Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-13
OBITUARY AOrE.


William CASIO, senior president Of the
SiN, y-tr-t quorum Of Seventies, aud o.
resident Of he Big Cottonwood ward,
salt Lake county, was born at Orleans,
Orange county, Indiana, February 10,
Is q, aud diOd at his residence ON the pth
Of November. 1894.
lie was raised ~ farmer and gardener
Ia what might bo called our Indian
country, aud removed with bis father on
what was known as the lalibrecd tract
OF Iowa territory, afterwards organized
into Lco county. owing To the Hack
hawk war, tho family subsequently Ie.
moN cd % Fort Edwards luOW WarsaNl,
H., and In 1850, whom tho Saints Hrt
settled a. Commerce, william Casio
resided with his parou az n puiut two
aud half miles below. lilo was hap.
iiEHd AZ Commerce, June o. 1859, by
Joseph rosn aud confirmed by sidney
Rlgdun. llr was tho hrst one NJ she
family who iliuol tue Church aud is
supposed To bo the hr-t person baptized
nt NauvoO. La tho fall OF that year u0
married aud subsequently located 40
Nauyuo. There hr worked ON tho trmplo,
served ~ a special policeman aud took
an active pArl iu the defense Of tho ci'y
A. the limo OF tho mohnlngs. Whom tho
Prophet Joseph aud his brother Hyrum
were incafc0rntci la Carthage Jail, Elder
Casio was one NJ lwenty-iye men who
volunteered % risk ihoir lives IA roscu-
ing hem from prison. In tho winter u
1874 hu was ordained inlO tho 70 IA
quorum oi Seventies. ~ tho time " tao
cxodu, In 1876 he sold n house aud lot
worth 500 Tor So, and Tor outside prop.
Orty east OF NnuyUO cputaising 10 aero ,At
that timO very valuable. lao never 10.
coiyed u cont. lie had to ice from
Nanyoo In tho night 20 escape au
unjust warrant issue Tor his arrest, aud
barely succeeded IA getting away with
his iife. Arriving az tho camp on tho
Missouri river jus. as Tho call Tor the
Mormon Battalion came from mo govern
meut, ho enlisted and served a. a private
la company b ON tho journey To santa
70, from which place no was sent with
the Six IA detachment under CAPS. Jamo.
Brown 10 Pueblo where thoy wintored.
In the spring NJ 1877 ho started Tor
Groat salt Lake valley aud wa, one OF
tho twelve men who overlook tho T. 10.
neer- at Green river. lilo arrived In tho
valley In Or-on PntVs advance company
aud a fow days .nlor assisted In g0ttiug
the frs. load OF poles out Emigration
canyon for the construction OF
hoWery. lIo lsul.slonod 10 Elder Orson
Prnirs fret sermon Ia tho mouulaius,
the text being"A city sought out" Elder
CASIO returned 20 tho staieA Ihat tall!
from tho valley to Furl Laramie he
Travelled with four or i've other men, bur
from Laramie ts Grand Island he aud
pbinen. II. Young travelled alone. This
was quite an Uyentiul Journoy-lenying
Salt Lake with only eleven pounds of
flour. ho also iull into the hands Of tho
Indians aud WAS laken prisoner by
them, lie succeeded, however in max
ing the Journey aud found his family
near Council Bluffs, all VOL. Tho fol-
lowing year ho wont TO the valley with
tho mail coach, on which occasion he was
one Of the four mon who started from
tho Missouri uNgr November 10, ana
arrived An the valley before Christmas.
aiter tfayolng four hundred miles on
font through snow aud ice. lilo return
Ia Inc states boz 1880 and remained there
un'il tho spring OF lSll, when hu star ed
A third ume Tor the valley, this time
accompanied 10y his family.
ia settlod near the Big Cottonwood
creel I'M which ward he has resided ever
since. with the exception of a low years
snent ON a mission 20 tho Muddy. Alter
tno settioments on hat stream we're bro
kan mo he spent two years nj Pauguitcb.
aftsr which hp returned 10 his home on
the CottonWoOd. Whom tho nation WAS
misguidpd hy iAlso reports aud sont an
army 10 exttrmiuate our people, he y a.
on hand with his flint lock musko, 10
senrg tho crows from the head OF Echo
canyon. lie hai.an unusual degroo OF
personal courage both moral and physi-
cal. and integrity from which up to the
time of his death he never ialtored
lie leaves a wife, four sous, one daugh
tor and a number OF grandchildren aud
manv friends who have learned TO