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Emanuel D. Williams was born December 14, 1835, in Jasper County, Miss. His father, J. O. Williams, was born in South Carolina, in 1812, and died October 30, 1872. His mother, Miss Dorcas Ivy, of Tennessee, who was born in 1816, died in 1868. His parents were married in 1834, in Mississippi, and had six children, of whom the subject of our sketch is the only one living at the present time. The family moved to Texas in 1855, but after three years moved to what is now Howard County, Ark. Mr. Williams passed much of his youth in Mississippi, attending school. At the age of twenty-one he entered business for himself, giving his attention to agriculture. On June 21, 1857, he was married to Miss Martha Sutton, of Tennessee, a daughter of Mrs. Martha Sutton. She died April 13, 1861, leaving one child, Sarah A., who is living, and now married. Mr. Williams married Miss Mary C. Riggs, of Tennessee, May 16, 1869, and they have had ten children. One died in infancy, another is not yet named; the others are: Delphina M., Rachel L., Lillian A., Wesley I., Ida P., Ruth C., Joseph O. A. and Effie R. He enlisted in 1862, in the Nineteenth Arkansas Infantry; was discharged in 1865; was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Chickamauga, Franklin, Jonesboro, Atlanta, Smithfield, and many minor fights; was orderly sergeant of his company; was wounded at Chickamauga in the right ankle by a piece of shell. After the war Mr. Williams devoted his attention to farming, and in 1870 purchased 160 acres of valuable land in Howard County, where he now resides. He is a Methodist, and his wife a member of the Baptist Church. In politics he is a thorough Democrat, and his life has been crowned by numerous successes.