Dr. Alexander and Catherine Douglas (Dickson) Williams. The father was a native of Surry County, N. C.. and was born in November, 1793, and died at Greeneville in August, 1852. The mother was born in Greeneville, Tenn., in 1802, and died in Greeneville in 1870. She was the mother of six sons and four daughters, of which children there now (1887) live only three sons, viz.: William D., Joseph A. and Thomas L.