Brief Life History of J. Burton
When J. Burton Williams was born in 1877, his father, John Riley Williams, was 27 and his mother, Julia Arledge, was 21. He lived in White Oak Township, Polk, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died in 1898, in Silver Creek Township, Burke, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Mill Spring, Polk, North Carolina, United States.
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- Burton Williams in household of Riley Williams, "United States Census, 1880"
- J Burton Williams, "Find A Grave Index"
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1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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