Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Williams, James 1822 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 760

James Williams was born on the homestead in Wayne County, Ind., in 1822. He 
was married in 1850 to Emily Wallace, who was born on the Wallace homestead in 
1831, daughter of John Wallace. To them were born three children---Amanda E., 
married Albert Caldwell, and died leaving one child, Amanda, who resides with 
her grandfather, Mr. Williams; Willard E., married Fannie M. Potter; Sarah I., 
wife of Oliver H. Beeson. Mr. Williams has followed farming through life on 
the place where he was born and still resides, and owns an excellent farm of 
200 acres. His father, Joseph Williams, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 
1787, a son of Thomas Williams, of Welsh descent. He lived in Kentucky until 
he was about twelve years old, when he moved with his parents to Indiana, and 
first settled near Harrison, and afterward moved to near Brookville, Ind., 
where his parents died. Here he was married to Charity Adams, who was born in 
Stokes County in 1785, and in 1814 he settled on the farm now occupied by 
James Williams, where he entered 160 acres of land. He lived here till his 
children came to maturity, when he moved to Fairview, Rush Co., Ind., where 
his death occurred in 1855 at the age of sixty-eight years. He was a local 
preacher in the Methodist Protestant church of considerable notoriety. His 
wife died in 1850 at the age of sixty-five years. To them were born ten 
children, nine of whom grew to maturity---Wesley, of Hancock County, Ind.; 
William, deceased; Deborah, widow of Isaac Harden, of Marion County, Ind.; 
Nancy, deceased; Mary, deceased, wife of John Howard, St. Paul, Minn.; Thomas; 
James; Joseph; of Hancock County, Ind.; Rachel, wife of James H. Hart, of 
Marion County, Ind.


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