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WILLIAMS Family History, Part II

Ira T. WILLIAMS³ (1847-1916)

141. Ira T. WILLIAMS³ was born on April 19, 1847* in Marion County, Indiana, likely in Lawrence Township^{[Cen 1850]} to the northeast of Indianapolis. He fought in the Civil War, as did his father, and later married Elizabeth FLETCHER, also of Indiana. They had at least 13 children, including two sets of fraternal twins:

141A.	Carrie WILLIAMS	Oct 1870	1909	(38)
141B.	WILLIAMS twin	Oct 1870	(1870)	Infancy
141C.	Cora WILLIAMS	Abt 1872
141D.	Albert WILLIAMS4	17 Oct 1874	14 May 1940	(65)
141E.	WILLIAMS twin	17 Oct 1874		Infancy
141F.	Amos WILLIAMS	11 Feb 1876	2 Jul 1946	(70)
141G.	Wilford S. WILLIAMS	18 Feb 1878	28 Aug 1947	(69)
141H.	Earl WILLIAMS	Aug 1880
141I.	Martha "Mattie" Helen WILLIAMS	6 Mar 1881	6 Jan 1959	(77)
141J.	Charles (James) WILLIAMS	Sep 1883	Dec 1941	(58)
141K.	Mayme WILLIAMS	(1884-1886)
141L.	Harvey Roy WILLIAMS	25 Sep 1885	7 Feb 1947	(58)
141M.	Laura WILLIAMS	>1900

Ira T. WILLIAMS enlisted as a private on August 2, 1862 with Company G of the Indiana 70th Regiment Infantry in Indianapolis. At the time, his father was serving in the Northern Virginia Campaign with the Indiana 20th Regiment Infantry. Ira was only 15 years old* at the time of enlistment, although he stated he was 18. He was recorded a resident farmer of Winamac, Pulaski County, Indiana and born in either Hamilton or Marion County, Indiana. He is further described as standing 5'-2" with dark eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion.

The 70th Indiana mustered in later that month.

After the new year, the 70th advanced on to Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee (1863). In May 1864, the 70th Indiana entered the Atlanta Campaign and General SHERMAN's "March to the Sea." Ira was wounded in the face by a shell during a skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia on June 15, 1864. From there the regiment marched on to Savannah, Georgia (December 1864) and then pressed north through South Carolina and into North Carolina. It was while the regiment was resting in Raleigh that General LEE surrendered. The 70th mustered out on June 8, 1865 in Washington, DC.

After the war, Ira and Elizabeth started their family in Indiana by 1870 and soon thereafter moved to Kansas, by the time of their second daughter's birth in 1872. About 1875, and likely prompted by the grasshopper plague of 1874 in Mitchell County, Kansas, they moved west to California and by 1880 settled in Woodland, Yolo County, just west of Sacramento.^{[Cen 1880]}

Ira T. WILLIAMS left his wife for a while in the late 1880s or 1890s, leaving his family behind. According to his granddaughter, Elsie (WILLIAMS) HITCHCOCK, Ira was a womanizer who married more than just the two women we have listed here. Elsie recalls her Aunt Mayme saying she had several step-mothers growing up, but generally avoided talking about her unhappy childhood.

After 1900 he returned and fathered one last daughter, Laura, before wife Elizabeth died from a ruptured gall bladder.

In 1912, Ira was a laborer in the Rincon Precinct of Santa Rosa. He was a registered Republican along with his sons.

Ira later married Harriet (CHAPMAN) FISHER, a widow and mother-in-law to Cora Ethel (MILLER) FISHER-WILLIAMS, his daughter-in-law who married Ira's eldest son, Al WILLIAMS. This marriage perhaps occured around 1915, after Al and Cora's marriage in 1914 and before Ira's death in 1916.

Ira died in Alpine Valley, Sonoma County, California on October 4, 1916 of heart disease and was buried at the Veterans' Home in Yountville, Napa County, California on October 7, 1916. He was 69 years old.*

Grandson Ed WILLIAMS recalls the WILLIAMS family reunited for Christmas, 1933. Attending were Ira's children Al, Mattie, Charlie, Harvey, Mayme, and Laura, as well as their families, including Al's stepchildren Earl FISHER, Pearl MALUGANI, Mildred FECHTER, Carrie HOPPER, Merle FISHER, and Sonoma CLARKE.

William Milton WILLIAMS (1860-)

147. William Milton WILLIAMS was born on November 22, 1860 in Pulaski County, Indiana. He married Sarah N. from Wisconsin and had at least four daughters:

1431.	Maggie WILLIAMS	Jan 1887
1432.	Ethel WILLIAMS	Dec 1888
1433.	Edna M. WILLIAMS	Apr 1891
1434.	Anna M. WILLIAMS	Dec 1893

In the 1880 census of Woodland, Yolo County, California, "Willie" was living with his elder brother Ira and his family. In 1900, his nephew, Albert WILLIAMS, age 25, came to live with his family in Woodland.

Charles WILLIAMS (1850-)

1x1. Charles WILLIAMS was born on March 7, 1850 in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri. He married a Mary E. MCDONALD of New London, Henry County, Iowa in Sutterville, Sacramento County, California, on December 30, 1873. They had at least four children:

1x11.	Grace WILLIAMS	Jan 1880
1x12.	Hattie M. WILLIAMS	Jun 1885
1x13.	Mary L. WILLIAMS	Feb 1889
1x14.	Charles R. WILLIAMS	Oct 1892

Mary E. MCDONALD was born on February 28, 1855 in New London, Henry County, Iowa to David Lane MCDONALD and the former Martha J. HUNTER. She was the oldest of eight children.

In 1910, Charles and family were living in Suisun, Solano County, California where Charles worked as a fruit grower.

Thomas H. WILLIAMS (1854-)

1x2. Thomas H. WILLIAMS was born in January 1854 in California. By 1900, at the age of 46, he was noted as married but no spouse was enumerated with him. Rather, apparent cousins Amos and Earl WILLIAMS were living with him in Suisun, Solano County, California, working as farm laborers.^{[Cen 1900]}

Mary W. WILLIAMS (1865-)

1x3. Mary W. WILLIAMS was born in June 1865 in California. By 1900, at age 34, she was apparently still unmarried and living with her mother and younger brother, Frank R., in Suisun, Solano County, California.

Frank R. WILLIAMS (1869-)

1x4. Frank R. WILLIAMS was born in June 1869 in California. By 1900 he had married Mattie, a daughter of English immigrants, and was living together with his mother and sister, Mary N., in Suisun, Solano County, California.