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Williams, John A.
LAST NAME: Williams FIRST NAME: John MIDDLE NAME: A. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: Jan 1805 DIED: 30 Apr 1884 BURIED:  ~ Smith Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Kentucky
DEATH PLACE: Polk Co, Oregon
NOTES: 
1st MARRIAGE - to Nancy --- 1850 CENSUS - John A. Williams (45y, b Kentucky, occupation farmer) enumerated with Nancy (44y, b Kentucky), Missouri (19y, b Missouri), Judith (16y, b Missouri), Josephine (14y, b Missouri), Elizabeth (12y, b Missouri), Milton (8y, b Missouri), Wiley (6y, b Missouri) & Sanford (4y, b Missouri) 1860 CENSUS - John A. Williams (54y, b Kentucky, occupation farmer) enumerated with Nancy (54y, b Kentucky), Arthur B. (18y, b Missouri), Willey (16y, b Missouri), Sanford (14y, b Missouri) & Nancy Chils (13y, b Missouri) 2nd MARRIAGE - J.A. Williams & E.A. Gardner m 17 Nov 1867 at house of E.A. Gardner; Isaac Smith, JP. Wit: H.R. Grant & Nelson Nealy 1870 CENSUS - John A. Williams (65y, b Kentucky, occupation farmer) enumerated with Eliza (35y, b Missouri), Alvin (11m, b Aug 1869 Oregon) and 5 Gardner children, George (16y, b Oregon), Francis (14y, b Oregon), Thomas (11y, b Oregon), Lincoln (9y, b Oregon) & Chester (5y, b Oregon) 1880 CENSUS - John A. Williams (75y, b Kentucky, occupation farmer) enumerated with wife Eliza Ann (44y, b Missouri), son John D. ()9y, b Oregon) and 2 step-sons, Cyrus L. Gardner (19y, b Oregon) & Chester C. Gardner (16y, b Oregon) NOTE - 2nd wife Eliza was daughter of James & Elizabeth Smith and widow of Samuel L. Gardner who died in California in 1866. She remarried to Warren Frost and then to Jacob Rhodabarger. She died 26 Dec 1901 at Falls City, Polk Co, Oregon, and was buried in the Falls City cemetery
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
N/A
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 
John A. Williams Died Apr 30, 1884 Aged 79 Yrs 3 Ms
SOURCES: 
1850 MO CENSUS (Daviess Co, District 27, FA#98) 1860 WA CENSUS (Clark Co, Vancouver, FA#151) Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1849-1879, page 39 1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, FA#592) 1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Bridgeport, ED 106, FA#264)
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