The Augusta Cemetery Family Trees

William DeFord was born April 28, 1807, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and there spent the years of his childhood and youth, attending while young the public schools of his native place. Actuated by a desire for a more thorough intellectualtraining, he subsequently entered Madison College, of Uniontown, of which the Rev. Henry B. Bascomb was then president, where he made commendable progress in the higher branches of learning. In 1822 he made his first visit to Ohio his futureplace of residence, accordingly, in 1835, he settled on a farm in Washington township, Carroll county, where he lived for many years, an industrious, energetic and successful tiller of the soil. In the month of April, 1838, Mr. DeFord and MissMary Williams, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Acres) Williams, became husband and wife, the latter born in 1801 in the state of New Jersey. She bore him two sons, Nathan and John, and finished her earthly course on the 10th day of September,1875, at the age of seventy-four.