WAYNE COUNTY INDIANA - BIOS: WILLIAMS, Jacob (pub. 1884)
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File contributed to the Montgomery County, Ohio Biographies Project  by:
Patricia Kaye  
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September 12, 1999 
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History of Henry County, Indiana Chicago Interstate Publishing Co 1884 
Reprint 1966 by Eastern Indiana Publishing Co.

JACOB WILLIAMS, was born in Montgomery  County,Ohio, May 19, 1835, the fourth 
son of Israel and Susannah (Ritter) Williams, the former a native of Bedford 
County,Pa.,and the latter of North Carolina. They were married in Montgomery 
County,Ohio, and in the fall of 1836 they moved to Wayne County, Ind.,where 
Israel Williams followed farming till  about 1859, when he kept a toll gate til 
his death, which occurred July 3,1863.  His wife survived him till Feb. 7,1878.
They were active members of the German Baptist Church for many years. Their 
family consisted of eight children, seven still living. Jacob Williams was 
reared on his father's farm and was educated at district schools. When 
seventeen years old he began learning the carpenter's trade and worked as a 
journeyman a number of years. He moved to Henry County,Ind., in 1865, where
he has since followed farming and carpentering. He is a member of the United 
Brethren church and has been a minister in the church for ten years. He is a 
Republican in politics and is a strong advocate of Prohibition.  He was first 
married May 13, 1866, to Martha, daughter of David and Martha Bird, who died 
March 13,1878, leaving three children--Laura, Horace and Mary Elizabeth. Mr. 
Williams was again married March 8, 1879, to Mary, daughter of Samuel and
Margaret L. (Jacobs) Williams, natives of Darke County,Ohio. To this union were 
born two children--Cora and Arthur.