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

Etta Louise Williams (Junkert), Texas

Grotto Falls Smoky Mountains Waterfall,Gatlinburg, TN, USA

Etta Louise Williams Junkert

Birth	4 Dec 1906 Tennessee, USA
Death	16 Jun 1951 (aged 44) Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA
Burial	Non-Cemetery Burial, Cremated. Specifically: Burial site unknown

Findagrave Memorial ID	120336261

Father’s Name: George Lee Williams
Mother’s Name: Mamie T. Hawkins
Wife of Albert “Al” George Junkert (spelled Junkers in 1900 census for Illinois). Married: 2 September 1937 in Fountain, Indiana, USA No children. Dorothy Jean (Williams) Johnson was her niece.

Name: Etta Louise (Williams) Junkert
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Tract 44, Denver, Election District M, Denver, Colorado, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race (Original): White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Wife
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Birthplace: Tennessee
Birth Year (Estimated): 1906
Last Place of Residence: Rural, Bexar, Texas
District: 16-302
Family Number: 18
Sheet Number and Letter: 1B
Line Number: 73
Affiliate Publication Number: T627
Affiliate Film Number: 493
Digital Folder Number: 005449343
Image Number: 00685
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Albert G Junkert M 40 Illinois
Wife Etta L Junkert F 34 Tennessee
Sources
“United States Census, 1940,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VRDB-54J : accessed 15 Nov 2013), Etta L Junkert in household of Albert G Junkert, Tract 44, Denver, Election District M, Denver, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-302, sheet 1B, family 18, NARA digital publication of T627, roll 493.

Name: Etta L Junkert
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 16 Jun 1951
Event Place: Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1906
Birthplace: , Tennessee
Father’s Name: George L Williams
Mother’s Name: M T Hawkins
Certificate Number: 31429
GS Film number: 2074697
Digital Folder Number: 005145617
Image Number: 02234

Corpus Christi Skyline, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas

Sgt. Albert “Al” George Junkert, Texas

Sally Ann Frederick and Albert “Al” George Junkert, Corpus Christi, Neuces, Texas, June 1969

Etta Louise Johnson, Albert Junkert, Corpus Christi, Neuces, Texas, June 1969

Sgt Albert George “Al” Junkert

Birth	16 Aug 1899 Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois, USA
Death	11 Jul 1985 (aged 85) Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Burial	Body donated to medical science

Findagrave Memorial ID	5871295

Albert “Al” George Junkert also spelled Albert G. Junkers, was my best childhood friend’s uncle.

His Father: Henry M. Junkert (also spelled Junkers) born in Germany in April 1874. He emigrated in 1888. Mother: Wilhelmina “Minnie” Augustus Lentz born in Illinois in Oct. 1875.

My BFF, Etta Louise (Johnson) Wilson, and I visited Al every summer for a week up until the Summer 1969. He had no family except for Etta’s Mother, Dorothy Jean (Williams) Johnson, his wife’s sister. He didn’t have any children of his own. So he loved for us to come visit him. We were spoiled by him for a whole week once a year in the summer. He was a good and honorable man. His beloved wife, Etta Louise (Williams) died in 1951.

Married: 2 September 1937 in Fountain County, Indiana to Etta Louise Williams (my friend, Etta was named after her). Daughter of George Lee Williams and Mamie T. Hawkins. Al and Etta had no children.

Al was a proud U.S. Army veteran from World War I and patriotic American. He took us to the store and let us buy whatever we wanted to eat, Etta’s Mother had 5 children and mine had 6, so getting to pick and choose whatever we wanted to eat was a real treat in the 60’s. We ate a lot of spaghetti, macaroni, and beans at home. We hardly ever had steaks, and if we did we had to share it with our sisters and brothers. But…when we got to Al’s we ate Steak and Pizza and Hamburgers…and we didn’t have to share with anyone. We picked pickles, olives, cookies, candy, Dr. Pepper, Chips & Dips. Me and Etta helped Al cook our dinner and we sat down and ate together, and we all helped to clean up after.

Those were special times, that I have never forgotten. He drove us to the movies, and gave us spending money to buy whatever we wanted. We planted flowers. We learned how to wash clothes with one of the old ringer type wash tubs, and hung the clothes out on the line to dry. Al let us pick all the figs and fruit that we wanted to eat off his trees.

Al lived in Corpus Christi, TX and we lived in Jacinto City, TX.
He drove all the way to Jacinto City to pick us up, and brought us back. Al was retired then from the Army. He lived just a few miles from the beach. We loved it. He drove us to the beach and let us stay as long as we wanted to. We all played cards and games together.

For a week out of the year..we were treated like little princesses. He made us feel special! Etta’s Dad had died when she was born. Poor Al died of skin cancer. He was truly loved and he made a real difference in our lives. Al donated his body to science, so that he could help find a cure for cancer. Al resided: Illinois, Indiana, Colorado, Bexar, Harris, Texas, and Corpus Christi, Texas (in 1960’s), written by Sally Ann Frederick Johnson, 2010.

Shoreline,Corpus Christi, Neuces, Texas

 

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 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 Husband’s Maternal Grandmother, Louise “Lou” Williams, Kentucky

Kentucky-country-evening-bluegrass

Louisville-Lexington-Kentucky-Horse Park

Name: Louise “Lou” Williams (Rakestraw), daughter of George Lawton Williams of South Carolina, and Mamie T. Hawkins of Tennessee.

Birth: 17 November 1911 in Kentucky

Daughter: Dorothy Jean Williams (Johnson), step daughter of William Kermit Rakestraw

Married: William Kermit Rakestraw after 1925 in Texas

Died: 18 March 1958 in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas 

Sally Ann Frederick and Albert Junkert, husband of Etta Louise Williams, sister of Louise Williams, circa 1968 (my BFF’s Uncle)

Buried: March 1958 in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, have not found any documentation whether she was cremated or buried or location.

Corpus Christi, Neuces, 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

The Journey Begins…

 

Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA

Ancestors of Garry Ellis Johnson, Sr. Mother: Dorothy Jean Williams Johnson.  Father: Edward Leroy Johnson, Sr.

Grandfather: Unknown. Grandmother: Louise “Lou” Williams.

1st. Great Grandparents: George Lee Williams and Mamie “Minnie” Matilda T. Hawkins of Tennessee.

2nd. Great Grandparents: William Louis Williams of Virginia, and Martha “Marthy” Elizabeth Johnson of Tennessee.