Whoever wrote this please email me privately at satinlady at bellsouth dot net There is a family tree of this person on Ancestry dot com. Doris ----- Original Message ----- From: <wwwuser@yourhostingaccount.com> To: <williams-dna@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:07 PM Subject: [WILLIAMS-DNA] From The Forums! - William W. Williams, b Frederick,VA, 1814-1818, served for Union, dad slave-own > The following new message has been added to the Williams Genealogy board > under the new topic of William W. Williams, b Frederick, VA, 1814-1818, > served for Union, dad slave-own... > > > -------------------------------- > > Help!!!! If you guys don't have any ideas, we give up!!! > > We've been looking for William W. Williams, born (according to his > Union military records) that he was born in Frederick, VA, in June > between 1814 and 1818. > > What we know: > > He left VA in 1834 with a son Will. He left a daughter behind. > Don't know if he had a wife. > > After that he had 4 wives (and innumerable children) in Indiana and > Illinois -- Sara Day, ?, ?, and Mary Kocher. He died and is buried > in Illinois. > > He said his dad was a slave-owner and that he HATED slavery. We're > "assuming" that he was white. > > We checked tax records, land records, censuses, everything we can > think of. We've been working on it for about 30 years, including > visiting VA to research it. > > We're beginning to think that he just made his name up when he left > VA, and started his own line. > > We're having a family reunion in Illinois this year (the last one was > 60 years ago) to find out if ANYONE knows anything that we don't. > > ANYTHING WILL BE MORE APPRECIATED THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WILLIAMS-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >