Life events
| Born | 3 November 1861 | Green, Brown County, Ohio |
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| Married | 14 April 1882 | Brown County, Ohio, to Lou Ann Stratton |
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| Residence | 1870 | Green Township, Brown County, Ohioaged 8, at home with his parents, Delos and Margaret, his brother David and sister Sarah |
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| Residence | 1900 | Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohio, a rented home; a farm laborer, with Lou Ann and six children |
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| Residence | 1910 | Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohioaged 50, a farm laborer in a rented house, with his wife, aged 47, and sons aged 20 and 19 (Thurman); married 30 years; he could not read or write |
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| Died | 26 July 1942 | Brown County, Ohio |
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| Buried | | Mount Orab Cemetery, Brown County, Ohio |
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Marriage and burial from Lucille, a descendant of Andrew Jackson Malott, in a 1996 letter to Mark Malott. 1900 residence from the 1900 U.S. census, Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohio, enumeration district 20, sheet 1B, enumerated 1 June 1900.
Research note: the 1910 household
In 1910 William, 50, and his wife, 47, both in their first marriage and married 30 years, lived in Sterling Township with two sons: one aged 20 whose name is hard to read (it looks like “Jal” or “Joe”) and Thurman, 19. The son aged 20 was born about 1890, the year given for Milo, but the name does not look like Milo; he may be Milo under a nickname, or a child not yet on this site.
His wife was then the mother of 14 children, 8 of them living, up from 12 born and 6 living in 1900. So two children were born between 1900 and 1910 and both were alive in 1910, yet neither they nor the youngest known child, George Dewey (about 11), were in the house. Some of the younger children were evidently living elsewhere.
Source: 1910 U.S. census, Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohio, enumeration district 19, sheet 10A, enumerated 6–9 May 1910, dwelling 342, lines 32–35.
History and lore
In June 1900 William, 38, was working as a farm laborer and renting a home in Sterling Township, Brown County, where the census found him with Lou Ann and their six living children: Elizabeth, 16, Mary, 14, Glenny (?), 12, Milo, 10, Thurman, 8, and George, just a year old. Lou Ann had borne twelve children in seventeen years of marriage, and six had died. Neither William nor Lou Ann could read or write, but all their school-age children were in school.
Two doors away lived a widow, Mary Malott, 73, a carpet weaver, with her son Fred. She was almost certainly William’s mother, Margaret Eveline.
