Butts County GaArchives Photo tombstone.....Williamson, John Sr.
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Larry Knowles knonga@bellsouth.net August 12, 2004, 3:50 pm

Source: Williamson Knowles Family Cemetery
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WILLIAMSON/KNOWLES CEMETERY-BUTTS CO. GA

John Williamson Sr. was born in Ireland c.1740. He came to America as a child. 
In Virginia, he married a young widow, Margret(Lesley)Mitchell. During the 
Revolutionary War he served in the Virginia Militia. After the war he claimed 
bounty land in Wilkes Co. GA. In 1792 he purchased 1150 acres in Franklin Co., 
land taken into Jackson Co. in 1796. Being a weaver and dyer, he probably ran a 
small mill along Curry Creek. In the early 1800s, he became estranged from wife 
Margaret; she moved into the household of a bachelor son, William. In the 1821 
Land lottery, John Willamson won #250/8D. of Henry Co.(taken into Butts Co. in 
1825). After disbursing land and slaves to his children in Jackson Co., John 
Sr. came to Butts Co about 1826, with 8 to 10 slaves. He soon tripled his real 
estate holdings, buying adjacent lots from Joseph Summerlin and Jordon 
McCullers. His wife Margaret died in Jackson Co. in 1828, and is buried in the 
family cemetery there(between Little Curry Creek and Oconee River). Shortly 
before his death in Butts Co in October 1831, a grandson Nathan C. Williamson
(son of John Williamosn Jr. of Jackson Co.)came to live with the elderly man. 
In his will John Sr. deeded 600 + acres to Nathan. He also left him three 
slaves; boys, Jack & Ben, and likely their mother, Rachel. He left $1.00 to 
his  named children. The remaining estate was left to son John Jr., who with 
Nathan, was named coexecutors. The Knowles family came into the picture in 
November 1859, when James B. Knowles married Nathan's daughter, Lavonia 
Catherine Williamson.

This photo was made in the early 1990s in the family cemetery on the original 
landlot. The monument was probably erected by the DAR(date unknown). The 
gravesite was identified by Oscar Bryans Knowles, eldest son of James B. and 
Lavonia C.("Aunt Kate")Knowles.

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