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Author: Dawn_Maddox_Montgomery
Surnames: Williams, Bugh, Swartz, Brubaker, Lancaster, McGeath, Shields, Cook, Twibell
Classification: biography
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Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana
John W Tyndall for Adams County
O E Lesh for Wells County
The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1918
Page 556
Andrew B Williams
Andrew B Williams has been a resident of Wells County thirty years and has been
substantially identified with the farming and agricultural enterprise of this county ever
since. His home is a well situated and admirable improved little farm on Rural Route No 2
from Keystone in Chester Township.
Mr Williams was born in Blackford County, Indiana March 17, 1866, a son of Andrew B and
Polly (Bugh) Williams, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Blackford County,
Indiana, where they married after he came out of Ohio. Their home was on a farm in
Blackford County and they were parents of ten children, five sons and five daughters;
Andrew B; Henry, deceased; Joseph and Oliver of Montpelier; Jennie, wife of Scott Swartz;
Lydia, wife of George Brubaker; Sarah, wife of Lewis G Lancaster; Mary, wife of Charles
McGeath; James and Emma, both deceased.
Andrew B Williams was reared on a farm, was educated in district schools in his native
county and lived at home until his father died. For his first wife Mr Williams married
Esther Shields, daughter of William Shields. She died childless, and for his second wife
he married Elizabeth Cook, widow of J Cook. Mrs Williams is a native of Wells County and
daughter of John J Twibell, was educated here in the common schools, and was the mother of
one child, now deceased. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Montpelier. Mr Williams is a republican voter.
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