Ralston Williams and Orpha L. Carroll

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Husband Ralston Williams ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - Nottingham Twp, Washington Co, PA
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         Father: Benjamin Williams (1783-1860) 4 5
         Mother: Sarah Ralston (      -      ) 6

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       Marriage: 28 Jun 1871 1

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   Other Spouse: Sarah H. Gaston (      -1868) 1 2 3 - 18 Nov 1857 1

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Wife Orpha L. Carroll ¹

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Children

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1 M Samuel R. Williams ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: when seven years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Ralston Williams

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He was born in Nottingham township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he was reared. His education was received at the public school of the district held in a dilapidated little log cabin, the text books used therein being of a very primitive nature, and the attendance thereat limited to about three months in the depth of win-ter. In Nottingham township he remained till 1854, in which year he removed with his parents to Carroll township, in the same county, to a farm later owned by Capt. Gibson. Here he remained until the death of his father, when he moved to Union township, adjoining Carroll to the north, making his residence there for some seven years. From Union township, at the end of that time, he proceeded to Cumberland township, Greene County, whence, after two years' sojourn there, he came to Monongahela, where he thereafter resided.
Prior to coming to Monongahela City he was engaged in farming and stock raising, and after leaving the farm, he engaged as an insurance solicitor, which vocation he followed some years, when he was appointed agent. He enjoyed an extensive business in both fire and life insurance, as representative of the following companies: Armenia, of Pittsburgh; AEtna, of Hartford; American, of Philadelphia; Farmers, of York; German American, of New York; Fire Association, of New York; Niagara, of New York; National, of Hartford, and Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York. He also conducted a real estate business.
He was a stanch Republican, and a Presbyterian, of which church he became a member when sixteen years of age, and he was an elder in the same about twenty years.

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General Notes: Wife - Orpha L. Carroll

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from California, Washington Co, PA

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 69.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1135.

3 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 76.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 466.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 68.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 69, 1093.