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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    ABNER WILLIAMS, Merchant, Oxford, was born in Jefferson County, this State,
November 21, 1824, and his parents were Jordan and Edna (Atkins) Williams. He
was reared on his father's farm, attended the old-field schools, and in 1844
began life as a school teacher. The year following he accepted a clerkship in a
store at Talladega, for which service he received, at the beginning, five
dollars per month. He remained with that concern three years, another firm three
years, another one year, and for his last year's labor received $375. In 1853,
at Curry's Station, he began business for himself, and in 1855 removed to Selma,
where he was engaged in cotton business until 1862. At the close of the war he
returned to Selma from Talladega County, resumed his old business, and was there
until 1884. In August of that year he came to Oxford and engaged in the
millinery business.

    December 23, 1852, Mr. Williams was married to Agatha A. Heacock, daughter
of Dr. Joseph D. and Rachel M. (Garner) Heacock, of Talladega County; and of the
six children born to them we have the following data: Curry E., Emma R. (widow
of H. A. Singleton), Mollie E. (wife of Dr. B. D. Williams, of Utah Territory),
Joseph, Albert, Abner J. P., and Lillie B.

    Jordan Williams was born in South Carolina, August 31, 1794; served through
the war of 1812 as a member of the Eighth United States Infantry;
married Edna Atkins in Abbeville district, South Carolina, May 5, 1816; settled
near Elyton, Jefferson County, Ala., in 1818; from there moved to a farm near
Trussville, and subsequently, or about March 1, 1833, settled in Talladega
County. He was stricken with paralysis while preaching to the Confederate
conscript soldiers at Talladega, September, 1862, and died near Tallasahatchie
Baptist Church, fifteen miles south of Talladega, November 24, 1862. He was a
farmer, and a minister of the Baptist Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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