Jane Williams

Abraham Williams and Jane Gilmore, who were married in Mercer Co., Pa., Feb. 19, 1824, emigrated from there to Iowa, reaching Farmington Van Buren Co., July 2, 1843. Their son John died Aug 7, the same year, age ten, at which time the family suffered much from sickness. All the rest of their ten children reached maturity. Andrew Smith Williams, their eldest son, states that when the family left Pennsylvania, they went to West Virginia intending to locate below Wheeling, but did not like the country so turned back to the Ohio river. They boarded a flat boat and went to Cincinnati. In a short time they went on down the Ohio river to the Mississipppi, thence to St. Louis, Mo., and to Keokuk, Iowa. From there they moved to Farmington, Iowa, and settled on a farm. 

Abraham Williams was a miller by trade. He died of dysentary in Lee County, Iowa, Aug. 1, 1848, age 50. His widow, Jane Williams, after raising her family married W. L. Hargrove. They had no children. He died March 3, 1883, in Milton, Iowa. Jane Williams-Hargrove spent her last years among her children in Nevada and died peacefully at the home of her eldest daughter, Mrs. Selina Pettegrew, in Carson Valley, Nev., Aug. 20, 1893, age 87. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, always a devout Christian, strong and vigorous mentally and physically, bright and intellectual and retained her faculties remarkable to the close of her long and useful life.