I am also chasing information a John Williams; born 1831 and died sometime after 1870 (doesn't appear on 1880 Census)lived North Carolina (Haywood County)..Married Eliza Pressley Pinner born 1829 and died 1902 buried in Locust Flied Cemetery in Canton North Carolina...I have a lot of information on their Children and family to present....Williams family for me is hard to trace because commonality of the name...John was born in North Carolina, lived in Murray County Georgia for a while and back to Haywood County where he died...Thanks Dottie ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Williams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:12 PM Subject: RE: [WILLIAMS] John C. Williams > Hi, Iris. Thanks for posting that summary of your Isaac Williams > descendants. > > Like your line, the name Isaac is pervasive in mine; and, as yours, ours > stems from North Carolina, but we don't know where. Our earliest documents > show four brothers--Elijah, William, Ezekiel, and George--born 1790-1802. > My branch stems from Elijah's son Isaac. We also feel an uncle of these > four brothers was an Isaac Williams who was captain of the company in > which William (and possibly Elijah) fought in the War of 1812 (Cannon's > 2nd Regiment of Tennessee Mounted Gunmen). > > I mentioned recently that we've been able to post, in its entirety, the > seminal work on this particular Williams line: a book titled WILLIAMS AND > ALLIED FAMILIES, by Katie Maud Seale Ellis. The URL is: > > http://www.relatedlines.com/files/WilliamsAndAlliedFamilies/ > > Iris, have any of the males in your Williams line participated in the > Williams DNA Project? This has proven to be a powerful tool in our > research. > > --Hughes Williams > http://www.relatedlines.com/ > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WILLIAMS] John C. Williams > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:49:12 -0500 > > Thanks, Mike! That is very nice of you. > Iris > > Debi. > > My John Stayed in NC all his life, I think, but there were other Johns and > Isaacs. Some of them > could have migrated somewhere else. Below is what I have, but I haven't > proved all of it. > > Iris > > Descendants of Isaac Williams > > > > 1 Isaac Williams > ........ 2 John C. Williams 1789 - > ... > > > > ==== WILLIAMS Mailing List ==== > List web page: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/williams.html > Genealogy Links - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/GEN-links.htm > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >