Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thomas R. Williams 1818 - 1892


Thomas R. Williams joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at "an early age" according to his obituary in the Baptist Standard. Thomas went to Pontotoc County, Mississippi in 1834. He married Mary Jane Patton in 1842 in LaFayette County, Mississippi. Mary Jane was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Pye Patton.
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Thomas became a Baptist minister before 1850 in the Coldwater Association and continued to minister after he and Mary Jane left Mississippi and moved to Texas about 1880.

Thomas R. Williams
Born: 2 Oct. 1818 Stewart Co. Tennessee
Died: 16 Feb. 1892 Erath Co. Texas
Married: Mary Jane Patton
Mary Jane born: 3 Feb 1824 Georgia
Died: 16 Feb 1892 Erath Co. Texas

Children:
Walter Colquitt (Tobe)
Born 1844 Miss.
Died: 1901 Texas
Married Sarah "Sally" Higginbotham (1846 - 1895)

Susan E
Born: 1846 Miss.
Died: 1923
Married: Frank Morrison

Mary
Born: 1848 Miss.
Died: 1856


Samuel P
Born : 1850 Miss.
Died: 1887 Texas

Jeff D:
Born: 1850
Died: 1900 Miss.
Married: Tilda Tatum (1855 - 1936)

Joseph
Born: 1854
Died: 1917
Married: Sally J. McElroy

Salina Ann
Born: 1859
Died: 1946
Married: Jeff Olinger (1860 - 1943)

Robert Tillman
Born: 1862
Married: Sarah E. Sanders

H.J. (Harriett Jane)
Born: 1865
Married: Jack Brown

2nd generation:The children of Walter Colquitt and Kathleen Higginbotham Williams:
Stewart
Born: 1867
Died: 1877

Eudora Gertrude
Born: 1869
Died: 1894
Married: William Wiseman

Robert Taylor
Born: 1872
Died: 1960
Married: 1) Cora Allday 2) Katherine ____

Thomas Jackson
Born: 1874
Died: 1971
Married: Julia Evridge

William Hudson
Born: 1876
Died: 1941
Married: Marguerite J. Weaver

Walter Bishop (twin)
Born: 1876
Died: 1953
Married: Lillian Forbes

Lee Deerwood
Born: 1879
Died: 1958
Married: Bama Borders

May
Born: 1881
Died: 1974
Married: Greif P. Herndon

Myrtle
Born: 1883
Died: 1958
Married: Young Ayers

Blanche
Born: 1885
Died: 1931
Married: Wash Elkins

Grace
Born: 1887
Died: 1970
Married: Martin Karmany
Researched by Group 8 DNA member Joe Williams -- williams.seeker@gmail.com.

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