Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Williams, Joseph January 9, 1805 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

 Perry Township
p. 717


Joseph Williams was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., Jan. 9, 1805, the 
youngest of three sons of Joseph and Sophia (Thornburgh) Williams, natives of 
North Carolina, his father dying a short time prior to our subject's birth. In 
1819 his mother and her three sons came to Wayne County, Ind., and in 1820 she 
entered 240 acres of land, which she divided with her sons. She subsequently 
married. Obadiah Bennett, and moved to Centreville, where she resided till 
after Mr. Bennett's death. She then returned to Economy, and lived with her 
son Joseph till her death, June 8, 1862, aged eighty-one years. Our subject 
was married April 14, 1825, to Martha Robert, a native of Pennsylvania. They 
had one son---Thomas B., who was born May 22, 1827, and died Dec. 26, 1882. 
May 25, 1848, he was married to Abby Bouroughs, and to them were born five 
children, four of whom are living---Josephine, Jennie, Joseph and Nannie. His 
wife died Aug. 5, 1870, and Dec. 24, 1872, he married Ellen Goodrich, of 
Randolph County. To them was born one son---Charles G.


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