Help with any below. Joe Boyd Williams Henry Beck Williams Generation No. 1 1. HENRY BECK1 WILLIAMS was born 1803 in North Carolina, and died in Matagorda County, Texas. He married SUSANAH RUTHERFORD SMALLEY 1829 in Probably Texas, daughter of ANDREW SMALLEY and MARTHA RUTHERFORD. She was born Abt. 1806 in North Carolina, and died in Matagorda County, Texas. Notes for HENRY BECK WILLIAMS: WILLIAMS, HENRY (1803?-?). Henry Williams, with partner John T. Bowmanqv one of Stephen F. Austin'sqv Old Three Hundredqv families, received title to a sitioqv of land in the area of present Matagorda County on August 21, 1824. He was probably the same Henry Williams, born in North Carolina around 1803, whom the 1860 census listed as a farmer, aged fifty-six, living in Matagorda County with his fifty-four-year-old wife, Susan R. of Kentucky, and five children, all born in Texas. In January 1827 one Henry Williams was present at a meeting that declared loyalty to the Mexican government and protested the Fredonian Rebellion.qv In October 1835 a Henry Williams was among the volunteers under George Morse Collinsworthqv who signed a pledge to give protection to the citizens of Goliad, provided that they support the republican principles of Mexico's Constitution of 1824qv (see GOLIAD CAMPAIGN OF 1835). A Henry Williams appears on several muster rolls from the Texas Revolution,qv a! nd two Henry Williams and one Henry B. Williams are listed as receiving bounty land warrants in 1837 and later for various spans of service in the Texas army. Henry H. Williams of Houston, who may or may not have been the same man, was appointed Republic of Texasqv consul at Baltimore in 1838. In 1840 one Henry Williams was among the jurors in the Matagorda trial of Albert G. Newton for the 1839 shooting death of Samuel Rhoads Fisher.qv Census records indicate a Henry Williams was still living in Matagorda County in 1860 Children of HENRY WILLIAMS and SUSANAH SMALLEY are: 2. i. HARRIET MINERVA2 WILLIAMS, b. February 23, 1828, Matagorda County, Texas; d. November 29, 1857, Matagorda County, Texas. 3. ii. NARCISSA ANN WILLIAMS, b. 1833; d. 1913. iii. S.E. WILLIAMS, b. 1834, Matagorda County, Texas. iv. WILLIAM H. (BILL) WILLIAMS, b. 1837, Matagorda County, Texas; m. EMILY GARNER, June 20, 1861, Calhoun County, Texas; b. 1840, Jefferson County, Texas; d. 1866, Calhoun County, Texas. Notes for EMILY GARNER: Buried Old Town Cemetery, Indianola, Texas 4. v. JOE A. (AJ) WILLIAMS, b. 1839, Texas; d. Bef. 1877. vi. SUSANNA S. WILLIAMS, b. 1842, Matagorda County, Texas. vii. LAURA L WILLIAMS, b. 1844; m. HENRY L. DEMOSS; b. 1833. viii. ROBERT A. WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1845. ix. ZACHARY T. WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1849. x. TENNESSEE LUELLA WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1852. Generation No. 2 2. HARRIET MINERVA2 WILLIAMS (HENRY BECK1) was born February 23, 1828 in Matagorda County, Texas, and died November 29, 1857 in Matagorda County, Texas. She married PERTILLER LEE May 27, 1844 in Matagorda County, Texas. He was born January 06, 1817 in Union County, South Carolina, and died June 19, 1893 in Calamine, Sharp County, Arkansas. Notes for HARRIET MINERVA WILLIAMS: Nickname: Hallie Death of Harriet Williams in Volume IV, Number 24, January 26, 1858, (From "Footprints", Feb. 1980) "Died at this residence of her husband, near the Colorado River, Matagorda County, on the 29th of November 1857, of nervous fever, sister Harriet Minerva Lee. The deceased was the daughter of Henry Williams, one of the few surviving members of Austin's Colony of three hundred, and was born in Matagorda County the 23rd of February 1828. She left a husband and five children". Harriet Minerva WILLIAMS (Henry WILLIAMS1) was born 23 Feb 1828 in Matagorda County,TX, and died 29 Nov 1857 in Matagorda County,TX. She married Patilla Lee Pertiller Edward 27 May 1844 in Matagorda County,TX, son of William LEE and Massie ?. He was born 6 Jan 1817 in Union County,SC, and died 19 Jun 1893 in Calamine,Sharp County,AK. He was buried in Sullivan Cemetery,Calamine,AK. More About PERTILLER LEE: Burial: Sullivan Cemetery, Calamine, Arkansas Children of HARRIET WILLIAMS and PERTILLER LEE are: 5. i. MARY F.3 LEE, b. February 10, 1847, Matagorda County, Texas; d. August 06, 1892. 6. ii. JOHN EDWARD LEE, b. April 1849, Matagorda County, Texas; d. 1907. iii. CELIA ANN LEE, b. April 21, 1851, Matagorda County, Texas; d. December 25, 1903, Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas. iv. SUSAN E. LEE, b. 1853, Matagorda County, Texas. v. LAURA P. LEE, b. 1857, Matagorda County, Texas. 3. NARCISSA ANN2 WILLIAMS (HENRY BECK1) was born 1833, and died 1913. She married JOHN FRANCIS GARNETT. He was born 1826, and died 1913. Children of NARCISSA WILLIAMS and JOHN GARNETT are: i. WILLIAM HENRY3 GARNETT, b. 1851. ii. JOHN FRANCIS GARNETT, b. 1857. iii. GEORGE EDMUND GARNETT, b. 1860. iv. GERARD BANKS GARNETT, b. 1864; d. 1936; m. MATTIE LORENA GRENTRY; b. 1867; d. 1949. v. ROBERT ANDREW GARNETT, b. 1864; d. 1937; m. CORNELIA ROSA MORROW. vi. JESSICA FRANCES GARNETT, b. 1868; m. GEORGE ALEXANDER MORROW; b. 1871. vii. SUSAN NANCY GARNETT, b. 1872; m. EDWARD THEODORE MORROW. 4. JOE A. (AJ)2 WILLIAMS (HENRY BECK1) was born 1839 in Texas, and died Bef. 1877. He married ANNA GARNER 1868 in Texas, daughter of DAVID GARNER and MATILDA HAMPSHIRE. She was born December 12, 1845 in Jefferson County, Texas, and died 1877 in Calhoun County, Texas. More About JOE A. (AJ) WILLIAMS: Census: June 18, 1860, Matagorda, Age 22, with father Henry Notes for ANNA GARNER: Buried in Old Town Cemetery, Indianola, Texas Married in Mrs. Booth's home in Port Lavaca about 1868 Child of JOE WILLIAMS and ANNA GARNER is: 7. i. JOSEPH ANDERS3 WILLIAMS, b. 1869, Matagorda Island, Texas USA; d. September 17, 1919, Port Aransas, Texas USA.