This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willard, Beach, Small Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1282 Message Board Post: James Willard, a native of St. Lawrence county, New York, was born on the 1st of January, 1835. The family moved to Wisconsin, locating in Rock county, in 1850. In 1855, the subject of this sketch left the home of his parents, and located in Iowa, but soon removed to Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he purchased a farm on which he lived until 1866, when he came to his present home in section thirty-three, where he still resides. Mr. Willard has been twice married; first to Miss Harriet Small, on the 16th of January, 1851, who died in 1871. His present wife was Miss Elizabeth Beach, to whom he was married on the 6th of May, 1879.