williams branch · ?–?
Daniel B. Williams
Known as Dan
Son of Nicholas and Belinda, named among their eleven children in Gilbert's Historic Sketches, 1882. Five years old and the owner of one shirt when his mother took the children out of Missouri in 1863. By 1889 he was running stock on the prairie at scale.
Appears in
Vignette · in From Rowan County to the Palouse
Everything taken except one horse they kept in the brush
Order No. 11 emptied five counties. Belinda traded somehow for oxen and took the children out — three weeks on the road, two hundred and fifty miles.
1863–1873
Vignette · in From Rowan County to the Palouse
Three households, one mill, one year
A ledger from the Pataha flour mill, 1889–90, holds accounts for a son and a son-in-law of Nicholas Williams. They paid in wheat.
1889–1890
Arc
From Rowan County to the Palouse
An orphan who got one day of school walked his family three thousand miles across America — by wagon, by riverboat, and finally by freight team — and ended it at the head of a golden-wedding table on a Washington prairie.
1826–1899