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Elder for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (member of Zion's Camp and the First Quorum of the Seventy). See http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/william-dickinson-pratt and http://www.gapages.com/prattwd1.htm .

William Dickinson Pratt was born September 3, 1802 in Worcester, New York to Jared and Charity Pratt, the second oldest of their five sons.
The Pratt family was poor, moving from settlement to settlement in New York as farmers and day laborers. William and his brothers had limited opportunities for education and worked hard from a young age.
In 1823, William, his father Jared, and his brother Parley bought some forested land near Ostego, New York. In spite their efforts to improve and farm the land, they could not raise enough money to make the payments, and lost everything after three years.
Following this failure, William went on his own to New York City in search of work; his family heard nothing from him for several years and feared him dead when a William Pratt was reported drowned in the Hudson River. William had not drowned but spent about five years working and moving from place to place before settling in Ohio not far from his brother Parley in 1830.
In 1831, William followed the lead of his brothers and was baptized into the recently founded Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He moved to the church’s headquarters in Kirtland where he was ordained an Elder by Sidney Rigdon in 1833 and was intensively involved in church activities, including carrying dispatches for Joseph Smith and participating in the 1834 Camp of Israel expedition to Missouri (“Zion’s Camp”). William was ordained a seventy and appointed member of First Quorum of the Seventy in 1835.
On December 1, 1836, William married Hannah Ward in Kirtland, Ohio. Their daughter Sarah Jane was born in 1838 in Kirtland but passed away before her first birthday. Around this time William and Hannah joined other church member in moving to Far West, Missouri, where they experienced significant hardship before being forced from the state in the winter of 1838-1839. Following their expulsion from Missouri, William and Hannah settled first in Bryant, Illinois and then in Nauvoo. Shortly after their arrival in Nauvoo, Hannah became sick and died two weeks later on September 20th, 1840.
On March 1st, 1841, William married Wealthy Eddy Shumway, a recent widow with two children. William and Wealthy had 3 children while living in Nauvoo; Martha Marinda, William Jared, and Stephen. Of these, only William Jared lived to adulthood. In 1844, William was in New York serving a mission when he learned of the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. On his return he was ordained a high priest and served several more missions to New York in 1844 and 1845. In 1846, William and his family suffered in the increasingly hostile situation in Nauvoo, eventually fleeing across the river.
In 1848, for reasons that are not entirely clear, William and Wealthy separated and divorced. In 1850, William was living with Losana Bentley, her daughter Virginia Newman, and their daughter Mirza Liona Pratt in Pottawattamie county, Iowa. In 1851, William left Iowa with his brother Orson and Orson’s family for the journey west, arriving in Salt Lake City on October 4th. William remarried and practiced polygamy while living in Utah, marrying at least three wives including: Jane Hawley, 24 August 1857; Catherine Frederickson, 24 October 1863; Azubah Cox, 17 July 1867.
William died in Salt Lake City on 15 September 1870 at the age of 68 and was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

William blev gift med Wealthy Eddy den 27 feb. 1841 i Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA. Wealthy (datter af John Fuller Eddy og Rhoda Eddy) blev født i 1810 i New York, USA; døde den 18 jul. 1892 i Jefferson, Idaho, USA; blev begravet den 21 jul. 1892 i Parker, Fremont, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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William Jared Pratt was born 22 June 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois to William Dickinson Pratt and Wealthy Eddy. His family included an older half brother and half sister, Ammi Warren and Mary, from his mother’s previous marriage and an older sister Martha, who passed away when William was just 3 years old. William also had two younger siblings, Stephen and Mirza, who both died as infants.
The Nauvoo of William’s childhood was primarily a community of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which William and his family were a part. It was a time of intense activity and growth but also increasing opposition and threats from surrounding communities. The tension of the situation increased to the point that, in about 1851, the Pratt family fled the city to Iowa, in preparation for a longer journey to Utah where the majority of church members were relocating.
Somewhere around this period, William’s parents grew estranged and divorced. In the separation, William stayed with his mother Wealthy and his half siblings.
On 15 June 1852, when William was 7 years old, he and his family departed with the Henry Bryant Manning Jolley Company bound for Salt Lake City. They experienced all the hardships of crossing the plains and mountains by ox drawn wagon but arrived safely in Salt Lake City on 9 September 1852. The family settled to the south in Payson, Utah.
In 1854, William’s mother married William Cornwall Patten, a widower with large family of his own. Wealthy and William Patten had one daughter together, Sarah Wealthy Patten, born in 1857.
In 1860, William moved with his family north to the Cache Valley, an area that would later become southern Idaho, settling in Franklin. Here, William met Alice Fleet Smart, the daughter of English immigrants and Mormon converts who had also answered the call of Brigham Young to settle in the area. Alice and William married on 1 December 1863 in Preston, Idaho.
William and Alice lived the rest of their lives in southern Idaho, where they had ten children - William, Ann, Thomas, Parley, Alice, Jared, Wealthy, Lucy Katie, and Leonidas - eight of whom lived to adulthood.
On 10 April 1873, with Alice’s consent, William married Charlotte Parkinson as his second wife. They had three children together; Florence, William and Clarissa.
In 1883, William moved with his families to Wilford, Idaho, where they lived until 1904, when they moved again to Albion, Idaho, where William lived the remainder of his life.
In all his life, William was a frontiersman, helping building communities from the ground up all while supporting his large family. He was active participant in his church throughout his life and served as the bishop of the church congregation in Clifton for seven years.
William passed away 16 June 1909 in Salt Lake City, where he had gone for treatment. He was buried in Albion, Idaho.

William blev gift med Alice Fleet den 1 dec. 1863 i Preston, Franklin, Idaho, USA. Alice (datter af Henry Fleet og Annetta Hayter) blev født den 1 jan. 1844 i Pont-de-l'Arche, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France; døde den 17 feb. 1920 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA; blev begravet den 20 feb. 1920 i Albion, Cassia, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

William blev gift med Charlotte Chandler Parkinson den 10 apr. 1873 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Charlotte (datter af Samuel Rose Parkinson og Arabella Ann Chandler) blev født den 1 aug. 1855 i Kaysville, Davis, Utah, USA; døde den 11 jun. 1935 i Preston, Franklin, Idaho, USA; blev begravet den 14 jun. 1935 i Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]