History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 938, Waterford Township
Louisa Williamson was born in Erie Co., N. Y., in 1811. Her
parents were Samuel and Mary (Waite) Metcalf. She was married in 1838
to Christopher B. Miles, son of Benjamin M. Mrs. W.’s parents emigrated
to Knox Co., Ill., in 1835, and Louisa was married at Knoxville in
1838, when she and her husband came to Fulton Co. He died on his farm,
sec. 6, this tp., in 1868. In 1879 she was married to David R.
Williamson, a native of Ill.
