Histories

Chrisse H. Groome was married to J.L. Williamson on July 14th of 1868, at West Quincy, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Willaimson resided on a farm in New Jersey until 1872. They then moved to a farm near Fairview, Ill., where they resided until the spring of 1876, when they moved to Kansas and settled on a farm six miles southwest of Halstead. They later took up a homestead north of Burton where they remained until 1886, they then moved to Newton where she remained until her death.
Mrs.Williamson was the mother of ten children: Albert, John , Mrs. W. W. Wellman, Nathaniel G. who met his death on the Santa Fe railroad at Great Bend, Kan. in 1903, Mrs. Anna G. Molzen, Peter L. Williamson, Mrs. Addie Reeves, Mrs. Harriet Wells and George, who died in infancy.