When Zebedee Williams was born on 22 June 1819, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Nevada Williams, was 28 and his mother, Celia Jane Chaffin, was 23. He married Eliza Jane Davidson on 23 July 1840, in Montgomery, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Kansas, United States in 1870 and Camas Creek, Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 1880. In 1860, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as farmer in Russell Township, Macon, Missouri, United States. He died on 12 March 1901, in Waha, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Latah, Idaho, United States.
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English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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