When Alexander Ellis Williams was born in 1854, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Andrew J Knowles, was 25 and his mother, Martha F Allen, was 19. He married Mary Adeline Hudson on 16 January 1880, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Spadra, Johnson, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Clarksville, Johnson, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died in 1899, in Kennady, Le Flore, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Acorn, Polk, Arkansas, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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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