From life sketch found on familysearch.org:
Will, the son of John And Eliza Billington Welch, was born the 26th day of February 1867 at Three Mile Creek, Box Elder County, Utah.
He moved from Brigham City to Paradise, Cache County, Utah with his brother, John, and Aunt Edvania and her family in 1884. A little later their own mother, Eliza, and their father also came to Paradise to live. They lived in a home in the middle of town and just across the street from the school house. There was always plenty of work to be done and besides the usual chores around the house, Will was assigned the task of sawing and splitting wood at the tithing yard and delivering it to the widows and those in need in the ward.
Will loved to ice skate and became an accomplished skater.
On the 29th day of December 1887 he was married in Paradise, Utah and on the 28th day of June 1889 he was sealed in the Logan LDS Temple to Elizabeth Dickson McArthur, daughter of John Dickson and Sarah Elizabeth Abbott McArthur.
In the summer of 1896 the family moved to Wilford, Fremont County, Idaho. They travelled with four horses and two wagons loaded with household goods and personal belongings. The parents of Elizabeth went at the same time. William traded one team of the horses, the harness, and one wagon for about five acres of land with a two-room long house. He took the old dirt roof off the house and replaced it with shingles. He built two stables in which to house the livestock and chickens. The water for the house had to be carried from the canal. In 1917 he bought another five acres and a comfortable house where he spent the remaining years of his life.
He loved music. He played the guitar and mandolin and was very good on the mouth harp. He was a good singer and spent many evening hours singing with his family. He was very generous with his poor neighbors. If he knew of a family in need, he would send them flour or anthing he happened to have that they could use.
Will was not a man to loaf around town. He would attend to business and return home. He enjoyed reading and would sit in front of the fire and read while one of his children would comb his hair with a fine tooth comb. He had thick, shiny, black hair. He did a lot of fishing and enjoyed it very much.
He died the 21st day of May, 1920 in the hospital at Idaho Falls, Idaho and was buried in the Teton-Newdale Cemetery.