From an article in Deseret Evening News, 1889-12-11, Death of a Good Man:

"David Williams whose death occurred on the morning of December 6th, 1889, at Price, Emery County, was the son of David and Sarah Williams, and was born in Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, December 16, 1827, and hence was aged nearly 62 years. He embraced the Gospel in its fulness in the year 1847. . . . In 1849 he was ordained an Elder and called to the ministry. He traveled as a missionary four years, principally in North Wales. . . . He married Miss Sarah Williams on May 29, 1847; migrated to St. Louis in January 1855, and was president of the Welsh Saints."

A summary of the remainder of the article follows:

David was a miner and worked in that industry in Canton, Illinois. He had successes and failures. In 1875 he met Eder B.F. Cummings, Jr. traveling as a missionary who brought him back into association with the Saints. In 1876 he moved to Ogden, Utah. In 1878 he was called on a mission to the Southern States. He was an excellent geologist and an experienced coat mine manager. Upon his return from the mission, David became manager of the D. & R. G. coal mines at Pleasant Valley in October 1880.

In 1885 David went on another mission, this time to Wales. He returned to Utah in November 1888. During his three years of the mission, asthma, a disease from which he had long suffered became deep seated. Notwithstanding his broken health, David established a mercantile business at Price in May of 1889. At times he suffered terribly at frequent intervals.

"Brother Williams was a good and a remarkable man. He was a natural leader, and gifted with rare abilities in some directions. To look into his clear, blue, earnest eyes and doubt his honesty, was impossible. He decided the most important matters instantly, and was generally guided by a correct intuition. In his business plans and enterprises it was nearly always a leading object to provide employment or aid for others, and he has planned for an helped to feed thousands. Ingratitude which is so often the reward of the philanthropic worker, never swerved him from his purpose to labor for the welfare of others. He was a father to his employees.

"As a parent he was solicitous for and devotedly attached to his children; as a husband he was tender and affectionate; as a business man he was intelligent and thoroughly reliable; and as a Latter-day Saint he lived and died faithful to the obligations of the Gospel, having a firm assurance of his election to a glorious resurrection.

"He leaves two wives and was the father of fourteen children, seven of whom survive him. He also had a large number of grandchildren. These, with hundreds of his countrymen living in this region, and a host of other friends and acquaintances, will cherish his memory as that of a man worthy of their esteem and affections Peaceful be his rest."