Seeking WILLIAMS' at least three different families (unrelated) kin thru various lines. ILLINIOS; Fred b ca. 1852, wife Ann ERDWINS b. 1857 and children; Mary b. 1876 and Jetta b. Jan 1880 from the Champaign Co IL census. Some family members think they lived near Peoria. They were of german ancestry. Tenn. Aaron Crawford WILLIAMS b.ca 1770 d..1860 McDonald Co Mo. md. First or second a Nancy SIMMONS. records indicate migration thru Bedford Co. TN, Indiana, Missouri. Oldest child Zouri(actually Missouri) md. a GILLENWATER. Mo; a good dozen; Merritt in Howard Co., William with wife Ann Titus in Howard, Ray, and Henry Co., Squire Frank, Henry Co., William with wife Eliza Cooper and two children Minerva and Alexander, who are in Pettis Co. , mother Eliza remarried Grissom Reed LEE. Hazel,a male b. 1904 s/o Alexander and Evie Goodpasture, ran away from home ?after mother died? Who was Alexander's second wife if any? Iowa maybe a clue. TEXAS; In the Galveston area , John, a charter boatman until in the 1990'salso called "Stacks" His son and grandson were also Johns, Who are wives? And where are they today. My WILLIAMS list, male names only, is more than two pages long. dwsbgs@centurytel.net