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Ambrose Williams was born in Washington County, Ark., in the town of Fayetteville, January 8, 1836, and is a son of James and Mary (Cureton) Williams. The parents were born in Tennessee, and after coming to Arkansas lived in Webb City, Can Hill and Fayetteville. The father died in Texas in 1846. The mother was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her death occurred in 1872. The following are the four children of whom she was the mother: John, Ambrose, Alexander (deceased), and Sarah, now Mrs. Eubanks. Alexander died while serving in the Confederate army under Gen. Hineman at Fort Smith. Ambrose passed his early boyhood in his native county, and in 1855 went to California, where he farmed and engaged in mining for eleven years. He then located in Mill Creek Township, Franklin County, where he now owns a farm of 460 acres, 220 of which are finely cultivated, and upon which Mr. Williams has erected a gin-mill. In the winter of 1887-88 he visited California. In 1888 Mr. Williams was married to Melinda McClain, daughter of Thomas Milam. This lady had three children by her first husband, of whom one is living, Thomas J. McClain, postmaster at Cecil. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have had five children, two of whom are deceased. Their children were named as follows: Alfred W., William A., John, Margaret E. and Nellie.