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George W. Williams, farmer, and son of Thomas and Jane (Jones) Williams, was born in Kentucky, September 6, 1825. The parents were natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. The father came to Kentucky when a young man, locating in Casey County, where he followed farming, and was also engaged in the tanner’s trade. He furnished a substitute for the War of 1812, and in 1836 he and family (wife and nine children) came by ox wagon to Cooper County, where he remained one year. They then came to Moniteau County, and here the father purchased eighty acres of land, on which George W. is now residing. He also entered land adjoining, and soon became the owner of several tracts of land, mostly timber. He died in 1845, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was a member of the Baptist Church. The mother did not marry again, and died in 1855, at the age of seventy-four or seventy-five years. They were the parents of thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters, four of whom are now living. George W. Williams was the youngest of this family. He came to Missouri when but eleven years of age, and his boyhood days were spent in that State. What education he received was in the subscription schools, and as a consequence was rather limited. When his father died he left the home place to the two youngest sons (George W. and Thomas J.), who were to take care of the mother and one sister. Since then George W. has divided the place, and has since lived at his present residence. He was married July 4, 1855, to Miss Judith L. Hickman, a native of North Carolina, born in 1830, and the result of this marriage was eight children, one deceased: Mary (wife of Jacob N. Sinnett), George W., Jr., Catherine J. (wife of J. R. Hill), James F., William J., Isaac L., Betsey Ann and John W. William J. died in December, 1888, in his twenty-second year. Mr. Williams has always been a hard worker, and is an industrious, enterprising citizen. He served in the militia a short time during the war; is a Republican in politics. Mrs. Williams is a member of the Baptist Church.