It is hard to believe, but if you know anybody with the last name of Tolley from the western United States or Canada, we would guess you came to us via Wm. Fisher Tolley and one of two wives during Polygamy times. He was actually married to four, but the Tolley family doesn't like to talk of the latter two, only the first two who had kids. Years ago, after interviewing the last living grandchild of Wm. Fisher Tolley, I put together my own version of the Life and Times of this Brigham Young's Mormon servant. As I recently discovered a typed version from a hand written history of Mr. Tolley, I was moved to place it here. It was written by a daughter of William-Lizzie Tolley Jones. Take it for what it is worth to you. The collage of photos is from the album belonging to Elizabeth Tolley Jones, and I recognize only the two smaller photo's in the middle. The one on the left is of Leonard and Jane Tolley Jones and the other is of Wm. and Lizzie Tolley Jones. Two Jones brothers married two Tolley sisters. Mr. Tolley also assisted Orrin Porter Rockwell between farming with in Idaho and Utah and having a wagon load of kids. One wife lived in an Adobe north of Nephi that still stands and the other in Idaho.
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