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William Coucher

William Coucher[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]

Male 1833 - 1872  (38 years)


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  • Name William Coucher  [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16] 
    Birth 14 Dec 1833  Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 8, 12, 14, 15] 
    Gender Male 
    Burial Jun 1872  Pine Valley, Washington, Utah Territory, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 8] 
    Death 15 Jun 1872  Pine Valley, Washington, Utah Territory, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 8, 15] 
    Person ID I312684221988  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Joseph Lewis Thompson Family by Howard T
      Joseph Lewis Thompson Family by Howard Thompson (William HowardThompson)929.2 T 371 twh. The re is a copy in the St. George FHC. DLGtalked toHoward Thompson April 30, 1998. He was 91 a t that time butstill veryalert. He said that he has looked many hours for the burialsite o fWilliam Coucher, but has never found it. He feels that it isprobablyone of the unmarked gr aves in Pine Valley. He also feels thatEliza'sgiven name was Eliza Thompson, and that the P enalope was addedlater. William and Eliza were called to Pine Valley by Brigham Young at the1861October Conference . They were one of 308 families that were calledtomove south. 32 families were called to P ine Valley, William andElizawere in this group. "O' Ye Mountains High" by Bess Snow and Elizabeth S.Beckstrom. Son Horace was blessed in Pine Valley on 1 September 1870 by S. H.Earl.Pine Valley membershi p records #0026418. No other mention offamily wasfound. Annals of the Southern Utah Mission by James G. Bleak page show onthespring 1862 census tha t William Coatcher came from Richville,Tooele,Utah. William Coucher was a member of the 1859 Eighth Handcart Company.GeorgeRowley was captain. O ur Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 14, p.323. Life Story of Mary Pitts Griffin by Mary P, Thompson. LDS AF. The following is from a history of Tooele that WJG has: Richville (Mills, Milltown, Milton, and Millvale) By Mildred Mercer Contemporary with the settlement of Tooele was that of Richville, whereE.T. Benson had buil t a sawmill. Its only claim to fame was itsbeingchosen as the first county seat. Alfred Le e was named probatejudgeFebruary 7, 1852 and was asked to organize the county. The state legislature had not designated a county seat as it had doneinother counties, but a llowed the people to select their own. TooeleCityappears to have been so selected, but ther e are no available recordstoindicate any formal authentication of a county seat there. It isstrange, therefore that since Tooele was the largest settlement ofthecounty, that on Januar y 16, 1855, the legislature declared thecountyseat to be at Richville. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Ten, p.119, mentions the name Helen CoucherofTooele. Richville was the site of a mill. Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic Historyofthe Church., p.880 . When Bishop Rowberry moved his family to themill(Richville) on Twin Creek, in 1854, Eli B . Kelsey was appointedlocalpresident of the Tooele Branch. William came to Utah in same company asWilliam Coucher. Heart Throbs of the West, Vol.8, p.168 Richville was settled in the year 1849 by Ezra T. Benson, pioneerMormonapostle, and John Row berry, first bishop of Tooele. They built amillthere, using the water to run a mill from a l arge stream of water.Thisstream is fed by an unknown source and is unique from the fact tha ttheflow remains the same the year around, never varying. A pioneer hotelwasbuilt on this s ite which was a stopping place for the overlandstage.Richville was declared the county sea t of Tooele County by an actof theState legislature, January 16, 1855; prior to that time al lbusinesspertaining to the county was transacted in Tooele City. On movingthecounty seat t o Richville, the county officials purchased a smalladobehouse for $125.00 to be used as a co unty court house. Richvillecontinuedto be the county seat until January 18, 1861. At that da te theStatelegislature repealed the act and authorized that county court tolocatethe count y seat. The people of Tooele and E. T. (now LakePoint)petitioned that the seat be chosen b y ballot. Tooele City was thenchosenby an unanimous vote. However, sessions of the court wer eheldalternately at Tooele, Grantsville, and Richville, until acountybuilding was erected i n Tooele City in 1867. Heart Throbs of the West, Vol.8, p.168 Later John Rowberry purchased all the county holdings at Richvillefor$58.00 to be paid in gr ain and young stock. He was the highestbidder.Richville no longer exists. Today only two o r three families livenearthe site of the old mill and the old mill has long since disappeared,having been destroyed by fire some years ago. -Myrl H. Porter. Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 17, p.146. Richville-Declared the countyseatof Tooele County, Ja nuary 16, 1855. Also known as Milltown, MiltonandMillvale. Ezra T. Benson had built a sawmil l at this location. There is some notes and a time line on William in the file of DLG.

  • Sources 
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