When Dela Banks Williams was born on 8 October 1891, in Defeated, Smith, Tennessee, United States, her father, Paul Clay Williams, was 36 and her mother, Ann R McClennon, was 34. She married George Thomas Reid on 14 July 1907, in Macon, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Beat 5, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States for about 5 years and Lafayette Springs, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States in 1950. She died on 31 January 1979, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Pine Flat Cemetery, Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, 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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