Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

W.B. WILLIAMS, farmer; P.O. Bluff Springs; is a native of 
North Carolina; born Jan. 6, 1848. His parents, W.A. and 
Margaret (Thomas) Williams, are both still living, and have 
had five children; his father, who is also a native of 
North Carolina, and a farmer by occupation, was born Jan. 
8, 1818. Mr. Williams received but a limited education in 
the schools of his precinct, attending school but a short 
time, and has always been a farmer. For the past three 
years he has been the keeper of the poor-farm. In 
Beardstown, Aug. 8, 1872, he married Mary J. Heaton, a 
native of England; born may 15, 1850, who bore him two 
children, John E. and William H. Mrs. Williams died March 
1, 1881; she was a daughter of John and Mary Jane Heaton, 
who now reside in Virginia, this county. His second wife, 
whom he married July 28, 1881, is Anna Gough.

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