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Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
The Williamson Family.

  Rev. James Williamson, a native of Scotland, moved to Telfair in the early
days. He was a noted Baptist minister and teacher before the war, and for
several years after. Many of the leading men and women of this section were his
pupils. In 1860, he, with the late Hugh McLeon, was elected as a union delegate
to the Secession Convention which met at Milledgeville early in 1861, and passed
the ordinance of secession putting Georgia out of the Union. He voted against
the ordinance, Telfair County being opposed to secession. Being a prominent
minister, he was accorded the honor of opening the convention with prayer, which
is printed in full in the journal of the convention. He was the father of John
K. Williamson, who was also a prominent teacher for many years following the
close of the war.

  Rev. James Williamson, the pioneer, married a widow Harvey. Mrs. Harvey's
children were Curtis and Raymond Harvey. Curtis married a Miss Farce. The
Williamson children were: John K., who married Maria Mizell; Mary, who married
Daniel H. Maloy; Margaret, who married Young Harrell; James, who married Lizzie
Parker.

  John K., son of Rev. James, the pioneer, married Maria Mizell, daughter of
William Mizell, Sr., and they settled at Rhine. Their only child was Dr. J. G.
Williamson, who married Lula Smith, first, and then a widow McCranie, who was
Miss Annie McLeod.

  James, son of old man James, the pioneer, married Lizzie Parker. James was
also a preacher and teacher. He was the father of: Mary, who married H. B.
Maloy; and Lillian, who married Morgan Lancaster.



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