The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Clay Township, page 560
Abraham Williamson, farmer and stock-raiser, section 28, Clay Township, Hendricks County, Ind., is a native of Somerset County, N.J., born Aug. 24, 1827. When he was twelve years of age he accompanied his parents to Ohio, and there grew to manhood. When twenty-three years of age he came to Indiana and has since been a resident of Clay Township, Hendricks County, Ind. In 1855 his father-in-law, James Kersey, Sr., gave him forty acres where he now resides, which he has improved and erected good buildings, and now has a pleasant home. He was married Nov. 29, 1854, to Mary Kersey, daughter of James Kersey. She died April 29, 1879, aged forty-three years, four months and four days, leaving five children--Rachel, Eva, Luella, Lillian and James Claude.