I am related to the three WCM’s through the following line:

WCM I    (convert to the church in England, crossed the plains, then sent to Parowan to help found that settlement)
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WCM II   (crossed the plains with his parents, then with family to Parowan; polygamist – three wives)
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WCM III  (spent boyhood in a pioneer fort, rancher, cattleman)  
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Josephine Mitchell Neeley (Grandma Josephine – you can see her stories here )
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Grandpa Pat – Parley Mitchell Neeley, and you can see his stories all over my home page
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P.S. Neeley (me!)

It is a continual source of wonder to me that my great-grandfather spent his early boyhood in a pioneer fort, raised by parents who constantly worried about Indian attacks, renegades, and apparently lawless lawman.  Both my father and my mother personally knew relatives that were ‘walked across the plains’ pioneers.  How can that be!? Because these relatives were young children, 5 to 9 or 10 years old, and they walked just like the grown-ups, and had rich stories to tell.  My Dad, for instance, always lamented that as a young boy he did not ask for any stories of them but was content to talk to them about his playmates and his ‘new ball’ – ‘if only’ he used to lament. 

P.S. Neeley 02/02/14