Corydon Williams was born in Milton, Wis., March 16, 1842. He died at his home in Nortonville, Kan., Jan. 27, 1900, after a protracted illness.
On Feb. 18, 1869, he was married to Miss Jennie Cottrell, at Rock River, Wis. He moved to Nortonville with his family in 1876. He became a member of the Albion, Wis., Seventh-day Baptist church by baptism in 1864, under the labors of the late Rev. James Summerbell. On coming to Kansas he united with the church of the same faith in Nortonville, of which he was a member at the time of his death. His widow, two sons, a daughter and a sister, Mrs. Oliver Davis, and other relatives are left in bereavement. G. W. H.