Lacrosse-Waukesha County WI Archives Biographies.....Williams, Richard D. 
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RICHARD D. WILLIAMS, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Bangor; born in Wales. He came to 
the United States with his parents, David J. and Sarah Williams, in 1850, and 
settled in Waukesha Co. The family came to La Crosse Co. in 1851, and settled 
in the town of Bangor, in Fish Creek Valley, and was the first family that 
settled in this valley. The family removed to California in 1868, where the 
father died in May, 1875. Richard D. returned from California in 1869, and 
settled where he now lives, on Sec. 11. His mother returned in 1878, and now 
resides in the town of Bangor. The others are still on the Pacific coast. The 
parents of Richard D. had ten children. His wife is Catharine, daughter of 
Edward R. Jones. They have two children - Elias and Hannah; lost three 
children. Farm contains 230 acres.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 837 - 838.

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