WILLIAMS, EDWARD, was born June 3, 1789, in Hardin county, Kentucky. Margaret Neal was born April, 1788, in Nelson county, Kentucky. The places of their birth were only about six miles apart, and the parents of both moved when they were children to Ohio county, where they were married about 1806. They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving December, 1826, in what is now Gardner township, where two children were born, one died young. Of their six children--

NANCY C., born April 4, 1808, in Kentucky, married Dec. 19, 1872, in Sangamon county to Christopher Atterberry, and lives in Menard county, Illinois.

SAMUEL N., born in 1810 in Kentucky, married Margaret Martin, and she died. He married Mrs. Margaret D. Ralston, whose maiden name was Peak. They had four living children. Mr. W. died Jan. 9, 1866, and his family lives in Edinburg, Illinois.

CHARLES M., born April 8, 1815, was helpless from youth, and died at fifty-two years of age.

JOHN V., born in 1818, married Elizabeth J. Pierce. They have six children, and reside near Taylorville, Illinois.

EDWARD L., born in 1824, in Kentucky, married Susan H. Pearce in Sangamon county, and had four children. The parents and three of the children died. Their only living child, REBECCA A., married Samuel Cully, has one son, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois.

STEPHEN W., born Feb. 9, 1827, in Sangamon county, married July 25, 1850, to Abigail J. Fry, who was born July 22, 1827, in Smith county, Tennessee. They had two children, EDWARD H. and NANCY J., and Mrs. W. died Nov. 8, 1857. He was married June 30, 1859, to Elcy Davidson. They have five living children, JOHN D., MARY M., MICAJAH, FRANCES M. and MARTHA A., and reside in Christian county, near Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Margaret Williams died April 2, 1859, and Edward Williams died June 29, 1871, both in Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illinois.