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Williams Family History

"Emmie Williams Garnto's Family"

Emmie Nomie Williams Garnto

YOU SHOULD START AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE AND FIND YOUR LIVING RELATIVES FIRST. IT WILL MAKE MORE SENCE THAT WAY!

POSSIBLE WILLIAMS FAMILY BEGINNING

SHADRACK WILLIAMS b. about 1762? or 1770?
Married HANNAH CLEMENS JONES b. in Virginia. Shadrack married Hannah Clemens JONES in Sheandoah Co., Virginia, in 1785, following his discharge. They ended up in Grainger Co., Tenn.

CHILDREN of SHADRACK WILLIAMS and HANNAH CLEMENS JONES:

1. SHADRACK WILLIAMS, JR. b. ABT 1790



SHADRACK WILLIAMS, JR.
(May have been spelled Shadrick)
He owned slaves, (house servants).

SHADRACK WILLIAMS, JR. born about 1790 married PEGGY OZINNA WEBB, AKA MARGARET born ABT. 1792
(AKA Peggy Lanna Webb)

WEBB Family Connections

Peggy Webb Williams was the daughter of SAMUEL WEBB born 1764 died 1820 in Va. and MARTHA TABITHA DRIVER WEBB b. 1765 d. 1827. Peggy's name is sometimes spelled "Pegozina". They had 9 children. CHILDREN OF SAMUEL WEBB and MARTHA TABITHA DRIVER 1) John Driver WEBB ( 1790 SC [?] - 29 Feb 1852 mrd Charlotte COVINGTON 2) Peggy Ozina WEBB (1792- aft Jun 1850)mrd Shadrack WILLIAMS 3) Giles WEBB ( bet 1792 1820) mrd Holland ASKEW 4) Lemuel WEBB 5) Lewis WEBB 6) Samuel WEBB, Jr (22 Apr 1797- 24 Mar 1866 Montgomery Co., GA mrd Martha COVINGTON, Mary "Polly" ASKEW 7) Benjamin WEBB (1799-aft jun 1846) mrd Amelia "Milley" POWELL Tracy MATHIS 8) Martha Tabitha "Litha" WEBB {my line} (2 Jan 1802-18Jun 1863 Johnson Co., GA) mrd Silas POWELL 9) Rhonda WEBB (1 Sep 1808- unk Ogelthayse, GA) mrd Johnson POWELL Samuel Webbs parents were John Webb 1737-1798 and Rachel Giles of Va. John Webb's parents were Isaac Webb 1709-1760 and Frances Barber 1716-1782 (Frances BARBER's parents were Charles Barber b. 1676 and Frances Glascock b. 1680). Isaac Webb's parents were Giles Webb and Elizabeth Spann. (Giles Webb had a grandfather also named Giles Webb born 1620 in England.) The Webb Line goes all the way back to when GILES WEBB, born: 1620 in Gloucestershire, England came to Richond County, Va., from England, on a ship called the Thomas Babe. I found where the Webb Line goes all the way back to SIR HENRY WEBB born in 1350 in Warwickshire, England. The WEBB family was originally from Dorset, a shire on the southern coast of Wales in England. For nearly two hundred years the WEBBS had resided in this place which is near Stratford-on-Avon before Alexander Jr. with his four sons came to America. The brothers had become quite wealthy. They sold their estate in England for a large sum of money prior to their departure. This English property was inherited through their ancestor, Sir Henry Webb. A copy of the letter which Queen Catherine Parr sent her Council (Cabinet Ministers) asking them to grant her beloved friend, Henry Webb, the lands and estates that had been mentioned for him is still extant and in possession of Dr. George F. Webb of Astabula, Ohio to whom much of the historical data of the Webb family is credited. These lands had been confiscated by the King at the suppression of the monasteries and were located in Dorsetshire, England. In later years they became of value to the children who came to America. Click on this link for: DECENDANTS OF SIR HENRY WEBB Peggy is #789.

Shadrack Williams, Jr. and Peggy Ozinna Webb
were married on September 26, 1810 in Montgomery County, Georgia.


Montgomery County Marriage Records


My cousin, Lamar Williams, from Wrightsville, Georgia, provided lots of the Williams/Walker/Bass Family history (MA EMMIE'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY).

They owned land in Washington County, Georgia.
Children of SHADRACK WILLIAMS JR., & PEGGY WEBB:

1. Freeman Williams b: ABT 1815(married Mary Frances Horton)
2. Della WILLIAMS b: 1816
3. Samuel Williams b: 16 OCT 1817 in GA(married Matilda Moy)
4. William WILLIAMS b: 1819
5. Peter WILLIAMS b: 1820
6. Jane Williams b: 1823(Jincy) (married ___________ Williams)
7. Charlotte Williams b: 1826 (Could have been Caroline) married _______ Bray
8. Louisa Williams (called Louie or Lucy) (female)
9. SHADRACK WILLIAMS III b. 1833 (married Elizabeth Gatsey Walker)


Note: There may have been another son named Jeremiah Williams (never married)


SHADRACK WILLIAMS III b. 6/4/1832 d. 11/28/1888. He was born in part of Washington County, Georgia which later was cut into Johnson County.

married ELIZABETH GATSEY WALKER on Dec. 21, 1854. She was called Gatsey.

Shadrack Williams III was a Justice of the Peace in Johnson and Washington County, Georgia. He was a confederate soldier and served in Company D, 59th Infantry Regiment in 1862. He later joined Company E, 2nd Regiment, Militia, and held the rank of 3rd Sergeant. Two of his brothers Samuel and Freeman Williams also served in the military. Their great-grandfather was a revolutionary war soldier.

Shadrack III died of lock jaw after getting his finger crushed in a cane mill. He was 62 when he died.

Shadrack III married Elizabeth Gatsey Walker.

WALKER Family Connections

WALKER FAMILY BEGINNINGS The Walker family name is Scottish. We are related to the Walkers on my mother's side of the family. Emmie Williams Garnto's grandparents were Walkers. Our Walker family line goes back to ISHAM WALKER who married MARY ANN CARTER born 1734 in COLLECTON,ST. BARTHOLEMEW,S.C. Mary ann Carter's parents were JACOB CARTER and SARAH MIDDLETON The Carter line goes all the way back to Thomas Carter b. 1545 and Jane Hyll b. 1550 of BRIDGE BENION OF WATFORD AND ALDENHAM,HERTFORDSHIRE,ENGLAND. CHILDREN OF ISHAM WALKER AND MARY ANN CARTER: 1. LITTLEBERRY WALKER b: 1767 in SOUTH CAROLINA 2. MARY ANN WALKER b: 1770 3. ISHAM WALKER b: 1769 in COLLECTON,ST. BARTHOLEMEW,S.C. 4. ELIZABETH WALKER b: 1773 5. ANSEL WALKER b: 1775 6. ELISHA WALKER b: 1777 7. JOEL WALKER b: 1779 8. WILLIAM WALKER b: 1781 9. GEORGE WALKER b: 1763 ELISHA WALKER R. S. was born 1762 in Virginia d. 1810 in Georgia. He was a Revolutionary Soldier and served in Richmond County, Virginia Militia during the American Revolution. He was granted land in Washington County, Ga. Married MARY ELIZABETH BOWERS in 1787. Elisha and Mary Elizabeth are buried at Stokes-Walker Burial Ground on the Estate of Miss Martha Stokes in Wrightsville,Georgia. Bowers Family Connection Mary Elizabeth Bowers b. 1734 was the daughter of Morris Bowers, R. S. (Revolutionary Soldier) born in Middlesex, Va. married Ester Bonner. Morris Bowers served with George Washington at Valley Forge, PA. He was a Fifer . They raised seven children. Elisha Walker was honored as a Revolutionary Soldier in "The Wrightsville Headlight", Wrightsville, Georgia, in 1958. CHILDREN OF ELISHA WALKER and MARY ELIZABETH BOWERS: 1. Noah Walker b. 1790 married Charline Calhoun 2. Jerymiah Walker b. 1792 married Jo Ann Calhoun (spelled Jeremiah and Johanna on 1850 census of Laurens Co. 3. Henry Walker b. 1794 married Charity Fox 4. Jordy Walker (female)b. 1796 (name may have been Judy) married ______Johnson 5. Milly Permelia Walker b. 1798 (may have been Millie Perusilla) married Arthur Rawls 6. Annie Walker b. 1800 married Jonathan Parker 7. LOTT WALKER married MARY POLLY WALTERS Photo of Henry and Charity Fox Walker's Daugther, Zilphia and her son, Braxton, daughter, Sarah and son, Simon Peter Williams, Jr. Simon Peter Williams married Rosena Bass listed below. (Adopted 5th cousin). The photo on the right is another photo of Zilphia Walker Williams As written in the Wrightsville Headlight, May 8, 1958: "All seven children grew to manhood and womanhood and reared large families of their own, many of whom are among some of the best children in Georgia." LOTT WALKER b. 3/2/1802 Married MARY POLLY WALTERS born in 1807 WALTERS Family Connection MARY POLLY WALTERS was the dauthger of RICHARD WALTERS b. ABT 1775 - died 1859 in N. C. and MARGARET _________ of N. C. born ABT 1775 - died 1859 of Washington Co., Ga. Last Will and Testament of RICHARD WALTERS Note: In Richard Walters' Will he leaves his negro slaves and their issue to his wife "to dispose of as she pleases". Note: The will list Mary Polly Walters husband as Pat Walker . . . it should be Lott Walker. It was probably a hand written will and hard to read. CHILDREN RICHARD AND MARGARET ________ WALTERS b. ABT. 1775 - died 1859 : 1. MARY POLLY WALTERS b. 1807 married Lott Walker 2. Chloe Walters married Burrell McLendon 3. Thomas Walters 4. Sebron Walters 5. Simeon Walters 6. Gatsey Walters b. ABT 1813 married John C. Webb 7. Richard B. G. Walters Lott and Mary Walker lived in Wrightsville, Georgia. CHILDREN OF LOTT WALKER AND "MARY" POLLY WALTERS: 1. Elisha Walters Walker b. 1832 married Martha Webb 2. ELIZABETH GATSEY WALKER b. 1835 married Shadrack Williams, Jr. 3. Mary Walker b. 1845 married William Page - 2nd marriage Benjamin Jordan 4. William Andrew Walker b. 1833 married Martha Arline 5. Richard Mose Walker b. 1836 (Pvt. Co. H, 28th Ga. Inf., married Mary Brantley 6. Magaret Ann Walker b. 1840 married Benjamin W. Holt 7. Melissa Jane Walker b. 1842 in Ga. married Virgil M. Mayo 8. Eliza E. Walker b. 1848 9. Susan S. Walker b. 1850

NOW BACK TO THE WILLIAMS LINE:

ELIZABETH "GATSEY" WALKER married SHADRACK WILLIAMS III

Elizabeth Gatsey Walker was born in Johnson County, Georgia, January 29, 1835. She was a member of the Methodist Church for a few years and later joined the Christian Church.


Elizabeth Gatsey Walker Williams (AKA Mrs. E. G. Williams) was named after her mother's sister, Gatsey Walters.
She was called Aunt Gatsey by her neices and nephews. (It may have been Aunt Gatrie). She died at the age of 84 and was buried on Christmas morning in 1854. (This information is found her obituary in the Wrightsville Headlight Newspaper)

Children of SHADRACK WILLIAMS, JR. b. 12/21/1832 and ELIZABETH GATSEY WALKER :

Shadrack Williams, Jr. was a confederate soldier 1. Etta Williams (married Archie Page)
2. Bob Williams (never married)
3. W. S. (Bill) Williams (married Fannie Olliver)
4. E. L. {Emmett} Williams (married ________ Chester)
5. Mittie Williams (married F. Melton Cochran)
6. Carrie Williams (married William {W. M.} Oliver) of Wrightsville, Ga.
7. Maggie Williams (married Jim Cave)
8. Emma E. Williams (died young, never married)
9.* (W. D.)WALTER WILLIAMS (married Rachel Bass)

WALTER WILLIAMS b. 1855
married RACHEL BASS b. 1855. Walter and Rachel were married on January 7, 1877.

BASS Family Connections

My cousin Lamar Price said that: Rachel was an orphan and a full blooded Indian, either Cherokee or Creek) Rachel was raised by Abram Bass b. 1813 and Lydia _________ b. 1831 of Washington County, Ga. Click on this link and you will see the Bass family listed on the 2nd screen of the 1860 Census of Washington County, Ga. 1860 Census - Bass Family CHILDREN OF ABRAM BASS and LYDIA ____________: 1. Green J. Bass b. 1849 2. John J. Bass b. 1850 3. Rosena P. Bass b. 1851 married Simon Peter Williams, Jr. Her name may have been Rosean 4. Emma J. Bass b. 1852 5. Williams W. Bass b. 1853 6. Rachel Bass b. 1855 married Walter Williams 7. Mary Bass b. 1858 Photo of Rosena Bass and husband, Simon Peter Williams, Jr. Rosena and Rachel were full-blooded Creek Indians

Walter Williams was of Irish descent. He was a prominent planter and a Baliff. They lived in Johnson County, Georgia. CHILDREN OF WALTER AND RACHEL WILLIAMS: 1. Emma Elizabeth "Lizzie" Williams (died of heart failure)married George Wesley Price 2. *EMMIE NOMIE WILLIAMS b. 1890 (died of kidney poisening) married Willie Garnto 3. Viola Williams b. 1898 (died after a long sickness) 4. Charlie L. Williams b. 1892 5. Vernon D. Williams b. 1894 (died after a long sickness) 6. Ben W. Williams (died by drowning in the Oconee River) married _______ Wood Ben Williams was found drowned in the Oconee River in Dublin. EMMIE WILLIAMS married WILLIE GARNTO Click this link: The GARNTO Family Connections Willie Garnto (died after a series of strokes) and Emmie Garnto are buried in the Snow Hill Cemetery in Cadwell, Laurens County, Georgia). Willie Garnto already had two sons Blondell and Durell when he married Emmie Williams. Children of EMMIE WILLIAMS and WILLIE GARNTO: 1. Evelyn Lucile Garnto (My Mother) 2. Avis Esteen Garnto "Avis" Esteen Garnto married James Sterling Children of Avis and James Sterling: 1. ROGER STERLING (one son: Mark Sterling) 2. KAREN EVONNE STERLING (one daughter: Angela Thigpen "Angie") EVELYN GARNTO born 11/17/24 . . . . married CLINTON JUNIOR ( C. J. ) (Buck) SELF b. 2/29/20 d. 1/19/75(My Parents) Children of Evelyn and Buck Self: 1. MARCIA ELLEN SELF b. 1/30/62 MARCIA ELLEN SELF My Daughter is CARLIE CRYSTAL COLLINS of Bleckley County, Ga. PHOTO GALLERY Garnto-Williams Family Chart Garnto, Williams and Hester Family Self, Rooks, Mullis, Family