Parents: Hezekiah Prince Williams 1808 Knox Co, Maine, dod 1893, married Juliet Barnard Ulmer 1809 Maine, dod 1893, buried Hampshire, Illinois, Doty cemetery

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History of Trempealeau County 1917 (Delbert G. Williams biographical sketch)

His parents were Prince Barnard and Mary (Atkins) Williams. The father, who was born in Maine in 1832, subsequently migrated to Kane County, Illinois, with his parents, Hezekiah Prince and Juliet Ulmer Williams, who died there. (Note Hez is buried in Cheboygan, Mich.)

Prince B. Williams then went to Michigan, where he resided for some years. In 1859 he came to Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, and purchased the land now constituting the Williams farm from the railroad company. Here he resided until his death, devoting his time and labor to the development and improvement of the farm. His residence was the first house built in Unity Township, and it was he who named the township, in honor of his old home in Maine. After a strenuous life, spent mostly in hard work, he passed away May 4, 1895.

His wife, Mary Atkins Williams, who was born in Maine, Jan. 14, 1830, died on the home farm May 4, 1906, having survived her husband just 11 years.
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Prince Barnard (BARNEY) Williams married Mary Webb Atkins June 1. They moved in early1850's from Maine to Hampshire, Illinois area and briefly to Michigan when Barney got in some trouble. (Barney, like his father was a wagon maker.) He worked in wagon factory and there was a fight in the factory. Barnet hit a man and thought he had killed him. The family left immediately and he never did know if the man died. They moved with father HP the Ist, and sister Laura ELLEN Williams Pelton to Cheboygan, Mich, and then Barney and family moved to Kings Valley, Osseo, WI area.

Children:
1. Frederick H (Ella Densmore) 1853;
2. Eliza (Aaron Klick) 1857; NOTE: Aaron's brother William Frank Klick married Eliza's Aunt Lydia Williams Klick (later Marshall) who was sister of PB Williams
3. Kora (ED ANDERSON), 1862 from Cadott, later moved to Rice Lake
4. Sarah Josephine (Charles Jenny and Hiram Richardson) (1859-1925)Rice Lake
5. FRANCES A (Lincoln) Martin (1861-1933) of Rice Lake
6. Hezekiah Prince (Ez) Williams 1866,
7. Delbert Guy 1868-1950 Osseo,
8. ALONZO aka Lan (Elizabeth) 1871

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Barney was instrumental in naming Town of Unity after his hometown Unity, Maine,

Personal property was recorded in great detail. A horse was valued at $40-75. Chairman Williams was a horse dealer, he had 12. Williams also had the most meat cattle, 14.

From The History of Strum and Town of Unity, Roy Matson