Butts County GaArchives Photo document.....Libel for Divorce-Williamson, Nathan & Irena(Summerlin)Williamson September 17 1839
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Larry Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 October 13, 2004, 4:37 pm

Source: Butts Co. Superior Court Minutes-State Archives microfilm
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To date, this notation in the September Term-1839, Butts Co. Superior Court 
Minutes, and a subsequent appeal entry(March Term 1840)are the only legal 
records found of the divorce of Nathan C. Williamson and his first wife Irena
(Summerlin)Williamson. Nathan had married Agness Thompson June 25, 1840, and 
many folks, me included, had simply assumed that Irena had died. Since Agness 
had apparently raised step-children Thomas J. and Winney A. Williamson, it was 
easy to believe that Irena was buried in Butts Co. at the "homeplace", near 
husband Nathan, in the Williamson/Knowles family cemetery. However, research 
into Nathan's father's estate in Jackson Co. GA led to these two court records, 
and many other family facts. (See the depositions of Jeese T. Gunn and George 
L. Thompson on this site; as well as other Williamson-related information, 
here, and on the Jackson Co. site)

In 1840 Irena(Summerlin)Williamson evidently was listed nearby in Henry Co., 
but by 1850 she had moved to Carroll Co. GA, to the household of Henry Summerlin
(a cousin?-whom she later married?). Her Butts Co. children remained with 
Nathan and Agness. Thomas J. Williamson married Eliza Ann Ingram Dec. 23, 1852. 
Winney(Ann?)Williamson married 1st-Thomas H. Stallsworth; then Eldridge Barlow 
(they moved to Quitman Co. GA).


Additional Comments:
See separate "Libel for Divorce" entry for March Term-1840.

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