My Genealogy Hound

H. C. WILLIAMS was born in Weakley County, Tenn., November 3, 1839, and is a son of Allen S. and Patience (Jordan) Williams, the latter of whom is still living, together with five of their eleven children. The father was from Virginia and came to Tennessee when eighteen years of age, and died in Weakley County, in 1860. He was a farmer, and with his wife was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The subject of these lines was the fourth child of the family and was brought up on the home farm and given a fair education. He afterward attended the Winston Academy, Tennessee, and starting out for himself went to Humboldt, Tenn., and clerked two years for his brothers, with whom he went, in 1860, to Arkansas, where in partnership they sold goods for seven months. Returning to Tennessee, our subject enlisted under Capt. McCutchen in an independent company, and served five months, when he was taken prisoner, being afterward paroled at Paducah, in 1862. Coming to the vicinity of his present residence, he gave his attention to farming, until 1877; afterward he clerked two years, when he opened out in mercantile trade, at Maxon’s Mills, and has since conducted a growing business, carrying a well-selected stock of general goods. He was married January 5, 1865, to Miss Charlotte E. Grace, of Metropolis, Ill. They have two children: John A. and Robert E.