WI BIO - Green Co - WILLIAMS, Clark 

History of Green County, Wisconsin. Springfield IL: Union Publishing Company, 
1884, p 1077; with an insert from History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. 
Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 772.

Clark WILLIAMS was born 01 June 1845 at Freeport [Stephenson County], 
Illinois, son of Seth C. and Tharza (LYON) WILLIAMS. The father [Seth C. 
WILLIAMS] born 26 January 1806 in Cattaraugus Co New York, and the mother 
[Tharza nee LYON] was born 23 June 1804; they were married 07 February 1827. 
They came west and settled in Freeport, Illinois in 1840, farming there until 
1849. They removed to this town [Green County, Wisconsin] and settled on 
Section 29, buying 100 acres of land. Seth C. WILLIAMS died 20 July 1883, 
and his wife, Tharza (LYON) WILLIAMS, died 02 October 1879.

They [Seth C. and Tharza (LYON) WILLIAMS] had born to them eight children: 
(1) John N., living in Douglas County, Nebraska; (2) Lysanus W., who lives 
in Berkeley [Alameda County] California; (3) Marilla, who died in 1851; (4) 
Maypelyt M., wife of David Brandley of Rock Grove [Stephenson County, 
Illinois; (5) Chester, who enlisted in Company B, 18th Wisconsin Volunteers 
and died in the service; (6) Clark, who lives on the homestead; (7) Lusetta 
H., wife of Peter MELLIS of Douglas County, Nebraska; and (8) Milton, who 
died in 1851.

Clark WILLIAMS, who with the exception of the time he was in the army lived 
with his parents, enlisted 02 October in Company D, 1st Wisconsin Heavy 
Artillery. The battery was ordered to Louisiana in February 1864, and he 
served in that department until the close of the war. He was mustered out 18 
August 1865 at Alexandria, Virginia. Returning to his home, Clark WILLIAMS 
was married 14 November 1867 to Abbie BLAISDELL, daughter of John BLAISDELL, 
of the Town of Wayne, Lafayette County, Wisconsin.

[This paragraph inserted by submitter.] The BLAIDELL family came to Wisconsin 
in 1856. The father, John BLAISDELL, a farmer of Section 27 in the Town of 
Wayne, P. O. Spafford [Lafayette County, Wisconsin], was born in Maine on 13 
December 1807. With his son he purchased 160 acres in Lafayette County, 
Wisconsin, and made the improvements; his son died in 1870; he now [1881] 
owns 156 acres of land. John BLAISDELL was married in 1833 to Lavina HURD [a 
maiden name?], who was born in 1807 in the town of Shopley, York County, 
Maine. John and Lavina WILLIAMS had ten children: (1) Julia Ann, now Mrs. 
PRESCOTT, in Warren [Jo Daviess County], Illinois; (2) J. C.; (3) William 
E.; (4) George U., deceased; (5) Charles E., deceased; (6) Abbie, deceased 
[who was married to Clark WILLIAMS]; (7) an infant, deceased; (8) Mary H., 
deceased; (9) Lorina Jane, who is Mrs. ROCKWELL; and (10) Joseph S. In 
politics John BLAISDELL is Republican, and in religion, United Brethren. He 
has held school offices a number of years. [This paragraph is an excerpt from 
the 1881 History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. See also the other 
Lafayette County, Wisconsin, BLAISDELL biographies. Note that Abbie BLAIDELL 
is listed as deceased in this 1881 History of Lafayette County, and that her 
marriage and death are not noted in the 1884 Green County biography of Clark 
WILLIAMS. Submitter did not view death or other records as supporting 
evidence for events in these biographies.]

Six children have been born to Clark and Abbie (BLAISDELL) WILLIAMS: (1) 
John W., born September 1869 and died in October 1870; (2) Laura M., born 01 
November 1870; (3) Elmer J., born in January 1873; (4) George W., born in 
November 1874; (5) Artie, born in February 1878; and (6) Julia L., born in 
August 1880. Mr. [Clark] WILLIAMS is a member of W. W. Patton Post No. 90, 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly