Joel Williams (1806 - 1891)

Born 7 Mar 1806 in Nash County, North Carolina, USA

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Died 9 Jun 1891 at age 85 in Blanconia, Bee County, Texas

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Biography

Joel was born in 1806. He passed away in 1891. Personal recollection of events witnessed by Howard Presfield as remembered 30 Sep 2017.

Joel Williams BIRTH 7 Mar 1806 Nash County, North Carolina, USA DEATH 9 Jun 1891 (aged 85) ^[1] Blanconia, Bee County, Texas, USA BURIAL Blanconia Methodist Cemetery Blanconia, Bee County, Texas, USA PLOT 21 C, near his sister, Mourning Williams Bissett 21 D. MEMORIAL ID 6780783 ·

TEXT Bio by: J B Williams & T Slaydon Williams Joel Williams (1806-1891), buried here in, Blanconia Methodist/Williams Cemetery, Formerly named Pleasant Grove Cemetery, in Blanconia, Formerly named Dark Corner,... Husband of 1st spouse, Polly McCrary (1809)

2nd spouse, Mary Sarah Frierson (1814-1900), buried in Friendship Cem., Fishville/Pollock, Grant Parish, La.

Father of Joseph Anderson Williams, c.s.a. (1836) Emmeline Williams (1838) Sarah Williams (1842) James Knox Polk Williams, c.s.a. (1843) Robert Williams (1846) Christian Isabella Williams (1848) Frierson Henry Williams (1851)

Joel's sister Mourning Williams Bissett and brother Henderson Williams, and his wife, Emily Wofford are buried here as well.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 28 October 2018), memorial page for Joel Williams (7 Mar 1806–9 Jun 1891), Find A Grave: Memorial #6780783, citing Blanconia Methodist Cemetery, Blanconia, Bee County, Texas, USA; maintained by Shara Hatcher (contributor 46551039), headstone photo.

• Year: 1840; Census Place: Chickasaw, Mississippi; Roll: 215; Page: 68; Image: 139; Family History Library Film: 0014841
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4L6-579 : 22 December 2020), Joel Williams, Neshoba, Neshoba, Mississippi, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GZ-PWV : 18 February 2021), Joel Williams, 1860.
• * "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSK-YBC : 29 May 2021), Joel Williams, 1870.
• Year: 1870; Census Place: Beat 5, Neshoba, Mississippi; Roll: M593_741; Page: 377; Image: 758.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDX2-LLZ : 14 January 2022), Joel Williams in household of Joe Williams, Vernon, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 47, sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

See also:

• Williams Family Bible and Williams Family records, information given by Jonathan Williams of Leesville, La. (great-great-great-grandson) of Joel Williams and Mary Sarah Frierson.

• Henderson Williams, c.s.a. (Founder of Pleasant Grove Methodist Church-1858), had wrote in his records(1893-1895), of his brother, Joel's death, and their father, grandfather, great-grandfather.

• An ancestor of our family, on Henderson Williams' side, Mrs. Clara Hatcher O'Brien Nesmith, wrote a book on the Williams Family,

• Deep Roots and Strong Branches, published in 1972, about the Samuel and Pilgrim Williams Families of North Carolina.