WILLIAMSON BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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WILLIAMSON, David
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 787
residence: Shawnee Twp

David Williamson is a successful breeder of Duroc Jersey hogs and Shorthorn 
cattle, living in Shawnee township. Mr. Williamson, who for the past twenty 
years has weeded out the unproductive and worthless cattle in his herd, has by so 
doing evolved a strain of cattle eligible for registration and made for the 
advancement of profit and pleasure in their care. Mr. Williamson, who is a native 
of Washington County, Ohio, was born near Marietta in 1850. His parents were 
Robert and Catherine (Mosteller) Williamson. They had a family of five children 
as follow: David, of this sketch; Sarah, living in Oklahoma; Clara, of Morgan 
County, Missouri; Alice, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Ida, of Kansas City, Kansas. 
Robert Williamson was born in Scotland and came to the United States in early 
manhood and settled in Ohio, where he met and married Catherine Mosteller, a 
native of that State. With their young family in 1859 they left their home and 
friends in Ohio and started out to build for themselves a home in the West. 
Morgan County, Missouri was their objective, and they came as far as Jefferson 
City, Missouri, by steamboat. From there they were drawn across country in a 
rude ox wagon and located near Versailles, Missouri. They reared their family on 
the farm. Mr. Williamson, when the call came from Lincoln, answered and for two 
years fought the battles of freedom for a great principle. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson 
have answered the call of the great reaper and are laid to rest in Mount Carmel 
Church Cemetery, Morgan County. David Williamson, a lad of nine upon his arrival 
in Morgan County, Missouri, remembers the days of struggle necessary to win a 
livelihood from the soil. After receiving his education and starting in life for 
himself and chose farming as his vocation. In 1888 he purchased his present farm 
in Shawnee township, after spending six years as a farm laborer in this locality. 
He built a house of ten rooms and the necessary farm buildings. Mr. Williamson 
was married in 1888 to Miss Elizabeth Sharp, who was born in 1854. Her parents, 
Joseph and Helen Sharp, who were natives of Scotland, settled in Illinois in 1850. 
Nine years later, in 1865, the wife and mother died and Mr. Sharp with his family 
came to Henry County, settling on the farm which his daughter, Mrs. Williamson, 
now owns. He remained on this farm for a number of years until he went to 
California and died there. There were three children of the Sharp family: Mrs. 
Elizabeth Williamson; Frank, of Howell County, Missouri, and Jennie, died in 
California. Mr. Williamson, for the past twenty years, has been a breeder of the 
Shorthorn cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs, which are registered and of the highest 
class stock. A granary, built of stone over fifty years ago, is still on the 
Williamson farm. It was originally built by Mr. Sharp, the father of Mrs. 
Williamson. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson have made their homes in Shawnee township 
so many years that they have been instrumental in much of the progress of their 
immediate surroundings, being influential citizens of the community. 

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