Son of James Gollaher and Frances Culbertson
Married Elizabeth Orton, 30 Aug 1828, Clinton Dewitt, Illinois. Children - Mary Ann Gollaher, Elizabeth Gollaher, James Monroe Gollaher, Nancy Jane Gollaher, Harriet Frances Gollaher, Eliza Angeline Gollaher, Sarah Jane Gollaher, Samantha Gollaher, William Culbertson Gollaher.
Married Betsy Robbins Cranston, about 1858, Tooele, Tooele, Utah. Children - Joseph Tyson Gollaher.
Born in Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, William migrated to Kentucky while still a boy. He finally settled in Illinois, marrying his wife, the former Elizabeth Orton as a young man and farmer. He joined the new Latter-day Saint or "Mormon" church and moved to Far West, Missouri before being driven out by anti-Mormon mobs back to Illinois, where he made his home in Burton, South of Nauvoo.
He crossed the plains along the "Mormon Train" in 1850 from the vicinity of Winters Quarters, arriving in Great Salt Lake City in the summer of 1850. He moved with many "saints" to the vicinity of Tooele, and set up a blacksmith shop. He soon quit the blacksmithing business because there were too many blacksmiths in Tooele, and became a carpenter and woodworker, erecting many of the earliest buildings in Tooele, Utah with his sons. He was the first publicly elected mayor of Tooele. He married the former Elizabeth Cranson after his first wife died, and was the first man interred in the then-new Tooele City Cemetery.
Son of James Gollaher and Frances Culbertson
Married Elizabeth Orton, 30 Aug 1828, Clinton Dewitt, Illinois. Children - Mary Ann Gollaher, Elizabeth Gollaher, James Monroe Gollaher, Nancy Jane Gollaher, Harriet Frances Gollaher, Eliza Angeline Gollaher, Sarah Jane Gollaher, Samantha Gollaher, William Culbertson Gollaher.
Married Betsy Robbins Cranston, about 1858, Tooele, Tooele, Utah. Children - Joseph Tyson Gollaher.
Born in Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, William migrated to Kentucky while still a boy. He finally settled in Illinois, marrying his wife, the former Elizabeth Orton as a young man and farmer. He joined the new Latter-day Saint or "Mormon" church and moved to Far West, Missouri before being driven out by anti-Mormon mobs back to Illinois, where he made his home in Burton, South of Nauvoo.
He crossed the plains along the "Mormon Train" in 1850 from the vicinity of Winters Quarters, arriving in Great Salt Lake City in the summer of 1850. He moved with many "saints" to the vicinity of Tooele, and set up a blacksmith shop. He soon quit the blacksmithing business because there were too many blacksmiths in Tooele, and became a carpenter and woodworker, erecting many of the earliest buildings in Tooele, Utah with his sons. He was the first publicly elected mayor of Tooele. He married the former Elizabeth Cranson after his first wife died, and was the first man interred in the then-new Tooele City Cemetery.
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