Ray County, Missouri Biographies - William A. Wells (b. 1843)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.639-640


WILLIAM A. WELLS

WILLIAM A. WELLS. The gentleman was born in Ray county, Missouri, July 24, 1843. He is
the son of John and Sarah Wells. His father was born in North Carolina and his mother in
Tennessee. Our subject attended the schools of the county in his youth, and worked on his
father’s farm until he was twenty-eight years of age, and then clerked in a store on his
own account, and conducted it for three years. He then returned to farming for about a
year, and then served as constable, to which office he had been elected, for two years.
He then returned to merchandising, at Orrick, and is yet so engaged. Mr. Wells married
January 16, 1873, to Miss Cornelia B. Sheppard, daughter of D. B. and Minerva Sheppard,
natives of the state of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Wells have adopted Anna, daughter of
Andrew J. and Lorena Wells.




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