Edward to tell Aunt Tryphena that he would never see her again. He told them to wash him good and shake his garments and then put them on him again and to wrap him in snow. He had them raise him up in bed a little so he could write to Aunt Try. He kept writing to her as long as they would hold him up. From the way it reaches us, he must have suffered a dreadful death, but he was perfectly patient as always. He never murmured a word, but kept the whole company cheerful by his pleasantness.
Ma is a little better but we are afraid this news will cause her another backset, but we will try to give her the very best care we can. I know it will be a dreadful shock to you as it has been to everyone of us. The people here all consider that he died in the defense of his country. He left a dear wife and three little children.
Your affectionate niece,
Josephine
Yes, this was a hard time for the West family as it had been for the last several years. William had only enjoyed six years as husband and father, leaving a grief-stricken wife with three children; Annie, five years old, Margaret, three years old, and little William Moroni, only nine months and nineteen days. Poor Aunt Try, how our hearts have gone out to her. She never remarried, but was faithful to her trust, trying to raise her children the best she could. How great would be her happiness when she was allowed to meet her husband and family in that life eternal and everlasting. Death came to the West family. William died on the 3rd of February, 1874. His father Samuel Walker West died the 22nd of February, 1873.
The father had always taken "sorrow hard." We are glad he was spared the sorrow of William's going. He was only present at William's coming, and what a glad reunion it must have been, except for the knowledge of those who were left behind. And John? He had been filling his second mission to Hawaii. He left Parowan in 1872, and reached home April, 1875. His sorrow was indescribable when he received the word while in the mission field. If we had followed him in his diary day by day, we would find him saying, "Not feeling so welt today. I had to walk out alone. My head has been paining me today. I spent an hour alone on the beach."
Of course, the mother's sorrow was intense, but strong woman as she was, she bore up for fourteen long years to nurse her children through sickness, cheering and guiding them to the end.
Church records have his birthday as 9 Feb 1842, while his headstone has his birthday as 8 Feb 1844. Believe his birthday is 9 Feb 1842.
Geneanet Community Trees Index
Name: William Moroni West Birth Date: 9 févr. 1842 Birth Place: Wadsbarron, Callaway, Kentucky Death Date: 3 févr. 1874 Death Place: Parowan, Iron, Utah Territory, Utah
Father: Samuel Walker West Mother: Margaret Cooper Spouse: Martha Ann Constance Hobbs Triphene Hobbs Tryphenia Jane Hobbs
