Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Williams, LaFayette July 20, 1848 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 368 & 369

LaFayette Williams, merchant, Centreville, Ind., was born in Fayette County, 
Ind., July 20, 1848, a son of Balis and .Martha (Heavern) Williams, both 
natives of Kentucky. His grandfather, John Williams, was a Virginian, and 
emigrated to Kentucky, and thence to Fayette County, Ind., when Balis was a 
year old. The latter lived in Fayette County till 1854 when he removed to 
Wayne County and settled on a farm near Centreville, where he still resides. 
His wife died in July, 1864. Three of their six children are living---Edmund, 
Ella and LaFayette. The latter began his mercantile career as a clerk in the 
store of J. B. Van Aernam, remained with him three years and then went to 
Richmond and clerked for a brother of his former employer two years. In 1877 
he commenced business for himself in Centreville. He has had a good and 
steadily growing trade from the first; keeps a complete stock of dry-goods, 
hats, caps, boots and shoes. He is an experienced merchant and studies the 
wants of his customers. June 7, 1883, Mr. Williams was married to Emma P. 
Maxwell, daughter of John M. Maxwell, of Richmond.


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