Bateman Haight Wilhelm

{{Infobox ancestor
| name = Bateman Haight Wilhelm
| image = BHWilhelm.JPG
| caption = Bateman Haight Wilhelm
| birthdate = [[November 14]], [[1843]]
| location = [[Venice, New York|Venice]], [[Cayuga County, New York|Cayuga]], [[New York]]
| deathdate = [[June 3]], [[1903]]
| deathplace = [[Silver City, New Mexico|Silver City]], [[Grant County, New Mexico|Grant]], [[New Mexico]]
| othername = Bateman Haight Williams
| father = [[John Benjamin Williams]] 
| mother = [[Clarissa Harden]]
| spouse = [[Lydia Hannah Draper]]<br/>[[Grace Tippett Jose]]
}}

'''Bateman Haight Wilhelm''' ([[November 14]], [[1843]] - [[June 3]], [[1903]]), born as '''Bateman Haight Williams'''

==Biography==
===Early Years===
Bateman was born [[November 14]], [[1843]] in [[Venice, New York|Venice]], [[New York]], a small town located in [[Cayuga County, New York]], which lies in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.  His surname at birth was Williams, which later in life he changed back to the original family name Wilhelm.  Bateman's parents were [[John Benjamin Williams]] and [[Clarissa Harden]], and they named him after family friend David Bateman Haight.

===Mormon Migration===
In [[1842]], Bateman's parents had joined the growing Mormon religion, and were making plans to relocate to [[Nauvoo, Illinois]].  Shortly after Bateman's birth, they abandoned their farm in Venice, and began to make their way to [[Nauvoo, Illinois|Nauvoo]].  By the time they got to Nauvoo in 1844, Joseph Smith had been killed, and violence against the Mormons was escalating.  The family spent a little over two years in Nauvoo before starting across the plains on June 17, 1847 in the Daniel Spencer/Ira Eldredge Company.  They spent the winter of 1847 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. After leaving Winter Quarters, they headed to Mosquito Creek, Iowa and on to Weston, Missouri where Bateman's father John and two of his siblings died.  In April 1851, shortly after John's death, Clarissa and the remaining children finally left for Salt Lake City, arriving there on June 27, 1851.

===Civil War=== 
In [[1862]], Bateman served in Capt. Lot Smith's Company for a period of three months.  His Civil War record shows a muster in date of April 30, 1862 and a muster out date of August 14, 1862. Bateman's name is listed on the [[Utah Civil War Monument|Utah Civil War monument]] on the Capitol grounds in Salt Lake City, as well as the [[Davis County Veterans Memorial]] in [[Farmington, Utah]].  [[image:BHW_Civil_War_record_Page_2.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Civil War record for Bateman H. Williams]]

===The United Order===
The unit of the United Order which became Orderville was formed March 20, 1874 at Mt. Carmel, Utah, with Bateman H. Williams listed as one of the original members of the board of directors. In early [[1875]], it was decided to move site two miles up the Long Valley and the name Orderville was chosen. In March of that year, Bateman's family was the first of the United Order members to move to [[Orderville, Utah]].  

Bateman continued to serve on United Order's board of directors, and was elected to 1st Vice-President of the board on July 14th, 1875 and on August 2 of the same year he was chosen to serve as 2nd counselor on the Orderville ward's bishopric until he resigned from the bishopric on September 8, 1877. 

The Order owned a water-powered sawmill which Bateman and Israel Hoyt ran, and later it was replaced by a steam-powered sawmill, which was run by Bateman and Isaiah Bowers. 

Orderville was reorganized into an ecclesiastical ward on October 5, 1877, at which time Bateman was re-elected to the board of directors as 2nd Vice-President, a position he likely held until he withdrew his holdings from the Order, and heeded the call to colonize Arizona.

===Colonizing Arizona===
In March, [[1879]], Bateman was one of the first Mormons to settle in [[Concho, Arizona|Concho]], [[Arizona]].

On September 5, [[1881]], to protect themselves from the Apache Indians, the Mormon citizens of St. Johns, Arizona organized a military company of twenty men known as the "United Forces of St. Johns", with Bateman Haight Wilhelm as Captain. 

===New Mexico===
Bateman died [[June 3]], [[1903]] in [[Silver City, New Mexico|Silver City]], [[New Mexico]].  Among the relatives present when Bateman passed away was his son-in-law Arthur Northrup.  Arthur later recounted that as Bateman lay dying from Bright's disease, several of the family members gathered at his bedside were weeping and sad.  Bateman didn't care for the display of sorrow so he dragged himself out of bed and did an impromtu clog dance to cheer them up. While they were still laughing, he got back into bed and died.

Bateman is buried in lot F-25-4 [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nma/grant/memory_lanecem2.htm][http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nma/grant/images/memorylane.jpg] in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Silver City.  Bateman's original headstone, as well as the cemetery records, incorrectly list his name as Batman, and the year of death as 1904.  This has since been corrected by [[Corlyn Holbrook|Corlyn H. Adams]], a descendant of Bateman's, who paid for a new stone, and had the old stone left in place for historical reasons.

[[image:bateman_headstone_old.png|thumb|100px|left|Old headstone]][[image:bateman_headstone_new.png|thumb|200px|none|New headstone]]

==Children with [[Lydia Hannah Draper]]==
Bateman and Lydia had the following children:

===[[Bateman Haight Wilhelm, Jr.]]===
*Born: [[June 27]], [[1865]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[June 11]], [[1931]] in [[Vernon, Arizona|Vernon]], [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache]], [[Arizona]]

===[[Lydia Isora Wilhelm]]===
*Born: January 10, 1868 in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: 1920

===[[Clarissa Isabell Wilhelm]]===
*Born: [[March 27]], [[1870]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[August 23]], [[1937]] in [[Mesa,Arizona|Mesa]], [[Maricopa County, Arizona|Maricopa]], [[Arizona]]

===[[Zemira George Wilhelm]]===
*Born: [[September 8]], [[1872]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[November 9]], [[1950]] in [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]], [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache]], [[Arizona]]

===[[Amy Elnora Wilhelm]]===
*Born: [[February 27]], [[1876]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[October 29]], [[1877]]

===[[Fanny Marilla Wilhelm]]===
*Born: [[April 14]], [[1879]] in [[Rockville, Utah|Rockville]], [[Washington County, Utah|Washington]], [[Utah]]
*Died: [[November 27]], [[1959]] in [[Farmington, New Mexico|Farmington]], [[San Juan County, New Mexico|San Juan]], [[New Mexico]]

===[[John Benjamin Wilhelm]]===
*Born: September 6, [[1881]] in [[St. Johns, Arizona|St. Johns]], [[Apache County, Arizona|Apache]], [[Arizona]]
*Died: 1911


==Children with [[Grace Tippett Jose]]==
Bateman and Grace had the following children:

===[[Marion Lee Williams]]===
*Born: [[December 15]], [[1871]] in Long Valley, UT
*Died: July 13, 1963 in Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona

===[[Francis Viola Williams]]===
*Born: December 12, 1873
*Died:

===[[Susan Amelia Williams]]===
*Born: August 3, 1875
*Died:

===[[Lucy Louisa Williams]]===
*Born: May 27, 1877
*Died:

===[[Independence Grace Williams]]===
*Born: July 4, 1880
*Died: 

===[[Mary Williams]]===
*Born: April 1, 1882
*Died:

==Images==
[[Image:Bateman_Haight_Wilhelm_Lydia_Hannah_Draper.JPG|250px|Bateman and Lydia]]
Bateman and Lydia

[[Image:1900 New Mexico Grant Upper Gila Census cropped.jpg|250px|1900 Grant County, New Mexico census]]
Bateman, Lydia and Fanny in New Mexico on the 1900 US Census

==Video==
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==Family Tree==
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|1= 1. '''[[Bateman Haight Wilhelm]]'''
|2= 2. [[John Benjamin Williams]]
|3= 3. [[Clarissa Harden]]
|4= 4. [[John Andrew Williams]]
|5= 5. [[Mercy Farrington]]
|6= 6. Miller Harding
|7= 7. Eilabeth Tabor
|8= 8. [[Justice Williams]]
|9= 9. Clarissa
|10= 10. Benjamin Farrington
|11= 11. Susannah Tompkins
|12= 12. James Harding
|13= 13. Mary
|14= 14. ?
|15= 15. ?
|16= 16. ?
|17= 17. ?
|18= 18. ?
|19= 19. ?
|20= 20. Thomas Farrington
|21= 21. Miss Norris
|22= 22. Edmund Tompkins
|23= 23. ?
|24= 24. James Harding
|25= 25. Mary Nickerson
|26= 26. ?
|27= 27. ?
|28= 28. ?
|29= 29. ?
|30= 30. ?
|31= 31. ?
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==Sources==
* [[Autobiography of Clarissa Wilhelm]], [[1888]]
* http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/1,15791,4018-1-47229,00.html

[[Category:People|Wilhelm, Bateman Haight]]