Past and present of Lucas and Wayne counties, Iowa, a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . : .lohn. also a I ivil war veteran, w ho died in the hospital at Rolla, iii the Union army; Ned; Mrs. Marjorie Turtle; Mrs. Martha Pent; I. Wilson; and Mrs. Jennie Tuttle. The seven younger children werehorn Dear Freedom, where all of them were reared, Parkison Williams, being broughl to Warren township in 1845, there received Ins education and earlj 1 ame acquainted with agricultural methods under pim litions. Graduallj he made himself independent and su
Past and present of Lucas and Wayne counties, Iowa, a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . : .lohn. also a I ivil war veteran, w ho died in the hospital at Rolla, iii the Union army; Ned; Mrs. Marjorie Turtle; Mrs. Martha Pent; I. Wilson; and Mrs. Jennie Tuttle. The seven younger children werehorn Dear Freedom, where all of them were reared, Parkison Williams, being broughl to Warren township in 1845, there received Ins education and earlj 1 ame acquainted with agricultural methods under pim litions. Graduallj he made himself independent and successfully followed farming and stock raisin through all his life, his efforts being attendedwith considerable success. His death took place mar where the tirst settlement of the family was made, mi .June 15, 1912, and was the cause of deep mourningand regret not only to his family bul to the man] friends which he had madeduring a long, honorable and useful career. Parkison Williams was united in marriage, in I860, to Sarah J. Essex, whowas horn in Eagle Village Indiana, Julj s i•-11 she came overland to Iowa. MR. AND .MRS. PAEKISON WILLIAMS LUCAS AND WAYNE COUNTIES 207 with her parents in 1855, when eleven years old, and has made her home inLucas county since. Her parents, Edward and Salena G. (Guge^ Essex, nativesof Indiana, both passed away in Lucas county, the father dying in Lincolntownship. In their family were six children, of whom Mrs. Williams andMrs. T. J. Hawkins are the only ones now Living. The others were James E., Anna E., and one who died in childhood. Mr. and Mrs. ParkisonWilliams became the parents of eleven children: Mrs. Etta Tuttle, residing inWayne county; Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, also a resident of that county; Samuel L.,who is mentioned under that caption; Mrs. Anna Wilson, of Centerville, Iowa;Mrs. William Connor, of Chariton, Iowa; Dr. C. E. Williams, of Russell, Iowa;Mrs. Nora Mclnnes, residing in Chariton; Mrs. Hattie Layton, of Wayne county;Sal
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