Riches to Rags Family Tree » Elijah W "Elige" Williams (1841-1929)
Personal data Elijah W "Elige" Williams
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7- Alternative names: Elijah W Williams, ELIJAH W. WILLIAMS, Elijah Williams, Lige Williams, Elijia Williams, Elijah W. Williams, Eligea Williams, Elijah Williams
- He was born on January 5, 1841 in Berrien Co., Georgia.Sources 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
- Alternative: He was born on January 5, 1841 in Georgia, Verenigde Staten.
- Resident:
- Miller County, Georgia.Source 5
- in the year 1920: Militia District 903, Miller, Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Source 2
- in the year 1880: Colquitt, Miller, Georgia, USA.Source 6
- in the year 1900: Mayhaw, Miller, Georgia, USA.Source 7
- He died on December 22, 1929 in Miller County, Georgia, Verenigde Staten, he was 88 years old.Sources 3, 4
- Alternative: He died in the year 1929 in Miller County, Georgia, Verenigde Staten, he was 87 years old.
- He is buried in Miller County, Georgia, United States of America.Source 3
- A child of Asa "Acey" WILLIAMS and Susan Brown
Household of Elijah W "Elige" Williams
(1) He is married to Mary Elizabeth Newberry.
They got married in the year 1870, he was 28 years old.Source 7
Child(ren):
- Joe Williams 1860-????
- Samantha Pelindawn Williams 1862-1942
- Judson Williams ± 1869-1961
- Chloie Lane Williams 1875-1944
- JOE ARTHUR WILLIAMS 1875-????
- Lula Chloe 1876-????
- Edith Williams 1878-1961
- Elija Franklin Williams 1882-1954
- Joel Henry Williams 1885-1951
- Emma Williams 1893-????
(2) He is married to Mary Elizabeth Newberry.
They got married in the year 1870, he was 28 years old.
Child(ren):
- Edith Williams 1878-1961
Notes about Elijah W "Elige" Williams
Elijah Williams was a son of Asa and Susan Williams buried at the front of Elijah's grave. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Newberry (1846-1921). He died in 1929 as was written in an early Williams family Bible.
Elijah Williams enlisted in the Confederate Army as a Private in Company E, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, Georgia State Troops on 8 October, 1861. Roll dated 8 April 1862, last on file, shows him present. He mustered out in April 1862, and then enlisted as a Private in Company E, 55th Regiment GA Infantry on 3 May 1862. He was captured at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee on 9 September 1863. He was released at Camp Douglas, Illinois on 15 June 1865 at the end of the Civil War.
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=83357721&pid=14148
/ Ancestry.com - 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1920; Census Place: Militia District 903, Miller, Georgia; Roll: T625_268; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 90 / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com
- Georgia, Death Index, 1919 - 1998, Ancestry.com, Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records; Georgia, USA; Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998; Certificate Number: 32022-K / Ancestry.com
- American Civil War Soldiers, Historical Data Systems, comp., Side served: Confederacy; State served: Georgia; Enlistment date: 8 Oct 1861 / Ancestry.com
- 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Year: 1880; Census Place: Colquitt, Miller, Georgia; Roll: 158; Page: 390A; Enumeration District: 044 / Ancestry.com
- 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Mayhaw, Miller, Georgia; Page: 5; Enumeration District: 0056 / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday January 5, 1841
- The temperature on January 5, 1841 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mistig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1841: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- January 26 » James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point, establishing British Hong Kong.
- April 6 » U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison's death.
- June 28 » The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
- July 18 » Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
- August 16 » U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
- November 13 » James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
Day of death December 22, 1929
- The temperature on December 22, 1929 was between -2.9 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
- January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
- February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
- September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
- October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
- November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
- December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".
Same birth/death day
- 1834 » William John Wills, English surgeon and explorer († 1861)
- 1838 » Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic († 1922)
- 1846 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized († 1878)
- 1846 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
- 1855 » King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company († 1932)
- 1864 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and manager († 1911)
- 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
- 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
- 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
- 1925 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
- 1939 » Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
- 1940 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)
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