NATHAN R. WILLIAMS
Nathan R. Williams was born in Wayne county, Indiana, July 18, 1826. He was one year old when his parents moved to Hamilton county, of the same State, where they remained a short time and removed to Madison county, also in Indiana. His father, Zadock Williams, was born in Tennessee, and died in Madison county in 1836. His mother, Anna Williams, was a native of North Carolina. She died in Porter county, Indiana, in 1880. After his father's death the family removed to Wayne county, living there and in Randolph county five years. They were in humble circumstances, and Nathan's opportunities for obtaining an educaiton were slight, but such as they were he made the most of, and fitted himself for teaching. He went, in 1844, to St. Joe county, Indiana, and taught school three terms near South Bend. He was married September 4, 1850, to Ann Duncan, a native of Ohio. In 1865 they moved to Linn county, Iowa, and lived there until 1873, when they went to Kansas and staid(sic) one year, after which they came to Cass county and located on the southeast quarter of section 4, Brighton township. It was then unimproved land, but is now in a good state of cultivation and a very desirable farm. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have six children...Hannah M., John I., Mattie E., Anna, Bessie A. and Altha B. Hannah, John and Mattie are teachers. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the M. E. church.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 598-599.
