NATHAN R. WILLIAMS was born in Wayne County, Indiana, on July 18, 1826. While still in his youth his family lived in Indiana in the counties of Wayne, Madison and Randolph. At age eighteen, he became a schoolteacher in St. Joseph County, Indiana, and taughter later in South Bend and other localities in Indiana. He married Ann Duncan in 1850 in Indiana and in 1865 the couple moved to Linn County, Iowa. The Williams family remained there until 1873, when they moved to Kansas, and then to Cass County, Iowa, in the following year. Nathan R. Williams purchased the southeast quarter of Section 4 of Brighton Township, east of Obed Blakeslee's home. They improved this land and prospered here for many years. Nathan and Ann Williams had six children - Hannah M., John I., Mattie E., Anna, Bessie A., and Altha B. Hannah, John and Altha were all teachers in this area in the late 1800's.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pg. 44. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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