Biographical Sketch of Ephraim Williams, Jefferson County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Ephraim Williams, farmer and gardener, was born in Fiddington, Somerset-
shire, England, June 16, 1835.  He is one of the thirteen children born
to Rovert and Elizabeth Williams, and his education was acquired mainly
in the night schools, the advantages of the school system being limited
there at that time.  At the age of sixteen or seventeen he was appren-
ticed to a Mr. Norman to learn the carpenter's trade, with hom he ser-
ved five years.  He afterward visted various towns and cities of 
England, and in 1862 located in London, where he followed his trade ten
years.  December 23, 1862, in Bath, England, he married Miss Elizabeth
Bond, a native of Pitney, Somersetshire, England, who was born May 10,
1835.  They have had five children, viz.: Robert (deceased), Thomas,
Annie Elizabeth, Mary Jessie and Ellen, the latter two being born in 
Jefferson County, Mo.  In June, 1870, Mr. Williams and family embarked
from Liverpool for America, landing in Quebec, Canada.  They spent one
winter in Oswego, N. Y., but the weather was so severe they concluded
to look for more congenial climes, and moved to St. Louis, where Mr.
Williams engaged in carpentering.  He was subsequently employed to 
erect the residence of W. S. Jewett, in Plattin Rock, Jefferson County,
to which place he moved his family, and he it was who drove the first
nail in the interest of the American Plate Glass Company, toward the
completion of what is now Crystal City.  He owns sixty-eight and one
half acres of land in Joachim Township and is engaged in farming and
market gardening, in which he has been quite successful.  The family 
are Presbyterians in religion, and, politically, Mr. Williams is a
Democrat.

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