Ware County GaArchives News.....Williams, Mrs. Mary Bullard Celebrates 91st Birthday 1938
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Atlanta Journal 1938
(Atlanta) Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew   Mond(ay Oct 10, 1938)

Marks 91st Birthday With
Peace Prayer
Civil War Was the Worst of Them All,
Mrs. Williams Says
	
Waycross, Ga. Oct 10 – Mrs. Mary Bullard Williams , who is celebrating her 
ninety-first ((birthday)) Monday at her home, Alma, Route 3, is thankful most 
that war has been averted. 
	The wrinkled little old lady, with eyes as bright as though she were 
18, has lived through “three awful wars,” and she prays fervently that the 
world will be spared another.  “I can’t see any sense in fighting, “ she 
declares, recalling the horrors and suffering of the War Between the States, 
the Spanish-American War, and the World War.
	The conflict which came closest home to the pioneer south Georgia woman 
was the War Between the States, which prompts her declaration that “that was 
the worst war of ‘em all.”  As a young girl, whose sweetheart was in the 
Confederate army, she endured many hardships and heartaches.  “I had to plow in 
the fields, and cut oak trees from which we burned ashes and made soap,” she 
recalls.
	Aside from the world’s efforts to maintain peace, there are other 
things for which Mrs. Williams is grateful.  “All five of my children are 
living, and I thank God for that,” she says fervently.  Her oldest child is 72, 
her youngest 52.  There are many grandchildren, a number of great-
grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.  Every one of them, she 
declares, is a reason for hating war.
	Mrs. Williams, originally a member of the Bullard family, was born 
October 10, 1847, at old Tuten’s Ferry, on the upper Satilla River, in Ware 
County .  She married Noah Williams , a Confederate soldier, in 1865, near the 
close of the war.  Her husband died in 1920, at the age of 82.  Mrs. Williams’ 
four (sic) children, all of whom are living, are: Mrs. Lorena Aldridge , 72, 
Jacksonville; J M Williams , 70, Alma; Mrs. Mary Bullard , 64, Bacon County; 
Reppard Williams , 58, Jacksonville; ((and)) John A. Williams , 52, Bacon 
County.
	Mrs. Williams and most of her children and grandchildren live in the 
New Lacy section, five miles from Alma ((now Bacon County)), within a short 
distance of the place where Mrs. Williams was born nearly a century ago.


Additional Comments:
 Mary Bullard Williams, b. 10 Oct 1847, d. 03 Jan 1939.  Birth year is actually 
1851, so her true age was 87 at the time of this article.  Mary was the first 
(and only) Georgia-born child of William Bullard and Martha Thompson of Robeson 
County, NC.  The Bullard family was enumerated in the 1850 census of MD436 of 
Appling County, GA right after moving to Georgia.  Mary was first enumerated in 
the 1860 census of Holmesville, Appling Co, GA and her age was given as 8 
years.  Starting in the 1870 census, Mary, now married with 2 children aged 2 
and 4, boosted her age from 18 to 23, possibly because she didn’t want to admit 
that she married at ripe old age of 14.
 A reference to the “Munich Agreement” signed Sept 30, 1938 by German 
Chancellor Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, which 
put off the start of World War Two by a couple of days.
  Federal Censuses from 1850 through 1930, show that the Bullard family never 
lived outside of Appling County.

  Noah Williams, Pvt., “Appling Rangers”, Company F, 47th GA Volunteer Infantry 
Regiment CSA. b. 15 Feb 1839, m. Feb 1865, d. 28 Jun 1920

 Lorena Frances Williams Aldridge, b. 08 Jan 1866, d. 10 Jan 1950
 James Newton Williams, b. 17 Jun 1869, d. 06 Jun 1959.  Typographical error in 
the original news item.
 Mary Ann Williams Bullard, b. 18 Feb 1874, d. 25 Jun 1970
 William Reppard Williams, b. 08 Jan 1880, d. 24 Dec 1942
 John Asa Williams, b. 14 Jan 1886, d. 08 Jan 1967


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