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Jesse Williams
Jesse Williams was born January 13, 1753. He married, first, Eleanor Johnson, by whom he had four children: John, Hannah, Esther, and Caleb. After the death of his wife he married Sarah Terrell, of Lynchburg, Va. He afterward removed with his family to North Carolina, where he resided many years, and then in [1814] removed to Ohio, and in 1820 to Richmond, where he died in 1838, and his wife the same year They had four sons and three daughters: Micajah T.; Achilles; Robert, who died in Richmond in 1822; Jesse l., who is married, and resides at Fort Wayne; Anna, wife of Dr. Thomas Carroll, of Cincinnati; Sarah T., widow of Dr. James R. Mendenhall, and resides in Richmond; and Eliza, wife of John L. Burgess, of Dublin, Ind. Micajah T. came to Cincinnati as early as 1812, and died there in 1844. He was, while there, associated with Ephraim Morgan in publishing the Western Spy; a member of the legislature of Ohio; and presdent of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company. His widow now resides with her son, Alfred K. Williams, on her place in Richmond.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana, by Andrew W. Young. pub 1872