To my dear great-grandmother Rachel Ann (Peachee) Williams......oh how I wish that you could be my dinner guest for our Thanksgiving dinner. I am sure it would be different than the ones you used to prepare. We have such modern ways of doing things now days, no longer the wood burning stove, or the hauling of water. The tasks that were everyday things that you may have had to do. Life is so much more easy these days but so many still do not appreciate it, or think back on what it was like. Were it not for you, I wouldn't even be here today! There is such a mystery about you and my great grandpa, and one I would love for you to explain to me. I know you were born to the Benjamin Franklin Peachee family in 1823, Daviess Co. IN & you married my great grandpa William Williams on May 18, 1843 in Daviess Co., IN. He was born in KY in abt 1821 to James W. Williams and Mary (Planck) Williams but the family moved to Daviess Co., IN before the 1830 census. I know you had 3 children, one of them my grandfather George W. Williams born IN 1844, a daughter Martha J. Williams abt 1847 & another son John Lemual Williams abt 1854 all in Daviess Co. IN. My question to you: Why do you never show up on a single census, my grandpa George (at age 6) was with his maternal grandparents (Benj. & Rebecca Peachee) in the 1850 census, and your husband William was living with his brother Jacob! I can't find you anywhere!! I know you died in 1858 at only 35 years of age, what happened to you, and your other 2 children. Why doesn't anyone know what happened to you. And why do none of the children show up with their father??? On the next census 1860 my granpa George was living with his uncle James Peachee. His father was living with another family!! After that I can't even find my William Williams. Well maybe in time someone can help me solve the mystery of what happened.....where you were all those 15 years after you were married! Anyway I would just love to have you here so I could hug you and tell you how much you mean to me.... Peggy Williams Peterson