BIO: David Williams, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 265.
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  WILLIAMS, DAVID, was born on September 2, 1819, in Merthyr, South 
Wales.  He commenced preaching when about eighteen years old.  In 1852 
he came to America, and in 1853 went to Carbondale, where he served as 
pastor of the Welsh Church, and during the following year succeeded in 
building a church for that society.  He was admitted to Wyoming 
Conference on trial in 1854, receiving deacon's orders in 1855 and 
elder's orders in 1858.  He served the Welsh Mission in Carbondale from 
1854-57; Welsh Mission at Blakely, 1858-59; 1860-61, Damascus; 1862-63, 
Beach Pond; 1864, Ararat; 1865, Oregon; 1866-67, Cherry Ridge; 1868-70, 
Sanford; 1871-79, superannuated.  In 1879 he transferred to the 
Northern New York Conference and removed to Utica, where he served the 
Welsh Church of that city until the spring of 1881 when he transferred 
back to Wyoming Conference and moved to Elmira.  While residing there 
he was appointed as supply to Carbon Run, Northumberland County, Pa.
  On Tuesday, March 28, 1882, he returned from his work to see his 
family in Elmira.  A cold terminated in pneumonia, which took him away 
on Sunday, April 2.  He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira.