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.