Jefferson County TN Archives Biographies.....Williams, Joseph January 9, 1805 - 
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Source: Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.). History of Wayne County, Indiana Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns ... and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Indiana and Northwest Territory. Chicago: Inter-state Pub. Co, 1884.
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Joseph Williams was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., Jan. 9, 1805, the youngest 
of three sons of Joseph and Sophia (Thornburgh) Williams, natives of North 
Carolina, his father dying a short time prior to our subject's birth.  In 1819 
his mother and her sons came to Wayne County, Ind., and in 1820 she entered 240 
acres of land, which she divided with her sons.  She subsequently married 
Obadiah Bennett, and moved to Centreville, where she resided till after Mr. 
Bennett's death.  She then returned to Economy, and lived with her son Joseph 
till her death, June 3, 1862, aged eighty-one years.  Our subject was married 
April 14, 1825, to Martha Robert, a native of Pennsylvania.  They had one son - 
Thomas B., who was born May 22, 1827, and died Dec. 26, 1882.  May 25, 184, he 
was married to Abby Boroughs, and to them were born five children, four of whom 
are living. -- Josephine, Jennie, Joseph and Nannie.  His wife died Aug. 5, 
1870, and Dec. 24, 1872, he married Ellen Goodrich, of Randolph County. To them 
were born one son - Charles G. 

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