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Born 1841
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
W. H. WILLIAMS. His farm comprises 250 acres of finely improved land. He was born and raised near Millersburgh, Holmes county, Ohio; born Aug. 2, 1841; son of James and Mary Williams, both natives of same county. Our subject began life as a school teacher and in the fall of 1865 went to Gentry county. Mo., near Gentryville, and taught a term of school, then engaged in the cattle trade. In Nov., 1866, he care to Medoc, and taught the first school in the brick school-house, afterward purchased a farm and followed agricultural pursuits. He was married July 3, 1869, to Miss Martha J. Bell; she was born Nov. 28, 1852, and raised in Macoupin county,
Illinois; daughter of George L. and Mary W. Bell. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have a family of four children: Alice, Lena, Dora, and Harrison.
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