When Alice Susan Williams was born in September 1861, in Enterprise, Shelby, Missouri, United States, her father, Samuel Williams, was 30 and her mother, Mary Virginia Hambrick, was 19. She married William Carl Timma about 1899, in Oral, Fall River, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1866 and lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Fall River, South Dakota, United States in 1930. She died on 12 January 1937, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Oral, Fall River, South Dakota, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1871: Spokane Falls, Stevens, Washington Territory, United States 1879: Spokane Falls, Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Spokane Falls, Spokane, Washington, United States 1891: Spokane, Washington, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1882: Shelby, Missouri, United States
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAlice left Virginia in June of 1864 when she was four years old and travelled with her family for 89 days in a wagon with the William D Pritchett company.
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