When Rees Jones Williams Sr was born on 29 September 1819, in Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Williams, was 29 and his mother, Margaret Lewis Jones, was 26. He married Elizabeth Davies on 16 June 1850, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, Wales in 1841 and Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. He died on 31 May 1860, in Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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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