My Husband’s 1st. Great Maternal Grandfather, George Lee Williams, Hawkins, Tennessee

Laurel Run Park, Hawkins County, Tennessee

Name: George Lee Williams, son of William Louis Williams and Martha “Marthy” Elizabeth Johnson

Hawkins County, Tennessee – The land was given to William Armstrong as a land grant in the 1780s. Armstrong built Stony Point.  Armstrong’s landholding was established as a county in 1787. It was named for Benjamin Hawkins, a U.S. Senator from North Carolina, the state which it was a part of at that time. In 1797, French King Louis Philippe visited Armstrong’s estate. During the American Civil War, Hawkins County saw combat. The Battle of Rogersville took place on November 6, 1863. Wikipedia

Flag of Hawkins County, in front of the county courthouse

Born: 14 December 1883 in Hawkins County, Tennessee

Married: 28 November 1903 in Hawkins County, Tennessee to Mammie “Minnie” T. Hawkins (1886-1960), Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA

Children: (4)

Etta Louise (Junkert), Louise “Lou” (Rakestraw), Frank James, and Jimmie George Williams

Laurel Run Park, Hawkins County, Tennessee

Died: Dec. 1967 in Peoria County, Illinois, USA

Buried:  1967 in Pottstown Cemetery, Pottstown, Peoria, Illinois, USA

Military: Pvt. U.S. Army, 1917-1918, 10th. Cavalry, Texas, World War I

George Lee Williams
BIRTH 14 Dec. 1883 in Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH Dec. 1967 (aged 83–84) in Peoria, Illinois, USA

BURIAL Dec. 1967
Pottstown Cemetery
Pottstown, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
PLOT SW Row 1
FINDAGRAVE MEMORIAL ID 190236919

                                  Pottstown Cemetery, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA

My Husband’s 6th. Maternal English Great Grandfather, William Williams

Northam Church and Churchyard, Northam, Nr Bideford, Devon, England

Name: William Williams

Born: 1743 in Devon, England

Christened: 19 June 1743 in Northam, Devon, England

Married: ???? to Unknown

Children: (1) William Curle Williams, Sr.

Died: 2 April 1782 in Exeter, Devon, England

Northam Church and Churchyard, Northam, Nr Bideford, Devon, England

Buried: 2 April 1782 in Saint Margaret’s Northam Church, Devon, England

United-Kingdom-map

My Husband’s 3rd. Great English Grandfather, William “Bill” Carter Williams

The Quarry, Botetourt, Virginia

Laurel Run Park, Hawkins County, Tennessee

Name: 2nd. Lt. William “Bill” Carter Williams, son of William Curle Williams, Jr. and Margaret Ann McCarroll

Born: 1802 in Virginia

Name: William Carter Williams

Event Type: Military Service

Event Date: 1861-1865

Military Unit Note: Sixth Infantry Affiliate

Publication Title: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia

Affiliate Publication Number: M324

Affiliate Film Number: 449Citing this Record
“Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3H5-YWC : 5 December 2014), William Carter Williams, 1861; from “Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia,” database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing military unit Sixth Infantry, NARA microfilm publication M324 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1961), roll 449.

Died: after 1862 in Virginia during the Civil War

William Carter Williams, Capt. 2nd. Co. B, 6th. Infantry, Virginia, Confederate, Civil War, 1861 Re-enlisted in 1862 Promoted to
2nd. Lt. 1st. Co. E, 41st. Virginia Infantry, Confederate soldier
Died: after 1862 Mortally wounded and died of his wounds, Virginia

Burial: after 1862 in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia

William Carter Williams

Birth	1802 Virginia
Death	after 1862 Civil War, Confederate, VirginiaMortally wounded and died of his wounds
Burial	after 1862 Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA

Plot	Section: 1 Lot: Unknown
Memorial ID Source	93685785 Findagrave website

Hollywood is a privately owned cemetery and the final resting place of over 18,000 Confederate soldiers from all Southern States. It has the largest number of Confederate generals (23) interred anywhere in the world. In addition to the slain from battles around Richmond such as Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, and Cold Harbor, the Confederate dead exhumed from Gettysburg in the 1870s, were reinterred here on what became known as Gettysburg Hill.

The Hollywood Cemetery Registry of Confederate Dead, printed in 1869, contains about 10,500 names of the 18,000 soldiers that rest here. The remaining names (unless they were unknown at the time of burial) and locations were destroyed in a fire at the cemetery office shortly after the war. Markers to the men whose burial location is unknown, such as General Garnett of “Pickett’s Charge” fame, exist in certain locations. http://www.interment.net/data/us/va/richmondcity/hollywood/index.htm

Confederate States Flag Virginia Belt Buckle

Confederate-rebel-flag

 

My Husband’s 2nd. Great Grandfather, William Louis Williams

The Quarry, Botetourt County, Virginia

Name: William Louis Williams, son of William Carter Williams and Mahala Crumpton of Virginia

Born: 1841 in Botetourt, Virginia, United States

Botetourt-County-Courthouse-Fincastle-Virginia

Married: 16 August 1860 in Blount County, Tennessee to Martha “Marthy” Elizabeth Johnston

Children: (8) Mary Jane, Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Jackson),  William, Mattie Lou (Reese), Robert, Louisa Ellen, Lula F. (O’Mary), and George Lee Williams

Military: American Civil War (1861-1865), Confederate soldier,  Co. B, Fifth Tennessee Infantry

Died: 11 Jan. 1895 in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States

Buried: 1895 in William Williams Cemetery, Sugar Grove, Roane County, Tennessee, United State

William Louis Williams

Birth	1841 Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
Death	11 Jan. 1895 Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
Burial	1895 William Williams Cemetery Sugar Grove, Roane County, Tennessee, USA

Memorial ID Source: Findagrave Website	127222075

 

My Husband’s Maternal 5th. Great English Grandfather, William Curle Williams, Sr.

Stoke Damerel, Devon, England

Name: William Curle Williams, Sr.

Born: 6 March 1763 in Stoke Damerel, Devon, England

Name: William Williams
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 1763
Event Place: Devon

Digital Folder Number: 004634464Citing this Record
“England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC9B-QW9 : 4 November 2017), William Williams, 1763, Baptism; from “Church of England parish registers 1538-1911,” database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Devon, archive reference , images provided by FamilySearch International.

Stoke Damerel, Devon, England

Stoke, also referred to by its earlier name of Stoke Damerel, is a parish, that was once part of the historical Devonport, England; this was prior to 1914. In 1914, Devonport and Plymouth amalgamated with Stonehouse: the new town took the name of Plymouth. Since the amalgamation Stoke has been an inner suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.

Stoke is now densely built up with family houses and bisected by the main railway line from Paddington to Penzance. The parish church is notable not only for its evolving architecture, but also its contents and historical connections. The area has been prosperous for several hundred years, and there are some distinguished private houses dating to Georgian and Victorian times (several of which feature in Nikolaus Pevsner‘s South Devon: Penguin Books, 1952, content (revised and enlarged) issued New Haven: Yale U. P. 1989. ISBN 0-300-09596-1). Wikipedia

Married: 11 July 1783 in Littleham, Devon, England to Hannah Knolls

Name: William Williams
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 06 Mar 1763
Christening Date (Original): 06 MAR 1763
Christening Place: STOKE DAMEREL, DEVON, ENGLAND
Father’s Name: Willm Williams
Mother’s Name: MaryIndexing Project (Batch) Number: C05242-1
System Origin: England-ODM
GS Film number: 916919Citing this Record
“England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3XL-V17 : 11 February 2018, Mary in entry for William Williams, 06 Mar 1763); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 916,919.

Children: William Curle Williams, Jr. (1785-1852)

Died: about 1788 in Roanoke Colony, Virginia, British Colonial America

Buried: about 1788 in Roanoke Colony, Virginia, British Colonial America

A Brief History of Roanoke County

Located in the heart of the Blue Ridge, the Roanoke County of today is the product of a long and varied history. The land itself was carved out of an ancient mountain range which left a great basin of fertile ground at the foot of Appalachia. In time, the region attracted herds of game and with them, the valley’s first residents. The Native Americans who settled what was to become the Roanoke Valley created an agriculture-based society along a winding river. These early settlers created a currency, ‘rawrenoc’, smoothed shells from which the word Roanoke is likely derived. https://www.roanokecountyva.gov/805/History

Roanoke Valley, Virginia

 

 

My Sister-in-Law, Etta Louise Johnson (Wilson), Texas

Johnson Family Genealogy

Garry Ellis Johnson, Sr, and sister, Etta Louise Johnson, and their dog, Tip, Jacinto City, Harris, Texas, about 1966.

Etta Louise Johnson and Etta’s uncle, Albert George Junkert, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, June 1969. We spent a week with him for several summers. This page is sponsored by: Sally Frederick-Tudor

BFF, Sally Ann Frederick and Etta’s uncle, Albert George Junkert, June 1969, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas. 

Brother, Garry “Gigi” Ellis Johnson, Sr. and Etta Louise Johnson Wilson, Aug. 14, 2015, Baytown, Harris, Texas. I went with Garry to see his sister in the nursing home. I never thought that it would be the last time that I would see her alive. Me and Garry wish that you, your mom, and Linda could be here to see us so happy after 52 years apart. God is good. I lost my home and truck to Hurricane Harvey in August 2017, then I…

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My Husband’s 4th. Great Maternal English Grandfather, William Curle Williams, Jr.

New Street, Birmingham, Warwick, England

Name	William C. Williams
Residence Place	Birmingham, Warwick, England
Gender	Male
Christening Date	12 Sep 1785
Christening Date (Original)	12 Sep 1785
Christening Place	St. Martin, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Father’s Name	William C. Williams
Mother’s Name	Hannah Knolls

Citing this Record

“England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NT14-Z7N : 9 March 2018, William Williams, ); citing 1785, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 428,968.

Warwick Castle, Warwick, England

Coat of Arms,Warwickshire, England

Name: William Curle Williams, Jr.

1785–1852  •  KFB5-JTX ​

Baptism: 12 September 1785 in Birmingham, St Martin’s, Warwick, England

Residence:

1790
Norfolk, Virginia, United States

1830
Botetourt, Virginia, USA

1840
Salem, Roanoke, Virginia, USA

13 March 1840
Salem, Roanoke, Virginia, USA

1850
Roanoke, Roanoke City, Virginia, United States

First Wife:

Margaret Ann McCarroll

1787–1804  •  LT68-NHG

​

Marriage: 14 September 1802 in Botetourt, Virginia

Second Wife: Margaret Bryan

Marriage: 7 March 1814 in Botetourt, Virginia

A Brief History of Roanoke County

Located in the heart of the Blue Ridge, the Roanoke County of today is the product of a long and varied history. The land itself was carved out of an ancient mountain range which left a great basin of fertile ground at the foot of Appalachia. In time, the region attracted herds of game and with them, the valley’s first residents. The Native Americans who settled what was to become the Roanoke Valley created an agriculture-based society along a winding river. These early settlers created a currency, ‘rawrenoc’, smoothed shells from which the word Roanoke is likely derived. https://www.roanokecountyva.gov/805/History

William Curle Williams, Jr, Virginia

Birth:	1785 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Christening:   Death:	12 September 1785 St. Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Aug. 18, 1852 Salem, Salem, Virginia
His first wife was Margaret Ann McCarrollHis second wife was Margaret Bryan Family links:   Spouse:  Margaret Ann McCarroll (1787–1804)​ Children: William Carter Williams (1802–1860) Spouse:   Margaret Bryan Williams (1795 – 1871)    Children:   Mary Jane Williams Brown (1821 – 1895)
Burial: East Hill Cemetery Salem Salem City Virginia, USA Plot: D5 S8
East Hill Cemetery, back gate entrance of the cemetery
Created by: PL Record added: Jan 20, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 17602250

My Husband’s Maternal 1st. Great Grandmother, Mammie “Minnie” Maltilda T. (Hawkins) Williams

Laurel Run Park, Hawkins County, Tennessee

Name: Mamie “Minnie” Matilda T. Hawkins (Williams)

Born: 6 July 1886 in Hawkins County, Tennessee

Married: 28 November 1903 in Hawkins County, Tennessee to George Lee Williams

Hawkins County Tennessee 1888 map

Children: (4)

Etta Louise Williams (Junkert) (1905-1951)

Louise Williams (Rakestraw) (1911-1958)

Frank James Williams (1918-1982)

Jimmie George Williams (1919-1997)

Laurel Run Park, Hawkins County, Tennessee

George Lee Williams never lived in Texas, Minnie came to Texas in the 1930’s after leaving him. He remarried to Mae and moved to Peoria, Illinois, according to Randa Keefer Johnson.

Name	Mammie T Williams
Event Type	Death
Event Date	21 Mar 1960
Event Place	Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, United States
Gender	Female
Marital Status	Widowed
Birth Date	06 Jul 1886
Birthplace	Hawkins County, Tennessee
Certificate Number	25725

 Citing this Record

“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K345-F5T : 13 March 2018), Mammie T Williams, 21 Mar 1960; citing certificate number 25725, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,265.

Died: 21 March 1960 in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas

Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas shoreline

Buried: 23 March 1960 in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, USA

Mammie Maltilda “Minnie” Hawkins Williams
BIRTH 6 Jul 1886
Tennessee, USA
DEATH 21 Mar 1960 (aged 73)
Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA
BURIAL
Rose Hill Memorial Park
Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA
MEMORIAL ID 234103548

My Husband’s Maternal 1st. Great Grandfather, George Lee Williams, Tennessee

Horse Farm, Lexington, Kentucky

Kentucky Bluegrass

Name: George Lee Williams  (1883–1939)  •  KHWY-MSP

Parents: William Louis Williams and and Martha “Marthy” Elizabeth Johnston

​ Born: 14 December 1883 in Hawkins County, Tennessee

Name George L Williams
Event Type Census
Event Year 1900
Event Place Civil District 12 (south part), Hawkins, Tennessee, United States
Gender Male
Age 16
Marital Status Single
Race White
Race (Original) W
Relationship to Head of Household Son
Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Son
Birth Date Dec 1884
Birthplace Tennessee
Father’s Birthplace Virginia
Mother’s Birthplace Tennessee
Martha E Williams Head F 54 Tennessee
George L Williams Son M 16 Tennessee
William Omarry Son-in-law M 23 Tennessee
Luila Omarry Daughter F 22 Tennessee
Bessie L Omarry Granddaughter F 1 Tennessee
Citing this Record   “United States Census, 1900,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS8T-FJN : accessed 1 July 2018), George L Williams in household of Martha E Williams, Civil District 12 (south part), Hawkins, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 88, sheet 1A, family 4, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,577.

Resided: 1937 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

Died: 16 December 1939 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

Buried: December 1939 in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States of America

George Lee Williams

Birth	14 Dec 1883 Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
Death	16 Dec 1939 (aged 56) San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Burial	Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA

Plot	Section A Site 82
Memorial ID	3058556 · View Source

George Lee Williams, Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, by LKat, 19 Dec. 2016, used with permission

Gravesite Details

Pvt, US Army

Name: George Williams
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 1939
Event Place: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States of America
Photograph Included: N
Death Date: 16 Dec 1939
Affiliate Record Identifier: 3058556
Cemetery: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
Citation”Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVH-332P : 13 December 2015), George Williams, 1939; Burial, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States of America, Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery; citing record ID 3058556, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Spouse: Mamie “Minnie” Matilda T. Hawkins  (1886–1960)  •  LBVL-1VK ​

 

Marriage: 28 November 1903 in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States

Name George Lee Williams
Event Type Draft Registration
Event Date 1917-1918
Event Place Washington County, Tennessee, United States
Gender Male
Nationality United States
Birth Date 14 Dec 1883
Birthplace , , United States
Citing this Record  

“United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ6R-SCM : 13 March 2018), George Lee Williams, 1917-1918; citing Washington County, Tennessee, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,877,698.

Children: (4)

Etta Louise Williams  (Junkert)

1906–1951  •  LBVL-2B9

Louise “Lou” Williams (Rakestraw)

1911–1958  •  LBTM-PV7

Frank Leon Williams

1916–1991  •  L1QL-TB2

Jimmie George Williams

1919–1997  •  L1MX-BMP ​

 

Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas shoreline

My Mother-in-law, Dorothy Jean (Williams) Johnson, Texas

Juanita Camfield, Dorothy Johnson, and Sally Frederick Fallin, 1978, at 719 Deer Pass, Channelview, Texas

Dorothy Jean Williams, father unknown and mother Louise Williams of Kentucky

1925–2001  •  LKVK-RFX

​

Edward LeRoy Johnson Sr

1918–1956  •  LKVK-R7V

 

Marriage: about 1947 in Nueces, Texas, United States

1.  Edward “Eddie” Leroy Johnson Jr.  1949–Living  •  L2GT-HB

2. Linda Gayle Johnson  1951–2004  •  LKVG-SVZ ​ 

3. Garry Ellis Johnson Sr. 1953–Living  •  L2GT-4RQ

4. Etta Louise Johnson 1956–2017  •  LKVG-SBC

Dorothy had five children total.
One son, Lewis Gene Marshall (1942-2006), father: Richard Lewis Marshall.

She was a widow, in 1956, she was only 31, she and her children lived across the street from us at 1706 Cheston Drive, Jacinto City, Harris County, Texas 77029.

My family, the Jean & Leroy Frederick family lived across the street at 1709 Cheston Drive, Jacinto City, Harris, Texas. We lived there up until I was 15, in 1968, when my parents divorced. They both remarried, and mother moved to Wood Shadows in Houston, Harris, Texas while Daddy married and moved us to Dayton, Liberty, Texas.

Dorothy had five children.
One son, Lewis Gene Marshall, father: Richard Lewis Marshall.

Married: Edward Leroy Johnson, Sr.

Children: (4)  Edward “Eddie” Leroy Johnson Jr., Linda Gayle Johnson (Ward), Garry Ellis Johnson, Sr, and Etta Louise Johnson (Wilson).

Etta Louise Johnson Wilson and Sally Ann Frederick Tudor, 2009 in Baytown, Harris, Texas

Her daughter Etta and I were best friends = BFF. Dorothy’s husband, Edward Leroy Johnson Sr., died when Etta was seven weeks of age, in 1956, so I never knew him. Me and Etta went to Corpus Christi, Texas during the summer together for a week to stay with her Uncle Al Junkert. We loved it! We went to the beach, and ate whatever we wanted to. We played games and helped Al cook dinner together, whatever we choose to. Al took us to the Benjamin Franklin Dime Store, and let us buy whatever we wanted to. Good times. We felt really special. Her Uncle Al Junkert was lonely, he had no children.

Dorothy was loved by all. She worked hard and supported her family of five on her own. Dorothy was good to all us kids on Cheston Drive, in Jacinto City, Harris, Texas. She was more like family than just a neighbor.

We called her “Aunt” Dorothy, even though we were not related by blood. Her door was always open to us kids. She didn’t lock her door. I miss all the good times we spent together playing cards and visiting, and all the slumber parties with Etta. I loved Aunt Dorothy just like my own Mother. Dorothy loved to listen to Marty Robbins and Ray Price. She worked at Dewey’s Food Store on Market Street for years as a Cashier.

I really miss our long talks, domino & card games, and all the good snacks Dorothy had for me when I came to visit, which was a lot! I loved it over there, Dorothy treated us kids like we were special. I never wanted to go home. I love you, Dorothy and miss you so much. You are gone but not forgotten. Love, the skinny, scrawny, insecure, little girl, that you made feel special and loved unconditionally, Sally Ann Frederick.

UPDATE: Dorothy’s daughter, Etta was my BFF, and her son Garry was my childhood sweetheart in 1966. Garry was 13 and I was 12, and they called it puppy love.

We both married and lost touch with each other up until 2015 when Garry became widowed and looked me up on Facebook. I did not become a widow until 2018, but we stayed in touch and we went to see his sister in the nursing home in Baytown, Harris, Texas together in 2015.

He told me that I was “his girl”, and that I had always been “his girl”. We never stopped dreaming about all the “what if’s”. In June 2018 we both knew that we still loved each other, even after 52 years apart. I was so depressed in 2017 from losing my home and auto in Hurricane Harvey, and so I really bottomed out when I lost my husband in February 2018. I prayed continually for God’s will. God gave us another chance at love, and we both went for it. We are now husband and wife. He is 65 and me 64. OMG, his mother is my mother-in-law, and Etta and Linda are my sisters-in-law after all these years. I wish that they and Etta could be here to see how happy we are now together. God is good.

Aunt Dorothy’s song played at her funeral.

Forest Park East Cemetery

Location:	21620 Gulf Freeway Webster, Harris County, Texas, 77598,USA