Ebenezer Albert Williams
Ebenezer Albert Williams, a Patriarch in the North Davis Stake of Zion, Davis county, Utah, was born August 5, 1830, at Curleen Monmouthshire, Wales, the son of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Edwards. He was baptized in December, 1849, by Sidney Bailey. Shortly after his baptism he was ordained a Priest and sent out as a local missionary.
In 1850 he was ordained an elder and appointed to preside over the Cowbridge branch, filling that position for about one and a half years. As a boy he worked as a gardener and farmer, and emigrated to Utah in 1853, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Jersey" and the plains in Claudius V. Spencer's company. On this journey, after arriving at Keokuk, Iowa, he married Esther Bowring Harris (daughter of Isaac Bowring and Hannah Riden) who was born in 1820 and died in 1855.
On Jan. 19, 1856, he married Ada Evans, who has been a good companion to him ever since. He settled on the Mountain road, east of Kaysville, Davis county, in 1853, but after his marriage to Ada Evans, he bought a lot and built a house on the townsite of Kaysville, a block and a half north of the present meeting house, where he lived till the "move" in 1858, after which the house was used as a school house, and finally Bro. Williams donated the house and lot to the Ward and it became the first meeting house of Kaysville. He took part in the Echo canyon war in 1857 and settled temporarily at Provo, Utah county, in 1858, at the time of the "move."
After his return to Kaysville he again located on the farm in the east part of that settlement, but later bought a house and lot in the old fort which Brother Williams had helped to build. In 1863 Brother Williams went back to the Missouri river after goods. Having previously been ordained a High Priest and set apart as a High Councilor of the Davis Stake on Dec. 11, 1881, which position he held till Sept. 26, 1904, at which time he was ordained a Patriarch. For about twenty years he served as a member of the city council of Kaysville without compensation. Patriarch Williams died Feb. 18, 1917.
