When Bessie D. Williams was born in November 1898, in South Carolina, United States, her father, James Robert Williams, was 45 and her mother, Amanda Rebecca Rowe, was 39. She married Charles Alford Goggans on 22 November 1919, in Chambers, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Election Precinct 13 Langdale-Shawmut-River View and Fairfax, Chambers, Alabama, United States for about 40 years. She died in 1929, at the age of 31.