White County GaArchives Biographies.....Williams, Edwin P.  1814 - mk
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia

Biographical Sketches for White County
Memoirs of Georgia
The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, 1895

Edwin P. Williams, farmer, Nacoochee Valley, White Co., Ga., son of Edward and 
Mary (Brown) Williams, was born in Burke Co., N.C., Nov. 27, 1814. His father 
was born in Lowell, Mass., the latter part of the last century. When a young 
man he came to Charleston, S.C. and later to Burke Co., N.C. where he married, 
the daughter of Daniel Brown, one of the first settlers and oldest citizens. He 
came to Ga. in 1823 and purchased a large tract of land in Nacoochee Valley, 
then Habersham and now, White Co. He died just before the war. Mr. Williams was 
nine years old when the family migrated to the state and was educated in 
Nacoochee Valley, in the shadow of Mt. Yonah. Farming has been his life 
occupation but in connection, he has conducted a general store and stock-
raising. Mr. Williams was a candidate in 1858 to represent the county in the 
general assembly. He defeated Col. William B. Shelton. He was also the 
contracting builder of public buildings in the new county (White) just before 
the war. Among the interesting incidents of the north Ga. pioneers are the 
visits he likes to tell about of John C. Calhoun to his father's home. That 
statesman once owned valuable interests in mining in that section where there 
is a mine now and bares his name. Mr. Williams was married in Burke Co., N.C. 
in 1838 to Miss Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Alfred Perkins, a decendant of one 
of the oldest and most prominent families and a cousin to Gov. Caldwell. Of ten 
children born to them the following are living: Alfred, Nacoochee Valley; 
Robert, Nacoochee Valley; Sarah Jane, wife of Gaylor Bristol, Nacoochee; 
Lusannah, wife of J.R. Lunsden; Hattie, wife of J.L. Johnson, Gainesville, Ga.; 
Church, entered the Confederate service and died of brain fever at Goldsboro, 
N.C. in 1862 when he was only sixteen years old.

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