Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Williams was born on 18 May 1833, in Snellville, Gwinnett, Georgia, United States, his father, William Pittman Williams, was 19 and his mother, Elizabeth Weems, was 22. He married Elizabeth Ann Donaldson on 20 December 1860, in Gwinnett, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in District 408, Gwinnett, Georgia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 29 April 1903, in Gwinnett, Georgia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Snellville, Gwinnett, Georgia, United States.
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- William Williams, "United States Census, 1870"
- William H. Williams, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- William Henry Williams, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
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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