Rosena, born Feb. 23rd, 1853. Charles Henry,5 born Oct. 20th, 1856. 2 JAMES C.1 WILLIAMS, (James,3 Lewis, Joshua'). Married: Feb. 18th, 1845, Martha Irvin. Phillipsburg, Center Co., Pa., was incorporated as a borough in January, 1865. The first burgess was James C. Williams. 3 2 HARRIETT WILLIAMS, (James, Lewis, Joshua'). Married: June 15th, 1854, Charles McCafferty, born, 1829; died, Mar. 25th, 1912. Mr. McCafferty was a contractor and builder in Bellefonte until about 1892, when he moved to Philadelphia. Children, surnamed McCafferty: James,5 Charles,5 Robert Lewis,5 George B.,5 John Dunlop, born 1870. 3 MARY W. WILLIAMS, (Hudson, Lewis,2 Joshua'), born, Nov. 26th, 1801; died, Jan. 24, 1830. Married: June 25th, 1827, Ephraim Williams, born, June 15th, 1797; died, May 10th, 1858, son of Joshua' and Mary (Dill) Williams, (Joshua'). Lived in Bellefonte, Pa. Children, surnamed Williams: Nancy Amelia, born Sept. 27th, 1829. WILLIAM GREY' WILLIAMS, (Hudson, Lewis,' Joshua'). Married: 1st, Anna Ramsey. 2nd, Magdaline Kline. A letter from Anna Ramsey Williams to her niece Nancy Williams, daughter of Ephraim, at Bellefonte, is dated, Troy, April 3d, 1861. She says in part, the Miami river is in sight of our dwelling, which is about fifteen minutes walk from town. There is a large High school in town which the girls, Anna and Sallie, have been attending, and to which our dear little Ellie went for a few days before the sickness which caused her death." One would judge that the three girls mentioned were her daughters. William G. Williams died in Clinton Co., Pa., at about sixty-five years of age. Children: William Grey, and others. LEWIS W. WILLIAMS, (Hudson, Lewis, Joshua'), born, Jan. 21st, 1807; died, May 17th, 1857, at Landisburg, Perry Co., Pa. Married: 1st, Oct. 1844, Mary Thompson; died, Jan. 1846. 2nd, Feb. 20th, 1849, Caroline Larimore. Lewis W. Williams was born at Bellefonte, Center Co., Pa. After finishing his course at the Bellefonte Academy he taught a few months at the Curtin Iron Works near Bellefonte, Andrew J. Curtin, about his own age, being one of his pupils. He then went to Kirkpatrick's Academy at Milton, Pa., where among his friends and classmates were Andrew J. Curtin, Pollock, and Samuel Calvin, all of whom attained political prominence in State politics, Curtin having been the first Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, elected in Oct. 1860 -the War Governor. Lewis Williams entered Princeton College and graduated from both the Academic department and the Theological Seminary. Owing to ill health he did not at once enter the ministry; when he did, his first charge was at Indiana, Pa., but he was forced to resign on account of his health. He took a long horseback trip through the South, preaching at Natchez, Mobile, and other Southern cities. On his return to Pennsylvania he was reinstalled in the same pastorate, but again resigned to accept a position as professor of Mathematics at Washington College in Tennessee hoping that a prolonged residence in the South would completely restore his health. He married Miss Mary Thompson of Pittsburgh in 1844, and his wife accompanied him to Tennessee. She was not well there, and they returned to Pittsburgh where she died in January, 1846, leaving an infant daughter less than a month old. Mr. Williams supplied the Presbyterian Church at Greenville for two years, and while there made the acquaintance of Miss Caroline Larimore who became his second wife. During the summer of 1848 he preached in Rock Island, Illinois. From Nevin's "Churches of the Valley," page 223: "Rev. L. W. Williams is now pastor of the Lower Church in connexion with the church of 'Burnt Cabins,' which is a colony from the Lower Church"; this was in 1851 or '52. He was one of the charter members of the "Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science." After Mr. Williams' death his widow married Daniel Williams (in no way related to her first husband), who conducted a seminary for young ladies near Newville, Pa. The death of her second husband leaving her widowed again, Mrs. Williams moved the school for young ladies to Harrisburg, where she carried it on successfully. Children: by first wife, by second wife, Mary Thompson, born Dec. 24th, 1845. James Edwin,5 born Oct. 29th, 1854; died Walter Lowrie,5 born April 21st, 1856. 3 HUDSON RUTHERFORD' WILLIAMS, (Hudson, Lewis, Joshua'), born, about 1809; died Aug. 27th, 1862, at Darlington, Wisconsin. Married: Sarah L. Love, of Remis Valley, born, 1812; died, July 5th, 1898, at Kansas City, Mo. Hudson R. Williams and his brother William G. lived at Mill Hall, Clinton Co., Pa., where they had large woolen mills. Here their mother and Aunt Mary Williams found a home in their declining years. Hudson Williams' home was a favorite place for relatives to visit until, in 1857, the family moved to Darlington, Wis. Hudson Williams met with a tragic death. He was driving a grain roller with a team of horses over his field, when the horses became frightened and ran away. Mr. Williams, who had been walking behind them, did not loosen his hold on the reins and was thrown to the ground and dragged, still attempting to gain control over the horses, when they made a sudden and unexpected turn which cause the roller to pass directly over his body. His son William, driving another team in the same field, was running to his father's assistance when the accident occurred, but when he reached him life was extinct. Children: David L.,5 William H.,5 Lewis,5 Agnes.5 AGNES D. (NANCY) WILLIAMS, (Hudson," Lewis, Joshua'), born, Nov. 9th, 1811; died, June 16th, 1849. Married: Oct. 27th, 1836, William Wilson Love, born, April 12th, 1809; died, Aug. 1st, 1876. He was a lawyer and a Judge. 5 Children, surnamed Love: Agnes Mary, born April 23rd, 1839. 3 2 WILLIAM WILLIAMS, (William,3 Lewis, Joshua'), born, 1821; died, April 22nd, 1896, at Warsaw, Ind. Married: April 29th, 1840, Eliza Jane Douglas, born, Jan. 9th, 1823; died, 1885, daughter of Robert and Anna (Studebaker) Douglas. When William Williams was a boy his father moved with his family to Warsaw, Ind. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842, in which year he was also elected County Treasurer. He was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor by the Whig party in 1852, but the ticket was defeated. He |