History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, MO
Cedar County Biography Section

     J. K. P. Williams, youngest brother of H. M. Williams, 
was born in Cedar County, Mo., in 1845, and received a good 
practical education in the common schools.  He served two 
years, from April, 1863, in the Union army, in different 
commands, first in Company E, Sixtieth Volunteer Cavalry 
Enrolled Missouri Militia, in Southwest Missouri.  He was 
afterward with Capt. Cook, and at last in company D, 
Twenty-sixth Missouri State Militia.  After the war he 
attended school at Brownsville, Neb., then taught school for 
several years, and was one of Cedar County's prominent 
educators.  He was married in 1874 to Miss Martha Ann Metcalf,
a native of St. Clair County, Mo., and the daughter of Rev. 
John T. and Susan C. Metcalf, natives of Virginia.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Metcalf were married in Chariton County, Mo., but moved 
from there to Cedar County, and still later, moved to St. Clair
County, where Mrs. Metcalf is living at the present time.  
Mr. Metcalf is deceased.  He was for many years a Baptist 
minister, and at one time represented St. Clair County in the 
Legislature.  To M. and Mrs. Williams have been born nine 
children, three sons and one daughter now living.  Mr. 
Williams is now living one mile west of were he was born and 
reared.  His home farm consists of 160 acres of well improved 
land, and he has two other tracts of eighty acres near by.  
He served a short time as justice of the peace, and was once 
elected coroner of Cedar County, but would not serve.  Since 
November, 1888, he has been postmaster at Ivy Postoffice, at 
his house.  He is a Republican in his political views, and his
first presidential vote was cast for Gen. Grant, in 1868.  He
is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Stockton Lodge, is also
a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and wife are members
of the Baptist Church, he having been a member since 1866, and
clerk in the same for twenty years.  

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 789, 790 
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