David Williams

WILLIAMS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 11/8/2022 at 22:16:04

David Williams

David Williams has a good farm of 200 acres in Danville township, Worth county. He was born in Stockway, N. Y. March 11, 1844. When a child his parents moved to McHenry Co., Ill. They removed to Cerro Gordo Co., where the mother still lives. The father died in 1879. David was raised on a farm and received his education in the district school In the winter of 1856 he and his brother were overtaken in a terrible blizzard. They were out one day and night. His feet were so badly frozen that he lost a greater part of them. He was married Oct 29, 1873, to Christena Beyer, a native of Pennsylvania. They have four children - Edith A., Ira A., Nancy May and Milo B. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.744