H. M. Williams, Unknown Parish, Louisiana

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H. M. Williams is a well-known planter of Louisiana, but was born, in Mississippi in 1845 and

when eight years of age came to Louisiana with his parents.  His father, B. H. Williams, was

born in Ohio and in a very early day moved to Wilkinson county, Miss.  In 1850 he was taken

with the gold fever and after fifteen years spent in the West, returned to his old home, where

he died two years later.  H. M. Williams was an attendant of a private school until fifteen

years of age, but the war coming up about this time he left school to enlist in the confederate

service, becoming a member of Company E, First Louisiana cavalry, and was a participant in many

engagements in Tennessee and Kentucky, among which may be mentioned the battles of Shiloh,

Murfreesboro, Perryville, Chattanooga and Richmond.  While with Scott's command in the last

mentioned engagement he received a slight wound.  He served for a time as courier on Scott' s

staff.  His last service was on the Naval expedition on Lake Maripan with Holmes.  After the

war he returned to Louisiana and engaged in farming, and although commencing on very limited

means he has succeeded reasonably well and is now the owner of two plantations, embracing 720

acres, one-half of which is under cultivation.  He handles eighty bales of cotton yearly, and

he is continually improving his place and thus adds not only to its beauty but to its value.

He is industrious and honorable and as what he now has has been earned through his own efforts,

his career is deserving of emu1ation.  In 1868 he was married to Miss Lida Stockton Austin, a

native of Pennsylvania, but was called upon to mourn her death in 1876, their union having

resulted in the birth of one son, Hunter, who has been an attendant of the University of

Louisiana.  In 1890 he took for his second wife, Miss Fannie L. Haralson of Louisiana.  They

are Episcopalians.



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Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 458-459.  

Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.



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