Individual Details
James Henry Williams
(4 Sep 1836 - 14 Feb 1929)
BIRTH-DEATH: Letter, Elmer Pangburn, Recorder, Garfield County, Jordan,
Montana, 23Jul1974, to Art Hawkinson.
MILITARY: "Wisconsin at Vicksburg, Report of the Wisconsin Vicksburg Monument
Commission, including the story of the Campaign and Siege of Vicksburg in
1863", compiled for the Commission by Hosea W. Rood, Madison WI,1914; 1862-1865;
Hudson Public Library (History Room), Hudson WI; Copied by Nancy Hawkinson.
MILITARY: "History of Grant County, Wisconsin" by Castello N. Holford,
published 1900 by The Teller Printer, Lancaster; p352-369; Wisconsin State
Historical Society, Madison WI; Photocopied 1995 by Nancy Hawkinson.
CENSUS: 1920 U.S. Census, School District #8, Garfield Co MT; 1920; ED122,
Sheet 1B; Lines 83-85; Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison WI; NOTE:
Living in the household with James and Elizabeth Williams is their daughter,
Nellie E. Carpenter, age 38, a widow.
MARRIAGE(1): Application for Civil War Pension; 1898; states he was first
married to Ellen Pitville.
MARRIAGE(2): FGS, Edna M. Miller, Cedaredge CO & Marvin R. Miller, Butte MT,
1995.
DEATH: Obituary of James Henry Williams, "Civil War Vet Passes Away At Age of
92", THE JORDAN TIMES, Jordan MT, 22Feb1929; 1929; p1; ; Two separate
articles, photocopies in possession of Art Hawkinson, Hudson WI.
Certificate of Service, provided by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
certifies "that records in the state archives show that James Williams, late a
private in company B of the 33rd regiment of Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers was
enlisted on the 14th day of August 1862, by George R. Frank at Boscobel, Wis.
for the term of 3 years, was mustered into the military service of the United
States on the 18th day of October 1862, at Racine. Birthplace, Boyle county,
Kentucky. Resident of, and service credited to Blue River, Grant
County, Wis.... and was mustered out of company on the 9th day of August 1865.
The records further show that said soldier when enlisted was 21 years of age,
single, had blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, was 5 feet 5 inches in
height, and by occupation a farmer."
The Thirty-third regiment was the last of the Wisconsin volunteer regiments
raised under the "600,000-call" in 1862. It was the intention to raise a Grant
County regiment under the call, but the requisite number of enlistments could
not be made in time, and part of the Grant county men went into the Twentieth
and Twenty-fifth, leaving only three companies and a half for the Thirty-third.
This regiment contained more Grant county men than any other except the
Twenty-fifth, and it nobly upheld the reputation of the county. It was to this
regiment, on a general review in Mississippi, that Sherman made his noted
remark: "I always count a Wisconsin regiment a brigade."
NOPRINT:
The regiment was enlisted mostly in August and early September, and spent
several weeks drilling. It left the State November 12 en route for Memphis.
At Memphis the regiment was placed in the Third Brigade, of the Third Division,
Army of Tennessee, and on the 26th of November started on the expedition
intended to come up in the rear of Vicksburg-- one of Grant's several failures,
before his final successful campaign against that stronghold. The men were
burdened with ten days' rations and one hundred rounds of ammunition. The
regiment was too far from the front to see any fighting, but did some hard work
repairing roads and burning bridges. The advance was slow. Beyond the
Tallahatchie, at Hurricane Creek, the commissary supplies gave out, but the
regiment took possession of a little mill, and as corn was to be found, kept
starvation off with a supply of corn-meal-- and nothing else. The expedition
reached Oxford about New Year's. As this was the date on which President
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect, a regiment from Southern
Illinous mutinied, refusing to serve longer "to free niggers." The
Thirty-third was placed on guard over them for several days, when the officerswere cashiered and the regiment broken up, the enlisted men being distributed
among other Illinous regiments.
About this time the Thirty-third was placed in the "Fighting Fourth" Division
at the special request of its commander, General Lauman. The supplies at Holly
Springs were captured by the Rebels and communication with Memphis, the base of
supplies, cut off, and the army was without rations. Nothing but corn could be
had, and there was now no mill to grind it. It was boiled and parched, and
on this alone the Thirty-third lived ten days or more. The weather was bad
and the poor little "shelter-tents" hardly deserved the name of shelter.
The measles broke out in camp and many died of the disease or its following
affections.
The army was forced to retreat to the line of Memphis and Charleston
Railroad,
the Thirty-third being posted at Moscow, forty miles east of Memphis. The
regiment was placed in the Sixteeneth Corps. On March 9 the regiment began a
march to Memphis, which it accomplished in continuous rain and terrible mud.
On the 18th of April the regiment left Memphis as part of an expeditin sent
to attack a Rebel force on the Coldwater, forty miles south of Memphis. At
Hernando the enemy was encountered and fifteen of them killed and seventy-five
taken prisoners. In the advance next morning the Thirty-third was the first
infantry in the column, and in the attack of the enermy on Coldwater Creek,
came up on the double-quick to the relief of the cavalry, and poured in such a
destructive volley on the enemy as to force them to retire across the creek.
An expected cooperating force failing to come up, the Union troops retired, the
Thirty-third being the rearguard. When near Memphis reinforcements were met
and the expedition returned to Coldwater, but the Rebels had left, and the
expediation returned to Memphis.
On the 17th of May the regiment embarked for Young's Point, Louisiana, to
join
the army operating against Vicksburg. Near Greenville, Mississippi, the Rebles
had two pieces of artillery concealed behind the levee, and opened fire at
short range on the transports crowded with men and horses. The boats were
rapidly pushed to shore, the Thirty-third hurried off and chased the Rebelsseveral miles, but could not overtake them.
SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
From Young's Point the regiment went to Snyder's Bluff, on the Yazoo River,
and on the 20th took possession of the artillery and ammunition which the Rebels
had abandoned in their hurried evacuation of the place. The regiment then
marched by way of Haine's Bluff to near Vicksburg, but returned to guard
Snyder's Bluff from an attack by Johnston's army. It held its position here
until the 24th, when it marched around to the south of the city and took a
position as part of the besieging line, throwing up a line of fortifications.
On the night of the 13th of June Company D, numbering fifty men, advanced on
the right of the brigade front to take the enemy's riflepits immediately under
a strong fort. It was supported by Company F and two Illinois flankers. The
enemy kept up a furious fire on the storming party, but it passed over the
men's heads, as the Rebels were considerably higher up. Company D, the men
creeping on their hands and knees half way up the hill, charged and took the
hill with the rifle-pits, the Rebels falling back precipitately to the fort.
As tools to entrench had been neglected, the Union force was compelled to fall
back at daylight, as it was expsed to the cross-fire of three forts at short
range. The Rebels at once reoccupied the position. To retake the position, at
dark the next night, Companies D and A of the Thirty-third advanced, the
Forty-first Illinois covering their flanks. Before the impetuous charge of
these two companies the Rebels broke and fled, without injuring a man of the
assailing party. The position thus taken was permanently held, although the
Rebels made attempts to retake it.
On the night of the 21st, six comanies of the Thirdty-third, A, B, C, D, E
and
G, most of the Grant county men, advanced the line in the center of the brigade
front to within eighty-five years of a strong fort. Company D, was in advance.
On reaching the position desired for a rifle-pit the company was halted and
Captain Warner, in a whisper, called for ten volunteers to come forward for
some service which he did not state. The following men stepped to the front:
Rufus J. Allen, William Barr, Elmer Crain, Castell N. Holford, Edward L.
Hudson, Thomas Hawkins, Lafayette Lumpkin, Charles Seeber, George Trine and
Peter Vogt. They were ordered in a whisper to advance in a skirmish line
half-way to the Rebel fort and remain there till daylight as a picket. It was
a hard position. To remain awake all night, lying still was a terrible task,
and to fall asleep and be seen at daylight exposed within fifty steps of the
rebel line was almost certain death. At daylight a whistle from Captain Warner
brought the pickets in. The next night the Fourteen Illinois relieved the
Thirty-third and were drive out by the Rebels with a loss of seventeen killed
and wounded.
On the night of the 24th Companies A, C, D, F and H retook this important
position. Company D again led the advance, rushing in on the Rebels so
suddently that they retreated precipitately, leaving four men killed and
seventeen wounded and fifteen abandoned muskets. The only loss of the
Thirty-third was two men in Co. H. The regiment was, for this feat, highly
complimented by an order from General Lauman.
See: "Wisconsin at Vicksburg, Report of the Wisconsin-Vicksburg Monument
Commission including the story of the Campaign and Seige of Vicksburg in 1863",
compiled for the Commission by Hosea W. Rood, Madison, WI, 1914; pg45-46, 96,
124, 168-171; and "History of Grant County, Wisconsin, Castello N. Holford,
1900, p353-369, for more information on this regiment which endured many
hardships and participated in not only the seige of Vicksburg but also in
Sherman's famous Meridian raid, the capture of Fort DeRussey on the Red River
and more.
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The Jordan Gazette, 25Mar1915, p5
James and Cyrus Williams and Robert Brady, prominent ranchers of SnowCreek and
Seven Blackfoot creek, were attending to business matters in Jordan on Monday
of this week.
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The Jordan Gazette, 21Oct1915, p5
James Williams came in from his ranch near Chalk Butte Monday evening for some
supplies and to attend to some business errands.
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The Jordan Gazette, Jordan MT, 19Apr1917, p4
James Williams and son, William, were in from their ranches on Snow and Seven
Blackfoot creeks last Saturday. These gentlemen have been at home all winter--
for the same reason everyone else remained at home-- the condition of the
weather.
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The Jordan Gazette, Jordan MT, 15Apr1920, p5
James Williams came into Jordan from his ranch on Snow creek the fore part of
the week to attend to business matters. Mr. Williams has been suffering from
a severe attach of rheumatisn which has confined him to his home all winter,
this being his first trip to Jordan since last fall.
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The Jordan Times, 22Feb1929, p1
CIVIL WAR VET PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 92
After an illness of more than four years, when he suffered a stroke of
paralysis, death came to James Henry Williams at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Frank Haney on Hell creek Thursday, February 14, at the advanced age of 92
years.
Deceased had always been a pioneer. Born in Kentucky when that was a new and
unsettled territory; his parents moved to Wisconsin, going from there to a
newer frontier, that of Nebraska and in 1912 came with his family to Garfield
county. He served with honor in Company B of the 33rd Wisconsin Infantry
during the Civil War and was honorably discharged at the termination of that
great struggle.
In 1862 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Wright and to this union
were born three sons and four daughters-- two daughters and two sons residing
in this county-- Mrs. Frank Haney and Mrs. Wm. Searls and Cyrus and William
Williams.
Services were held at the Community Church Saturday at 10:00 o'clock A.M., the
Rev. Wm. G. Johnson officiating. A detail of ex-service men composed of
Lodhardt Nergaard, R.E. Purcell, Wm. T. Taylor, George Woods, Henry S. Wagner
and H.W. Sankey turned out and accorded the old veteran Military Honors. Mrs.
S.C. West, Mrs. Leona Lahn and Percy Joyce, sang, accompanied on the piano by
Mrs. J.D. McCay.
Interment was made in the Greenridge Cemetery, beside the body of his wife who
preceeded him in death in 1925.
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The Jordan Times, 22Feb1929, p1
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our thanks to all our neighbors and friends on Hell creek; to
the people of Jordan, the American Legion and all those who assisted us during
our recent bereavement in the death of our father, James Henry Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haney
Mr. and Mrs. William Searls
Cyrus Williams
Mr. and Mrs. William Williams
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On his application for a Civil War pension in 1898, he states he was married
first to Ellen Pitville who died in 1868, and second to Elizabeth Wright in
1869. At that time he stated his children were born between 1870 and 1887. In
response to a government questionnaire in 1917 he stated his children were born
between 1867 and 1884. The 1917 questionnaire gave birth month and day as well
as year.
[Note: Our ancestors weren't asked for personal information as often as we are
today. As a result they were less likely to have such information or to
remember the details accurately. The time of the year was often easier to
remember than the exact year itself.]
Montana, 23Jul1974, to Art Hawkinson.
MILITARY: "Wisconsin at Vicksburg, Report of the Wisconsin Vicksburg Monument
Commission, including the story of the Campaign and Siege of Vicksburg in
1863", compiled for the Commission by Hosea W. Rood, Madison WI,1914; 1862-1865;
Hudson Public Library (History Room), Hudson WI; Copied by Nancy Hawkinson.
MILITARY: "History of Grant County, Wisconsin" by Castello N. Holford,
published 1900 by The Teller Printer, Lancaster; p352-369; Wisconsin State
Historical Society, Madison WI; Photocopied 1995 by Nancy Hawkinson.
CENSUS: 1920 U.S. Census, School District #8, Garfield Co MT; 1920; ED122,
Sheet 1B; Lines 83-85; Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison WI; NOTE:
Living in the household with James and Elizabeth Williams is their daughter,
Nellie E. Carpenter, age 38, a widow.
MARRIAGE(1): Application for Civil War Pension; 1898; states he was first
married to Ellen Pitville.
MARRIAGE(2): FGS, Edna M. Miller, Cedaredge CO & Marvin R. Miller, Butte MT,
1995.
DEATH: Obituary of James Henry Williams, "Civil War Vet Passes Away At Age of
92", THE JORDAN TIMES, Jordan MT, 22Feb1929; 1929; p1; ; Two separate
articles, photocopies in possession of Art Hawkinson, Hudson WI.
Certificate of Service, provided by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
certifies "that records in the state archives show that James Williams, late a
private in company B of the 33rd regiment of Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers was
enlisted on the 14th day of August 1862, by George R. Frank at Boscobel, Wis.
for the term of 3 years, was mustered into the military service of the United
States on the 18th day of October 1862, at Racine. Birthplace, Boyle county,
Kentucky. Resident of, and service credited to Blue River, Grant
County, Wis.... and was mustered out of company on the 9th day of August 1865.
The records further show that said soldier when enlisted was 21 years of age,
single, had blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, was 5 feet 5 inches in
height, and by occupation a farmer."
The Thirty-third regiment was the last of the Wisconsin volunteer regiments
raised under the "600,000-call" in 1862. It was the intention to raise a Grant
County regiment under the call, but the requisite number of enlistments could
not be made in time, and part of the Grant county men went into the Twentieth
and Twenty-fifth, leaving only three companies and a half for the Thirty-third.
This regiment contained more Grant county men than any other except the
Twenty-fifth, and it nobly upheld the reputation of the county. It was to this
regiment, on a general review in Mississippi, that Sherman made his noted
remark: "I always count a Wisconsin regiment a brigade."
NOPRINT:
The regiment was enlisted mostly in August and early September, and spent
several weeks drilling. It left the State November 12 en route for Memphis.
At Memphis the regiment was placed in the Third Brigade, of the Third Division,
Army of Tennessee, and on the 26th of November started on the expedition
intended to come up in the rear of Vicksburg-- one of Grant's several failures,
before his final successful campaign against that stronghold. The men were
burdened with ten days' rations and one hundred rounds of ammunition. The
regiment was too far from the front to see any fighting, but did some hard work
repairing roads and burning bridges. The advance was slow. Beyond the
Tallahatchie, at Hurricane Creek, the commissary supplies gave out, but the
regiment took possession of a little mill, and as corn was to be found, kept
starvation off with a supply of corn-meal-- and nothing else. The expedition
reached Oxford about New Year's. As this was the date on which President
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect, a regiment from Southern
Illinous mutinied, refusing to serve longer "to free niggers." The
Thirty-third was placed on guard over them for several days, when the officerswere cashiered and the regiment broken up, the enlisted men being distributed
among other Illinous regiments.
About this time the Thirty-third was placed in the "Fighting Fourth" Division
at the special request of its commander, General Lauman. The supplies at Holly
Springs were captured by the Rebels and communication with Memphis, the base of
supplies, cut off, and the army was without rations. Nothing but corn could be
had, and there was now no mill to grind it. It was boiled and parched, and
on this alone the Thirty-third lived ten days or more. The weather was bad
and the poor little "shelter-tents" hardly deserved the name of shelter.
The measles broke out in camp and many died of the disease or its following
affections.
The army was forced to retreat to the line of Memphis and Charleston
Railroad,
the Thirty-third being posted at Moscow, forty miles east of Memphis. The
regiment was placed in the Sixteeneth Corps. On March 9 the regiment began a
march to Memphis, which it accomplished in continuous rain and terrible mud.
On the 18th of April the regiment left Memphis as part of an expeditin sent
to attack a Rebel force on the Coldwater, forty miles south of Memphis. At
Hernando the enemy was encountered and fifteen of them killed and seventy-five
taken prisoners. In the advance next morning the Thirty-third was the first
infantry in the column, and in the attack of the enermy on Coldwater Creek,
came up on the double-quick to the relief of the cavalry, and poured in such a
destructive volley on the enemy as to force them to retire across the creek.
An expected cooperating force failing to come up, the Union troops retired, the
Thirty-third being the rearguard. When near Memphis reinforcements were met
and the expedition returned to Coldwater, but the Rebels had left, and the
expediation returned to Memphis.
On the 17th of May the regiment embarked for Young's Point, Louisiana, to
join
the army operating against Vicksburg. Near Greenville, Mississippi, the Rebles
had two pieces of artillery concealed behind the levee, and opened fire at
short range on the transports crowded with men and horses. The boats were
rapidly pushed to shore, the Thirty-third hurried off and chased the Rebelsseveral miles, but could not overtake them.
SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
From Young's Point the regiment went to Snyder's Bluff, on the Yazoo River,
and on the 20th took possession of the artillery and ammunition which the Rebels
had abandoned in their hurried evacuation of the place. The regiment then
marched by way of Haine's Bluff to near Vicksburg, but returned to guard
Snyder's Bluff from an attack by Johnston's army. It held its position here
until the 24th, when it marched around to the south of the city and took a
position as part of the besieging line, throwing up a line of fortifications.
On the night of the 13th of June Company D, numbering fifty men, advanced on
the right of the brigade front to take the enemy's riflepits immediately under
a strong fort. It was supported by Company F and two Illinois flankers. The
enemy kept up a furious fire on the storming party, but it passed over the
men's heads, as the Rebels were considerably higher up. Company D, the men
creeping on their hands and knees half way up the hill, charged and took the
hill with the rifle-pits, the Rebels falling back precipitately to the fort.
As tools to entrench had been neglected, the Union force was compelled to fall
back at daylight, as it was expsed to the cross-fire of three forts at short
range. The Rebels at once reoccupied the position. To retake the position, at
dark the next night, Companies D and A of the Thirty-third advanced, the
Forty-first Illinois covering their flanks. Before the impetuous charge of
these two companies the Rebels broke and fled, without injuring a man of the
assailing party. The position thus taken was permanently held, although the
Rebels made attempts to retake it.
On the night of the 21st, six comanies of the Thirdty-third, A, B, C, D, E
and
G, most of the Grant county men, advanced the line in the center of the brigade
front to within eighty-five years of a strong fort. Company D, was in advance.
On reaching the position desired for a rifle-pit the company was halted and
Captain Warner, in a whisper, called for ten volunteers to come forward for
some service which he did not state. The following men stepped to the front:
Rufus J. Allen, William Barr, Elmer Crain, Castell N. Holford, Edward L.
Hudson, Thomas Hawkins, Lafayette Lumpkin, Charles Seeber, George Trine and
Peter Vogt. They were ordered in a whisper to advance in a skirmish line
half-way to the Rebel fort and remain there till daylight as a picket. It was
a hard position. To remain awake all night, lying still was a terrible task,
and to fall asleep and be seen at daylight exposed within fifty steps of the
rebel line was almost certain death. At daylight a whistle from Captain Warner
brought the pickets in. The next night the Fourteen Illinois relieved the
Thirty-third and were drive out by the Rebels with a loss of seventeen killed
and wounded.
On the night of the 24th Companies A, C, D, F and H retook this important
position. Company D again led the advance, rushing in on the Rebels so
suddently that they retreated precipitately, leaving four men killed and
seventeen wounded and fifteen abandoned muskets. The only loss of the
Thirty-third was two men in Co. H. The regiment was, for this feat, highly
complimented by an order from General Lauman.
See: "Wisconsin at Vicksburg, Report of the Wisconsin-Vicksburg Monument
Commission including the story of the Campaign and Seige of Vicksburg in 1863",
compiled for the Commission by Hosea W. Rood, Madison, WI, 1914; pg45-46, 96,
124, 168-171; and "History of Grant County, Wisconsin, Castello N. Holford,
1900, p353-369, for more information on this regiment which endured many
hardships and participated in not only the seige of Vicksburg but also in
Sherman's famous Meridian raid, the capture of Fort DeRussey on the Red River
and more.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Jordan Gazette, 25Mar1915, p5
James and Cyrus Williams and Robert Brady, prominent ranchers of SnowCreek and
Seven Blackfoot creek, were attending to business matters in Jordan on Monday
of this week.
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The Jordan Gazette, 21Oct1915, p5
James Williams came in from his ranch near Chalk Butte Monday evening for some
supplies and to attend to some business errands.
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The Jordan Gazette, Jordan MT, 19Apr1917, p4
James Williams and son, William, were in from their ranches on Snow and Seven
Blackfoot creeks last Saturday. These gentlemen have been at home all winter--
for the same reason everyone else remained at home-- the condition of the
weather.
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The Jordan Gazette, Jordan MT, 15Apr1920, p5
James Williams came into Jordan from his ranch on Snow creek the fore part of
the week to attend to business matters. Mr. Williams has been suffering from
a severe attach of rheumatisn which has confined him to his home all winter,
this being his first trip to Jordan since last fall.
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The Jordan Times, 22Feb1929, p1
CIVIL WAR VET PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 92
After an illness of more than four years, when he suffered a stroke of
paralysis, death came to James Henry Williams at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Frank Haney on Hell creek Thursday, February 14, at the advanced age of 92
years.
Deceased had always been a pioneer. Born in Kentucky when that was a new and
unsettled territory; his parents moved to Wisconsin, going from there to a
newer frontier, that of Nebraska and in 1912 came with his family to Garfield
county. He served with honor in Company B of the 33rd Wisconsin Infantry
during the Civil War and was honorably discharged at the termination of that
great struggle.
In 1862 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Wright and to this union
were born three sons and four daughters-- two daughters and two sons residing
in this county-- Mrs. Frank Haney and Mrs. Wm. Searls and Cyrus and William
Williams.
Services were held at the Community Church Saturday at 10:00 o'clock A.M., the
Rev. Wm. G. Johnson officiating. A detail of ex-service men composed of
Lodhardt Nergaard, R.E. Purcell, Wm. T. Taylor, George Woods, Henry S. Wagner
and H.W. Sankey turned out and accorded the old veteran Military Honors. Mrs.
S.C. West, Mrs. Leona Lahn and Percy Joyce, sang, accompanied on the piano by
Mrs. J.D. McCay.
Interment was made in the Greenridge Cemetery, beside the body of his wife who
preceeded him in death in 1925.
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The Jordan Times, 22Feb1929, p1
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our thanks to all our neighbors and friends on Hell creek; to
the people of Jordan, the American Legion and all those who assisted us during
our recent bereavement in the death of our father, James Henry Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haney
Mr. and Mrs. William Searls
Cyrus Williams
Mr. and Mrs. William Williams
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On his application for a Civil War pension in 1898, he states he was married
first to Ellen Pitville who died in 1868, and second to Elizabeth Wright in
1869. At that time he stated his children were born between 1870 and 1887. In
response to a government questionnaire in 1917 he stated his children were born
between 1867 and 1884. The 1917 questionnaire gave birth month and day as well
as year.
[Note: Our ancestors weren't asked for personal information as often as we are
today. As a result they were less likely to have such information or to
remember the details accurately. The time of the year was often easier to
remember than the exact year itself.]
Events
| Birth | 4 Sep 1836 | , Kentucky | |||
| Marriage | 31 Jan 1869 | Boscobell, Grant, Wisconsin - Elizabeth Wright | |||
| Death | 14 Feb 1929 | Hell Creek, Garfield, Montana | |||
| Marriage | Ellen Pitville | ||||
| Burial | Jordan, Garfield, Montana, Greenridge Cemetery |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Wright (1840 - ) |
| Child | Sarah Frances "Aunt Frank" Williams (1867 - ) |
| Child | John James Williams (1869 - ) |
| Child | James Williams Jr. (1871 - ) |
| Child | William M. "Doc" Williams (1873 - ) |
| Child | Cyrus "Baldy" Williams (1875 - 1970) |
| Child | Lillian Williams (1878 - ) |
| Child | Nellie "Aunt Nell" Williams (1882 - 1972) |
| Child | Jane M. (Janey) Williams (1884 - 1965) |
| Spouse | Ellen Pitville ( - 1868) |
| Father | Hutchins Williams |
| Mother | Mary Tulley |