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JOHN N. WILLIAMS, farmer; P. O. Pleasant Hill; the subject of this memoir was born in Miami Co., Ohio, in 1839, and is a son of Isaac and Sarah Williams; his father was born in Miami Co.; lived, died and is buried in the county of his nativity; his grandfather, John Williams, was born in Virginia, and settled on the farm where our subject’s father spent a lifetime, where his eyes first beheld the light of day, and where he met the summons of death; on the land where his grandfather located was a place held sacred by the Indians, was a place of general rendezvous for all neighboring tribes, and on the same spot the early pioneers erected four block-houses, forming a square, which gave the settlers a place of protection and security from the many attacks of the Indians in those troublesome times. Isaac Williams was born in 1810; his wife, Sarah, was born in Montgomery Co., in 1820, and is still living; the land entered by his grandfather remained in the family name for nearly three-quarters of a century. Our subject was reared on the farm, and assisted in the labor of the same till his 21st year, when he united his destiny at the marriage altar with that of Sarah, a daughter of S. C. Miles, in 1861. In 1864, he volunteered in the 147th O. V. I., one hundred-day men; served his time and was honorably discharged; he afterward emigrated to Kansas, where he remained one year to a day, and then returned and settled on 117 acres of land in Darke Co., where he resided for six years and then disposed of this land and removed to where he now resides; his brother Daniel was Adjutant of the 61st O. V. I., and was among the slain at the battle of Gettysburg, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Christian Church, and are exemplary Christian people; they are the parents of four children, viz., Floy, Perry L., Daniel W. and Allen.