Captain Isaac Williams and His Grandchildren

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Captain Isaac Williams and His Grandchildren Pioneers of Lawrence County, Indiana By Ben & Alice Dixon

PART III

THE GRAND CHILDREN

OF CAPTAIN WILLIAMS

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Magic Numbers

Do not let yourself become mystified over these cryptic, magic numbers. They are of genea1ogical significance only. The first in the line is Number 1. His children are numbered serially, from the oldest to the youngest. If he has nine children, the oldest will be No. 11, the youngest No. 19. If there are more than nine, the serial will read No. 1.10, 1.11, etc. Each child of each succeeding generation will be numbered the same way, and his or her family number will make an additional unit. Thus the genealogical number fixes the order of birth and the number of the generation. This is how it works:

1. Richard the First of Gwynedd

11. Wi1liam Wi11iams, of Cane Creek, b. 1719

112. Isaac Williams, Sr., of NC and Tenn., born 1742

1127. Captain Isaac Williams, born 1779

His Children

11271 Laban Williams 1802-1815 Died in Tennessee

11272 +Garrett G. Williams 1804-1887 Married Lucy Kern

11273 +Richard Williams 1806-1880 Married Abigail Kern

11274 +Louisa M. Wi11iams 1808-1833 Married Samuel Rubottom

11275 +Pryor L. Williams 1810-1846 Married Anna Kern

11276 +Mahala Williams 1812-1853 Married Eli Kern

11277 Andrew Jackson Williams 1814-1875 No issue

11278 +James Dixon Williams 1816-1856 Married Cytha Cox

11279 Abel Williams 1817-1839 Died young; no issue

1127.l0 Ahinoam Williams 1819-1820 Died in infancy

1127.ll +Elkanah Williams 1822-1888 m. 1) Sarah Farmer

2) Sarah McGrew

1127.12 +Bartimus Williams 1825-1882 m. 1) Rebecca Armstrong

2) Ange1ine Hammersy

3) Rachel McDonald

1127.13 Cornelia Williams 1828-1882 m. James Boyd; no issue

(+) This mysterious hieroglyphic indicates a family record will follow, further along somewhere.

THEY LEFT NO ISSUE

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Captain Isaac's Alpha and Omega -- first and last born -- and three others out of thirteen children, left no issue, They were:

11271 Laban. Born 1802 on Washington's Birthday, in Jefferson County, Tenn.

died in Sevier County, Oct. 25, 1815.

11277 Andrew Jackson. Born June 5, 1814, in Tennessee; died Indiana, December 23, 1875.

11279 Abel. First native “Hoosier”!. Lies beside Capt. Isaac at Old Union. Epitaph: "Oct. 21, 1839, Age 21Y 11M 28D”

1127.10 Ahinoam. Lived exactly one year. Died November 15, 1820 and was buried at Old Union.

1127.13 Cornelia. Born June 27, 1828; died June 1, 1882. Married James Boyd, Feb. 22, 1847, without issue.

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LABAN WILLIAMS, GETTYSBURG HERO

An entry in the Hatfield Bible Record identifies (erroneously) Captain Isaac's Laban with Laban the son of Garrett and Lucy, who died at Gettysburg. There is a Civil War Marker at Old Union for five men of Company D., 27th Indiana Volunteers, who gave their lives during the Civil War: Jehu Davis, George Phillips; Adam K., Eldridge and Laban Williams. Adam died Dec. 9, 1861. Eldridge succumbed Nov. 13, 1862, to wounds received at Antietam. Laban was killed in action, at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Adam and Laban were brothers.

(The history of the Ind. 27^th and Company D are well documented in several places including the book “Giants in the Cornfield” by Wilbur D. Jones,1997 ISBN 1572490152. Several references related to Williams family members)

Giants in the Cornfield: The 27th Indiana Regiment

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OLD HICKORY'S NAMESAKE

Captain Isaac was mustered out after the Creek War in May, 1814,at Nashville, over 250 miles from home, as the trails ran. He was to be cheered by a bright new face shortly after his arrival. The baby was born June 5, 1814, on the French Broad farm. Capt. Isaac and his family promptly named him for the great General Andrew Jackson.

He never married. He thought more of raising corn and hogs and blooded stock than a family squealing kids. "Skin and save^” was the advice he gave young "Kanie" in 1857, when Dr. Elkanah, fresh back from medical schools in Europe, opened his eye practice in Cincinnati

Uncle Jack practiced what he preached, too, for three years later when he reported his ho1dings to the Census Marshal, he valued his property at $22,735 and his personality at $15,000. Which was a "right peart" farm for a dirt farmer to be paying taxes on in those pioneering days in Hoosierland.

Although Uncle Jack had no family of his own to look after, he generously helped his widowed sister Cynthia (Cox) Williams in the rearing of her family after the death of her husband, James "Dick" Williams. Beulah Thompson got this story from Roxie Hatfield of Bedford, who in turn had it from her father Isaac, the son of Uncle Bart.

Wrote Beulah: "Uncle Jack helped my great-grandmother, Cytha Cox Williams, raise her family. Her farm was on White River two miles east of Williams and about a half mile from us. The Williams farm called Hurricane was some 20 miles down the river. He would mount his trusty steed and speed away from one place to the other, if provoked about something, or the boys played a joke on him. Once at Cytha's he had a bad toothache. He sat on a straight-back chair, tipped back the wall behind the kitchen door. The children, playing and running through the house, were having a wild time. One of them slammed the door against Uncle Jack's jaw, and he let out a yell! “Will Hell never take a recess around here?" he growled; then stomped outside, saddled his horse, and headed for "Hurricane".

(The “Hurricane Farm” is still owned by Ruth (Williams) Dye and her son Bart. Ruth is a grand daughter of the Uncle Bart [1127.12] of this book.)

11272. GARRETT GIBSON WILLIAMS

Son of Captain Isaac Williams and Amelia Gibson

Born Nov. 18, 1804, Sevier County, Tennessee, on French Broad River.

Died Nov. 13, 1887 (Epitaph), Lawrence County, Indiana

Married, March 19, 1829, Lucy, daughter of Abraham Kern and Susan Wilson; marriage performed by Elder Kern. She was born in Nicholas Co., Ky., April 6, 1810; and died Dec. 15, 1892.

Garrett and Lucy are buried side by side at Mount Olive.

ISSUE

1.+Clarissa Wil1iams born May 11, 1830; died Apr.20,1871

m. 1) Pleasant Bowman m. 2) George Phillips 11-l1-1852

2.+Louis B. Williams born July 20, 1831; died 9-12-1898

m. 1) Sarah E. Hays m. 2) Sarah McDona1d-Honey

3. Celia Williams born March 10, 1833; died 11-3-1923

m. Michael Stipp Jan. 15, 1867, without issue

4.+Cytha Williams born Oct. 8, 1834; died May 17,1880

m. Milton McKee, Feb. 2, 1853

5. Adam K. Williams born June 15, 1836; d. Dec. 9, 1861

“Died of measles, near Frederick City, Md: while in the Army.

6. Laban Williams born Dec. 17, 1837; d. July 3, l863 Killed in Action at the Battle of Gettysburg. No issue.

7.+Ambrose Williams born May 11, 1839; d. Sept. 15,1881

m. Eliza A., dau. of George W. Cox

8. Jackson Williams (infant) born Oct. 18, 1840; d. Oct.17, 1841

9. Daniel Boone Williams born Dec. 1, 1842; d. Nov. 5, 1876

Wounded, Battle of Gettysburg; died, Anaheim, Calif. No issue

l0.+Emilia Williams born Nov. 1, 1844; d. 1921, Jul 14

Married Wm. F. Mitchell (1844-1913) son of John M. Mitche1l

l1.+Zachary Taylor Wil1iams born Feb. 8, 1847; d. Sept. 9, l906

Married Sarah J. Witsman

12. Rebecca Williams (child) born Jan. 27, 1849; d. Oct. 20,1852

13.+Clarinda Williams born Aug. 20, 1851; died 10-11-1924

Married "Love”(Gottlieb?) Bossert

14.+Ema1ine F. Williams born April 17, 1853; died Jan.lO,l895

Married Theodore ("Dode") Short

Captain Isaac's Grandchildren

Uncle Bart's Family