A son was born at Carmel, N. Y.

The evidence

• “He was born at Carmel, N. Y., on December 17, 1843, to Wright and Elizabeth (Hughes) Williams, natives of New York.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 419 / book p. 910

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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