Callie Ford - Williams
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She
is said to be a cousin to the Ford brothers that shot Jesse James
but I have been unable to find any proof of this. Supposedly, her
husband, Leonard Williams (my gg grandfather) was associated with
the James gang. I am not sure if he was a"member", infact
everything I have ever found on the James gang does not mention
a Leonard Williams at all. My grandfather swears by this story and
he says here remembers as a young boy (he was born in 1925) shady
looking characters coming to the Williams farm and Leonard would
make the children stay away from them and some would come with gunshot
wounds. They would stay long enough for them to heal then they would
be off. He also told me that Leonard Williams always had a large
amount of money (he put all his children through college, something
very uncommon in those days) and during the depression the Williams
family had no money problems to speak of and would invite over their
neighbors to feed them. |