- ISAAC LEWIS WILLIAMS, whose well-cultivated farm of 120 acres
in Section 19, Monroe
- township, Green county, speaks well for the thrift and industry
of its owner, was born July 13, 1851, in Punxsutawney, Jefferson
Co., Penn., where his father still resides.
- Stacy B. WILLIAM, his father, was born in New York State,
and when quite small was brought
- by his father to Pennsylvania. He is a merchant and lumberman,
and was engaged in school teaching to some extent, although of
late years he has given the major portion of his attention to
farming, residing within a mile of his father's old home. He
married Caroline LEWIS, daughter of Isaac LEWIS, and of this
union ten children were born, four of whom survive: Thomas M.,
of Punxsutawney; Isaac Lewis; George, of Jefferson county, Penn.;
and John C., of western Virginia. The mother of these children
died in 1864, and Mr. WILLIAMS married for his second wife, Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth LAW, widow of Harrison LAW, and daughter of Theodore
and Matilda MORRIS. To this union came six children, but Joseph
and Martha alone survive. Stacy B. WILLIAMS was a son of Thomas
WILLIAMS, a native of New York State, who migrated with his family
to Pennsylvania, Stacy B. being the youngest of fourteen children.
Isaac LEWIS, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Isaac Lewis WILLIAMS,
was a farmer of Pennsylvania, where he raised his family of five
children.
- Isaac Lewis WILLIAMS lived on his father's farm until he
had attained to man's estate, and
- received his education in the common schools of Punxsutawney,
after which he worked at the lumbering business in the employ
of his father for nine years. In 1877 he located in Green county,
Wis., and for five years worked by the month. In 1882 he purchased
his present farm of 120 acres, which he has since improved and
brought to a high state of cultivation. He has seen his efforts
crowned with success, and can now look over his broad fields,
and see the wonders of his systematic labors have wrought.
- On Feb. 23, 1882, Mr. WILLIAMS was united in marriage with
Miss Clara RUSSELL, who
- was born in Beloit, Wis., Jan. 31, 1859, a daughter of John
Milton and Teressa J. (MORRIS) RUSSELL, and one son, Stacy Hurley
WILLIAMS, born July 29, 1883, has come to bless this union (he
is a graduate of the business college in Monroe). Socially Mr.
WILLIAMS belongs to the Modern Woodmen, and he and his wife in
their religious belief are Methodists, but not identified with
any one church.
- Mr. John Milton RUSSELL was born in Indiana, and when quite
small accompanied, his parents
- to California, but later returned East, and was married when
quite young in Monroe, Wis. A year after his marriage he started
back to California across the Plains, but he was not heard of
again; it is believed he was murdered while on the way. His wife,
Teressa J. (MORRIS) RUSSELL, never married a second time, but
makes her home with her daughter. She is a Universalist in religious
belief. John RUSSELL, father of John Milton RUSSELL, was a native
of Indiana, and after his removal to California, engaged in farming
and became the owner of a large ranch. He died there aged sixty-seven
years, and his wife, Margaret, died Jan. 11, 1892, at the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. MUZZY, in her ninetieth year; she was a
devout member of the Baptist Church, having been converted in
her girlhood, and her love of prayer and deep attachment to the
Bible characterized her private Christian life. William MORRIS,
father of Mrs. Teressa J. (MORRIS) RUSSELL, and grandfather of
Mrs. WILLIAMS, was a native of Virginia, of English descent,
was a farmer by occupation and was a soldier in the war of 1812.
He married Mary KILGORE, who died in 1884, aged eighty-one. He
came to Wisconsin in 1844, and lived in Green county until 1877,
when he passed away.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 589-590.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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