A GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY II,
MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE

By Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1996

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WILLIAMS CEMETERY

 

Located in northeast Madison County.At a point .8 mile north from the Junction of Lay Road and Enteratate 40,turn left (east) on Law Road into driveway of Eugene Hovell.Situated on tha left side of a fieldroad .8 mile from Law Road,beh±nd the Eugene Novell residence in a wooded ares is located this burial ground covered with vinca.Although there is evidence of unmarked sunken grave, here only two ruined box vault tombitones are present nov in the cemetery.

AMOS WILLIAMS, SR.
Born
Feb. 22nd 1790
Departed this life
Jan. 30th 1857
Aged
66 y'rs.l1 mo's & 8 da's

SARAH R.WILL!AMS
Wife of
A.Williams
Born
October 1798
Died
November 27,1852
Aged 63 years
/inscribed age does not agree with inscribed birth year, 1798/

1850 U.S.Census, Madison Co., Tenn. (October 24), Civil District 12, page 654: AMOS WILLIAMS, age 60, born Virginia. Real Estate worth $7000. SARAH WILLIAMS, age 60, born Virginia. EDMOND J. WILLIAMS, age 20, born Tenn. WILLIAM A. P. WILLIAMS, age 17, born Tenn. MARTHA RIDER, age 54, born Virginia. MARTHA MILLER, age 27, born Tenn.

 

[HTML editor's note: Williams Cemetery was recorded earlier by William B. Elam, date not known but probably in the late 1960s. His record, published in 1976 in Family Findings, included two additional markers:
Williams, Nancy S, dau of A. & S. Williams, Dec 25, 1822-Aug 9, 1831
Williams, Rebecca G., dau of A. & S. Williams, Apr 7, 1827-Aug 11, 1831, 4 y 4 m 4 d]

 

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