When Elizabeth Watson Williams was born on 22 January 1799, in Simpson, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Golen Williams, was 42 and her mother, Eleanor Carr Barnard, was 25. She married Robert D. Moore in 1817, in Green, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Macoupin, Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 4 October 1867, at the age of 68, and was buried in Moore Cemetery, Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois, 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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