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23rdva@comcast.net
One of my retirement hobbies has been researching the Williams line of our ancestry {mothers side} from Pittsylvania and Halifax Counties, VA.
I was referred to your website by a Ms. Lozano after discovering her posting on Find-A-Grave for my great, great grandfather Captain Samuel Carter Williams, CSA and my great, great grandmother Elizabeth Anne Williams Waddell.
I have done substantial research on Captain Williams life and military service as well as that of his older brother David Terry Williams and his life and children up into the early 20th century. One of his daughters married a Gilded Age steel baron.
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. The loyal slaves threw his killer into a bonfire where they were burning brush at the time.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.
I have additional information on that Williams line which may be of interest to you if you would like it. |
