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William Madison Wall
Personal details
BornWilliam Madison Wall
(1821-09-30)September 30, 1821
Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina, United States
DiedSeptember 18, 1869(1869-09-18) (aged 47)
Provo, Utah, Utah Territory
Resting placeProvo City Cemetery,
Provo, Utah, United States[1]
Spouse(s)Nancy Haws,[2] Elizabeth Penrod,[3] Emma Ford,[4] Susannah Gurr,[5] and Sarah Gurr[6]
Children31
ParentsIsaac Wall and Nancy Duncan

William Madison Wall (September 30, 1821 – September 18, 1869) was a Mormon pioneer, and an explorer, colonizer, military officer, and church leader[7] in Provo, Heber, and Wallsburg, Utah and settler of Utah Territory.[8]

Early years

Wall was born September 30, 1821 in North Carolina.[7]

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[9] 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).[10]

In 1850, Wall crossed the plains to Utah with the Warren Foote Company.[11] He was a Captain of 50 and Captain of the Second Division.[12]

Settler

Wall was an early Bishop (Latter Day Saints) in Provo,[13] where he also served as a local military captain. He was then sent to Fillmore, Utah in 1853 for a year.[14]

Wall then was called on a mission from Utah to Australia.[15] He returned in 1857 and reported on his mission, reporting details of violence towards him and public opinion generally towards the Utah Mormons that he observed in his return to Utah through California. [16] In one encounter, Wall reports that he convinced a large mob to disband by warning them that he was going to kill at least three or four of them, but that he did not wish to spill a drop of honest blood.[16] This "turned most of them honest" and allowed Wall to leave.[16]

Wall was a licensed attorney in Utah, a prosecuting attorney,[17] and the second[18] sheriff of Utah County, Utah.[19]

Wall played a role in the Black Hawk War (1865–72),[20] most notably by negotiating the surrender of native leader Tabby, the son of chief Antonga Black Hawk. He built a fort in Wallsburg in 1862.[21] Also in 1862, Wall served as a delegate for Utah County to the constitutional convention for the State of Deseret.[22] Wall directed[23] the building[7] 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[7] as Wallsburg, Utah.[24] Wall also directed the building of Heber.[25]

A statute of Wall by Peter Fillerup was dedicated on August 10, 1996.[26]

References

  1. ^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18676132 accessed June 13, 2018.
  2. ^ Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015 https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60984/records/2222863, accessed July 17, 2018.
  3. ^ While it is well-known that Wall was polygamous, his marriage to Penrod is not well documented. It does appear on her gravestone. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18676194/elizabeth-wall accessed June 13, 2018.
  4. ^ "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL9B-Y93 : 4 August 2017) accessed July 17, 2018.
  5. ^ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004 https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7836/records/506724 accessed July 17, 2018.
  6. ^ While it is well-known that Wall was polygamous, and his marriage to Susannah Gurr is documented, his marriage to Sarah Gurr was not. It does appear on her gravestone. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32655740/sarah-wall accessed June 13, 2018.
  7. ^ a b c d 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Joseph Smith Papers, 13 March 1843, at https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/volume-5-chapter-16, accessed July 17, 2018; a good summary of family stories and folklore is in "William Madison Wall, his life and his family" by Garth D. Mecham. Copies at http://creerfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/02/william-madison-wall.html.
  11. ^ https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/6570/william-madison-wall accessed June 11, 2018.
  12. ^ https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/6570/william-madison-wall accessed June 11, 2018.
  13. ^ Tullidge, Edward William (1885). Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3. Google Books: University of Iowa. p. 242. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ a b c Missionary Report, William Madison Wall, Dec. 12, 1857, https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/38514749, accessed June 11, 2018.
  17. ^ Boren, Kerry Ross & Lisa Lee (1999). Gold of Carre-Shinob. Google Books: Cedar Fort. p. 131. ISBN 9781555174118. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ 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.")
  20. ^ Letter from Brigham Young to Wall, April 25, 1853, at https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/39142011, accessed June 11, 2018.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, (undated?) https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/55508238 accessed June 7, 2018.
  25. ^ Letter from Brigham Young to Wall, July 8, 1861, at https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/39141951, accessed June 11, 2018.
  26. ^ Deseret News, Sept 29, 1996 Centennial Legacies, https://www.deseretnews.com/article/516042/CENTENNIAL-LEGACIES.html, accessed June 7, 2018; Photo of Heber statue at https://www.flickr.com/photos/atelier_tee/755308438 (permission of Terence Faircloth, Atelier Teee, June 7, 2018).
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