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John Rutledge Williams John Rutledge Williams,
born 13 July, 1851 Marshall County, Alabama; died 15 Nov 1933 in Torrance
County. John R. Williams brought his family
from Texas to Torrance County in 1906. In this family were his wife, Newton
Carol (Callie) Laughlin, a step son, Durey
Allen (Dude) Boyd,
two sons and a daughter, Lester, Bertha and Jason Williams. When
the homestead act was set in motion, both Dude and Lester were old enough to
file on their own land. John also filed on a claim. Dude never married.
He died and was buried in Mountainair in 1932. Lester married Willie Wright
from Texas. They raised five children, Bertha, Oletha, Lester Leon, John
Jason, and Emma Lou, five miles north and a mile and a half east of
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