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/AkB.2ACE/330.1 Message Board Post: I have some info on the Williams family, and it is copied from a book that I copied in Newton Co. Lib. It states Richard (1780-1877) was born in N C. on Jan 22, 1780. He was married at least once and that was to Nancy Strother, who was born in Georgia in 1794, and they had eight children who are known - Francis, Elizabeth, Nancy, Henry, Elisha, Samuel, Eliza Jane, and George. Francis married Dicy ____ and came to Texas abt 1841; Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas H. Roddy of St Helena Parish, died in 1847 and was never in Tx.; Nancy md Henry Hall Womack and came to Tx after 1850; Henry William's wife was Frances Thompson, dau of Ephraim and Susan Grigsby Thompson; Elisha md Sarah Glenn, dau of James & Elizabeth Grigsby Glenn; Samuel's wife was Elizabeth Jones: and Eliza Jane was (1) the wife of David Glenn and (2) of. R. K. Ratcliff, Sr. Very little is known of George who may have died during the Civil War. Note: Richard was the first child of Stephen & Delilah Rhodes Williams, also a native of N. C. (Stephen & Delilah md in 1779). I am not a Williams desc, but some of them md into the Strawther family in Jasper Co Tx. Therefore, I have quite a bit of data on them. I have a gedcom I made to sort them all out, starting with Stephen & Delilah. I looked at a probate for Richard Williams, to see if it named any children that Nancy had in a prior marriage, to seek the parents of my husband's g-gfather. I think I have an original marriage certificate (not a copy of it) from Jasper Co. I'll have to locate it. I know it was a Ratliff marrige. I have a DAR record of Lola Strickland and her daughter, when they applied to DAR. Maybe I can locate it and give you some more info. I just happened to see your post, as I had put in some of the names that md Strawthers. Let me know if I can help. Betty Strawther