Thomas Terry Williams^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1794 - 1835  (40 years)

• Name	Thomas Terry Williams
  Born	2 Jun 1794	Colonial Virginia
  	Probably Halifax
  Gender	Male
  Died	13 Apr 1835	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Person ID	I68021	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Giles Carter of Henrico, Descendants of James Terry
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	David Champness Williams,   b. 26 Apr 1768, Halifax Co. Virginia [later Pittsylvania] ,   d. 6 Jun 1841, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Lucy Terry,   b. 15 Feb 1768, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 3 Jan 1861, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 92 years)
  Married	26 Jan 1792	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Family ID	F4068	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Mary Carter,   b. 20 Jun 1802, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. 1832, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 29 years)
  Married	20 Dec 1824	Prob. Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Children	1. William Carter Williams,   b. 1824, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 1838, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 14 years) + 2. Capt. Samuel Carter Williams,   b. 1837, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 27 Nov 1863, Orange County, Virginia  (Age 26 years)   3. David [Terry] Williams, Esquire,   b. 18 Feb 1828, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 21 May 1873, Richmond, Henrico Co., Virginia  (Age 45 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2015
  Family ID	F22739	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Agnes Womack,   b. Est 1790, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	10 Feb 1834	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Last Modified	13 May 2015
  Family ID	F4078	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		1830 Census Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Southern District Shows Spencer Carter, Thomas T. Williams, John Vaughan, Archer Walters, Alexander Walters, Hugh Fallen, Lewis Reynolds Benjamin Terry, Jr., Frances Richardson, Wiley Morefield, and others. cen1830PittsVASpencerCarter67772.jpg
  		Thomas Terry Williams Newspaper Article scan-0982-max-site-size.jpg

  
  

  Histories

  The Story of Thomas Terry Williams, by Sam Barns TTWilliams_Story.pdf

  
  

• Sources

  [S16] Lucian W. Hiner, Jr. One anectdote: They were orphaned as small children. Their mother died in 1832 shortly after Samuel's birth. Their father, Thomas Terry Williams remarried in 1834 to an older woman named Agnes Womack and then was killed by a slave on April 13, 1835. Although the Family Legend is that The loyal slaves threw his killer into a bonfire where they were burning brush at the time, however evidence has been located which tells the negro slave accused, denied the charges and the judge ruled there was no evidence that he was the one who committed the murder.] The step mother disappeared from family history and they were raised and educated by their grandparents who were well to do plantation owners. Another brother, William D. Williams died in 1838 at age 14. [S51] Timothy Stamps - Carter Memoir. Mary "Polly" Stamps, (nee Hobson) was born April 24, 1783. She married (1st) William Carter, and after William Carter died in 1805, Mary married on Dec. 30, 1811, Timothy Stamps, son of John Stamps Sr., in Pittsylvania Co., VA. Polly died May 07, 1850 in Pittsylvania Co. Elizabeth Mary Carter is the only child of William Carter and Mary 'Polly' Hobson; Elizabeth M. Carter, born June 20, 1802. She married Thomas Terry Williams on Dec. 20, 1824 in Halifax Co., VA. Samuel Carter and Thomas Hall were witnesses. Thomas T. Williams was killed by one of his slaves. He was the s/o David Champness Williams and Lucy Terry, daughter of Champness Terry. Issue: I. William C. Williams II. David Thomas Williams III. Samuel Carter Williams, born 1832. He married Elizabeth Fallon on Oct. 20, 1853. She was the daughter of Hugh H. Fallon and Leannah Walter. (Leannah was the daughter of Archibald ?Archer? Walters & Catherine ?Catey? Stamps who was the daughter of John Stamps and Eleanor ?Leannah? Dodson. [S122] Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/n/i/J-P-Snidow/GENE1-0001.html. Notes for THOMAS TERRY WILLIAMS: ESTATE INVENTORY for THOMAS TERRY WILLIAMS Accounts Current Book 2,, p 183 Pittsylvania Co, VA Inventory of the estate of Thomas T. Williams, decd 2 Jun 1794 Negroes: Peter, Jack, Vilot, Juday, Lucy and her child Nancy, Silley, James, Cupit Bay horse, mare and colt, cow and bell, cow and yearling, cow and calf, one ditto, cow, cow and calf, ditto, 3 young cattle, 4 ditto, 3 beds and furniture, 27 hogs, red sow, 2 sows and 8 piggs, 4 shotes, 4 fat hoggs, 2 chests, table, 2 butter potts, ?toster, 6 chairs, cup board, cotton wheel, mans saddle, womans saddle, cask, case and bottles, Bible, flax wheel, cart whele box, flat iron, 4 axes, 10 pewtwer plates, 2 basons, old pewter, 2 small chairs, parcel earthen ware, sythe and cradle, coffee pot, skillet, dutch oven and hooks, churn, barrel, pott, tub, pail, pr. cards, 3 razors & case, 2 pr chain traces, haims, 2 cleviss, collar bridle & trace, 4 grubbing hoes, 5 hilling hoes, 2 wedges, clevis, plow, bridle bit, plow, old bell, old table, swingle tree & irons, parcel tobacco, sow & piggs, chest of drawers. We the subscribers have appr'd the movable estate of Thomas T. Williams, decd --William Irby, John Fitzgerald, Robert Clapton, Wm Waldron Recorded 19 Jan 1795 Total #523.1.2 [S16] Lucian W. Hiner, Jr. David Champness Williams had children, among them Thomas Terry Williams, b.1802, d.4/13/1836. I do not have my notes at hand regarding the others at this time. Note that Thomas Terry Williams death occurred as I previously described. He was in fact killed by a newly acquired slave who knocked him from his horse with a tree limb. The loyal slaves in the party are described in my written and oral family records as having thrown this killer into the fire of burning brush. Recently, a friend of mine who is a retired journalist with a major American newspaper obtained 3 brief newspaper articles reporting Williams death in June, 1836. Two of them were in Maine and one in Massachusetts. Our oral and written documentation was provided by my late mother and the granddaughter of Samuel Carter Williams whom I knew before her death at 101 years. One newspaper account says that the slave was taken into custody but not the other two and I could find no record at the courthouse in Chatham. Another researcher notes DOB as 2 Jun 1794