Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....S.R. Williams  1842 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Page 523

S. R. Williams

S. R. Williams, one of the prosperous farmers of Meriwether county, of which 
he is a native, was born in 1842, and is a son of James N. and Bathsheba 
(O’Neal) Williams; the former served in the state militia during the late war, 
and was a native of Putnam county, of which his parents, natives of North 
Carolina, were early pioneers.  Mrs. Williams’ parents were also North 
Carolinians, and early settlers of Georgia. Young Williams, who had passed the 
years of his childhood and youth on the Meriwether county farm, with such 
limited schooling as was there obtainable, ere he was fairly out of his teens –
 in 1861 – he enlisted in Company K, of the Fifty-fifth Georgia regiment.  In 
1863, September 9, he was captured at Cumberland Gap, and kept a prisoner at 
Chicago until the close of the war.  From this long imprisonment the young man 
returned penniless to his home to begin life anew.  He worked for a season for 
Atley O’Neal and then rented a farm from M.A. Thrash; after four years on this 
rented land he purchased a small farm to which he has added at intervals until 
he now owns a large and well-cultivated farm.  In 1866 he married Miss Mary E. 
Thrash, the daughter of M.A. and Martha (Lassiter) Thrash , old settlers of 
Meriwether county; in May, 1890, Mrs. Williams died.  In August, 1890 Mr. 
Williams married her sister, Miss Sarah Thrash, born in this county, in 1849, 
who is a member of the Primitive Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have 
one child, Lillie E.



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