Thomas Pearson WILLIAMS

Sources:

1880 U.S. Census - Grantsville, Tooele, UT
1920 U.S. Census - Grantsville, Tooele, UT, Living with son, James
Mormon Overland Pioneer Database - LDS.org/churchhistory/
Ancestral File - Version 4.19
Pedigree Resource File
Ancestry World Tree
New FamilySearch.org, Feb 2010
Death Certificate - Utah State Archives, Thomas Pearson Williams
Grantsville, UT, Cemetery Index - Ancestry.com, parents listed

Notes:

                   OCCUPATION: 
    School Teacher and Bookkeeper

PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN OF UTAH:
    - (Excerpt) Williams, Thomas (son of Thomas Williams, born 1800, and Sarah Pearson, both of Bedworth, Eng.).  He was born Nov. 12, 1837.  Bedworth, Warwickshire, Eng.  Came to Utah Sept. 15, 1861, Ira Eldredge company.  Married Jane Fawson June 27, 1859 (daughter of Abraham Fawson and Ann Hodrienne, latter died May 18, 1864, on the way to Utah)...Married Emma Fairless Brown (daughter of David Brown and Emma Fairless), who was born Nov. 28, 1865, Salford, Yorkshire, Eng... Assistant clerk of Tooele stake; tithing clerk.  Clerk of Grantsville ward 38 years; city and county assessor and collector.

PIONEER:
    Came to Utah in the Ira Eldredge Company, 1861, as specified above.

PARENT CONNECTION:
    Evidence of correct parentage comes from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, his Utah Death Certificate, and the Grantsville Cemetery Index.