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/ncB.2ACE/1454.3.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: William Stokes can be found in the 1860 census. Reading the census is like reading a roll call of Company G, 4th South Carolina Cavalry. Included in Stokes' household was 2 month old Sarah Risher. Don't know who her parents were. A letter written on 2 June 1864 concludes on the bottom of page 142. One reads, "Capt A., Lieut. Gen Williams, and R. Risher's company safe." Capt A. was William Preston Appleby; R. Risher was Richard Risher, Jr.In footnote 128, Halliburton indicates the only Williams that was a Confederate general was Brigader General John S. Williams who was serving in Georgia at the time the letter was written. It doesn't make any sense that a general was serving in Appleby's company. More than likely Halliburton misread what Stokes had wriiten. The colonel more than likely wrote Lieut. Hen. Williams. Henry Allen Williams was serving in Company G, 4th SC Cav at the time the letter had been written.. Generally his highest rank has been shown as sergeant but he may have been an actting liieutenant at the time Stokes wrote the letter. Henry Williams was not a blood kin of Stokes but they were related by marriage. Henry's wife Martha Anne Risher, sister of Sgt. William Benajmin Risher, was a cousin of Stokes. Tom Williams served as a 2nd lieutenant under Stokes and Appleby. Tom was a son of Abraham Williams and Harriett Risher Williams. He was a first cousin of William Stokes. Tom had married Elizabeth Kirkland. To the best of my knowledge they had no children. In 1895 he had become a postmaster and it is said it was then that he named the town of Williamsafter himself. His house still stands in Williams, SC. Elizabeth was the first person to be buried in what has become known as the Williams Town Cemetery.