WILLIAMSON, ELIJAH, REV.

WILLIAMSON, KEENE, SAMPLE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/23/2019 at 20:30:22

MONTROSE TOWNSHIP

WILLIAMSON, ELIJAH, REV., Pastor of Christian Church, Sandusky ; born in North Carolina in 1804 ; removed to Darke Co., Ohio, in 1833; to Van Buren Co., Iowa, in 1857 ; and to his present location in 1859. He married in 1823, Charlotte Keene ; she died in 1854; his present wife was Susan Sample, a native of Virginia, born in 1813; he has two children by first marriage—Elisha T. (a resident of Montrose), and Mary E. (now Mrs. J. A. Hiller, of Van Buren Co.). Mr. Williamson has been engaged in the ministry for fifty-seven years.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879