Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Amos A. Williams

AMOS A. WILLIAMS

    Amos A. Williams married Eleanor Stewart, and settled here about 1827-28.  He suffered the loss of one foot from being run over by the cars ; it was amputated, but he lived only a few weeks after the surgical operation was performed, and died October 23, 1855.  His wife died January 14, 1860.  Their children were as follows : Elisha, died in childhood ; Mary, also died young; Erastus, died in infancy, July 29, 1833, and was the first body buried in Buck Run Cemetery ; Hannah, died at fifteen years of age; James, married Americus Stewart; Melinda, died in infancy; William, died in the army in the war of the rebellion; and Stephen, the youngest.