San Joaquin County
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MILO WILLIAMS
MILO WILLIAMS, deceased, was
born in Pennsylvania, September 26, 1801. His parents left Pennsylvania, when
he was thirteen years of age, settling on a farm in Ohio, where he remained
with them until he was married, in 1835, when he engaged in the mercantile
business at Mansfield, Ohio, in company with his brother. He moved from Ohio to
Illinois, where he remained a year, thence to Arkansas. He engaged in the
furniture business and farming, remaining there fourteen years, until 1853,
when he started, with his wife and six children, for California. They made the
trip overland with a large train and arrived in San Joaquin valley after a
journey of six months. They camped six and one-half miles from Stockton on the
place where Septimus Williams and his brother had located in 1849, making quite
a city of tents. Mr. S. Williams was one of the first to settle in this part of
the country and has been a very prominent man: is now a resident of San
Francisco, known as Captain S. Williams, having been a steamboat captain. Milo
Williams, the subject of this sketch, made his home here continuously until the
time of his death, which occurred November 26, 1870, at the age of sixty-nine
years. He was married, in 1835, to Miss Martha J. Reed, a native of Ohio. They
had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are now living, four boys and
three girls. Mrs. Williams still lives on the home place at the age of
seventy-two years.
E. G. Williams, the eldest living son of
the subject of this sketch was born in Mansfield, Ohio, and came to California
with his parents. He has been engaged in farming from boyhood up and still runs
the home place. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Mary A. Landerum, a native of
Georgia. They have five children, three boys and two girls. Mr. E. G. Williams
also owns 320 acres on which he carries on general farming. He is a member of
the I. O. O. F., No. 55, Truth Lodge, of Stockton. Mrs. Williams is a member of
the Rebekah Lodge.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 517-518. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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