Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

JOHN A. WILLIAMS, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born in Wilson County, 
Tenn., April 28, 1840, and is the fifth of eight children born to Robert 
and Jennie (Williams) Williams, natives of North Carolina and Virginia 
and of Irish descent.  The mother of our subject was the daughter of 
James Williams of North Carolina.  He had been sheriff for one or two 
terms in Wilson County, Tenn.  John A. Williams was reared on the farm, 
and attended the common schools; he was but six years old when his father 
died; he lived with his mother until twenty-one years of age, when he 
enlisted in Company K, Eleventh Kentucky Infantry, October 20, 1861, 
under Capt. M.J. Roark, P.B. Hawkins, colonel commanding; took part in 
the battles of Murfreesboro, Tenn., seige of Knoxville, Atlanta, 
Perryville, Ky., and numerous skirmishes; was discharged in December, 
1864, at Bowling Green, Ky.; returned home and engaged in farming and 
trading in stock until 1881, when he engaged in the livery business in 
Greenville.  In 1852 he moved, with his mother, to Muhlenburgh County.  
He was married, February 23, 1866, to Mary Eades, of Muhlenburgh County, 
a daughter of Robert and Mary (Coleman) Eades, natives of Virginia.  One 
child, Minnie, has been born to this union.  Mr. and Mrs. Williams are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity.

Williams Roark Hawkins Eades Coleman
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Wilson-TN NC VA

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