When George Thomas Williams was born on 29 April 1833, in Williamsport, Grant, West Virginia, United States, his father, James Williams, was 59 and his mother, Eliza McNeill, was 34. He married Margaret Ann Seymour about 1853, in Hardy, Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 31 October 1889, in Moorefield, Hardy, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Moorefield, Hardy, West Virginia, United States.