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After attending Fort Stockton public schools, Williams enrolled in 1911 at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], then an all-male institution with a military bent. To reach TAMU, he travelled by [[stagecoach]] north to Monahans in Ward County (known for its sand dunes) and then took the [[railroad]] nort-east to [[Dallas]] and south to College Station. In 1915, Williams received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwi77|author=[[Ernest Wallace]]|title=Williams, Sr., Clayton W.|publisher=Texas State Historical Association: ''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=November 17, 2019}}</ref>​

After attending Fort Stockton public schools, Williams enrolled in 1911 at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], then an all-male institution with a military bent. To reach TAMU, he travelled by [[stagecoach]] north to Monahans in Ward County (known for its sand dunes) and then took the [[railroad]] nort-east to [[Dallas]] and south to College Station. In 1915, Williams received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwi77|author=[[Ernest Wallace]]|title=Williams, Sr., Clayton W.|publisher=Texas State Historical Association: ''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=November 17, 2019}}</ref>​

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He was then employed for two years in [[New Mexico]] as an electrician for a mining company. In 1917, he joined the officers’ training camp at Leon Springs near [[San Antonio]] and soon procured a commission as a second lieutenan] from the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, [[Virginia]]. He volunteered for duty in [[France]]. Until the end of the war, he was an instructor in military schools in Langres and Cleremont-Ferrand, France.<ref name=handbook/> In 1919, Williams was in [[Paris]], where he joined a group of veterans who formed the American Legion.<ref>''Claytie,'' pp. 30-31.</ref>​

He was then employed for two years in [[New Mexico]] as an electrician for a mining company. In 1917, he joined the officers’ training camp at Leon Springs near [[San Antonio]] and soon procured a commission as a second lieutenan] from the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, [[Virginia]]. He volunteered for duty in [[France]]. Until the end of the war, he was an instructor in military schools in Langres and Cleremont-Ferrand, France.<ref name=handbook/> In 1919, Williams was in [[Paris]], where he joined a group of veterans who formed the American Legion.<ref>''Claytie,'' pp. 30-31.</ref>

 

==Marriage to Chicora Graham==​

==Marriage to Chicora Graham==​

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