Topic: Joseph Williams

Joseph "Joe" George Williams (b. July 1, 1920 in Warsaw, Missouri) is best know for his songwriting work in country music from the mid-1950s until the early-1980s.

Joesph George Williams was born on a farm on July 1, 1920 in Warsaw, Missouri. His father George Earl Williams (b. 1900) was a farmer and his mother Jenny Martha Williams (b. 1901) was a homemaker. Williams had 1 older brother John (b. 1918) and 3 younger brothers Gregory (b. 1922), Samuel (b. 1924) and David (b. 1925).

After working on the farm most of his life Joe finished school in 1938 and right after school he went right into the Army. In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950. Then in June 1950 Joe and his wife Dolly moved to Nashville, Tennessee to become a country music artist.