Butts County GaArchives Photo person.....Lavonia Catherine(Williamson)Knowles 1860 ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Larry Knowles knonga@bellsouth.net May 30, 2004, 5:05 pm Source: Walter O. Knowles-Butts Co. GA Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/photos/gph456lavoniac.jpg Image file size: 35.9 Kb LAVONIA CATHERINE(WILLIAMSON)KNOWLES, 1842-1895 Lavonia C.("Katie")Williamson was born in Butts Co. GA July 4, 1842. She married James B. Knowles there on November 5, 1859. This unframed portrait (approx. 8 x 10)was likely made shortly thereafter. Her parents were Nathan Camp and Agness(Thompson)Williamson. After her husband's death(Sept. 1865)Katie learned to plow, and boiled smokehouse boards for salt during early reconstruction. She is buried with her husband, James; son, Olen; her parents; and her great-grandfather, Rev. Soldier John Williamson Sr.-on that he won in the 1822 Lottery, in the Williamson/Knowles family cemetery in Butts Co. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb