(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 743)

David Williams has a good farm of 200 acres in Danville township, Worth county. He was born in Stockway, N. Y. March 11, 1844. When a child his parents moved to McHenry Co., Ill. They removed to Cerro Gordo Co., where the mother still lives. The father died in 1879. David was raised on a farm and received his education in the district school In the winter of 1856 he and his brother were overtaken in a terrible blizzard. They were out one day and night. His feet were so badly frozen that he lost a greater part of them. He was married Oct 29, 1873, to Christena Beyer, a native of Pennsylvania. They have four children - Edith A., Ira A., Nancy May and Milo B.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, Sept. 9, 2005