William Markham

Biography

Born in 1811, William Markham witnessed the young republic grow into a bustling nineteenth-century society; through decades of change he stayed rooted in faithfulness to family and neighbors, offering calm steadiness as communities around Oakland flourished.

When he passed in 1890, friends and kin gathered to remember how his attentive ear and ready help shaped their lives, and he now rests at Oakland Cemetery, where generations pause to honor the steady presence he once provided.