| Birth: | Jul. 24, 1843
Ray County
Missouri, USA | | Death: | Oct. 20, 1881 | 
aged 38y, 2m, 26d
source: 1881 Ray County History, p. 639-640
WILLIAM A. WELLS. The gentleman was born in Ray county, Missouri, July 24, 1843. He is the son of John and Sarah Wells. His father was born in North Carolina and his mother in Tennessee. Our subject attended the schools of the county in his youth, and worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-eight years of age, and then clerked in a store on his own account, and conducted it for three years. He then returned to farming for about a year, and then served as constable, to which office he had been elected, for two years. He then returned to merchandising, at Orrick, and is yet so engaged. Mr. Wells married January 16, 1873, to Miss Cornelia B. Sheppard, daughter of D. B. and Minerva Sheppard, natives of the state of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Wells have adopted Anna, daughter of Andrew J. and Lorena Wells.
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Riffe Cemetery
Orrick
Ray County
Missouri, USA |
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Record added: Apr 08, 2008
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