This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VV.2ADI/608 Message Board Post: T. C. Williamson appears as a charter member of the Lodge formed at Walter's Chapel, AR. We know he had a son, George Williamson, born in Prairie County, and that he was a physician who stayed behind to care for women and children during at least part of the Civil War. He was also on a committee to care for those families who were widowed or orphaned by the war in Prairie County. T. C. was from Pontotoc County, MS, and moved to AR sometime after 1850 with his wife M. F (Mary Frances) Wiley Williamson. George was their first child. Some researchers believe he may have been a spy for the Confederates - no research has been able to prove or disprove this. Mary Frances died, perhaps in AR and perhaps in child birth, and T. C. went back to MS during the Civil War and married Rhoda Naomi Cornwell Mathews, a Civil War widow from Pontotoc County. It is unknown if he and Rhoda returned to AR. Their own eldest child, Thomas Dorsey Williamson, was born in MS. Another child, Maxmillian Wade Williamson, was born in Water Valley, MS, in 1868. We believe George (and any of his siblings there may have been) were left at sometime with his maternal grandparents, George Wiley, in MS . Rhoda was their immediate neighbor. There are small children in their care in the 1860 census, but George's name (or that of the eldest child of the younger ones) is illegible. I have been unable to search in the Walter's Chapel cemetery website for Mary Frances or any other children who might have been born in AR. Could someone please look this up for me? Any other information about this family and their time in AR would be most appreciated!!!