William Squires

? — 1850

Enlisted in Mormon Battalion in 1846; operated Bella Union saloon in Sacramento, California, with another Battalion veteran, Jephtha Condit, in October 1850; died in Sacramento between October 24 and November 5, 1850, the victim of a cholera epidemic; his widow later married Condit. (See Ricketts, Mormon Battalion, 372; Larson, Database of the Mormon Battalion, 224; Davies, Mormon Gold, 406, 419; GQC journal, Oct. 23, Nov. 5, 1850; June 3, 1851.)