John D was of Irish decent and was born Oct. 19 1861 in Boone county Kentucky. His father was killed in the Civil War and his mother died of infection after hot sorghum splashed on her eyeglasses breaking them when John was only 9. He was taken in by a wealthy family from Kansas City. As a young man he was employed as a well driller and later moved to Ford county Kansas in 1885 homesteaded in Concord Community.
John D Williams and Etta married Jan 26 1897 and lived in Dodge City and the Concord Community where they raised their family of Carl, Mabel,Earl,Marie, Frank,Cecil and Minnie Juanita who passed away at the age of 3.
After leaving the farm he became a section foreman for the Santa Fe railroad first in Texas and then Dodge City in 1889,retiring with the Rock Island Railroad.The depression and dust storms forced them off their homestead and for a while they ran a rooming house in Dodge City. Later when the children where all gone and married they traded their homestead for some land in Colorado. They retired in a home next to Carl and his family and enjoyed gardening, quilt making,church activities and having the grandchildren visit.
Dodge City Journal, Dodge City, Kansas 25 Sept 1941 Obituary:
J. D. Williams Dies
Funeral Services in Concord Church, Community Where Homesteaded
Funeral services were held Monday in the Concord church southwest of Dodge City for J. D. Williams, who homesteaded in that community in 1885 and drove the first nail in the building where the last rites were held.
Mr. Williams, who was eighty, died Friday evening at his home in Lewis addition. He was born in Boone County Kentucky October 19, 1861. He came to Kansas when he was twenty-one, locating first at Wellington.
He is survived by his widow, living in Lewis addition, three sons, Carl Williams of Dodge City, Earl Williams of Sanford, Tex., and Cecil Williams of Hutchinson, and three daughters, Laura Williams of Cincinnati, Mrs. Mabel Rall of Dodge City and Mrs. Marie Oyer of Gem City and by twenty grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A son, Frank and a daughter, Minnie, died as children. .
John D Williams and Etta married Jan 26 1897 and lived in Dodge City and the Concord Community where they raised their family of Carl, Mabel,Earl,Marie, Frank,Cecil and Minnie Juanita who passed away at the age of 3.
After leaving the farm he became a section foreman for the Santa Fe railroad first in Texas and then Dodge City in 1889,retiring with the Rock Island Railroad.The depression and dust storms forced them off their homestead and for a while they ran a rooming house in Dodge City. Later when the children where all gone and married they traded their homestead for some land in Colorado. They retired in a home next to Carl and his family and enjoyed gardening, quilt making,church activities and having the grandchildren visit.
Dodge City Journal, Dodge City, Kansas 25 Sept 1941 Obituary:
J. D. Williams Dies
Funeral Services in Concord Church, Community Where Homesteaded
Funeral services were held Monday in the Concord church southwest of Dodge City for J. D. Williams, who homesteaded in that community in 1885 and drove the first nail in the building where the last rites were held.
Mr. Williams, who was eighty, died Friday evening at his home in Lewis addition. He was born in Boone County Kentucky October 19, 1861. He came to Kansas when he was twenty-one, locating first at Wellington.
He is survived by his widow, living in Lewis addition, three sons, Carl Williams of Dodge City, Earl Williams of Sanford, Tex., and Cecil Williams of Hutchinson, and three daughters, Laura Williams of Cincinnati, Mrs. Mabel Rall of Dodge City and Mrs. Marie Oyer of Gem City and by twenty grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A son, Frank and a daughter, Minnie, died as children. .
John D was of Irish decent and was born Oct. 19 1861 in Boone county Kentucky. His father was killed in the Civil War and his mother died of infection after hot sorghum splashed on her eyeglasses breaking them when John was only 9. He was taken in by a wealthy family from Kansas City. As a young man he was employed as a well driller and later moved to Ford county Kansas in 1885 homesteaded in Concord Community.
John D Williams and Etta married Jan 26 1897 and lived in Dodge City and the Concord Community where they raised their family of Carl, Mabel,Earl,Marie, Frank,Cecil and Minnie Juanita who passed away at the age of 3.
After leaving the farm he became a section foreman for the Santa Fe railroad first in Texas and then Dodge City in 1889,retiring with the Rock Island Railroad.The depression and dust storms forced them off their homestead and for a while they ran a rooming house in Dodge City. Later when the children where all gone and married they traded their homestead for some land in Colorado. They retired in a home next to Carl and his family and enjoyed gardening, quilt making,church activities and having the grandchildren visit.
Dodge City Journal, Dodge City, Kansas 25 Sept 1941 Obituary:
J. D. Williams Dies
Funeral Services in Concord Church, Community Where Homesteaded
Funeral services were held Monday in the Concord church southwest of Dodge City for J. D. Williams, who homesteaded in that community in 1885 and drove the first nail in the building where the last rites were held.
Mr. Williams, who was eighty, died Friday evening at his home in Lewis addition. He was born in Boone County Kentucky October 19, 1861. He came to Kansas when he was twenty-one, locating first at Wellington.
He is survived by his widow, living in Lewis addition, three sons, Carl Williams of Dodge City, Earl Williams of Sanford, Tex., and Cecil Williams of Hutchinson, and three daughters, Laura Williams of Cincinnati, Mrs. Mabel Rall of Dodge City and Mrs. Marie Oyer of Gem City and by twenty grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A son, Frank and a daughter, Minnie, died as children. .
John D Williams and Etta married Jan 26 1897 and lived in Dodge City and the Concord Community where they raised their family of Carl, Mabel,Earl,Marie, Frank,Cecil and Minnie Juanita who passed away at the age of 3.
After leaving the farm he became a section foreman for the Santa Fe railroad first in Texas and then Dodge City in 1889,retiring with the Rock Island Railroad.The depression and dust storms forced them off their homestead and for a while they ran a rooming house in Dodge City. Later when the children where all gone and married they traded their homestead for some land in Colorado. They retired in a home next to Carl and his family and enjoyed gardening, quilt making,church activities and having the grandchildren visit.
Dodge City Journal, Dodge City, Kansas 25 Sept 1941 Obituary:
J. D. Williams Dies
Funeral Services in Concord Church, Community Where Homesteaded
Funeral services were held Monday in the Concord church southwest of Dodge City for J. D. Williams, who homesteaded in that community in 1885 and drove the first nail in the building where the last rites were held.
Mr. Williams, who was eighty, died Friday evening at his home in Lewis addition. He was born in Boone County Kentucky October 19, 1861. He came to Kansas when he was twenty-one, locating first at Wellington.
He is survived by his widow, living in Lewis addition, three sons, Carl Williams of Dodge City, Earl Williams of Sanford, Tex., and Cecil Williams of Hutchinson, and three daughters, Laura Williams of Cincinnati, Mrs. Mabel Rall of Dodge City and Mrs. Marie Oyer of Gem City and by twenty grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A son, Frank and a daughter, Minnie, died as children. .
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