Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....Williams, Avington B.  pre1770 - 1833
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Ron Williams hopewellroad@yahoo.com July 7, 2004, 12:13 pm

Author: Ron Williams
Avington Williams was a pioneer settler of Chambers County, Alabama. His will 
was the first will filed in the county. His birthdate and place of birth are 
unknown. Avington was closely related to Aaron Williams, David S. Williams, and 
Samuel Williams, who were also pioneer citizens of the county. There is a 
possibilty that Avington is the father of Aaron, but there is no documentation, 
at this time, to prove that theory.

Oral family history states that this Williams Family came from Ireland to the 
Carolinas. Avington is listed in the tax records of Greene County and Jasper 
County, Georgia. He was also a Justice of the Peace in Harris County, Georgia, 
around 1830.

Avington died in 1833. He is believed to have been the first person buried at 
the Williams Family Cemetery in Chambers County, Al.

The family had made a slow migration across Georgia. This movement stopped in 
Chambers County, where the family still lives eight generations later. It is 
possible that Avington was the driving force that kept the family on the move 
and that with his death the family finally settled down.

David S. Williams, the son of Aaron, named a son Avington Williams, in this 
mans honor. There is at least one other person in Georgia during the mid 19th 
century named Avington. At this no connection has been made to that Avington 
with the Williams family in Chambers County, Alabama.

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