Biography of W.A.L. WILLIAMS, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	W.A.L. WILLIAMS, farmer, Chismville, Ark. Mr. Williams'
fine farm, consisting of 280 acres of land in Washburn Township,
Logan County, Ark., is well cultivated and improved, and his
buildings are all in first-class shape. He is thrifty and
enterprising, and the success which seems to attend his efforts
is well merited, for no one is more thoroughly interested in
this calling or gives it greater attention. He was born in North
Carolina, in 1827, and is the son of John W. and Mary A. (Thacker)
Williams, natives of the Old Dominion. Our subject was principally
reared in North Carolina, and his educational facilities in youth
were not of the best. He started out as a tiller of the soil in
1860, and this has continued to be his principal occupation since.
At the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted in the army and
served his country faithfully and well until the cessation of
hostilities. He was married to Miss Margaret Jane Palmer, a
native of North Carolina, and the daughter of Jesse and Betty
Palmer, natives also of North Carolina. Mr. Williams removed
from Missouri to Logan County, Ark., in 1870, and here he has
made his home ever since. The fruits of his union were the
following children: Uriah, Tempy A., A.J., Mary E., L., Dora,
Alice, Oscar and Wallace, all the children living and at home,
with the exception of Uriah and Tempy A. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a Democrat
in politics.