Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

W. H. CHILDERS.  There are few better known men in Grant county than
"Billy" Childers, as he is called.  He is a native of Grant county and
"to the manner born."  He is a son of Wesley Childers and Lucy Childers,
and was born in Grant county near Dry Ridge April 22d 1840. In his father's
family there were three children, one boy and two girls, all of whom are
dead but W. H. Childers.  When only a lad his father died and left him an
orphan.  He was raised in Williamstown by Squire Lucas, attended the common
schools.  He began life for himself as a clerk in Lucas' store. While
serving in the store as a clerk he was elected a constable of the district
and served for seven years.  Later in life he served as Deputy Sheriff for
six years under E. K. Green and Ezra D. Webster.
     At the breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. Childers joined his forces
to the "Lost Cause."  He enlisted in Company G, Fifth Kentucky Volunteer
Cavalry, and was elected third lieutenant in Captain Coombs' company.
He and his company took a prominent part in the battle of Lebanon Junction
and Green River, and he was in many other engagements of minor importance.
For two years his company was part of John Morgan's cavalry, and was
captured with the command at Buffington's Island on September 1863.  He
was taken as a prisoner to Camp Douglas and there kept in close
confinement for twenty-two months, when he was exchanged and returned to
his home in Kentucky.  The war over, he returned to Williamstown and took
up his life where he had left off, as clerk in the store.
     In politics he has been a Democrat all of his life, and has served
his party long and well.  He has never asked for office though often
solicited to do so.
     He married Miss Louisa Simon, daughter of Francis Simon, shortly
after the close of the war, and to their union five children have been
born, two boys and three girls, all of whom are now living.  They are:
Mrs. Lutie Alcoke, wife of E. J. Alcoke, of Corinth; Mrs. Etta Fletcher,
wife of Robert V. Fletcher, a prominent young lawyer at Pontotoc, Miss.;
Frank W. Childers, bookkeeper for the Mining Gazette Company at Houghton,
Mich.; Willie Childers, on the farm with his father, and Miss Mabel,
now ten years old.
     Mr. Childers and his wife are each members of the Christian Church.
They own between them over 500 acres of the best hill land in Grant county,
much of which is in timber, in which the woodman's axe has yet made no
impression.  Mr. Childers is a large farmer and stock raiser.  He
cultivates and grows to perfection all of the staple cereals of this
latitude.  Stock raising is his "long suit."  His fine herd of Black Angus
cattle are farmed far and near.  He has given all of his children a good
education, and started them in life and is a deserving, excellent citizen.

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