Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Williams, Roger F. December 18, 1840 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 July 25, 2009, 4:06 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Williams, Roger F., was born on the farm where he now lives, in Winfield, December, 18, 1840. He is a son of Anthony Williams, who was born in Rhode Island, in 1799, and came to Columbia with his father, from Rhode Island. They came with an ox team all the way, and built a log house, and cleared the farm. Here he lived until his death. Anthony Williams settled on the farm now occupied by his son, Roger, about 1830, where he died in 1873, aged seventy- four years. Roger Williams married Nelia Ginbey, and they have two daughters: Emma J., who married S. B. Cruikshank, and Ida H. Roger F. Williams is one of the representative farmers of Winfield, and owns about 100 acres. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/williams1087gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb