William Flint was a strong and vigorous and stood six-foot tall. When he was a young man, he was working on a farm for a man named Garbet with about forty others. All the workers used the large stone basin at a well to wash in. One evening they staged an impromptu contest to see who could lift it. All failed except William, who, when his turn came, lifted it with ease.
William Flint Joins the Church
Through his thrift and industry, William Flint acquired early in life a farm of forty acres some distance from his father’s home. He was just beginning to become prosperous when he heard the Gospel and gave up everything he had to go to Utah. He was baptized in 1847 by Elder William Hyde and presided over