Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography: Morgan WILLIAMS ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Transcribed and submitted by Darla Ruebush, , April 1998. ************************************************************************** MORGAN WILLIAMS - is a son of early and prominent settlers of Greenbrier County, Hensen and Sarah (WESTLICK) WILLIAMS. They were in life loved and respected by all who knew them, and their son is universally respected, no man standing higher in the county. He was born near Frankford, June 18, 1818, and his wedded life there began, on the 7th of October, 1841. She who has shared more than forty years of wedded life with him was Jane HANNAH, born near Frankford, October 14, 1813. She was a daughter of Joseph and Polly (BLAIR) HANNAH, now many years dead. In the civil war, Mr. WILLIAMS lost one brother-in-law, and several distant relatives, killed in the Confederate service. The farm for many years owned by Morgan WILLIAMS, and whose cultivation he still superintends, is well situated on Little Creek, in Anthonys Creek district, three miles from Alvon, eleven from Frankford, twenty from Lewisburg, and twelve from White Sulphur Springs. His postoffice address is Alvon, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974.