family of mary naomi

FAMILY OF MARY NAOMI (OME) WWILLIAMS AND HARDY FRANCIS STOCKMAN

MARY NAOMI (OME) WILLIAMS was born January 01, 1828 in Coahuila, Texas, Mexico, and died March 26, 1865 in Old Mt. Calm, Limestone County, Texas.  She married HARDY FRANCIS STOCKMAN March 17, 1842 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Republic of Texas, son of HENRY STOCKMAN and DORCAS WILLIAMS.  He was born October 19, 1822 in Coahuila, Texas, Mexico, and died September 08, 1865.

CHILDREN OF MARY NAOMI (OME) WILLIAMS AND HARDY FRANCIS STOCKMAN

 

FAMILY OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON WILLIAMS AND TRYPENA AMANDA M. TAYLOR

WILLIAM JEFFERSON WILLIAMS was born December 10, 1829 in Coahuila, Texas, Mexico-Mexican War veteran, and died about 1863.  He married TRYPENA AMANDA M. TAYLOR July 16, 1851 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas.  She was born about 1835 in Sabine District, Cohuila y Texas, Mexico, and died after 1870.  On 1870 Panola County, Texas census, Beat 5, Woods PO, p. 351, household 2099-2099.

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON WILLIAMS AND TRYPENA AMANDA M. TAYLOR

FAMILY OF THOMAS MARKHAM WILLIAMS AND JOSEPHINE HODGES

 

THOMAS MARKHAM WILLIAMS was born September 27, 1831 in Williams Settlement,  Coahuila y Texas, Mexico, and died about 1934.  He married (1) MARY.    He married (2) JOSEPHINE HODGES about 1870, daughter of WALTER C. HODGES.  She was born about 1848 in Texas.

Notes for THOMAS MARKHAM WILLIAMS:

FROM THE CONFEDERATE GUNS OF NAVARRO COUNTY BY JOHN W. SPENCER, 1986, THE TEXAS PRESS, CORSICANA, TEXAS

On the rolls of DRESDEN'S TEXAS CAVALRY COMPANY - COMPANY I, 19TH TEXAS CAVALRY REGIMENT there is listed:

Williams, T.M.  An entry shows that he was appointed April 19, 1863.  He was a stock raiser.  No other information is shown.

CHILDREN OF THOMAS MARKHAM WILLIAMS AND JOSEPHINE HODGES

FAMILY OF RUSSELL BEAN WILLIAMS AND SERENA PATON ESTES

 

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FAMILY OF LYDIA SARAH WILLIAMS AND NATHAN S. MIDDLETON

LYDIA SARAH WILLIAMS was born January 29, 1837 in Republic of Texas.  She married NATHAN S. MIDDLETON about 1854 in Cherokee County, Texas.  He was born February 05, 1827 in Tennessee, and died November 30, 1870 in Limestone County, Texas.  He buried in the Pitts Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas.   Nathan was first married to Nancy Williams, daughter of Colonel Leonard Williams and Nancy Isaacks.

Notes for LYDIA SARAH WILLIAMS:

1850 census in Rusk County, Texas p. 274, family 544

1860 census in Mt. Calm, Limestone County, Texas p. 355, family 589

1870 census Limestone County, TX p. 165, family 249

1880 census Limestone County, TX ED 94, p. 352 family 137

FAMILY OF LYDIA SARAH WILLIAMS AND NATHAN S. MIDDLETON

FAMILY OF PRISCILLA JANE WILLIAMS AND NATHAN ELLIS DABNEY

PRISCILLA JANE WILLIAMS was born October 09, 1838 in Williams Settlement, Nacogdoches/Rusk County, Cohuila Y Texas, Mexico, and died September 11, 1925 in Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas.  She is buried in the Dabney Cemetery, Eastland County, Texas.  She married NATHAN ELLIS DABNEY  about 1856 in Limestone County, Texas, son of JOHN DABNEY.  He was born September 27, 1829 in Illinois, and died March 02, 1901 in Eastland County, Texas.  He is buried in the Dabney Cemetery in Eastland County, Texas.

 Notes for PRISCILLA JANE WILLIAMS:

 See Nathan for previous census records.

1910 census of Ranger, Eastland County, Texas; ED 51, family 158

 The Dabney Cemetery is located about a mile northwest of Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas on FM 570.

 TAKEN FROM INFORMATION GIVEN TO ME BY FLOYD SMITH

 Notes for NATHAN ELLIS DABNEY:

 1870 census of Limestone County, TX p. 168, family 284

1880 census of Ranger, Eastland County, TX ; ED 174, p. 308, family 31

1900 census of Ranger, Eastland County, TX; ED 63, p. 283, family 102

 The Dabney Cemetery is located about a mile northwest of Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas on FM 570.

 TAKEN FROM A HISTORY OF HILL COUNTY, TEXAS 1846-1980 PUBLISHED BY THE HILL COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION IN 1980

 Nathan E. Dabney was appointed postmaster of Mt. Calm February 19, 1873.

  FROM THE EASTLAND COUNTY HISTORY BOOK, 1989

 Nathan Ellis Dabney (b. 9/27/1829 Illinois, d. 3/2/1901 Eastland County) married Priscilla Jane Williams in about 1856.  Nathan was probably the son of John Dabney of Navarro County, who died about 1850.  Priscilla Jane (b. 10/9/1839 in the Williams Settlement of what became Rusk County, d. 9/11/1925 Eastland County) was the daughter of early Texas settlers, William and Cinderella Jane Bean Williams.  At the time of her marriage, Priscilla Jane andher parents were living in Limestone County.  Also in that year of 1856, Priscilla joined the Christian Church.

 Nearly six years after his marriage, Nathan answered the South's call to arms.  It was March 12, 1862, when he joined Company F of the 15th Texas Cavalry as a private.  He saw duty at Ft. Hindeman, Arkansas Post, Arkansas until he was captured 1/11/1863.  He was a prisoner of war at the notorious federal prison, Camp Douglas, Illinois, until he was released at an exchange of prisoners in Virginia on 4/3/1863.

 Nathan rejoined his regiment as a teamster, seeing duty in Graysville, Calhoun and Decatur, Georgia.  It was at Decatur that the Battle of Atlanta began.  The survivors of Decatur made their way to Atlanta to join John B. Hood's forces.  No discharge papers are on record.  However, circumstances indicate that Nathan probably remained with his unit.

 In 1870, Nathan was a merchant, and probably a farmer in Limestone County.  He became the Postmaster of Mt. Calm Post Office in 1873.  By 1877, the Dabneys and their seven children were settled on their farm in Eastland County about a mile west of Desdemona, on the right side of Route 2214.  One account says that Nathan grew crops of peaches.  By 1918, however, the farm was growing oil wells.  It eventually had 17 producing wells.

 Three more children were born to Nathan and Priscilla after their move to Eastland.

 The old white farm house with its picket fence running around the yard is no longer standing.  All that remains today is the Dabney Cemetery.  It is located in a pasture not far from where the house once stood.  It can be seen from Route 2214.  Buried here are Nathan, Priscilla and four of their sons:  James Thomas; William Henry; Stanley B.; and Lee Miller.

 This writer assumes that James Thomas never married as I've no record of a wife.  William Henry married Louise Gardner.  They had 2 sons, E.L. and A.C. Dabney.  Stanley B. was married to Diamond---.  Lee Miller's wife was Dolly Ferrel.  Lee and Dolly had one daughter and three sons.  Nathan and Priscilla's other two sons lived in DeLeon in Comanche County.  Ebb E., who died in 1942 married Ida M. Martin.  Ebb and Ida had two children:  Minnie Lee and Clay Dabney.  Young Lafayette, who died in 1945 was married to Mary Allen.  Y.L. and Mary had one son, Taylor Dabney.

 Nathan and Priscilla's daughter, Willie, married A.J. Kivett and had 3 children.  She died in 1936.  Their daughter, Ida J. married T.J. Woodley; she also had 3 children.  Ida died in July of 1913.  For information about Nathan and Priscilla's other two daughters   see:  Orland Ferrel for Alice Dabney and James Lawson Jones for Editha Cinderella Dabney.  BY CAROL WHITE CARPENTER

               CHILDREN OF PRISCILLA JANE WILLIAMS AND NATHAN ELLIS DABNEY

 

       

 

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