>Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 11:52:25 -0700 >To: DanvilleCrossing-L@rootsweb.com >From: "David L. Snow" <DLSNOW@worldnet.att.net> >Subject: Re: OLIVE & Williams > >Aggghhhh Pat....not the Bradfords...... > >Now you've gone & done IT.......brought the Bradfords into this........those Bradfords try to weasel in everywhere. Between the Bradfords and Grays..........I just don't know <vbg>. (my wife is a descendant of the Crawford Bradford & David Gray lines in Henry & Stewart Co. also). > >Pat, I'm going to go a little off-track and discuss Sarah E. Williams a little (the youngest daughter of William M. Williams and Nancy Pryor) and her 3 children: John Porter, Helen & William M.. I'll get back to Martha & Nancy OLIVE a little later. I would also invite other members of the list to participate and discuss this Williams, Olive & Wimberly lines (as I know there are quite a few of you out there that connect). > >The following information comes from the Henry Co. Census, Marriage Records, Virginia Kathleen Williams (John Porter Williams' daughter), Frances Cowen Williams (Virginia's daughter-in-law), Vera Williams Rice (John Porter's half-sister), and a Williams family genealogy book from the Rhea Library. Also, if you have the opportunity to get to the Rhea library, please lookup my father-in-law, Ralph McKenzie, he volunteers there. If not, give him a call, he's in the book. He is of this Williams line from 2 descendants and has researched this line for years. He will be more than glad to 'jawbone' the Williams & Wimberly families with you. Also, if you'll go to the Benton Co. website and look in the 'online databases', you'll find a catalog listing of the Paris FHC. In the 'Family' section, you'll find 2 films on the Williams family, one is very good... > >As I indicated previously, John Leonard Williams was born about 1796 in NC and settled in Henry county prior to 1830. He had six children, 2 sons and 4 daughters. The oldest son was John Henry Williams, born 1825 who married Elizabeth LEE, b. 1828. This is the family that Nancy OLIVE was taken into shortly after her birth in 1849. > >John Henry and Elizabeth's 2nd son, John Leonard Williams (II ?), named after his grandfather but called 'Dick', married William M. Williams and Nancy Pryor's youngest daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Williams on January 14, 1869 in Henry County (from the Marriage Records). Sara died in 1877 (but I don't have her burial location.... just never looked it up). John Leonard & Sara had 3 known children: John Porter, Helen & William M. Williams. After Sara's death, John Leonard married the daughter of Issac Wimberly, Margaret Ann Wimberly on April 17, 1878. John Leonard and Margaret Ann had 6 known children: Minnie C., Julie, Bessie (my wifes' g-grandmother), Henry Issac (Bud), Guy & Vera. > > >John Leonard & Sarah Elizabeth's oldest son, John Porter Williams, married Agnes Nance on December 20, 1894 and had the following known children: David Claude, Mary, Roy Porter, Richard Hilman, John Carel, Nellia Anna & Virginia Kathleen. (Virginia Kathleen provided some of the published Williams Family book data, and can only assume she knew who her grandparents were. But.....since her grandmother, Sara Elizabeth Williams, died 41 years prior to Virginia's birth.....????). > >John Leonard & Sarah Elizabeth's youngest son, William M. Williams, married Lola Wimberly in 1903 and had sons: Wayne Edward, Joseph Carl & William Crawford. Wayne Edward married Jessie Baucum, Joseph Carl married Kathleene Wimberly, & William Crawford married Helen (unk) (really just to lazy to look it up!!!). > >John Leonard & Margaret Ann's children married respectively: Minnie C. married James I. Sykes, Jullie never married, Bessie married John Wimberly, Henry Issac married Onie D. Sykes, Vera Williams married Thomas Franklin Rice. (Vera also provided firsthand narrative information of her father's first marraige to Sara Elizabeth Wiliams and her half-brothers and sister, John Porter, Helen and William M. Williams. Vera is Debby's 2g-aunt) > >Anyway, I know some of the above repeats what I had previously sent, but I hope this gives you some new information to begin dissecting that Bradford connection. I would be interested in which Bradford, Sara Elizabeth was to have married. I've done a bit of research on the Bradfords and would like to see if I can track him down. > >Let me digest what you sent on the William M. Williams lineage, and we'll discuss the OLIVE connection. I don't have the William M. Williams section of the NARA Williams Family book (just the John Leonard Williams section), but I believe Ralph does. I'll ask him the next time I talk with him, or you might want to check with him. > >Must admit, you're the 1st Williams researcher I've spoken with who gives a-diddly about the relationship of Martha & Nancy to the Williams.......whether they aren't or are Williams. > >Take care and will get back on Martha & Nancy shortly. > >Dave