BIO: WILLIAMS, E. P., Pendleton Co., KY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in US GenWeb Archives by the Kentucky Biography Project Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Subject: BIO: WILLIAMS, E. P., Pendleton Co., KY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************************** Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Pendleton Co. E. P. WILLIAMS, a native of Pendleton County, Ky., and a son of Pope and Elizabeth (Kirby) Williams, was born near where the town of Butler now stands August 8, 1815. Pope Williams, a farmer and stone-mason by trade, was a native of Virginia. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams was born in Maryland, and was a daughter of Enoch Kirby. E. P. Williams was educated in the Flour Creek Schoolhouse, in Pendleton County, and followed farming on his father's farm until the death of the latter, when he bought out the other heirs to the property, and became the owner of 500 acres, which he has divided among his children, reserving only 56 acres for his home, upon which he has large buildings; he has raised a great deal of stock. February 6, 1840, he married Miss Julia Ellis, a native of Pendleton County, born September 7, 1822, and a daughter of William Ellis, a farmer. Her mother was a Miss Rush before marriage, and her paternal grandparents were natives of Virginia. Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Williams four are living: Mary Jane, born December 22, 1840, who married Thomas Yelton, of Pendleton County, November 25, 1856; Sarah Elizabeth, born October 29, 1843, and married, December 24, 1860, Frank Bird, a native of Kenton County, who was born in 1836, a son of Thomas Bird; Nancy, born March 16, 1848, married, in 1866, William Yelton, a farmer, who was born in 1839, a son of John Yelton, of Pendleton County; the fourth child of E. P. Williams was born December 26, 1862, and November 28, 1881, married A. J. Grant, son of Peter Grant, a farmer. Mr. Williams is a Democrat politically, and is a member of the Christian Church. *****************************************************************************