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MARIA WILLIAMS, (Joseph, Lewis, Joshua'), born, March 2nd, 1796; died, Dec. 25th, 1868. Married: March 30th, 1820, William Marshall.

Lived in Bellefonte, Pa.

Children, surnamed Marshall: James Galbraith,5 born Dec. 21st, 1821.

Jane, born March 22nd, 1823.

Joseph Williams, born April 23rd,

1825.

Nancy, born Feb. 7th, 1827..

William Adams,5 born Sept. 26th, 1830;

died Sept. 9th, 1835.

Anna Maria, born Jan. 31st, 1836.
Rachel, born Nov. 30th, 1840.

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JOHN FEE WILLIAMS, (Joseph, Lewis, Joshua').

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RACHEL WILLIAMS, (Joseph, Lewis, Joshua'),

of Boggs Township.

Married: March 18th, 1835, William Furey.

Children, surnamed Furey: Mary Jane,5

Joseph Williams,5 born Dec. 28th, 1837.
Georgianna,5

Lewis, died in childhood.

John M.5

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SARAH* WILLIAMS, (Joseph, Lewis, Joshua')
Married: March 25th, 1834, Christian Roop.

(In 1816 a Christian Roop subscribed twenty dollars to the Mennonite Society for a building on land adjoining the "Walnut Bottom". He was a brother of the pastor of United Brethren Church, who had also a son Christian.

Christian Roop, born, Sept. 3rd, 1788; died, April 22nd, 1868. Mary, his wife, born, Nov. 9th, 1800; died, July 29th, 1872. See, Egle's "Notes and Queries", 3rd Series, Vol. I, p. 513.)

JAMES CAMPBELL' WILLIAMS, (Joshua,' Lewis, Joshua'), born, Feb. 23rd, 1801; died; Mar. 31st, 1822.

Unmarried.

James Williams was preparing for the ministry at Princeton University at the time of his death. On the advice of his father, he had taken a two year law course before studying theology. At Union College he was a classmate of William H. Seward who spoke most highly of his abilities to Lewis Hudson' Williams many years later.

LEWIS HUDSON' WILLIAMS, (Joshua, Lewis,' Joshua'), born, Dec. 22nd, 1802; died, Sept. 18th, 1889, in Minneapolis, Minn.

Married: Feb. 15th, 1831, Tabitha Patterson McKeehan, born, Jan. 8th, 1812; died, July 5th, 1866, daughter of Samuel and Deborah (McBride) McKeehan.

Prior to this generation the family Christian name "Lewis" had retained the Welsh spelling, for it was a Welsh name in a Welsh family. The Rev. Joshua Williams baptized his second son "Lewis Hudson Williams", and the name was so carried on all records and so written by himself through more than half his life. For some reason now unknown, in middle age he changed the spelling to the French "Louis", hence, in later generations of this line, those who were named for him were called Louis,

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instead of Lewis. Three of his grandsons, Louis Williams Pettit, Louis Hudson Williams, and Louis Williams McKeehan thus lost the real family name of their Welsh forebears; a fact to be regretted.

It was a great desire of the Rev. Dr. Joshua Williams to have at least one of his sons follow him in the ministry, and it was his intention to send Lewis as well as James through college. But after the death of James it was feared that the confinement of college life might break down the health of Lewis, who was not a robust youth, so the idea of his entering the ministry was abandoned and he was put to work that kept him out of doors as much as possible. He was a great reader and such a constant student of the Bible that phrases, illustrations and quotations from it were the most natural medium of expression for his own thoughts in later life. When plowing in his father's fields he always carried a volume in his pocket from which he would commit to memory. In this way he memorized all of Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Pope's Essay on Man, and Pollocks's Course of Time. He read law and made a study of the Laws of Pennsylvania. When he lived on the farm five miles from Newville he was called "The Squire" and cases were brought to him for trial and judgment.

Mr. Williams and his wife began their married life in the village of Oakland, Juniata Co., where Lewis and his brother, Joshua Davis, had a general store. Mrs. Williams went to her father's home for her first confinement, so the eldest child, Ellen Mary, was born on her grandfather McKeehan's farm. The second child, Deborah, was born in Oakland. Soon thereafter the family moved to the farm near Newville where they lived until 1848, and the next six children were born on this farm. Mr. Williams and his brother Joseph engaged in the hardware business in Newville and in 1848 it seemed expedient for Mr. Williams to move with his family into the town, which he did, and the two youngest children were born in Newville.

While living on the farm they were members of the

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