WILLIAMS, ELIAS
, born Feb. 27, 1770, near Clarendon, Vermont, was married in that state to Mary Boynton, who was born July 19, 1773, at Plymouth, Windsor county, Vermont. They had four children there, and the family moved to Essex county, New York, about 1804, where two children were born, thence to Hamilton county, Ohio, where one child was born, and from there to Butler county, in the same state, where three children were born. In 1819 the family moved to Wayne or Henry county, Indiana, and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in February, 1822, in what is now Cotton Hill township, and the next spring into what is now Rochester township. Of their children--POLLY and LYDIA died under four years.
SAMUEL, born April 24, 1800, in Windsor county, Vermont, came to Sangamon county, Illinois, before the family arrived in the autumn of 1821, and was married April 5, 1832, to Jane L. Trotter. They had five children in Sangamon county, NANCY T., born Feb. 26, 1833, married Henry P. Clark. See his name. JANE L., born June 1, 1835, married Charles F. Humphreys. See his name. ELIZA, born Feb. 12, 1837, and HENRY H., born July 30, 1840. The two latter live with their father. WILLIAM T. died in his second year. Mrs. Jane L. Williams died Oct. 11, 1865, and Samuel Williams lives one and a half miles southeast of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Williams became a member of the Christian church, June 29, 1817, in Ohio, and when he came to Sangamon county, there being no church of his own denomination, he united with the Methodists, with the understanding that he should sever the connection when a suitable time came for organizing one of his own. He united with others in 1832 in consituting the South Fork Christian church. About that time he commenced preaching, and has continued to do so to the present time. He has received between one and two hundred persons into the church, and has baptized about five hundred, including his assisting other ministers. He has probably married one hundred couple, and taught school in Rochester, Illinois, between the years 1831 and 1837.
ELIAS, Jun., born Feb. 15, 1802, in Vermont, was married in Sangamon county, in 1831, to Polly Baker, daughter of Isaac. They had eleven or twelve children, and moved to Kansas, thence to the vicinity of Nashville, Barton county, Missouri, where they now live.
JOSEPH, born Oct. 2, 1804, in Essex county, New York, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Judith Delay. They had two children, who both died young. Joseph Williams died Oct. 14. 1850. His widow lives in Cotton Hill township.
MARY, born Dec. 18, 1806, in Essex county, New York, was married in Sangamon county in 1824 to Richard E. Barker. They had one child, ELIAS, who married Dorothy Bound. He died in March, 1873. His widow and children live near Clarksville, Illinois. R. E. Barker died and his widow married Andrew Johnson. See his name. He died and she married Greenberry Baker. See his name.
ISIAH BOYNTON
SUSANNAH, born March 2, 1815, in Hamilton county, Ohio, died in Sangamon county, April 12, 1834.
AMOS, born May 10, 1818, in Butler county, Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to Caroline Dearborn. They had two children. ELIAS enlisted in the 16th Ill, Cav., in 1862, for three years, and was captured at Cumberland Gap. He was several months in Andersonville prison, was exchanged, and died a few days later. ISAIAH B. married and lives in Cincinnati, Appanoose county, Iowa. Amos Williams went to California and died there in March, 1850. His widow lives with her son, Isaiah B., in Iowa.
Mrs. Mary Williams died May 15, 1850, and Elias Williams died August 25, 1853, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.