Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

ISAAC N. WILLIAMS was born December 3, 1822, and has ever since resided 
on the farm where he was born in Allen County.  His father, Langston 
Williams, was a native of South Carolina (born in Spartanburgh County, 
July 11, 1772).  He came to Kentucky about 1795, and later married Ruth 
McElroy, whose parents, James and Fanny McElroy, were natives of South 
Carolina.  Langston Williams was a successful farmer, which vocation he 
followed during life; he died Setember 10, 1840.  His widow survived 
until September 30, 1870; her age was eighty-seven years.  She was a 
member of the Baptist Church and died in that faith.  The names of the 
children are Rebecca (Ragland), Fannie (Williams), Sarah (Thompson), 
George W., Benjamin H., Thomas T., John M. (deceased), Richard H., Nancy 
V. (Wright), Elizabeth M., Isaac N., James F. and Irene J. (Hinton).  
Langston Williams was a soldier in the war of 1812; he was a son of 
Thomas Williams, who was of English and Scotch parentage, and a native 
of North Carolina.  He married Miss Langston, and lived and died in his 
native state.  James McElroy was born Septembr 21, 1759; died in 1858.  
He served as a courier and aide to Washington in the Revolution; was 
engaged in the battles of King's Mountain, N. C., and Cowpens, Va.; 
married April 16, 1782, Fannie Langston, and to their union were born 
ten children, of which number our subject's mother, Ruth, was the 
fourth.  Isaac N. Williams was eighteen years old when his father died, 
and from that time he took charge of the farm, and with his younger 
brother took care of their mother until her death.  He has been very 
successful in agricultural pursuits.  His farm of 333 acres of the 
choice land of the section is well kept and improved with excellent 
buildings, and one of the best orchards in the county.  Mr. Williams' 
farm is well adapted to grass; he gives much attention to stock of which 
he owns some of the best.  He married, on the 6th of June, 1871, 
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Nancy Griffin, who were descended from 
English parentage and were Virginians, born in Culpeper County.  Mrs. 
Williams is a lady of rare attainments, and their married life has been 
happy, though childless.  They are members of the Baptist Church.  Mr. 
Williams' view on political affairs are libral.  He is a public-spirited 
citizen without political aspirations.  His father was one of the first 
settlers of Kentucky, and located in Allen County, on the east side of 
Trammel's Creek in 1797, where he planted the first orchard in the 
country, in 1803 or 1804.  Some of the old trees are yet standing; they 
were grafted on sycamore stubs and some of them have attained enormous 
proportions, measuring three and one-half feet in diameter.

Williams McElroy Ragland Williams Thompson Wright Hinton Langston 
Washington Griffin 
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Spartanburgh-SC NC Culpeper-VA

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