Person:Christopher Williams (3)

1st wife Lizzie Brown age 17 married July 1, 1876 ---2nd wife Alice Annis Married Sept. 18 1892--source douglass co. marriage records

Vol 10-5628-29 resided in Eskridge, KS. 1st wife and 2 children are not entered on page 5628. 2nd wife and 1 child are not entered on page 5629.

His father, John W. Williams, was a native of the state of New York, and his wife Amanda Jane Williams was born in Fulton County, Illinois. They were married in Michigan, where they resided until October, 1850, when they moved to Fulton County, Illinois. In 1855, they located in Kansas, where Mr. Williams engaged in farming. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed that occupation many years. He died June 1, 1885, and his widow died at Rock, in March, 1898. They reared the following children: George H.; Stephen D., who died in Douglass, Kansas, in 1894; Justus F., who was a stock raiser, and resided in Wyoming; John F., who was a farmer and stock breeder, and resided in Osage County, Kansas; Christopher V., who was a harness maker, and lived in Osage County, Kansas; Ella J., deceased, who was the wife of Peter Taylor; Ida E., who was the wife of T. Stephens, of Lawrence, Kansas; Abraham L., who was a stone mason; Limon P., who resided near Rock, Kansas, and was a gardener; Arthur W., who was a farmer in Kansas; and Floyd E., who was a farmer of Lyon County, Kansas.