Sacramento County Biographies

ELZA WILLIAMS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 275.
 
	lives fourteen miles from Sacramento and six and a-half miles 
from Florin, his Post Office; was born in Ohio in 1811; when eight years of age 
he removed with his parents to Illinois, and lived there until 1853, engaged in 
farming; he came to California in that year, across the Plains, and settled in 
El Dorado County, near Placerville, where he was engaged principally in farming 
until 1857; he then moved to Sacramento County, and remained here until 1864, 
when he moved to Idaho, and was farming and stock-raising near Boise City. In 
the Fall of 1866 he returned to this county, and has resided here ever since; 
owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth, with improvements, about 
$2,500. He was married in 1829 to Miss Eliza McPherson, a native of Virginia, 
and who has borne him thirteen children, eight of whom are living---six sons and 
two daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.