History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

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Marguerite Lafond, at Two Elvers, where he died in 1888 at the age of 84 years.
(2)    Mary Magdalene, born at Green Bay, December 15, 1806, became the wife of Eev. Eleazer Williams, the lost King, Louis XVII of France, March 3, 1823, at the home of her parents, Judge James Porlier officiating, in the presence of Gen. Albert G. Ellis and Ebenezer Childs.   After their marriage they repaired to their estate of 4,800 acres at Little Eapids, given to her by the chiefs of the Menominee, fourteen miles above Green Bay.   Of their three children only John Lawe Williams lived to grow to manhood. He was born at this home January 1, 1825.    At her confirmation in the old Trinity Church on Broadw^ay,   New   York,   by   Bishop Hobart he gave her the name of Mary Hobart "Williams.    She lived twenty-eight years after the death of her husband and died at her home July 22, 1886, and was buried in Woodlawn cemetery in Green Bay,' Judge E. H. Ellis reading the  Episcopal  service. Visitors say "her house was as neat as wax."    By her will she provided for her old Indian domestic, "Nan," whose descendants own the historic old log cabin home.    Her son, John Lawe Wil¬ liams, as described under the history of Winneconne, came into possession of the 160-acre farm on the west side of the river at that place in 1849.   When sixteen years of age he was with his father, Eev. Williams, on the steamboat when presented to the Prince de Joinville, an incident in the now famous interviews with the son of King Louis Philippe.    December 26, 1851, he married Mrs. Jane Pattison Enery at Fond du Lac, a sister of Mrs. Judge George Gary, Mrs. Matt Hasbrouck and Mrs. S. E. Clark, all of Oshkosh.   They resided at Winneconne until the farm was sold in 1868, when they moved to Oshkosh.   While in the woods at Tiger- ton he was fatally injured by a falling log, and died September 22, 1883.   The funeral service was conducted by Eev, F. E. Haff, the late venerable Episcopal rector, and the Masonic service was conducted by the late Col. Gabe Bouck.   He w^as buried  in  the cemetery at Oshkosh.   There were three children— George, Louis and Eugene.   The last two born in Oshkosh died young.    George Williams, their oldest child and now the last of the Bourbons, was born in Winneconne, November 8, 1852.    He attended school in Oshkosh and is remembered by many friends there.    He has re¬ sided for many years in St. Louis; has been married since 1884, but has no children.    Mrs. John   Lawe  Williams,   his   widowed mother, now resides with her son in St. Louis. (3)    The third child, Josephine, died young.