Person:Allen Williams (10)

Note: Info being compiled and in review. Not complete. Need to sort out which Williams brother married Charity Nations - was it really Allen or Aaron???

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Allen Williams, in Rootsweb.

   [per unknown source]
   ... purchased land and is identified on the land record as Allen Williams of Wayne County, Indiana. The land was the East half of the North East quarter of Section three, in township ten of range five in the District of Brookville, State of Indiana, containing seventy seven and forty seven hundredths of an acre. His certificate was No. 7 at the land office so he was a very early settler. The History of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1888 says, "Two young men named Williams and their brother-in-law came into this settlement [Wayne Township] and built cabins but became dissatisfied and pushed onto other fields. Their deserted cabins were seized by William Thompson and Jacob Lane, Thompson from Kentucky and Lane, New York. These cabins were raised by one man and his wife. The size and appearance may be imagined."
   
   [per Shelby county, Indiana Probate Book C, p 136]
   ... died intestate and an administrator of his estate was appointed. Final settlement was made by the administrator of the estate of Allen Williams deceased and he filed in court the receipts of these heirs; John Cutsinger, John and James Williams, Elizabeth Tinkle, Jackson and William Williams, Robert Worrell, Claiborn and Allen Williams and Hampton Queen. Amos Williams an heir was mentioned and the wife of Alexander McAlpin was also listed as an heir. Alsie Lawliss late Alsie Williams also received a sum as an heir. The administrator turned into court a sum for two unknown heirs of Allen. The receipt of Alsie above may have been one of them and a receipt of George Conner guardian for the share of Joel Williams may have been the other heir. Only Wesley was not mentioned
   
   [per Johnson County, Indiana, Cemetery Listings 2000, Johnson County Museum, Franklin, IN]
   ... burial on Williams Farm Ceme., Clark Twp., east of Franklin, Johnson Co., IN; has tombstones, one inscribed Allen Williams 8 Sep 1842, 75 years (stone broken), and Allen Williams 1771- Oct 1842, 71 years (Erected by his descendants AD 1900) ...

2. ↑ Allen Williams, in Franklin Democrat. (Brookville, Indiana).

   9 Sep 1898: WILLIAMS FAMILY REUNION ~ Edinburg, Ind-Aug 30. Editor Democrat: The second reunion of the Allen Williams family was held at this place today at the fair grounds. ... Amos Williams, the father of Allen Williams, died at the advanced age of 105 years. Allen Williams, the pioneer and ancestor of the numerous Williams family, emigrated from Overton county, Tenn., in 1816, and settled in Wayne county. In 1820 he settled just south of Edinburg, over in the edge of Bartholomew county, in sight of where his descendants held their reunion. Here his wife, Charity Nation Williams, died in 1826, and was buried in the Carvin cemetery. Some years later he moved on Hurricane creek, in Clark township, Johnson county, where he died in 1842 at a good old age and was buried in the family burying grounds on the old homestead. He lived to see all his children grown to manhood and womanhood and settled in comfortable homes of their own. ...

3.   Allen Williams in The Williams Family, in Chadwick, Edward H. Chadwick's history of Shelby County, Indiana. (Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1909).

   ... Here [Sequashia valley of Tennessee] Allen Williams, whose immediate descendants live in Shelby County, among his grandsons being Attorney A. J. Williams, was married to his first wife, and to this union four children were born -- Elsie, Phoebe, Hannah and William. ...
   
   ... After the death of Allen Williams’ first wife, he married Charity Nations in Overton County, Tennessee, and to this union were born Amos, Allen, Joel, John, Jane, James, Elizabeth, Jackson, Claborn, Margaret and Wesley, the last named dying in infancy. Of these the first nine were born in Tennessee , the others in Indiana. Allen Williams accumulated considerable property in East Tennessee during his twenty years residence there. In the early summer of 1816 he started with his large family and twenty head of horses and several wagons loaded with household goods and provisions, for Indiana, then a wilderness. Allen’s father accompanied them. He was then ninety-six years old, but active and a good horseman. Their long journey through the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky was attended by many adventures and mishaps. Their principal meat was that of bear and deer, obtained by side hunting trips. The entire company of seventeen persons, after a perilous journey, finally landed in Wayne County, Indiana, in the early autumn of 1816, the year the state was admitted to the Union. Here Amos Williams died, and his daughters, Elsie and Rachel were married. Allen Williams purchased eighty acres of land near Edinburg, in Bartholomew County, in 1820. Here his two children, Margaret and Wesley, were born and here his wife, Charity, died in 1826. Allen entered much land for his children in Bartholomew County, also in Johnson County. He lived with his son, Jackson, during most of his remaining life, hunting wild game and assisting to clear and develop the new farm. He was a fine marksman, skilled woodsman, and a thorough frontiersman. His death occurred in 1842. He had the piercing gray eye, the wiry, tall figure, and the calculating disposition of the pioneer of those early times that tried men’s souls. Many of these sterling characteristics were plainly discernible in his children, who were honest, industrious citizens, but took no particular part in public affairs. ...
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