WILLIAMS GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


My earliest Williams connection is one Robert Williams who lived in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. I have been unable to determine his parentage or very much about him. He is believed to be buried on the Stephen Williams farm (his son) in Maury County, Tennessee. Much of what information I have on this family comes from other Hanks researchers, notably Gladys Hanks Johnson and Bill Randolph. Bill Randolph has supplied me with family group sheets of most of the descendants of Robert Williams and Elizabeth Hanks. There is much intermarriage of the Williams descendants with others of my McNairy County, Tennessee families. Robert Williams, Jr., a brother of my Agatha (Williams) Woolverton was a prominent and early citizen of McNairy County, Tennessee.

There are also some WILLIAMS intermarriages in my family, but I do not know of any connection with these other Williamses. My Aunt Theola Harris, the youngest daughter of James David Harris, married Dearn Dennison "Dennis" WILLIAMS (1921-1989) as her second husband. Also my Aunt Avie Harris, another daughter of James David Harris, married Benjamin TILLMAN WILLIAMS (1901-1994), son of Lewis Martin Williams and Mary Jane Bennett. Uncle Tillman Williams also had a sister, Sarah Elizabeth Williams, who married William Lee Robinson. They were parents of Roscoe Lee Robinson who married cousin Verona Hix, daughter of Aunt Patie Harris Hix, another daughter of James David Harris.

Another dear cousin is Peggy (Lumpkin) Williams who married Al Williams. Peggy's mother was Lillie PEARL (Harris) Lumpkin, a daughter of Uncle Willie Harris, who was a brother of James David Harris.

Here is my WILLIAMS lineage:

  1. Robert WILLIAMS, b. 1776 VA, d. 1837 Maury Co., TN; md. 1 June 1799 Lincoln Co., KY to Elizabeth HANKS, b. 9 Sept. 1782 Pittsylvania Co., VA, d. 1833 Maury Co., TN
  2. Agatha WILLIAMS, b. 2 June 1802 Maury Co., TN, d. 13 July 1874 McNairy Co., TN; md. 22 Sept. 1817 Columbia, Maury Co., TN to James Matthew WOOLVERTON, b. 12 May 1797 Somerset, Pulaski Co., KY, d. 24 July 1878 McNairy Co., TN (both buried in Woolverton Cemetery near Adamsville, Tennessee)
  3. Nancy Artemisia WOOLVERTON, b. 28 Aug. 1829 Maury Co., TN, d. 24 Jan. 1926 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN; md. 28 Dec. 1848 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS to Luther Rice LITTLEFIELD, b. 25 Dec. 1826 Spartanburg, Spartansburg Co., SC, d. 25 Mar. 1903 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN (both buried in Adamsville Cemetery)
  4. Sarah Agatha LITTLEFIELD, b. 28 Oct. 1849 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS, d. 7 Feb. 1940 Leapwood, McNairy Co., TN; md. 18 Oct. 1868 McNairy Co., TN to William Ashley HARRIS, b. 19 May 1849 Hardin Co., TN, d. 12 Mar. 1916 McNairy Co., TN (both buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN)
  5. James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, Stephens Co., OK; md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, Willacy Co., TX
  6. William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO (both buried in the Dove Creek Cemetery, Dove Creek, CO) *These are my grandparents.


WILLIAMS E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the Williams surname, you may post these at the Williams Family Genealogy List that is managed by Harold Helm.

Williams Genealogy List is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Williams surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Williams e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in WILLIAMS for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in WILLIAMS you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.



ROOTSWEB WILLIAMS MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the WILLIAMS surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Williams Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any WILLIAMS name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.




An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the WILLIAMS family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/williams

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the WILLIAMS lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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