Hiram P. Thayer, son of Joel Thayer, was born on October 29, 1806 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. He married Sarah Elizabeth Williams on December 24, 1831 in the Zion Episcopal Church in Palmyra. On December 4, 1833, Hiram signed the “Testimony of 51 Neighbors,” later printed in Mormonism Unvailed.[1] He died on October 1, 1866 in Palmyra and was buried in the Palmyra City Cemetery.
[1] Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, pp. 366–367.