John Williams and Family
Zilphie(a) Williams
Cohen Vickery was the daughter of John Williams and
Nancy
Smith. In
Clinch County, Georgia, May Term 1882 Zilphie sued her
brother Hezekiah Ponder (HP) Williams regarding the
settlement of their father’s estate.
This briefing
comes from the books of Folks Huxford, Pioneers of
Wiregrass, Georgia., Volume 8., pages 350-351.
John Williams,
early settler of Clinch (now Atkinson) County, was born
in this state in 1799.
His first known residence was in Liberty County
where he married Nancy Smith Williams, born in 1798,
daughter of William Smith, R.S. (Vol 1).
To them were born 10 children.
(Zilpha Williams
Cohen Vickery was the third born
child of this union and was ancestor to my lineage).
About
1825-30, John
Williams and family moved from Liberty County to the 7th
land distric of what was then Ware County, and settled
on Red Bluff Creek where he acquired lots of land 149
and 174. His
homeplace was on lot 149.
These two lots were in 1850 cut out of Ware into
Clinch County, and in 1918 out of Clinch into Atkinson
County. Mr.
and Mrs. Williams lived there until they died.
He died in 1881.
Hezekiah Ponder (HP), one of the sons was
administrator of the estate.
The lands were divided in kind on April 21, 1881
each heir receiving eighty acres.
Mr. Williams was
commissioned May 2, 1827, 1st Lieutenant of
the militia in the 586th militia district,
serving until Sept. 16, 1830 when he was commissioned
Captain in the same district.
He served as Captain two years.
Mr. Williams and
wife were buried in the nearby Red Bluff Cemetery, the
land for it and the church was given by him soon after
the Civil War.
Census References:
1820, Liberty, 1830, 1840, 1850 Ware; 1860,
1870 Clinch.
