JAMES KNOX POLK WILLIAMS

 

     J. K. P. Williams, youngest brother of H. M. Williams, was born in Cedar County, Mo., in 1845, and received a good practical education in the common schools.  He served two years, from April, 1863, in the Union army, in different commands, first in Company E, Sixtieth Volunteer Cavalry Enrolled Missouri Militia, in Southwest Missouri.  He was afterward with Capt. Cook, and at last in company D, Twenty-sixth Missouri State Militia.  After the war he attended school at Brownsville, Neb., then taught school for several years, and was one of Cedar County’s prominent educators.  He was married in 1874 to Miss Martha Ann Metcalf, a native of St. Clair County, Mo., and the daughter of Rev. John T. and Susan C. Metcalf, natives of Virginia.  Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf were married in Chariton County, Mo., but moved from there to Cedar County, and still later, moved to St. Clair County, where Mrs. Metcalf is living at the present time.  Mr. Metcalf is deceased.  He was for many years a Baptist minister, and at one time represented St. Clair County in the Legislature.  To M. and Mrs. Williams have been born nine children, three sons and one daughter now living.  Mr. Williams is now living one mile west of were he was born and reared.  His home farm consists of 160 acres of well improved land, and he has two other tracts of eighty acres near by.  He served a short time as justice of the peace, and was once elected coroner of Cedar County, but would not serve.  Since November, 1888, he has been postmaster at Ivy Postoffice, at his house.  He is a Republican in his political views, and his first presidential vote was cast for Gen. Grant, in 1868.  He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Stockton Lodge, is also a member of the Farmers’ Alliance, and he and wife are members of the Baptist Church, he having been a member since 1866, and clerk in the same for twenty years.

From the History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889, p. 789-790

 

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