When Anna Williams was born on 25 December 1841, in Huntington Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Soverhill Williams, was 32 and her mother, Sophronia Monroe, was 27. She had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with John Wesley Belles. She lived in Plymouth, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 2 July 1923, in Shickshinny, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Scott Cemetery, Huntington Mills, Huntington Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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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