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''[[United States|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Utah Genealogy|Utah]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Box Elder County, Utah |Box Elder]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]'' '''Willard'''

{{Wikipedia|Willard, Utah}}Willard had its beginning in 1851, when several companies of settlers were sent out from Salt Lake City. Nineteen people located on North Willow Creek, seven miles south of where Brigham would soon be. Two years later, the settlement was moved to a better site, two miles farther south, and the name North Willow Creek was given to the new settlement. A fort wall was built to protect them from the threat of Indian attacks. <ref>[[Jones, Merlene T. Braegger; Willard Centennial 1851- 1951 A brief history of the past one hundred years|Jones, Merlene T. Braegger; ''Willard Centennial 1851- 1951 A brief history of the past one hundred years'']] </ref> <br>

Most of Willard's first settlers were mostly of Welsh, English, Scottish and Dutch descent having come in the overland companies from Nauvoo, Illinois.<ref> [http://diglib.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/OTImages&CISOBOX1=William Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869] </ref> Most were farmers, but some were merchants, carpenters, blacksmiths and school teachers. <ref> Merlene T. Braegger Jones; ''The Willard Pioneer Cemetery''</ref>

The Willard Pioneer Cemetery residents have biographical sketches written about them by Merlene T. Breaggar Jones in the ''The Willard Pioneer Cemetery'' <ref> Merlene T. Breaggar Jones; ''The Willard Pioneer Cemetery''  {{FHL|979.242/W1 V3j}} </ref>This book is about Willard's pioneers who passed away between 1854-1869.

*[http://www.billiongraves.com/pages/cemetery/cemetery.php?cemetery_id=107859 Willard City Cemetery, photos and transcriptions at BillionGraves]

*[http://history.utah.gov/burials/execute/searchburials Burial Database]  

*'''''Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -'''''A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the [https://www.familysearch.org/ Family Search Historical Records].&nbsp; Utah requires a death certificate before a burial is completed.&nbsp; A death certificate may contain information as to the name of the deceased, date of death, and place of death, as well as&nbsp;the age, birthdate, parents, gender, marital status, spouse and place of residence.&nbsp; For information on death prior to 1904 you can search the [http://history.utah.gov/burials/execute/searchburials Utah State Burial Index].