The Private Journal of William Hyde
William Hyde was born in York, Livingston County, New York, in 1818, the son of Heman Hyde. He and his father joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Freedom, Catteraugus County, New York, in 1834. He served serveral missions for the Church. A member of the Mormon Battalion, he arrived in Utah in 1847. He He married five times and was the father of twenty-six children. He died at Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah, in 1874.