When Lottie Marie Williams was born on 30 January 1911, in Okemah, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, United States, her father, John Henry Williams, was 27 and her mother, Ida Pearl Hastings, was 18. She married Ernest Allen Lewis on 1 June 1929, in Eufaula, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Hughes, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Henryetta, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 April 1966, in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 55.
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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