Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Williams, Christopher October 13, 1814 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

New Garden Township
p. 675

Christopher Williams was born in Highland County, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1814, a son 
of Isaac and Sarah (Hussey) Williams, natives of North Carolina, the father of 
Stokes County and the mother of Randolph County. They were married in Highland 
County, Ohio, and in 1820, came to Indiana and settled in Wayne County. They 
reared a family of eight children, three of whom are living. The mother died 
in 1834, and in 1837 Mr. Williams married Annie Cloud. She died and he then 
married again. In 1858 he moved to Hamilton County, Ind., where he died. Our 
subject resided with his parents till Dec. 10, 1833, when he married Nancy, 
daughter of Samuel and Martha (Meredith) Pitts, and settled on a tract of wild 
land in Hamilton County entered by his father. He resided there seventeen 
years and then bought a farm a mile west of Fountain City, where he lived 
thirty years. In 1880 he moved to Fountain City, where he now lives. Mr. and 
Mrs. Williams have had eleven children, ten of whom are living---Martha, 
Richard, Isaac, Franklin, Annie E., Elzena, Austin (deceased), Sarah, Samuel, 
Mary E. and Emma J. They are members of the Methodist church.


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