WILLARD CARROLL

Willard Carroll was born May 10, 1848, a son of Charles Negus and Lucy Elizabeth McInelly Carroll, in New Brunswick, Canada, at a small place known as Carroll’s ridge. On the day the Willard turned six, the family started its journey to Utah, May 10, 1854. His mother, brother, Frederick and sister, Emma, were stricken with cholera at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where they died and where buried in one grave. His brother George also died on this trip, and Willard and his father were both desperately ill. Salt Lake City was reached in October of 1854 with only the two members of the once complete family.

Willard was enrolled in school where he was given a first reader, which he was able to read upon sight. The father accompanied him to school the next day and discovered that he could also read the second reader. When asked where he had learned to read, he said he didn’t’ know, he just could read.

From Salt Lake City to Provo was the next move, where Willard’s father married Kezia Giles on February 04, 1857, when Willard was nine.

He loved school and invariably was at the head of his class.

Willard married Charlotte Moulton March 16, 1869, in the Salt Lake Endowment House; Charlotte was the daughter of Thomas Moulton and Sarah Denton. She was born June 07, 1851, in Irchester, Northampton, England. She traveled with her parents across the plains to Salt Lake City in the Willie Handcart Company when but five years of age and suffered many hardships. In 1860, her family moved to Heber City, where they made their home.

The young couple made their home in Heber City, where Willard accepted the position of village school master. He held this position for the next eight years of his life. He taught school from 1869 to 1878.

The Carrolls moved with their family in 1877 to Orderville, Kane County, Utah, where they took part in a project known as the United Order. Willard’s part was again that of school master, along with various duties in the church, and Charlotte was in charge of sewing and also worked in the kitchen.

In 1887, Willard filled a mission to the Southern States for the LDS Church.

In 1890, the family moved to Old Mexico where Willard took up farming and again taught school. He also became a merchant. While in Mexico, he suffered a stroke which left him only a few days to live. He passed away two days before his fifty-eighth birthday, May 08, 1906 at Colonia Dublan, Mexico.

(“How Beautiful Upon the Mountains” by the Wasatch DUP pp.294-295)