Individual Details

I've often thought about how horrible it would have been, travelling with four young children, one of them a sick baby, on a long rail journey from North Carolina to Arkansas. Little Clayton came down with diarrhea while on the train. He died soon after the family arrived in Nashville, Arkansas. His grave is on the west side of Nashville Cemetery, separated from those of Pearl, Hester and Elijah Alexander Williams, who are all buried near the ancient magnolia tree on the east side. My grandmother was a woman of very strong Baptist religious beliefs. I'm sure this and the comfort of her extended (Mrs. Evy C. Furr Helms) family, who arrived in the Nashville area at the same time, played a part in helping her overcome the grief of losing this beloved child.

Birth	13 Oct 1898	Union County, NC
Death	4 Jul 1899	Nashville, Howard County, AR

Father	Elijah Alexander WILLIAMS (1871 - 1942)
Mother	Hester Lucinda HELMS (1871 - 1956)
Sibling	Ella Jane WILLIAMS (1892 - 1970)
Sibling	Harvey Alexander WILLIAMS (1894 - 1975)
Sibling	Lewis Matt Ransom WILLIAMS (1897 - 1983)
Sibling	Pearl I. WILLIAMS (1902 - 1908)
Sibling	James Henry WILLIAMS (1905 - 1978)
Sibling	Living
Sibling	John Allen WILLIAMS (1912 - 1983)