By request. SOURCE: History of Grundy County, 1881 John Williams, p. 739-40 JOHN WILLIAMS Was born in the state of Tennessee, on the 12th day of May, 1830. In early infancy his parents moved Indiana, where he was reared and educated. When nineteen years of age he came to Grundy County, and has been a resident of the county since. He owns a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres, which he has brought to a good state of cultivation. He has erected a handsome residence, nearly four miles southeast of Trenton. March 28, 1852, he married Miss Jane McAlpin, a native of Tennessee. By this marriage they had two children: Thomas A. and Sarah M. Mrs. Williams died February 22, 1879 after a short illness.