Abia William Brown Jr. from "The Brown Family page"

ABIA WILLIAM BROWN JR "WILL"
from "The Brown Family page" at ancestry.com
Born May 5, 1840 in Harrisonville, Ohio
Died March 27, 1924 in Fredonia, Arizona

He came to Utah with the Sextus E. Johnson Company on September 27, 1861, driving an ox team for his sister, Jane Johnson's family. He was baptized the next year, May 5, 1962. He served a mission in England and presided over the Bristol Conference in 1867-69. This is where he met his future bride. He was president of the 65th Quorum of Seventies, Bishop's counselor, High Priest, and ward Chorister.
When he was young, he was an apprentice to a tin smith, but he was treated so terribly, that he ran away. He was a school teacher, surveyor, lawyer, construction worker - building the school house and the Relief Society house -, he was foreman for the Big Field Co. over the pasturage, a secretary of the Water Board, School inspector, book keeper - his records were always very meticulous, as well as Justice of the Peace, and US Commissioner. He also wrote mining deeds, had a big farm, and was a nurseryman. He worked for the Johnson's at their store and sold goods down through Utah. His brother-in-law, William Johnson, is George Washington Johnson's Brother. He was a good actor, and played parts in the Salt Lake Theater. When he was younger, in Ohio, he became terribly ill with Pneumonia. He had a dream that a beautiful girl with brown hair like he had never seen before took care of him through his illness. When he was in England at the Sibley farm, he met the girl of his dream. Will, as he was called by friends and family, had two wives, Emma and Lucinda A. Stewart, Aunt Lunny as Emma's kids called her. He died of pneumonia at about 84 years old.