Perry C. Williams (son of William Williams and Sarah Seely)1251 was born 1824 in Crawford County, Greenwood Twsp, PA1252, and died November 1880 in Wynot, Cedar County, Nebraska1253. He married Martha Campbell on February 3, 1848 in Crawford County, Pennsylvania1254, daughter of Mark Campbell.
Notes for Perry C. Williams: Perry was of Welch extraction. Lived in Crawford County, Pa. in the early 1800's before moving on to Minnesota in 1851 and lived there until 1858. The family continued on to Illinois in 1859, remaining there through most of 1863. They returned to Minnesota in time for Russell's birth on April 24, 1864. Minnesota was home until after the birth of Nellie in 1874. In the late '70's they moved again. This time to Cedar County in northeast Nebraska. Perry died on the 160 acre homestead at Hartington in November 1880 indirectly as the result of old war wounds.
During the Civil War he served the Union in the Eighty-Third Illinois Regiment. He sustained severe battle wounds which necessitated four months of hospitalization at Padua, Ky. After his recuperation he did no return to his company and was listed as a deserter. He enlisted for a period of three years in the Army in Monmouth, IL., as a resident of Roseville in Warren county August 4, 1962. Perry was listed as a deserter from Clarksville, Tenn. on Sept. 30, 1863. (Confirmed by muster slips from Army. He was 37 years old at the time he served in the army).
After the war, Perry moved the family to Winona County, MI. where he farmed and served as a Evangelist Preacher. The last of there children, Nellie, was born in 1874 when Martha was 45 years old.
Martha did not die until 1922, at the age of 93, at Sid's Indian Creek Ranch, Sioux County, Ne. She had ten boys and three girls.
In the 1850 Crawford County census Martha and Perry were found along with their first two sons, Lewis and Alexander. Perry was 26 years old and worked as a laborer. Martha was 20 and sons Lewis and Alexander were 2 years old and three months respectively when the census was taken.
There were 1118 residents in the county at that time with 588 males and 530 females. There were three black males and 9 black female.
I visited the grave of Perry C. Williams in November 1997, 117 years after his death. The cemetery is in the very small town of Wynot, NE. The cemetery sits on a knoll covered by tall pines, which makes it very attractive and peaceful. The winter of 1880 and '81 was very severe. Family lore has it that the weather was so bad and the ground so frozen that they were unable to bury him until spring.
More About Perry C. Williams: Burial: Unknown, Wynot Cemetery, Wynot, Ne., Cedar County.
More About Perry C. Williams and Martha Campbell: Marriage: February 3, 1848, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.1254
Children of Perry C. Williams and Martha Campbell are:
Lewis C. Williams, b. 18481254, d. June 28, 1865, near Washington D. C of chronic diarrhia.
Alexander Williams, b. July 27, 1850, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.1254, d. September 3, 1903, Chadron, Nebraska1255.
Harrison Williams, b. November 28, 1852, Crawford County, Greenwood Township, Pennsylvania.1256, d. October 16, 1900.
Franklin Williams, b. 1855, St. Charles, Winona County, Minnesota1256, d. 1928, Chadron, Nebraska1257.
Mark Williams, b. March 3, 1856, St. Charles, Winona County, Minnesota.1258, d. 1934.
Miles Williams, b. 1858, St. Charles, Winona County, Minnesota.1259, d. date unknown.
Perry C. Williams (b. 1824, d. November 1880)
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