William M. READ
BIRTH: Birth date listed on Ancestral File as 2 Oct 1784 DEATH: Death date also listed on Family Records as 1 Oct 1856 HISTORICAL NOTES: William died on the trail near Laramie, WY - part of the James Willie Handcart Company, buried under rocks by the side of the road on the Mormon Trail - immigrants to Utah in 1856 SOURCES: 1. Family Records 2. Ancestral File 3. Main Archives 4. 1994 IGI
SOURCES: 1. Family Records 2. 1994 IGI 3. Ancestral File
BIRTH: Cemetery Records list birth date as 1824
NOTES: Tryphena was not married DEATH: Died of cholera
NOTES: Ezra was not married
He married Sarah Brimley 18 Dec 1815 at North Crawley, Bucks, England . Sarah Brimley was born at Kempton, Bedford, England 30 May 1793 daughter of John Brimley and Mary Smith .
They were the parents of 11
children:
William Smith Read
christened 1 Dec 1816.
Amelia Read
born 21 Oct 1818.
Joel Read
born 13 Jun 1820.
James Read
born 18 Jan 1822.
Noami Read
born 1 Nov 1823.
Josiah Read
born 3 Oct 1825.
Jesse Read
born 6 Jan 1827.
John Brimley Read
born 27 Dec 1830.
Tryphena Read
born 25 Sep 1832.
Ezra Read
born 15 Dec 1836.
Joseph Paul Read
born 25 Jan 1839.
William M. Read died 25 Oct 1856 at Laramie, Albany, Wyoming .
Sarah Brimley died 18 Jun 1862 at Slaterville, Weber, Utah .