JONES COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Williams Family

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., Page 451
Published by The Southern Historical Association in
1895


WILLIAMS.  Of the many old and honorable families in
Jones County none can point to a clearer record than
this.  For many years they have patiently tilled the
generously yielding soil in the northeastern portion of
Jones County, bearing the honorable distinction of
“model” farmers.  John Williams, the grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, was a Virginian of Welsh-Irish
descent, who moved with his family to Warren County,
Ga., in the latter part of the last century.  He raised
a family of four boys and six girls.  Only one of this
family is now living - Mr. John Williams, eighty-two
years of age.  The other three lived to a ripe old age
and raised families.  Samuel and Henry became more or
less prominent in politics, having been members of the
general assembly from their different counties.  The
mother of the family was Mary Childers.  The other son,
Thomas Williams, was born and raised on the plantation
in Putnam County, where his only son, John T. Williams,
now resides.  June 7, 1840, he married Samantha E.
Dismuke, who survives him, he having departed this life
Sept. 2, 1881.  They raised the following named
children: Marietta, deceased; Martha D., Mrs. Wesley G.
Kimbro, Putnam County, Ga.; Ann Eliza, deceased, wife
of Dr. Clark; Ophelia, wife of J.J. Pelot, Atlanta;
Euzenia, wife of Hon. A.D. Candler, Secretary of State
of Georgia; John T., the subject of this sketch;
Florence Elizabeth, wife of Irby G. Scott, Putnam
County, Ga.; Alice, wife of Willis T. Price, Macon, Ga.
The father of this family was a careful, thrifty and
industrious man, who started early in life with
comparatively nothing and accumulated a large property.
Disinclined to public life, he devoted himself to the
cultivation and improvement of his plantation.  He
stood high in the estimation of his neighbors and was a
worthy citizen in every respect.  John Tom Williams, as
he is familiarly called, the only son of the above, now
lives on the old plantation where he was born.  He is a
farmer and nothing else - his laudable ambition being
to sustain the family record in the line of good
farming, and the farm he manages will compare favorably
with the most excellent in Jones and the surrounding
counties.  He is worthily filling the place vacated by
his father.  Before the alliance went into politics he
was an ardent and prominent member.  In 1889, when the
Central Railway proposed to give a free trip to Ohio to
a body of editors and a representative farmer from each
congressional district, Mr. Williams was selected to
represent the sixth - a significant compliment.  He
went, and was gone three weeks.  The trip and
experience are an ever green spot in his life history. 
Dec. 10, 1879, Mr. Williams was married to Miss Annie
R., youngest daughter of Maj. Ben Barron, who has borne
him five children: John T., Jr., died when two years
old; Annie E., Alice O., Walter B., and John T. Jr.