Taylor County GaArchives Biographies.....(Mangham) Williams, Lizzie 1889 - 1958 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 January 28, 2005, 8:26 pm Author: Mrs. Lillie Martin Grubbs The mantle of the great old educator, Prof. J.O. Mangham, fell upon the shoulders of his third daughter, Mrs. Lizzie (Mangham) Williams. She is a teacher that all chilfren like, she exacts much, but her pupils respond with pleasurable activities. She has a personality that radiates happiness and optimism. Her friendship is prized by all who come within the compass of her genial influence. She was born in Taylor County, Georgia. She was reared in Butler and Reynolds. She received her elementary and high school education under the tutelage of her father at Reynolds. Her higher education was received at Athens and other summer schools. She began her teaching career at an early age in the town of Poulan. In 1906 her father was made County School Superintendent of Camden County, Georgia. She moved with her father to St. Mary's and was elected to teach in St. Mary's High School in that year. Soon after this Elzie J. Williams, of Worth, an old pupil of J.O. mangham's was given a school in Camden County. It was while teaching in this county in 1908, that he married Miss Lizzie Mangham. This couple lived all their married lives in St. Mary's. To this union was born four children, Mary Winnifred (Mrs. Carl Glass), Jack, Ed, and Mangham. Mrs. Williams was teaching in St. Mary's when her husband died on June 20, 1920. In 1921, she, with her children and sister, Miss Claude Mangham, who has been a mother to her, as her mother died when she was quite young, moved to Sylvester, where she has been engaged in teaching English and Arithmetic through Junior High School in McPhaul Institute ever since. Additional Comments: From "THe History of Worth County" written in 1934. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/taylor/bios/bs288manghamw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb