Person:Elizabeth Williams (382)

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Elizabeth Williams
b.1824 Virginia, United States
d.1880 Thornapple, Barry, Michigan, United States
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m. 4 Mar 1843
  1. Amanda Jane Colby1843 - 1919
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Name Elizabeth Williams
Gender Female
Birth? 1824 Virginia, United States
Marriage 4 Mar 1843 Yorktown, Delaware, Indiana, United Statesto William Colby
Death? 1880 Thornapple, Barry, Michigan, United States

"Elizabeth (Williams) Colby is the daughter of Peter Williams, a Virginian, a veteran of the war of 1812, and an early resident in Shenandoah County, where he followed the business of gun making, dealt also in cattle and horses, and owned moreover a farm of six hundred acres. Strongly anti-slavery in his principles, he declined to remain in Virginia beyond 1837, when, with his family of eleven children, he migrated to Yorktown, Elkhart Co., Ind., where William Colby met and married Mr. William's daughter Elizabeth.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Colby number four, as follows: Amanda Jane, born Dec. 6, 1843; Rebecca Ann, born Sept. 15, 1846; D. W. , born Aug. 11, 1850; Albert Franklin, born Aug. 11, 1861."

Source: "History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan", 1880, p. 496. Sketch of Property and of Elizabeth and William between pages 494 and 495. Go to: https://ia600201.us.archive.org/15/items/cu31924032193587/cu31924032193587.pdf

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