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Captain Isaac Williams and His Grandchildren Pioneers of Lawrence County, Indiana By Ben & Alice Dixon
11273. RICHARD WILLIAMS
Son of Captain Isaac Wi1liams and Amelia Gibson
Born August 16, 1806, Sevier County, Tenn.
Died August 10, 1880, Lawrence co., Indiana
Married Nov. 12,
1829, Abigail, daughter of Abraham Kern and
Susan Wilson. Ceremony performed by bride's
father Elder Kern
She was born Nov. 13,
1811, Bourbon Co., Ky.; died Oct.7,1893 in Lawrence county. She came to Indiana with her family in
1816.
Richard Williams came in 1817.
They were buried side by
side at Mt. Olive Cemetery, of which congregation they were charter members.
ISSUE
1.+Ahinoam Williams born Sept. 27, 1830; d. Sept. 5,1851
Married William Withers April 2, 185 (Epitaph; Apr. 3)
2. Asenath Williams (infant) born
Sept. 26, 1832; d. Dec. 5, 1833
3.+Commodore Perry Williams born
July 20, 1834; d. Jan.14, 1898
Married Elizabeth S. Chase (l840-1916), dau. of Bayliss
Chase
4. +Canaan Williams born Oct. 31, 1836; d. Oct. 12,1920
m. 1) E1izabeth Jane Hastings; m. 2) Miranda Mosier
5.+Susan Williams born
Sept. 24, 1838; died 1934
Married Hollis H. Chase, son of Bayliss Chase and Susan
Howard
6. Mahalia Williams born
Jan. 5, 1840; died Apr.13,186?
m. A. D. Hinshaw, as his first wife, without issue.
7.+Miscena Rebecca Williams born
Dec. 31, 1842; died _________
m. Jacob Bossert Apr. 26, 1868, b. Germany, 1837; Civ.War
Vet
8. Cornelia Ann Williams born
March 8, 1845; d. Feb. 4, 1934
m. A. D. Hinshaw, 1870, as his second wife; no issue
9.+Tilghman H. Williams born
June 26, 1847; d. July 27, 1930
m. Josephine
McClung, November 4, 1873
Daughter of John McClung and
Lydia Scott
Born May 6., 1852;
died April 22, 1896
10.Olevia Jane Williams born Feb. 27, 1850; died ________
m. James Leonard, Oct. 11, 1874; removed to Oregon
11. Infant son born
& died March 9, 1852
12+William Mathes Williams born April 6, 1854 died 7-11-1933
m. 1) Flora
I. Short (1855-1899), December 9, 1876
m. 2) Kate
Williams of Salem, June 12, 1902, who died
m. 3) Belle
Pinic (1868-1926) of Orange county, Aug.25, 1923.
13. Infant son b&d
Nov. 1856
The Richard Williams home and farm were at old Port
Williams, where Richard built his big house on the site of an old Indian fort.
All the family belonged to the
Port Williams Christian Church, but later became identified with Mount Olive.
11274.
LOUISA M. WILLIAMS--RUBOTTOM
Daughter of Captain Isaac Williams
and Amelia Gibson
Born, June 15, 1808, in Sevier
county, Tenn.
Died, Nov. 1833, in Lawrence Co., Ind.
(Probably buried, with her husband, in the little Cox Cemetery, near Williams.)
Married, June 26, 1823 (by Robert Gorton,
JP) Samuel Rubottom, son of Simon Rubottom and E1izabeth Dunn.
ISSUE
1. Delilah
Rubottom born Oct.
20, 1824; no further record
2. Eliza
Rubottom born May
30, 1826; no further record
3. Elkanah
Rubottom born July 28,
1828; died March 2, 1850
Burial
at Cox Cemetery; Marker.
4. Squire
Rubottom born died
_______
5. Miriam
Rubottom Grave in Cox
Cemetery with marker and
illegible
date -- probably 1852.
Information on this family is very
sketchy and incomplete. We are not
positive that all the above are children of Samuel and Louisa or that there
were not others. We do not know whether
Louisa has today any living descendants; or whether any of the above had issue.
RUBOTTOM OF NORTH CAROLINA
We have compiled this basic
information on Rubottom from a variety of sources, but principally from North
Carolina Quaker records.
There is an old Quaker cemetery called
Napton in Chatham county, NC, one corner of which is full of Rubottoms. Two of
the graves house Thomas Rubottom and his wife Phebe Dixon. They had at least
two children: Hannah, who married Samuel Dowd, an administrator of estates; and
Simon, a famous gunsmith of Siler City.
About 1790, Simon married Elizabeth Dunn--out of unity. Elizabeth was immediately disowned by the
Cane Creek Meeting. But when her son
Joseph was born, she appeared before the meeting, condemned her conduct, and
was reinstated. Simon and his son Joseph were later received in membership.
Simon Rubottom--ISSUE--Elizabeth
Dunn
1. Joseph Rubottom, born about 1792;
married, 1813, Hannah Cox
2. Jane Rubottom, b. Dec. 23, 1793;
married William Cox, 1813
3. Mary Rubottom, b. about 1795;
married ? Dixon, 1809.
4. George Rubottom, b. about 1796;
married Miriam Dixon 2-l6-18l7
5. Thomas Rubottom, b. about 1798;
married Edith Dixon 4-10-1817
The census of 1820 lists eight
others (statistics, not names):
3
sons between 16 and 26; 2 sons and one dau. between 10 and 16; one son and one
daughter under 10. Doubtless all were
born in North Carolina. Doubtless also, Samuel who married Louisa Dixon is one
of those three sons between 16 and 26 in the year 1820.
Simon
took his family from Chatham Co., NC to Lawrence Co., Ind. in 1815. In 1817, Thomas and George took certificates
from the Lick Creek Meeting to Cane Creek with release to marry Edith and
Miriam Dixon. Cane Creek granted the
dispensation, and they were married with the blessings of the church. Then they
returned to Indiana, and in 1820 they were listed as heads of families,
neighbors to Simom. Edith and Miriam
Dixon, their wives, were daughters of Nathan and Sarah (Winters) Dixon. Simon Rubottom is famous in Lawrence county
annals for having erected the first grist mill on White River, 1821.
11275. PRYOR
L WILLIAMS
Son of Captain Isaac Williams and Ame1ia
Gibson
Born Jan. 22, 1810, in Sevier
county, Tenn.
Died, Sept. 1, 1846, Lawrence county,
In.; buried at Old Union
Married, July 7, 1831, Anna Kern, daughter
of Abraham Kern and Susan Wilson. Her
father, Elder Kern, tied the knot. She
was born April 7, 1815 in Nicholas Co., Ky., and rode into Lawrence county on a
sled, in the hard winter of 1815-16. She died Jan. 11, 1895, and is buried at
Mount Olive Cemetery
After the death of Pryor Williams, she
married, 1851, Daniel Hall -- a widower with two minor children. By him she had four more children, whose
names are listed below.
ISSUE
1. Rhoda Williams born March 20, 1832; died Oct. 17,1846
2. Isaac Wi1liams born Dec. 28, 1833; died ____________
No
issue. He was an old bachelor. Went to California in the Gold Rush, and
then on to Oregon. He was an
enthusiastic Mason, and became Grand Master in Royal Arch masonry in
Oregon. After the Civil War he was in
Texas, participating in the early cattle drives to Dodge City and Abilene. And then he filed on land in the Cottonwood
Valley -- and talked his brother Jim into heading for Kansas.
3.+Abraham Williams born Sept. 16, 1835; died August 6,191?
Married Belle Williams. Became an eye specialist, with Dr. Elkanah
Williams as his mentor. Practiced in St. Louis.
4.+ Christopher Columbus Williams born July 31, 1837; d. Jan. 29,l885
Married
Elizabeth Anne, dau of Wm. McBride Embree.
Went to Chase
county, Kansas, 1882.
5.+Jane K. Williams born Nov. 20, 1839; died Jan. 28, 1938
Married Lewis M. Reynolds, March 22, l863.
6. James K. Polk Williams born Jan. 28, 1844; died. Nov. 28, 1917
Married Marie Antoinette Reed, dau.
of John Reed and Mary Frances
Milner. She was born Sept. 15, 1846; d.
Aug.27,1917
7.+Lucy Ellen Wi11iams born March 5, 1847; died May 30, 1914
Married Elijah, son of William
Crawford and Jane Morrow.
Of this family, only Jane K. and
Lewis Reynolds remained in Lawrence county.
Abram went to St. Louis to practice.
Isaac, James K., Christopher C., and Lucy Crawford, all migrated to
Kansas and established homes in the Cottonwood Valley of Chase and Marion
counties.
ANNA KERN'S SECOND FAMILY
(Married Daniel Hall)
1. Thomas Hall, stepson, age 7 in 1851
2. Emily Hall, stepdaughter, age 4 in 1851
3. William T. Hall, b. 1852, married Alice
Faite
4. Elcaney Hall, b. 1853
5. Susan Hall
6. Laura B. Hall, b. 1857, married Harvey Malott: both buried at
b. 11-28-57; d. 8-8-l914 b.
5-20-50; d.8-3-1920 (Old Union
QUARTET OF PRYOR’S GRANDCHILDREN
Topeka, Kansas: 1905
Four of the Six Children of:
CHRISTOPHER C. WILLIAMS and ELIZABETH ANNE EMBREE
Left to right:
Nellie Belle
(Emerson) b. 1875; Franklin E. 1872
Anne E.(Dwelle)
b 1869 Henry E. 1862
= = =
Nellie Williams-Emerson (1-25-1875) is the oldest
Living descendant of Captain Isaac Williams. The
Runner-up is Walter G. Williams, born 2-26-1875
AMERICAN ANCESTRY
OF PRYOR WILLIAMS
== ===== ========
In view of the very considerable
volume of family records we have received since the issuance of the "Pryor
Wi1liams" brochure nearly four years ago, we take this opportunity to
circulate an "errata" sheet for corrections and additions thereto. There were some evident typographic and
editorial errors; and some also due to faulty or limited information. Those of you who have the former brochure
should make the following changes:
Page 3: CHART: (1) Jacob Overman: Scratch "German
immigrants' and insert “From Wethersfield, Mass." Note: Dorothea was 2nd wife and not mother
to the children named. (2) Richard Wi1liams m. 7-10-17 Margaret "Eaton,
Widow". (3) Pike: Change "Abigail" to "Rachel”. (3½)
Under Amelia Gibson: "1802" should be 1801; Cocke Co. should be “East" Tenn. (4) Abram Kern
ancestry: Mark "Questionable"
Page 6: Kern Ancestry may be in error, as
there is evidence that the father of Elder Abram Kern may have been Adam
instead of Abram II
Page 7: Jacob Overman: (5) Scratch (in
Germany) and insert "in New England, 2nd". (6) Insert, "Children
were by first wife, name not available".
Margaret
Page
10: Richard Williams: (7) Add after "Eaton" “m. at Guinedd,1717"
(8) Under
William, "Son of William" should be "Son of Richard".
(9) 7th
child Rachel m. “Joshua" instead of Josiah Chamness.
Page 11: Isaac Wi1liams Sr.: (l0) The date 5-8-1789 should be
"8-5-1789" in 3 places: 5th line from top and children 10 &
11, Priscilla and Mary. (11) Sixth child
Rachel married "Thomas" instead of "Byrd D" Adamson.
Page 13: Isaac Williams, Jr: (12) Isaac
Williams's death, 2nd line should be "2-13-1856" instead of
"about 1864/5". (13) Third
and 4th lines, and wherever occurring, "Lost Springs" should be
"Lost Creek". (14) Next to
last paragraph, "Byrd" Adamson should be "Thomas".
Page
17: Note on Williams Clan in Kansas:
11276.
MAHALA WILLIAMS-KERN
Daughter of Captain Isaac Williams
and Amelia Gibson
Born April 2, 1812, in Sevier
county, Tennessee
Died May 3, 1853, in Lawrence
county, Ind.; buried at Old Union
Married, Feb. 2, 1832, Eli, son of
Abram Kern and Susan Wilson.
Ceremony performed by
his father, Elder Abram Kern. Eli Kern
was born in Kentucky,
July 15, l8l3, and died Jan. 13, 1856,
at Bedford, Ind. Interment at Old Union.
ISSUE
l.+ Cornelius Kern born Jan. 14, 1833; died 2-27-1896
Married Melvina Sears, daughter of
David Sears
and (Rainey) Morris. She was born Oct. 30, 1838; m. Nov. 29,1855.
2.+Isaac Kern born
7-27-1834; died
July 7, 1928
Married Hannah Parr, 1861:
b.l-19-1834; d. 3-5-1901
3. Rebecca Kern born 1835; d.
ll-l6-l859 no issue Buried at
Old
Union
4. Abraham Kern born 1836; d.
_________; no issue
5.+Pryor Kern born
1838; d. May, 1899;
burial Green Hill
Married Mary Francis Romine, Oct.
26, l873 (Bedford
6. Abbie Kern born
1839; d. 5-8-1856;
no issue. Burial at
(Old
Union
7. +Melvin Kern, d. Oct. 29,1916 *** m. _______ Clark
KERNS IN
LAWRENCE COUNTY
In
1820, when the first US Census was taken there, there were two Kern families in
Lawrence county: those of Abram and William Kern. They were neighbors as well
as brothers, William a few years older.
Abram, the Dunkard Preacher, was born in 1786 in North Carolina.
In
1850, when the age and nativity of each individual was recorded there were nine
Kern families. Forty-six of the name
were reported, with ages ranging from one month to 64 years. Nativity: Pennsylvania, 1; Tennessee 1;
North Carolina 2; Kentucky 6; and Indiana 36.
We have been able to identify all but two of these census families:
N
A M E AGE NATIVITY NO. IN IDENTIFIED:
KERN ________________FAMILY
Abraham 64 NC 2 The
Dunkard Elder
Alexander I. 48 NC 6 No
Benjamin 32 Ind 6 Son
of William
Edward 43 Ky 8 No
Eli 38 Ky 8 Son
of Abraham
Jacob 21 Ind 3 Son
of William
John Sr. 28 Ind 4 Son
of Abraham
Noah 32 Ind 6 Son
of William
Peter 27 Ind 4 Son
of William
11278. JAMES
DIXON WILLIAMS
Son of Captain Isaac Williams and
Amelia Gibson
Born March 3, 1816, in Sevier county,
Tenn. Captain Isaac's last Tennesseean
Died, April 28, 1856, Lawrence Co., Ind.; buried at Old Union
Married _________ , Cytha, daughter of
William Cox and Jane Rubottom. She was born Feb. 12, 1820, and died April 19,
1906 interment in Williams Church of
Christ Cemetery.
ISSUE
1.
Eldridge Williams born June 2, 1839,
Lawrence Co. Died Nov. 13, 1862, in
Seminary Hospital, Frederick, Md. He was a Pvt., Co. D, 27th In. Vols. Participated in the sanguinary Battle of
Antietam, and was fatally wounded. See, Cabinet of Correspondence, Part IV:
Letter from Eldridge to Aunt Sally, and letters from Elkanah and Aunt Sally to
Abram.
2.+Louisa Williams born
July 20, 1841; died May 28, 1916
Married,
Dec. 15, 1858, Wesley Rout, son of
Lewis Rout and Sarah Bryant. He was born Nov. 27, 1828, and died Mch.lO,1903
3.+Rufus Williams born March 9, 1843; died
Oct. 11, 1926
Married
Susan J. Kern (b. 1846), daughter of Albert Kern and Elizabeth Hutton.
Buried at St. Petersburg, Fla.
4.+Minerva Williams born April l0, 1845; died
Feb. 16, 1903
Married
George W. Kern son of John R. Kern and
Mahala Adamson He was born Aug. 17,
l845; died Oct. 21, 1927
5.+Emily Williams born April 20, 1847; died
Sept. 22, 1926
Married
David L. Kern, son of Albert Kern and Elizabeth Hutton. He was born March 20,
1842; and died Feb. 8, 1928
6.+Jacob Giles Williams born
Feb. 9, 1849; d .June 4, l928
M.
l-4-1887,Alice Roark-Hendrickson (1860-1909). She is buried at Mt. Olive; he at
Williams Church of Christ Cemetery.
7.+
Cyrena Williams born April 20 1851; died ________
Married
David L. Sears (b. l849) son of Adam Sears and Rebecca Wright.
8. Michael Elijah Williams born 1853; died 1882
Married
Mary A. Boyd; no issue. She was the daughter of Jesse Boyd and Martha
Hollowell. They were married Dec. 21,
1880.
9.+Daniel
Webster Williams born Feb. 26, 1856; died Sept. 17, 1888; burial at Mount
Olive. Married Talitha Craig
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