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John Williams

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John Williams

Birth
Hardin County, Ohio, USA
Death
23 Apr 1927 (aged 79)
Ridgeway, Hardin County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Ridgeway, Hardin County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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Father Jonathan Williams
Mother Betsey "Elizabeth" Snoddy

wife Margaret Davis
married 11/21/1872 Hardin Co Ohio

children:
Emma May (Smith)
Raymond
Sallie Jane (Grimes)


*Name: John Williams
Marriage Date: 21 Nov 1872
Marriage Place: Hardin, Ohio
Spouse: Maggie Davis


John was a resident of Ridgeway since 1865
In 1905 he opened a grocery store, a bakery, and a restaurant all in the same local area.

Member of Co. I 180th OH Vol., joined 8/20/1864

Member of Grand Army of Republic

Member of Knights of Pythias, and passed through the chairs

John Williams, a merchant of Ridgeway, Ohio, was born April 1, 1848, in Hale township, Hardin county, and is a son of Jonathan and Betsy Elizabeth (Snoddy) Williams. Jonathan Williams was born in North Carolina, in 1798, and came with his parents to Hillsboro, Ohio, with a team and wagon; later they removed to Logan county, Ohio. His father, John Williams, came to America from Wales, and followed farming all his life. Jonathan Williams took up farming after finishing his education, settling first in Logan county and later removing to Hardin county; in 1829 he purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Hale township, in 1840 returned to Logan county, and came back to Hardin county in 1851. His wife, a daughter of Abner and Margaret (Hall) Snoddy, died in 1870, at the age of sixty-one years. Besides John, their children were: Brice, living retired in Mount Victory; Wait, in the timber business in California; Hannah, widow of John Wildon; and Tillie, wife of A. J. Johnson of California. Jonathan Williams was a member of the Methodist Protestant church; in politics he was a Republican, and he was the first trustee elected in Hale township.
source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County

GAR


Father Jonathan Williams
Mother Betsey "Elizabeth" Snoddy

wife Margaret Davis
married 11/21/1872 Hardin Co Ohio

children:
Emma May (Smith)
Raymond
Sallie Jane (Grimes)


*Name: John Williams
Marriage Date: 21 Nov 1872
Marriage Place: Hardin, Ohio
Spouse: Maggie Davis


John was a resident of Ridgeway since 1865
In 1905 he opened a grocery store, a bakery, and a restaurant all in the same local area.

Member of Co. I 180th OH Vol., joined 8/20/1864

Member of Grand Army of Republic

Member of Knights of Pythias, and passed through the chairs

John Williams, a merchant of Ridgeway, Ohio, was born April 1, 1848, in Hale township, Hardin county, and is a son of Jonathan and Betsy Elizabeth (Snoddy) Williams. Jonathan Williams was born in North Carolina, in 1798, and came with his parents to Hillsboro, Ohio, with a team and wagon; later they removed to Logan county, Ohio. His father, John Williams, came to America from Wales, and followed farming all his life. Jonathan Williams took up farming after finishing his education, settling first in Logan county and later removing to Hardin county; in 1829 he purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Hale township, in 1840 returned to Logan county, and came back to Hardin county in 1851. His wife, a daughter of Abner and Margaret (Hall) Snoddy, died in 1870, at the age of sixty-one years. Besides John, their children were: Brice, living retired in Mount Victory; Wait, in the timber business in California; Hannah, widow of John Wildon; and Tillie, wife of A. J. Johnson of California. Jonathan Williams was a member of the Methodist Protestant church; in politics he was a Republican, and he was the first trustee elected in Hale township.
source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County



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