The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Center Township, pages 542-543
Samuel W. Williams was born in Clark Co., Ky., Nov. 22, 1831. He came with his parents, William and Margaret (Braley) Williams to Hendricks County in the fall of 1836. They settled in Marion Township, where they lived till 1844, then removed to Middle Township, where our subject lived till he was twenty years old. He began life for himself in Center Township, buying forty acres of land, to which he has added from time to time, and now owns 300 acres of well-cultivated land. Feb. 25, 1855, he was married to Miss Eliza Swain, daughter of John and Matilda (Darnall) Swain, of Center Township. She died Dec. 29, 1859 leaving two children--John W., of Union Township, and Sarah E., living at home. He was again married Dec. 22, 1861, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Turpin) Craig. Mrs. Williams had one son, Charles, by her first husband. She was born Oct. 9, 1828. Mr. Williams was one of the prime movers of the Grange organization in 1872, and was one of the charter members of Talbot Grange, No. 757, of Center Township, of which he is now Master; he is Past Grand of Silcox Lodge, No. 123, I.O.O.F., at Danville. His parents were natives of Clark County, Ky., and are numbered among the worth pioneers of Hendricks County. Both lived to a good old age; the father died in 1882 aged seventy-three years, and the mother in 1883 aged seventy-one years, both being members of the Regular Baptist Church. Mrs. Willaims' parents were Roberson and Rachel (Powell) Turpin, both natives of Scott County, Ky., where they lived until 1834, when they came to Hendricks County with a family of three children. They settled in Lincoln Township on a farm of eighty acres, to which they had added until their farm contained 500 acres. Her father died Aug. 31, 1880, aged seventy five years, and her mother, July 31, 1880, aged seventy-three years, leaving eight children, five of whom, three sons and two daughters, are living in Hendricks County, one in Boone County, Ind., and two in Illinois.