JOSHUA WILLIAMS FIRE CHIEF ANNIE COY WILLIAMS HANNAH GREEN WILLIAMS Joshua Williams Man of Many Talents 1862 As a teenager, Joshua Williams was converted and baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Liverpool, England. He was born, 22 March 1838, in Wales, a son of James and Elizabeth Williams Williams. Joshua met Annie Coy in Kirkdale, England and the two were married, 2 August 1857, She was baptized in May of 1863. She was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Seddon Coy. Their first child died after birth in 1858 and following the arrival of Jess¬ie and Edwin, Annie took the two children and emigrated to the United States thro¬ugh the assistance of the Church Perpetual Emigration Fund. Joshua followed short¬ly after. The family moved to Florence, Nebraska and joined a wagon train with Henry W. Miller as Captain. The train was made up of 262 wagons, 293 families, 2,880 oxen and carried 143,315 pounds of flour. The emigrants suffered severely and Joshua, contracting Rocky Mountain Fever, was left for dead on the trail. That night Annie walked back and found him still alive. He was allowed to ride the reminder of the trip in a supply wagon. Arriving in Salt Lake City, the family was sent to Mountain Green where Josh¬ua was assigned to teach school. He served as Sunday School Superintendent and be¬gan herding sheep on the Ford Ranch. Joshua had an inventive mind and built a water wheel. Later, with a hand made saw he started a sawmill business in Peterson. He soon owned and operated his own steam-powered sawmill in Hardscrabble Canyon. Joshua was appointed Supervisor of road building in 1867. This was a toll 153