John Stuart Williams

Birth Date

1818-07-10

Death Date

1898-07-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Clark County, Kentucky, soldier and attorney. Mount Sterling, Kentucky, native. Married to Ann P. Harrison Williams in Clark County, Kentucky, on September 21, 1843. Father of Molly E. Williams. Attorney in Paris, Kentucky, in 1840. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteers as colonel in the Mexican-American War. Farmer in Clark County in 1850. Owned fifty-two enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Elected to Kentucky legislature in 1851. Elected to Kentucky legislature in 1853. Farmer in Winchester in 1860. Owned sixty-two enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Infantry (C.S.A.) as colonel from November 16, 1861, to April 16, 1862. Promoted to brigadier general on April 16, 1862.

Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr., "Williams, John Stuart" in American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection ed. Spencer C. Tucker (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013), p. 2137. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film #001943687. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark, District 1, p. 95A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 248. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark, Winchester, p. 876. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark, District 2, p. 335A-B.

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