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Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
The Williams Family.

  Joseph Williams was a pioneer settler in Telfair County. He lost his life in a
boat explosion on the Ocmulgee River in the spring of 1861. The boat was the
General Manning. He was the father of the late Col. Wiley J. Williams, of
Eastman, who represented both Telfair and Dodge Counties in the Georgia
Legislature.

  Col. Williams was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 49th Georgia Regiment of the
Confederate army, having been promoted to this position on account of gallant
conduct at the Battle of Cold Harbor. He received this promotion on the 24th of
March, 1864.

  Col. Williams married, first, Mary Willcox, and they were the parents of:
Cora, who married Romulus Cook; Joe, who never married; Nannie, who married W.
T. Hargrove; Rebecca, who married Will Evans; Sallie, who married Lewis Rawlins.
His second, wife was Rebecca Willcox, and his third wife a Miss Mizell.


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