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PETER J. WILLIAMS

    Peter J. Williams was born in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1793. He married in
Greensboro, Georgia, in 1817, Lucinda Parke, daughter of Ezekiel Evans Parke and
Susan Smythe Parke. He represented Baldwin county in the Legislature for many
years. His chief business was the purchase of land. He acquired so many
thousands of acres of land that there are four printed books in the capitol at
Atlanta known as the Peter J. Williams land grants. The home he built in
Milledgeville, in 1818, for his young wife, is in excellent repair and is owned
with the original gardens by his grand-daughter. Beautiful daughters and
handsome sons lived in the old house. Three of the four sons died for the
Confederacy . From the old stone steps, the Baldwin Blues received their battle
flag from Miss Frances Williams, afterwards Mrs. Charlton Way. Col. Charles
Williams, the oldest son, a graduate of West Point, fought in the Mexican War
and was Military Governor of Mexico, when Mexico City was captured. Col.
Williams married Mary Howard, of Columbus, and she inaugurated, with the ladies
of Columbus, Georgia, the South's great memorial to the Confederate dead,
Memorial Day.
    Mrs. Peter J. Williams, with six other ladies, established the first
Presbyterian Church in Milledgeville.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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