IN HONOR of JONES COUNTY GENEALOGISTS

Carolyn Williams - The History of Jones County

Carolyn White Williams, author of History of Jones County, Georgia 1807-1907, died during the night April 21, 2002. She was 103 [birthday in June]. Services are tentatively set for Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. Simpson-Childs Funeral Home in Gray has charge of services.

Mrs. Williams recommended that a second volume be done to continue where she left off. Her thanks for help in compiling the book went to her husband; the Jones County Ordinary, Harris Morton ; the Clerk, F. M. Stewart, Jr. for allowing her to use the records freely. Appreciation also went to S. H. Griswald for the articles that appeared in the Jones County News edited by Mark Greene. The Washington Memorial Library, the Dept. of Archives and History in Atlanta, the library of Hon. J. B. Jackson of Gray, and the scrapbooks of Mrs. Sophie Howard Myrick of Haddock
She also wrote a History of Greene County using materials that a druggist had saved and given to her.
Mrs. Hambrick is glad that we're spreading her mother's work through the Internet to help all those folks who can't get to Jones County. 

Carrie White Williams

Mrs. Williams, a lifetime resident of Jones County, was born in Round Oak. She was the daughter of the late George Benjamin and Mary Frances King White and was preceded in death by her husband, Carlton Candler Williams and son John Thomas Williams.

Mrs. Williams was a graduate of G.N.I.C. (now Georgia College and State University). She taught school for twenty-two years in Round Oak and was the adult Sunday School teacher and pianist for Sunshine United Methodist Church for many years. Mrs. Williams was a member of Gray United Methodist Church. She was also a member and past regent of Oliver Morton Chapter D.A.R. and an honorary member of Gray Garden Club and Pilot Cub.

Mrs. Williams is the author of History of Jones County and History of Greene County. -She is survived by daughter, Mary Ann Hamrick, Gray and daughter and son-in-law: Carolyn W. Harris and Frank Harris, Griffin; grandchildren and spouses: John W. Hamrick, Gray, Anne Hamrick Trawick and Jim Trawick, Macon, Carl and Beth Hamrick, Gray, Caroline Harris Tye and Pearce Tye, Griffin, Emily Harris Parker and Robert Parker, Griffin; great-grandchildren: Candler Trawick, Bo Trawick, Miller Hamrick, Maribeth Hamrick, Mary Lauren Hamrick, Kady Hamrick, McCay Tye, Harrison Tye, Carrie Tye, Benjamin Parker and Thomas Parker.

-The family request that in lieu of flowers, donation may be made to Carl Williams Cemetery Fund, c/o Charlotte Wilson, 2267 Monticello Hwy, Round Oak, GA 31038 or Gray United Methodist Church Building Fund, Box 415, Gray, GA 31032.

 -The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00P.M. Monday at Simpson-Childs Funeral Home, Gray. -Simpson-Childs Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Published in the Macon Telegraph on 4/22/2002.