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THOMAS J. WILLIAMS, farmer, P. O. Hamersville, was born in Clark Township April 8, 1844. His parents were Robert Williams, a native of Delaware, and Jane (Stricklin) Williams, a native of Ohio, both of English descent. Our subject received a common school education. In 1879, he engaged in mercantile business in Clermont County where he remained two years, after which he moved to New Hope, this county, where he continued the same business two years. In 1872, he took full charge of his father’s farm of 280 acres, where he now resides. In 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Forty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Capt. Ross, in which he was appointed Corporal. In 1864 he re-enlisted in the same regiment, Capt. Andrew Cochran, and served until the close of the war. At the battle of Red River he was taken prisoner, and for six mouths suffered all the horrors of rebel prison life. He participated in the following engagements: Battle of Shiloh, Chickasaw Mountain, Port Gibson, Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., and Fort Blakesly and battle of Mansfield. In 1869, he married Cynthia Ann Milner, a daughter of William Milner. By her he has had four children, all living, viz., Mattie G., Carl H., Phillip E., Robbie Ray.