Hi Again, Could it be Lettie not Lilly? Wm. Wallace Williams & Lettie Brackett 9-10-1876 H-112 Janie At 06:08 PM 12/14/98 -0000, Dale & Denise Mills wrote: >Hi everyone! > >Thought I'd finally post something on the new Shasta County List. I'm >researching the above surnames. Here is my WILLIAMS line: > >William Wallace (or Wallace William) WILLIAMS (1830-1909), son of Aaron >WILLIAMS. William was b. NY and died in Redding, Shasta, CA. He married >first Margaret MITCHELL (ca. 1837-bef. 1880). Margaret was b. in IN or IL >and probably d. in Shasta County. They had Horace Adelhert WILLIAMS >(1856-1935) and Clarence E. WILLIAMS (ca. 1868-aft. 1909). William married >#2 Lilly, widow of BRACKETT (ca. 1841-aft. 1909). They married after 1870. > Lilly was b. NY. They had Charles WILLIAMS (b. ca. 1978-aft. 1909) and >Jennie WILLIAMS (b. aft. 1880-aft. 1909). She possibly married a TUBBS? >Lilly's children by BRACKETT were Edwin BRACKETT, Harry BRACKETT and J. W. >BRACKETT. > >William came to CA in ca. 1858. He conducted a general merchandise store >in Redding. > >Horace Adelhert WILLIAMS (above), b. Story, IA and d. in Redding. He >married Hattie Marina DICKINSON (1859-1930) in 1878 in Shasta County. >Hattie was b. French Gulch, Shasta, CA and d. Redding. They had Mary >Augusta WILLIAMS who married a CRUTHIS, Bertha WILLIAMS who married Chester >MULLIN, Clarence A. WILLIAMS who married Fanny, and Harry Orvall (Orville) >WILLIAMS who married Eva Gertrude PEPPER. > >Horace came to CA when he was 2 years old. He was a Wells Fargo Stagecoach >driver and was held up by BLACK BART 3 times. He drove stage up the >canyon, from Redding to Yreka, and at another period had a route over >Scott's mountain. He also worked for the Southern Pacific railroad and >then in the grocery store owned and operated by A. F. SOUZA, Jr. > >Would love to hear from anyone researching any of these lines. Will send >the Dickinson information in another e-mail. > >Denise >Fort Hood, TX > > > > > > > > > > > >