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  BIOGRAPHVICAL RECORD

                         OF


 DANIEL AND MARY (JACKSON) WILLIAMS,

        8Early Kentucky Pioneers,+

     Including Portraits and Biographies of their children:
 Thomas Williams, Daniel Jackson Williams, John Williams, Elijah
   Williams, Sarah Williams, Katharine (Williams) Orr, Mary
         (Williams) Forsyth and their descendants.

                   1752-1898,

together with Portrait and Biography of Andrew Jackson, the seventh
   President of the United States; also Photo-Engraving of an old
      Williams' Homestead in Woodford County, Kentucky,
         where Daniel Williams, the Pioneer and an
            Officer in the Revolutionary War, died.

                         BY
        JULJIELMA M. KELLEY,
           A Great Granddaughter.

               BALTIMOREH, Ml).
     PIJBLISHEDL) FOR T HE A UTHOR.
                       1898.

 
































Copyright, 1898, by Julielma M. Kelley.

 

                   DEDICATORY.
    This book is affectionately dedicated by the author and com-
piler to her parents, William T. and Julia (Williams) Kelley, of
Caroline County, Maryland, her uncle, Prof. George W. MWilliams,
of Woodford County, Kentucky, and her cousin, Judge B. T. Wil-
liams, of Ventura, California, all of whom, among others, for sev-
eral years past have rendered valuable assistance in the construction
of this work-one of some magnitiule and one upon which neither
pains nor expense has been spartd to make it, in every respect pos-
sible, correct and complete. For aid, financial or otherwise, re-
ceived in the early part of her work, the author is vlso grateful
to the following relatives: Mr. Thomas Williams Cookendorfer,
of Ky., Mr. Joseph B. Wentling, of Cal., Hon. William T. Williams,
of Cal., Mrs. Josephine Williams Black, of Texas, Mrs. Lewis A.
Curtis, of Cal., Judge Benjamin TuIly Williams, of Cal., Hon.
William G. Dozier, of Cal., Mrs. N. S. W. Vineyard, of Ky., Dr. F.
J. Runyon, of Teni., Mr. [t. W. Balch, of Ark., Mrs. Conrad A.
Glime, of Ky., l)r. and Mrs. J. G. Williams, of Ill., Mrs. George
Colviii, of Mo., Mr. Lee C. Williams, of Ill., Mrs. Julius J. Wil-
liams, of Ill., Mrs. Samuel W. Gilchrist, of Cal., Miss Eva Russell,
of Cal., Mr. Christorher C. Cookendorfer, of Ky., Mrs. Knud
Christian IPedersen, of Ill., Mr. George Warren Williams Walker,
of Ill., Mrs. Samuel M. Orr, of Cal., Mr. James H. Orr, of Cal.,
Mr. George W. Orr, of Ill., Mrs. James Meredith Wilson, of Mo.,
Miss Frances B. Shouse, of Ky., Mr. Albert F. Shoupe, of Ky., Mr.

 6EDICATORY.



James A. Orr, of Ky., Mrs. James W. Plummer, of Ind., Mr. Wm.
E. Slade, of Ky., Mrs. Sarah M. Bence, of Ind., Miss Cynthia M.
Slade, of Ky., Mr. Robert Lee Slade, of Ky., Mr. J. Thadeus Slade,
of Ky., Mrs. John W. Criss, of Mo., Miss Mollie C. Slade, of Ky.,
Mrs. Maria L. Brown, of Ind., Mrs. Mattie M. Casey, of Ky., Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Orr, of Mo., Mr. William S. Orr, of Mo., Mr. John E.
Orr, of Mo., Mr. John S. Orr, of Cal., Mrs. Susan McClure Wil-
liams, of Ky., Mr. and Mrs. Preston H. Williams, of Ky., Mrs.
Robert A. Austin, of Mo., Dr. Charles S. Austin, of Mo., Mr. Harry
Williams Austin, of Wis., Mrs. Harmon D. Ayres, of Mo., Mr.
Frank Williams Murphy, of Texas, Mrs. W. 0. Hart, of Mo., Dr.
Fla J. Williams, of Mo., Mrs. Isaac N. Linley, of Mo., Prof. G. W.
Williams, of Ky., Mr. Claude S. Williams, of Ky., Mrs. Millard
Vaughan, of Fla., Mr. John H. Duvall, of Mo., Miss Dollie E-
Kelley, of Md., Drs. W. T. and L D. Kelley, of Md., M-r. E. Linza
Williams, of Kansas, Miss Etta M. Williams, of Ky., Mrs. Charles
B. Whitson, of Kan., Miss Carrie B. Forsyth, of Cal., Mrs. Wm. T.
Keath, of Mo., Miss Victoria E. Forsyth, of Mo., Miss Idelle Steele,
of Cal., Mrs. Arthur M. Bridges, of Mo., Miss Mattie A. Forsyth,
of Ill., Mrs. Benjamin F. Smith, of Cal., Mrs Chas. C. Simmons,
of Ill., Mrs. Harry M. Frisbie, of Ill., Miss Lillian B. Hatton, of
Cal., Dr. Charles F. Webb, of Washington, Mrs. J. W. Appleton, of
Kentucky, and indirectly to others.
                                               J. M. K.
  Preston, Md., August, 1899.



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                   BIOGRAPHICAL.
    DANIEL WILLIAMS, born in Virginia, now N. C.,  Feb.
11, 1752, was one of the worthy representatives of an old and
distinguished family. From the best information obtainable, the
branch of the Williams family, to which our subject belongs, is
directly descended from Sir William Williams, a Welsh baron, 
also from Sir Roger Williams, an English military historian, 
father and grandfather respectively of Roger Williams, the illus-
trious founder of Rhode Island. About 1660,  the founder of
this family in America, came from Wales and landed at Jamestown,
Virginia, together with others of the Williams family from both
England and Wales.  Daniel Williams was a commissioned
officer, in the Revolutionary war, haying s(rved his country as
Captain in Gen. Greene's Southern campaign, where he eommanded
a company in the 6th North Carolina Regiment, from April 1,
1777, till after January 1779.  Feb. 18, 1776, at Falmouth, Vir-
ginia,  he married Miss Mary Jackson, a near relative of President
Andrew Jackson,  and a native of North Carolina,  born April
11, 1757. Daniel Williams and family were among the old Vir-
ginia Baptists, who moved from Virginia, soon after the close of
the Revolutionary war, to Kentucky, settling in Woodford County,
the heart of the famous "Blue Grass Region." 
    They were numbered among the hardy pioneers, who followed
the dauntless Daniel Boone, into the "dark and bloody ground," of
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Kentucky. The children born to Daniel and Mary (Jackson)
Williams were: Thomas; Katherine, who married James Orr;
William, (who died when young); Daniel Jackson; Sarah, who
never married; John; Elijah; Thompson, (who died in infancy,)
and Mary, who married Robert Forsyth. In Kentucky, the subject
of our sketch, engaged in farming. In Woodford County, he owned
a valuable homestead, "located on South Elkhorn, between the old
Frankfort and Leestown pikes, about three miles from Mt. Ver-
non."  Later, he removed with his family to Pendleton County,
Kentucky, on "Blanket Creek, where he purchased a farm, con-
taining 495 acres of land, for which he received a deed, from one
Samuel Cook, in 1801."  His wife was thrown from a horse, in
Pendleton Co., from the effects of which she died, Oct. 11, 1816.
She was buried in the old Baptist cemetery, near Falmouth Ky.,
of which Church in Falmouth, both herself and husband were
members. 
    After the death of his wife, Daniel, being old and delicate,
came to the home of his son, D. J. Williams, in Woodford County,
where he passed the remainder of his days and having attained a
good old age, died there, Dec. 6, 1823.  He was buried in the
old family burying ground, near Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, the
sacred grounds of which are inclosed by a rock fence and are
among the highest and most beautiful in all the surrounding
country. The blackened tombstone at the head of his grave, bears
the following simple inscription:

                   DANIEL WILLIAMS,
                   Born Feb. 11th, 1752.
                     Died Dec. 6th, 1823.

     The "Old Williams Homestead," where Daniel Williams
died, was shortly afterwards sold by hi,; son, D. J. Williams, to his
brother. John Williams, (another son of Daniel,) who lived there,
with his family many years and after his death, which occurred
there, his son Thomas S. Williams also lived and died there, and
the farm, with some recent improvements, amounting to several



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thousand dollars, is now the lovely home of Claude S. Williams,
a great-grandson of Daniel Williams, grandson of Johni Williams
and son of the late T'lomas S. Williams.
       (See Frontispiece, showing the original Homestead.)



    THOMAS WILLIAMS, the eldest son of Daniel and Mary
(Jackson) Williams, was born in Falmouth, Virginia,  Feb. 25,
1777 and immigrated with his parents to Kentucky. lie was a
successful school teacher, also farmer. December 31, 1801, in
Pendleton County, Ky., he married Miss Nancy Sanders, (some-
times written Saunders), born in Yadkin County, North Carolina,
March 11th, 1784. She was a daughter of John and Sallie (Grant)
Sanders and her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Grant, was a sister of
the famous Kentucky hunter and pioneer, Daniel Boonie.   In
1840, when advanced in years, Thomas removed with his family to
Livingston County, Missouri, where he died, March 30, 1845, and
his wife about two years later, Feb. 9, 1847. Their children, who
lived to be grown, were: Angelina; Rev. Joel Grant, (a Baptist
minister); Dr. James Tully; Daniel Boone; Dr. John S; l)r.
Thomas J.; Zerah Grant; Lycurgus; Musidora; and Stanishlaus;
and Clementina; Elijah; Melcena; Sarah; and Nancy, who died
when young.



    ANGELINA SAUNDERS WILLIAMS, eldest daughter of Thomas
and Nancy (Saunders) Williams, was born in Pendleton County,
Kentucky, Dec. 16th, 1802, and died in that county, July 18, 1882.
She was a school teacher and a fine elocutionist, also a very religi-
oius woman, being for many years a member of Falmouth Baptist
Church. Aug. 14, 1823 in Pendleton Co., she married Christopher
S. Cookendorfer, a wealthy farmer and a soldier in the War of 1812.
His parents owned the first Stocking Loom in Kentucky, which in
the days of the early settlement of the State, they carried on pack
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Petidleton Co., April 1, 1875. Their children are Nancy, (Mrs.
William 11. 'Tlornberrv;) MAary Catherine, (Mrs. Henry M. IHatha-
way.) deceased; Jolln S., deceased; Thomas Williams; Daniel
Boone, deceased; and Christopher, deceased.


    REV. JOEL GRANT WILLIAMS, eldest son of Thomas and Nancy
(Saunders) Williams was born in Pendleton Conuinty, Kentucky,
May 14, 1804. He was a Baptist Minister for nearly fifty yeary,
also a Civil Engineer. He was a man of fine intellect and highly
cultivated. He was married three times. His first wife, who was
Miss Temperance lleadington, born in Kentucky, Jan. 15, 1805,
he married in Covington, Ky., Feb. .5, 1829. She died in Adams
Co., Illinois, July 3, 1836. his second wife, who was Miss Anna
Workman, of N. C., died in Adams Co., Ill., Nov. 2, 1856. Mr.
Williams died at his home, in Adams Co., Ill., Fehi. 26, 1879. His
third wife, Mrs. Mary J. Smith (nee Miss Mary J. Bell,) whom he
married in 1857, survived him, also two of his seven children, viz.:
Ellen, (Mrs. Jehu W. Brown,) now deceased; and Dr. Joel Grant
Williams, of Quincy, Ill.


    DR. JAMES TULLY WILLIAMS, the second son of Thomas and
Nancy (Saunders) Williams, was born in Pendleton Co., Kentucky,
March 8, 1806f. He was a Physician and Surgeon. In Platte Co.,
Mo., he married Miss Louisa Seasill, a native of that county. He
died in Springfield, Mo., in 1850, leaving a wife and two children,
Mary Louisa and James Tully Williams, Jr.


    DR. JOHN SAUNDERS WILLIAMS, fourth son of Thomas and
Nancy (Saunders) Williams, was born in Pendleton Co., Ky., May
25, 1810. Sept. 1st, 1840, at Memphis, Missouri, he married Miss
Amanda Melvina Downing, born in Fauquie Co., Va., April 6,
1817. She was a daughter of Henry H. and Ari A. Downing. Dr.
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amassed a fortune, leaving his family in affluent circumstances
at his death, which occurred at his home in San Diego, California,
August 1st, 1880.  He was never a churchman. During the
civil war he was a union manl, previously having been a whig, sub-
secjuently he was a republican, to which political party his two sonls
now belong. When Dr. Williams and his family removed to Cali-
fornia, they were six months journeying across "The Plains,"
leaving Missouri in May and arriving in Cal., in Oct., 1853.  His
wife died at the residence of her son, Judge B. T. Williams, a dis-
tinguished jurist, at Ventura, Cal., January 29, 1894, having sur-
vived her husband nearly fourteen years. Their seven children,
five of whom are living, are: Henrie H., (Mrs. Alphens Willard
Russell, afterwards Mrs. J. B. Wentling,) deceased; William
Thomas; Nancy Josephine, widow of the late Dr. Houston Black;
Julia M., (Mrs. B. W. Lucas, afterwards Mrs. Charles Simms, M.
D.,) deceased; Mollie C., (Mrn. Lewis A. Curtis); Judge Benjamin
Tully; and Maria Louisa, (Mrs. William Gaillard Dozier, Ex. U.
S. N. and C. S. N.)


    DR. THOMAS JEFFERSON WILLIAMS, the fifth son of Thomas
and Nancy (Saunders) Williams, was born in Pendleton Co., Ky.,
May 3rd, 1814. He was a fine Physician and Surgeon. He married
twice. His first wife was Miss Nancy Elizabeth Beane, of Adams Co.,
Illinois. Their only child, a daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, became
the wife of Hon. George Porter Walker, a prominent lawyer and
statesman of Warsaw, Illinois. Dr. Williams died near Bloom-
field, Ill., May 20,1852. His second wife, who was a Miss Margaret
A. McClelland, of Adams Co., survived him, also their four daugh-
ters. His widow now resides at Quincy, Illinois.


    ZERAH GRANT WILLIAMS, the third daughter of Thomas and
Nancy (Sannders) Williams, was born in Pendleton Co., Kentucky,
Feb. 15, 1816, and died in Livingston Co., Missouri, Sep. 10, 1855.
Feb. 11, 1841, she married Francis Preston, a farmer and slave-



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holder, also a Missionary Baptist. He was born in 1788 in Bed-
ford Co., Va., and was educated in Lynchburgh, Va. He died in
Livingston Co., Mo., March 23, 1863. They were the parents of
six children, all of whom are dead, except one, Nancy Saunders
Williams Preston, (widow of Prof. Bryce W. Vineyard,) now Prin-
cipal of Jessamine Institute, a.t Nicholasville, Ky. Mrs. Preston.
like her daughter, was a well educated and brilliant woman.



    LYCURGUS WILLIAMS, the sixth son of Thomas and Nancy
(Saunders) Williams, was born in Pendleton Co., Ky., May 1, 1817.
He taught school in Livingston Co., Missouri, where he married
Miss Alzera Warren, a native of Virginia. Early in the forties, he
removed with his family to California, ill which state he settled on
one thousand acres of land, in Sonoma County.  He died in 1855
in Yuba County. His wife and four children-all sons-survived
him.


    MUSIDORA WILLIAMS, the fourth daughter of Thomas and
Nancy (Saunders) Williams, was born in Pendleton County, Ky.,
March 14, 1821. Nov. 4, 1840, at the home of her parents, in Liv-
ingston Co., Mo., she married Joseph Chaney, a farmer of that
county. She died in Livingston County, Feb. 8, 1853, leaving one
son, Leonidas.


    HENRIE H. WILLIAMS, eldest daughter of Dr. John S. and
Amanda M. (Downing) Williams, was born at Mount Vernon, Mo.,
June 9th, 1841, and in 1853. crossed "The Plains," with her parents
to Marysville, California. The following year her parents located
at Santa Rosa, where she was educated and July 14, 1857, married
Alpheus Willard Russell, an able lawyer, born at Brattleboro, Ver-
mont, Feb. 22, 1828. Mr. Russell died at his home, at Santa Bar-
bara, Cal., Feb. 4, 1885, leaving a widow and eight children:
Josephine Williams, (Mrs. Samuel W. Gilchrist); Julia Emma;



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John Alpheus; Eva; Edith Mary; Ralph Alexander; Henry
Williams; and Harald Bates. Feb. 13, 1886, at Santa Barbara,
Mrs. Russell married Joseph B. Wentling, a prominent lawyer, and a
native of Western Pennsylvania, born Sep. 9, 1833. Mr. Wentling
now resides at the homestead, where his wife died of dropsy, after an
illness of some months, Oct. 12, 1897.



    WILLIAM THOMAS WILLIAMS, the elder son of Dr. John S.
and Amanda M. (Downing) Williams, was born at Chillicothe, Mo.,
Dec. 14, 1842. He was educated at the Santa Rosa Academy, Cal.,
studied law and has been admitted to practice in all the United
States Courts and in all the State Courts. He has served as Dis-
trict Attorney of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, in the
state of California, and for the last four year has been assistant
District Attorney of Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. Williams is a man of
great executive ability, determination and fearlessness of character.
He is fervid in friendship, though rather biiter as an enemy, but
has a kind heart and sympathetic nature. He is devoted to home,
family and a wide circle of congenial and admiring friends. His
beautiful little wife, who is deceased, was a woman of education
and great strength and refinement of character. She was Miss
Anita B. Packard, daughter of Judge Albert Packard, a resident
of Santa Barbara, Cal., a distinguished lawyer and a man of much
importance. Mr. and Mrs. Wim. T. Williams were the parents of
seven children: Amanda M.; Beatrice Colombia McCrea; Wim. T.
Jr.; Anita B. McCrea; Benjamin T.; Albert J. and Chancellor J.



    NANCY JOSEPHINE WILLIAMS, the second daughter of Dr.
John S. and Amaada (Downing) Williams, was 'torn at Chillicothe,
Mo., September, 19th, 1844, and was reared in Santa Rosa, Cali-
fornia, where she married Dr. Houston Black, a prominent Phvsi-
cian, born and educated in Stanton, Virginia. He died over three
years ago at Austin, Texas. Prior to the death of Dr. Black, who



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was an invalid for years, Mrs. Black and her husband traveled all
over the United States. The summer before he died, they spent
several weeks in Baltimore, Md. They were the parents of two
sons, both of whom died in childhood. Mrs. Black is an intelli-
gent and influential woman-a true child of nature, which she
loves in all its departments. She was a kind and loving wife and
mother and is a great lover of home. As a musician she is skillful
and very able, and now has a fine school of music at Austin, Texas.
She was a graduate from the Conservatory of Music at San Fran-
cisco, also studied under Sherwood, at Chicago, Ill.



    ANNA MARY BROWN, third daughter of Jehu Wesley and
Ellen Headington (Williams) Brown, was born in Adams County,
III., Feb. 2, 1863. She received her education in the schools of
Adams County. On her nineteenth birthday, Feb. 2, 1882, near
Quincy, Ill., she married George Colvin, a farmer. He was born
near Ursa, Adams Co., July 7,1852 and was educated at Abington,
Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Colvin having purchased considerable real
estate, in central Missouri, with their little family, now reside on
their beautiful homestead, consisting of 226 acres of well cultivated
land and situated in a lovely rolling country in Saline County, near
Salt Springs, Mo. They have a remarkably pretty and promising
little boy, Raymond, age seven years and an infant son, Victor.
Ruth Headington, a little daughter and their eldest child, died of
diphtheria, when but two years of age.'



    LILLIAN WALKER, an accomplished and only daughter of
Hon. George Porter Walker and his wife, the late Mrs. Nancy
Elizabefh (Williams) Walker, was born in Warsaw, Illinois, March
7, 1866. January 29, 1891, sbe married Knud Christian Pedersen,
a jeweler and son of Martha and Peder Andersen. He was born in
Ilygum pr Jelling, Denmark. Europe, April 23, 186;3 and arrived
in New York, America, May 12, 1882. In the surname of her



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husband has been preserved, it will be noticed, the Danish custom
of taking the father's given name-adding sen, meaning the sawe
as son, literally meaning Peder's son. Mr. and Mrs. Pedersen re-
side at Warsaw, Ill., as also do the latter's father and her brother,
George Warren Williams Walker with his wife (nee Miss Emma S.
Jotter) and their three bright and interesting little sons: George
Edward; John Knud and Herbert Williams Walker.


    BREUDA MARY, the elder daughter of Prof. Bryce W. and
Mrs. N. S. W. (Preston) Vineyard, of Nicholasville, Ky., was born
in Liberty, Mo., Dec. 17, 1866. She graduated from the Trenton
College (Ky.), receiving the degree of A. B., in June of '84. Like
her mother she is a handsome, highly cultured and most estimable
woman. June 23, 1885, she married Dr. Frank J. Runyon, a very
able physician and surgeon and a man of rare culture, learning and
natural endowments. He was born in Trenton, Todd County, Ky.,
Oct. 9, 1862 and is a son of Dr. Freeman Runyon, one of the old
Transylvania University graduates of Lexington, Ky. Her hus-
band, Dr. Runyon's literary educalion was obtained at Bethel
College, Russellville, Ky., and at Central University, of Richmond,
Ky. In 1884, he graduated on the roll of honor, from the Medical
Department of the University of Louisville and the following year
from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York and again
in 1891, he spent three months at the school for graduates, "The
New York Polyclinic." In May, 1887, Dr. and Mrs. Runvon re-
moved to Clarksville, Tenn., where with their two intelligent little
sons, Charles Vineyard and Bryce Freeman, they now reside. The
doctor has a splendid practice and is one of the three owners of
the Clarksville Sanatorium, also is one of the Surgeons of the Louis-
ville and Nashville R. R.


    LoTTI E AMANDA CURTIS, the elder of the two daughters of
Lewis A. and Mollie C. (Williams) Curtis, was born in Orange,
Los Angeles Co., California, February 14, 18i5. She was a name-



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sake of her grandmother, Amanda M. Williams, a most estimable
woman and the highly esteemed wife of Dr. John S. Williams,
late of Santa Rosa, Cal.

    October 21, 1895, Lottie Amanda was married to Mr. Fred. W.
Garrettson, of San Francisco, Vice President of the Pacific Coast
Syrup Co. They are now located in San Diego, but Mr. Garrettson
still retains his interest in the business in San Francisco. They
have no children. Mrs. Garrettson is a noted elocutionist, her
chosen profession, also a fine pianist. She is a beautiful and ac-
complished woman, possessing like her charming and devoted
mother, Mrs. Mollie C. W. Curtis, many admirable traits of char-
acter, with a disposition both loving and lovable.
    LEE C. WILLIAMS, the elder son of Dr. Joel Grant and Mil-
dred Jane (Clarkson) Williams, of Quincy, Illinois, was born at
Fowler, Ill., Mav 23, 1871, and completed his education at Ann
Arbor, University, Michigan. His profession is that of an Analyti-
cal Chemist and Assayer, but at present Mr. Williams is "on the
read" for the Buckley Shirt Co., of St. Louis, and in his travels
covers a large territory, including the State of Arkansas, Indian
Territory and the Frisco IL I. from St. Louis to Springfield.
During the "World's Fair" at Chicago, Ill., Argust 21st, 1893, he
married Miss Nellie Elizabeth Shirley, a very beautiful young
lady, 'who was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1873, and died at
her home in Quincy, Ill., Dec. 1, 1895, leaving a devoted young
husband and a lovely infant daughter, Leonora Edna, to mourn
her sad and all too early death.
    HENRY WILLIAMS RUSSELL, the third eon of Alpheus Willard
and Henrie H. (Williams) Russell, was born at Santa Barbara, Cal.,
Oct. 3, 1878. He was educated at Santa Barbara. A remarkably
handsome and talented young man, whose affectionate disposition
attracts to him a wide circle of admiring friends. He resides with
his step-father, Mr. Joseph B. Wentling, at Santa Barbara, Cal.,
but at prekent is attending a Medical College in San Francisco,
where his gifts are not unrecognized.



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    KATHARINE WILLIAMS, eldest daughter of Daniel and
Mary (Jackson) Williams, was horn in Falmouth, Virginia,  June
13, 1779, and immigrated with her parents to what is now
Woodford County, Kentucky. September 5, 1804, in Pendleton
County, she married James Orr, Sr. Mr. Orr was a successful
farmer and weaver and was in the War of 1812.  He was a
gentleman of Scotch descent and was born in Pennsylvania, June
16, 1779. In 1837 he removed with his family, from Harrison
County, Kentucky, to Champaign County, Illinois. Mrs. Orr died
at her home, near Urbana, Illinois, August 12, 1847, and her
husband, at the same place, butt a year later, September 24, 1848.
Their children were:  Mary, (Mrs. James Swinford); John;
Eleanor; (Mrs. James Slade); James Jr.; Daniel Williams; Elijah;
Samuel; William Park; and George W., all of whom are deceased,
except the youngest, George Washington Orr, of Quincy, Illinois.

    MARY ORR, the elder daughter of James and Katharine (Wil-
liams) Orr, was born in Harrison County, Ky., May 22, 1805. At
the home of her parents, in that county, in 1836, she married
James Swinford, a farmer. He was born February 16, 1788, and
died in Greencastle, Indiana, February 9, 1868.
    Mrs. Swiuford died near Fern, Ind., Feb'y 15, 1894, having
survived her husband many years, and leaving six children, all
married, viz.: James A.; Darias Jackson; William Harry; Cath-
erine (Mrs. Richard Cole); Sarah Ellen(Mrs. James W. Plummer);
and Josephus.

    JOHN OUR, eldest son of James and Katharine (Williams)
Orr, was born in Harrison Co., Ky., June 26, 1806. August 26,
1830, he married Miss Sarah Armstrong, of Woodford County, and
a few years later they moved to Illinois. His wife died at their
home, near Homer, Champaign County, Illinois, August 4, 1838.
Mr. Orr, who was a well-educated and excellent school-teacher, also
a successful farmer, died the following year at Blue Lick Springs,
Ky., June 23, 1839. Three of their children survived the parents,
viz.: Fannie, deceased (who married Rev. Wm. R. Combs, a Bap-



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tist minister); Mary J., wife of Hon. Samuel H. Shouse); and
James A.

    ELEANOR ORR, the younger of the two daughters of James
and Katharine (Williams) Orr, was born in Harrison County, Ken-
tucky, July 12, 1808. September 30, 1830, in Harrison Co., she
married James Slade, a good farmer, also a merchant. He was
born in Harrison County, February 4, 1810, and died at his resi-
dence in that county, December 13, 1871. His wife, who was a
sweet-faced, motherly woman, died at the home of her daughter,
Sarah M., (Mrs. 0. 0. Bence), in Bowling Green, Clay County,
Indiana, December 28, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Slade were the
parents of nine children: William E.; Sarah M.; Daniel Jackson;
James Thadeus; Zerelda K.; Julia A.; Mary C.; Martha F., who
died when but sixteen years of age, and Maria L.
    DANIEL WILLIAMS OUR, third son of James and Katharine
(Williams) Orr, was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, March
29, 1812. He died at his home in Champaign County, Illinois.
His wife and one daughter, Mrs. Strahaun, survived him.

    ELIJAH ORR, fourth son of James and Katharine (Williams)
Orr, was born July 9, 1814, in Harrison County, Kentucky. He
was successively a school-teacher, merchant and farmer. November
24, 1839, in Woodford County, Kentucky, he married Miss Eliza-
beth A. Utterback, who was born in that county, April 15, 1818.
Politically Mr. Orr was a democrat Both himself and wife were
members of the Christian Church. He died at his home in Shelby
County, Missouri, D)ecember 27, 1891, leaving a widow and four
children, also a number of grandchildren. His wife resides at the
homestead, near Hunnewell, in Shelby County, surrounded by
plenty. She is in some respects a most remarkable woman, and at
the age of over eighty, still writes long and interesting letters.

    SAMUEL ORR, fifth so01 of James and Katharine (Williams) Orr,
was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, January 7, 1817. He was
a farmer, ranchman and county treasurer, also a member of the

 

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Masonic Fraternity. In 1850, he crossed "The Plains" to California
with ox teams. At the time of his death, he owned over six
thousand acres of land, in Mendocino County, California, which
has since been divided among his children. He was married twice.
June 8, 1845, in Cole County, Missouri, he married Miss Urith
Murray, who was born in that county, April 30, 1829 and died in
Ukiah, California, April 4, 1867. August 3, 1868, in Visalia,
Tulare County, California, he married Mrs. Nancy J. (Roberts)
Nicholson, born in Cole County, Missouri, December 25, 1831. Mr.
Orr died at his home in Ukiah, California, April 6, 1894, leaving a
widow and eight married children. His remains were interred in
the Masonic Cemetery, near Ukiah, where a beautiful monument
has been erected to his memory, and the fragrant sprig of Acasia
is continually kept green by loving hands. His widow, who was a
noble, Christian woman, died in Ukiah, December 24, 1897.

    WILLIAM PARK ORR, the sixth son of James and Katharine
(Williams) Orr, was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, May 25,
1819, and died in Modoc County, California, where he was a
rancher. He was married twice. His second wife, (nee Mrs. Mary
Adams, of Mendicino County), survived him, also his children:
Sarah E.; Ellen, Caroline M.; Amanda Y.; Annie; Matilda, and
John S.
    SAMUEL M. ORR, the third son of Samuel and Urith (Murray)
Orr, was born in Sonoma County, California, October 26, 1856.
He was educated at Ukiah, California, and his profession is that
of an Architect and Builder. He is also a large stock dealer and
rancher. September 5, 1875, in Ukiah, California, he married Miss
Mary M. Mankins, a native of San Juan, Monterey County, and a
woman of refinement, of much personal beauty and of great worth
of character. Mr. and Mrs. Orr, reside at Ukiah,- California, where
they own a handsomie residence. Their only child now living,
G'race Loretta, at their home in Ukiah, December 12, 1895, married
Mr. Robert William Banks, of Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Banks,
with their pretty little infant daughter, Vera Eleanor, now live
in San Francisco.



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    DANIEL JACKSON WILLIAMS, SR., third son of Daniel
and Mary (Jackson) Williams, was born August 23, 1784, at Fal-
mouth, Virginia,  and immigrated with his parents to Kentucky.
He was a scholar, teacher and surveyor and owned large tracts of
land, which he left to his two sons. August 10, 1815, he married
Miss Sally Hicks, a daughter of Robert Hicks, of Woodford
County, Kentucky. Both parents were noted for their benevolence
of character, and both were members of Glenn's Creek Baptist
Church. Daniel died on his farm, where his wife died, near the
the "big sink" in a ripe old age, March 1, 1858, leaving but two
children, (Daniel Jackson, Jr., and John Hicks.) He was buried
in the old family burying ground, near Mt. Vernon Church, in
Woodford County. The record bearing upon the tombstone of his
wife, next to his, as now found is as follows:
             Sally-wife of Daniel J. Williams, Sr.
                   Born September 4,1796.
                   Died February 11, 1851.
    She was the mother of six children, four of whom lay at her
feet and two of them, D. J. and J. H., are still living.

    DANIEL JACKSON WILLIAMS, JR., large, land proprietor,
scholar, lawyer, philanthropist and the elder of the two sons of
Daniel Jackson and Sally (Hicks) Williams, was born in Wood-
ford County, Kentucky, July 10, 1821. His first wife, who was a
beautiful and most estimable woman, was Miss Amanda Weathers,
of Fayette County. She died in her native county, while visiting
her parents, March 31, 1854, leaving two children, Laura A., (who
married Rev. Mr. Baker, a Baptist minister, now of Odessa, Mis-
souri), and James I)aniel, (who died in August, 1858). May 5,
1857, Jackson married Miss Susan McClure, a daughter of John
A. and Elizabeth (Lillard) McClure, of Anderson County. She
was born near Laurenceberg. Kentucky, September 18, 1828, and
in many respects resembles Victoria, Queen of England, both in
person and in character, and, like her, has great executive ability.
She is a born leader and could, it is believed, successfully wield the

 
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reins of government, either of State or Nation. She now resides in
Versailles, Kentucky, surrounded by all the luxuries that wealth
can contribute to make a person happy on earth. I). J. Williams,
Jr., died on his farm, near the "big sink," in Woodford County,
October