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Caswell County Genealogy
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 - 1818
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| Name |
Williams, Frances [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Reference Number |
18333 |
| Death |
Apr 1818 |
Caswell County, North Carolina  |
| Person ID |
I17987 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
| Father |
Williams, Robert, b. 4 Aug 1744, Hanover County, Virginia d. 1790 (Age 45 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Lanier, Sarah, b. 12 Dec 1748, Lunenburg County, Virginia d. Oct 1814, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 65 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
10 Oct 1774 |
Granville County, North Carolina [2] |
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| Reference Number |
155673 |
| Family ID |
F7665 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Graves, General Barzillai, b. 16 Apr 1782, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 10 Oct 1850, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 68 years) |
| Marriage |
2 May 1811 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Reference Number |
15989 |
| Notes |
- Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850
Name: Barzilla Graves
Gender: Male
Spouse Name: Frances Williams
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 2 May 1811
County: Pittsylvania
State: Virginia
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| Children |
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| Family ID |
F1052 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Died: In Caswell County, some days ago, Mrs. Graves, wife of General Barzillai Graves. Source: Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina), 17 April 1818.
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The following is from Armstrong, Zella (Compiler). Notable Southern Families (Volume II). Chattanooga: The Lookout Publishing Co., 1922 at 371-372:
One of the old and distinguished families of North Carolina and Tennessee is the Williams. The progenitor of the family was Nathaniel Williams, who was a native of Hanover County, Virginia. He had four sons and one daughter, namely: !. Robert Williams; II. Betsy or Elizabeth Williams; III. John Williams; IV Nathaniel Williams, Second; and V. Joseph Williams.
I. Robert Williams. Robert Williams, the eldest son of Nathaniel Williams, moved from Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Robert Williams was Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina and collected the only copy of the Acts of the Assembly. He married Sarah Lanier. They had seven children and possibly one more. The seven were: (1) Nathaniel Williams (who was Judge of the Superior Court of Tennessee); (2) Polly Williams (who married Matthew Cay, member of Congress 1797-1813); (3) Lucy Williams (who married John Henry; (5) Sarah Williams (who married James Chalmers and lived in Halifax, Virginia, and was grandparent of General James R. Chalmers, member of Congress from Mississippi); (6) Elizabeth Williams (who married John Kerr, member of Congress and had three children, namely: John Kerr, Second, who was also a member of Congress; Mary G. Kerr, who married her cousin, Nicholas Lanier Williams, and Martha Kerr, who married Dr. Frank Martin; and (7) Frances Williams (who married Thomas D. Connally of Tennesse. They had three children, namely: Rev. John Kerr Connally, who married Alice C. Thomas, daughter of James Thomas of Richmond; Mary E. Connally, who married James Turner Morehead, son of Governor J. M. Morehead of North Carolina; and Frances Connally, who married C. W. Guerrant of Rockingham, North Carolina). The other daughter of Robert Williams and his wife, Sarah Lanier Williams, who was the eighth child, is given by John H. Wheeler as also a "Frances," but it is improbable that two daughterw would have reached maturity continually called by the same name. She is given, however, as "Frances, the wife of General Barcilia Graves."
The foregoing is correct in most respects. It incorrectly states that Elizabeth Williams and Reverend John Kerr only had three children. It also errs in purportedly representing that Frances Williams married Thomas D. Connally of Tennessee. The wife of Thomas Dickson Connally of Tennessee was Frances Kerr (sometimes seen as Frances Lewis Kerr), daughter of Reverend John Kerr (1782-1842) and Elizabeth Williams (1776-1834). And this error opens the possibility of Frances Williams, daughter of Robert Williams and Sarah Lanier Williams, being the wife of Barzillai Graves, as suggested above by John H. Wheeler. As this has not been confirmed, researchers are admonished to proceed with caution.
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