Williams, G. J.

WILLIAMS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/7/2008 at 14:16:34

G. J. Williams

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.196, Neola Twp.)
G. J. Williams, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 14, 1855; his father, Thomas Williams, living on a farm in Pottawattamie County, was born in England about 1827; is a blacksmith and farmer; also a musician; he came to America in 1851 with his father, who lives with our subject; his mother, Anna (Jones) Williams, was born in Wales about 1832; she came to this country with her parents, who, after spending one year in Council Bluffs, located in Salt Lake City, where they still reside. Mr. Williams attended the common schools of Pottawattamie County, where he is now an active farmer and stock-dealer. He first engaged in stock-dealing, by which occupation he cleared enough in four years to purchase his present farm of eighty acres, situated two miles south of Neola. Mr. Wililams was married, in Norwalk Township, this county, December 25, 1877, to Sarah E. Minturn, born in this county September 13, 1862, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah A. (Pickets) Minturn; he, born in Illinois in 1812, is a farmer by occupation, living in this county; she, born in Prince Edward Island in 1821, died in Iowa in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have one child - Clara S., born June 12, 1881. Mr. Williams is an Odd Fellow and a Republican.