| Biographies Bemsley Williams Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin | |
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From the 1880 Portrait and Biographical Album, Fond du Lac Co. WI page 989 Bemsley Williams, farmer, Sec. 26; PO Eden; was born in Onondaga Co. NY Nov 10, 1820; was educated there and resided there until November, 1855, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled on his present farm in Eden; began with forty acres of heavy timber, on which a shanty had been put up and left unfinished; Mr. W was something of a carpenter, and at once finished the house, then began the hard labor of chopping and logging; burned the timber at first in order to clear a wheat field; he has done "full tasks" as a woodsman, as his present farm of 234 acres was then a forest, has sold wood in Fond du Lac, and also burned large quantities for charcoal. Married Miss Lucy North, who died July 23, 1860 leaving five children - Emma F., Emerette M., Susan E., John B. and Mary H. In 1866 he married Mrs. Harriet L. Odekirk, a daughter of Justice Da Lee, of Washington Co., NY; she married in 1851, J.P. Odekirk, who died in 1865, leaving one son, William E; Mr. and Mrs. W have one daughter, Minnie E. Mr. William is independent in Politics and religion; he has devoted considerable attention to the improvement of his stock of cattle, sheep. etc. | |
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