This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams Coleman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FkB.2ACE/1535 Message Board Post: We are attempting to locate any descendents of our great-grandfather’s brother Alonzo Allen Williams. The 1870 Census for Jackson County Georgia list a household consisting of Allen Colman age 85, Ann Coleman age 85, Mary Williams age 40 all born in SC, Emmit Williams age 15, Alonzo Williams age 14 and John Williams age 10 all born in GA. These were the wife, children and in-laws of John F. Williams who died at Vicksburg, MS in 1863. The story handed down from our parents and grandparents is that Emmit and his brother Alonzo set off from Stone Mountain Georgia in the late 1870’s for Texas. The story has it that Emmit got as far as the Tyro/Harmontown area in Lafayette County, MS where he met and fell in love with his wife-to-be and that Alonzo went on to Texas. We know that Emmit Reynolds Williams (1853-1917) married Sarah Frances “Fannie” Rayborn (1858-1921) in 1878 and that the couple had seven children. The 1880 Census for Lafayette County Mississippi list a household consisting of Emit Williams Age 26 born in GA, wife Fannie Williams age 21 born in MS, brother Johnnie Williams age 18 born in GA and son Columbus Williams age six months born in MS but no mention of Alonzo or Mary. In 1937 when he was age 10 John Cully Williams, a grandson of Emit Reynolds, traveled with his father John Thurber and his uncle Christopher Columbus to visit an “Uncle John and Aunt Annie� 80� in Gainesville GA. Af! ter losing contact for all this time we have just this week reestablished contact with the descendents of John Morgan Williams. We have talked by phone and both lines are excited to have found the other. We are now eager to establish contact with the descendents of Alonzo Allen Williams. If you are a descendent of Alonzo or know of this family please contact us. John Allen & Carolyn Sue Williams 2997 Ashmont Dr Germantown, TN 38138 Home 901-755-2671 Cell John 901-581-8170 Cell Sue 901-483-5324 jwilliams@memphisgrp.com suewilliams@memphisgrp.com Emit Reynolds Williams (1853-1917) m. (November 7, 1878) Sarah Frances Rayborn (1858-1921) Christopher Columbus Williams (1880-1955) Pearl Williams (1881- ??) John Thurber Williams (1883-1952) Maggie Williams (1888-1896) Lillian Mae Williams (1890-1972) Willie Lester "L.W." Williams (1892-1958) Alonzo Allen "Lonnie" Williams (1896-1956)