This obit as all I send through the list were taken from a Unionville, Putnam County, MO newspaper. Local, 12 Mar 1885 Perhaps the oldest citizen in the state died on Saturday last over the Sullivan line in Putnam County. James WILLIAMS, aged 112 year, died of old age, and was buried on Monday. This patriarch has resided on Medicine Creek, Medicine township , Putnam County for thirty-five years. He was a native of Tennessee and was scarred with the combats of olden times. He was old enough to remember the stirring events of 1776. Up to the time of his death he was in good health, slept well and possessed a good appetite. It was a pleasant pastime with him to boast of having flogged the bullies of Tennessee and Kentucky in his time. For years he has lived with his son, Uncle Joe Williams, who has occupied many positions of trust in Putnam, and whose head is silvered with age, and who is one of the wealthiest farmers and stock raisers of that county. We are told that our subject owned to drinking much liquor, and was a constant chewer of the weed, but never smoked. He had been blind for many years prior to his death.