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Daniel H. Williams
Daniel H. Williams was born in Muhlenberg County, Ky., March 5, 1843; he is a son of Daniel and Nancy (Shelton) Williams, who were natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. They were married in Muhlenberg County, in 1815. Daniel Williams was a farmer, and died in 1853, in Anderson County, Tex. He was a son of William Williams, who was also a native of Virginia, and served as a soldier in the Revolution.
Daniel H. was the youngest of a family of thirteen children. He remained with his parents until their deaths, and improved what opportunities he had for procuring an education, after which he worked on the farm until 1861, when he enlisted as a soldier in Company B, of the Eleventh Kentucky Infantry, Federal; whil engaged in the battle of Shiloh, Tenn., he received a gunshot wound in the right wrist, which disabled him for service, and on the 23d of April, 1863, he received an honorable discharge from the army, and returned to his home and resumed farming.
He bought his first land in 1869; his farm is now one of the best of its area in the county; is productive, and improved with good comfortable dwellings, good barns, and a large orchard of flourishing trees; about 100 acres are well fenced, and in cultivation in grain and tobacco.
Mr. Williams is a Democrat, though not a politician; his time and talent are expended on his farming interests and in the improvement of the country. Mr. Williams, in religious matters, is a liberal thinker, and is not a member of any church. He is a Master Mason, a member of the Rochester Lodge No. 270, and is unmarried.
Source: Battle, J.H., W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffen. Kentucky: A History of the State. Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, 1885. Page 926.
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