When Helen Maria Williams was born on 19 July 1834, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Samuel Williams, was 57 and her mother, Benedicta Triplett, was 40. She married William Ford Spears on 5 April 1855, in Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 October 1918, in Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States.
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The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Douglas, Illinois, 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.
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