He took a second wife, Elizabeth Francis Preator, in the Endowment House on 8 December 1866. To them were born three children. After a vigorous and successful life, he contracted pneumonia and died on 24 April 1871. His body was buried in the Logan cemetery.

See: Wellsville History Committee, Windows of Wellsville (1985); and Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (1901-36).

H. Dean Garrett