Riches to Rags Family Tree » Asa "Acey" WILLIAMS (1816-1873)

Persoonlijke gegevens Asa "Acey" WILLIAMS 

• Alternatieve namen: Asa Williams, Asa Williams, Acey "Asa" Williams, Acey "Asa" Williams, Acy Williams, Asa Williams, Asa Williams, Asa Williams, Asa Williams
• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1816 in Cumberland, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States.Bronnen 3, 5, 6, 8, 9

  Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (0) toen kind (Martha Williams) overleed (??-??-1787).

• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1816 in Cumberland Co, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten.
• Woonachtig:
• op 20 juli 1867: Miller, Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Bron 7
• op 21 juli 1860: Chipola, Henry, Alabama, Verenigde Staten.Bronnen 4, 6
• op 8 oktober 1850: District 24, Dooly, Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Bronnen 9, 12
• in het jaar 1870: Miller, Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Bron 5
• in het jaar 1840: District 3, Dooly, Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Bron 11
• in het jaar 1840: District 3, Dooly, Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Bron 11
• Michigan.Bron 3
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1873 in Colquitt, Miller County, Georgia, USA, hij was toen 57 jaar oud.Bronnen 8, 10
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1873 in Miller County, Georgia, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 57 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1873 in Colquitt, Miller County, GA, USA, hij was toen 57 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Miller County, Georgia, United States of America.Bron 8
• Boedelverdeling op 7 juli 1873 naar Hancock, Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Bron 10
• Een kind van Joel Maxwell Williams en Margaret Eliza McAlister

Gezin van Asa "Acey" WILLIAMS

Hij is getrouwd met Susan Brown.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1837, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. David James Williams  1837-1862
2. Mary Ann Elizabeth Williams  1839-1919
3. Mary A E Williams  1840-1919
4. Elijah W. "Elige" Williams  1841-1929 
5. Elijah W "Elige" Williams  1841-1929 
6. Daniel Y. Williams  1842-????
7. Daniel Y Williams  1842-????
8. G Franklin Williams  1844-1904
9. Green Franklin Williams  1844-1904
10. Daniel (Dan) F. Williams  1845-????
11. Asa Williams  1845-1863
12. Asa Williams  1845-1863
13. Joel N. Williams  1847-1927
14. Joel N. Williams  1847-1927 
15. Robert (Bob) Roland Williams  1847-1920 
16. Daniel (Dan) F. WILLIAMS  1848-1949 
17. Isa Brown  1850-????
18. Robert Green Williams  1851-????
19. MacKenzey "M C" Williams  1853-1919
20. Maxwell C MacKenzie "Mack" Williams  1853-1919 
21. Martha J. Williams  1856-1942
22. Martha J. Williams  1856-1942
23. Martha Williams  ± 1858-1787 
24. Catharine Middleton Williams  1859-1890
25. Rosa Ann "Roxie" Williams  1862-????

Notities over Asa "Acey" WILLIAMS

All Roads End With Ace Posted 25 jul 2018 by June McMurphy In the beginning of my search, there was a wealth of facts known by the venerable grandparents and great grandparents to my boys and to my grandchildren that have since been born. Now there is a treasure of knowledge to be found in the “blue nowhere” beneath the keys of my computer and yet, all roads lead to, and end with Ace. Perhaps, one day the mystery of the Aces will be solved, for I can dig no deeper at this time. However, I feel I must transcribe the facts that I do know here for all those who are accessing and will access the information that I can divulge.
Much of this information was given to me by the Ruth’s and I must credit them at this point. One of the Ruth’s was married to Douglas Williams. She told me many stories that her husband had related to her. He was 12 years older than she and had told her of his memories of his grandfather, MacKensey and his great grandmother, Grandma Susie who lived to be 103. He remembered riding in the wagon with her when he was a boy.
The other Ruth was Jonie Ivey Williams’s wife, great grandmother to my boys, Curt and Bert. She told me many facts about the Williams family and taught me much including how to make old fashioned flat dumplings, ham pie, and egg pie. She also taught me how to quilt. When she was alive, she was in possession of a family Bible that I have never seen since. Written in that Bible were the names of the siblings of Acey Williams, the first Williams of our strand that came to the Miller County area.
When I say that all roads end with the Aces, I mean that I have never found the father of Ace Williams or the father of Asa Middleton and can go no further into the past even though I have searched high and low. What follows is the story as I know it. Perhaps posterity can solve the mystery. The Bible that I saw must have been “Daddy” Tom’s family Bible and it was in the possession of Joni Ivey Williams, his oldest living son. In that Bible, Acey Williams, 1816-1873, was listed as one of 5 siblings. His brothers were Bob that may have been a Robert Green, Mathew, Green that may have been Green Franklin, and one sister, Carolina Williams. They were living in Dooly County, Georgia at the time.
I began this search somewhere in the early 1980s and here it is nearly 30 years later and the mystery is still nagging at me. I wrote to the newspaper in Vienna, Dooly Co., Georgia and advertised for information concerning the afore mentioned family. One man answered me and related that there had indeed been a Williams community and even a Williams graveyard by one of the churches and it could be seen from I-75 in Dooly County. The census records for Dooly County nor the graveyard listings confirm this but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.
The Williams history is twined within and without the Middleton family all the way from South Carolina to the flat lands of Miller County, Georgia. The story is told that Seaborn Middleton, son of Asa Middleton, came down from either Allendale, Barnwell County, South Carolina to get his bride, Carolina Williams. They were legally married and it is recorded in Pulaski County. He took her back to South Carolina and they had 3 children, one of which was Melvin Green Middleton. Melvin Green, as an adult, made his way to Miller County, was a Civil War veteran and was well known for having 6 wives, most of which are buried with him at Union Missionary Baptist Church Cemtery in Miller County, GA. This is important to the story because a few of his wives were nieces from the Williams’s line. Part of this story states that Melvin Green came back from his first tour of the Civil War, I should say War of Northern Aggression, and paid someone to go back in his place for his second tour. Seaborne died and Carolina lived on to marry 2 more times. There are many given names common to both families.
Meanwhile, back in Dooly County, Acey was fond of playing cards. By this time he had married Susan Cobb, Fulgen, or Brown, most likely Cobb, and had a couple of children. It was reported to me that he “cut a man” one night in a card game up in Dooly County. Over night he packed up his family in a wagon and came south to Miller County. My thoughts are that he knew of Melvin Green Middleton, by now a landowner in Miller County, also his nephew, and counted on him to make a new beginning. He built a log cabin in the area known as “Bear Pond”, across the highway from the fire tower, south of Colquitt, Georgia. When I began my research, this cabin had already been destroyed but had been used for many years as a corn crib by the family that now owns the property. As reported to me, it had no windows facing down the lane except for the one in the door, which was used as a lookout to see who was coming. Apparently Acey was keeping his eye open in case someone came looking for him. All of this took place during the 1850s since he was listed as living in Dooly County in the 1850 census but only S. Williams, apparently Susan, was listed as living in Miller County in the 1860 census. However, he and remaining family were listed in the 1870 Miller County Census. He died in 1873 after having 12 known children.
In the 80s I searched many graveyards looking for this man’s grave. Ms. Ruth Williams, Douglas’s wife, had told me that Susie lived to be 103 and was buried at New Salem Cemetery, at the foot of two of her son’s, Elige and MacKensey, the latter of whom she lived with in her later life. I was told that the Williams had lived next door to a Newberry family and that there had been a Newberry graveyard in a field nearby but it had been turned prior to 1977, into cultivatable land and no longer existed. I presumed he had been buried there since there were few settlers at the time and most graveyards were too far to convey a body recently deceased in the south even though Susan was later buried at New Salem Cemetery in an unmarked grave at the foot of 2 of her sons.
However, recently, 30 years later, on the spur of the moment, my husband and I explored New Salem and found that someone has placed a monument to Acey and Susan Williams, at the foot of thier 2 sons. Consequently we researched when New Salem Church was founded. We found that even though there was no building on the site, there was a brush arbor church that held meetings there for many years.
I’d like to think that Acey was one of the first buried there in that graveyard. I spent one afternoon with Ms. Ruth Williams, Douglas’s wife, and gleaned as much as I could from her. She told me several stories about the children of Acey. One about how each year Eliga and I believe Frank, would take the wagon to Bainbridge to buy the guano, fertilizer, for crops and other needful things. It took a day to get there by wagon and they would spend the night, cross the river and do their shopping the next day and return home. After the first few years, the store merchants would meet them at the river and take their order and bring the merchandise back to them to keep them from entering town. It seems that the merchants had a lot of stock missing every time the Williams boys visited Bainbridge!!
Another story concerned the fact that no Williams man has been blessed with a lot of patience. Every year when the temperature began to cool, it was time for a hog killing. Well, one of the Williams boys would run out of patience waiting on the cold weather, put on his jacket, seemingly walk around shivering, and announce that it was cold outside and time kill hogs!! Then there was even a story about how Frank’s wife Nancy, threw the biscuits at him one morning when he said something wrong to her. I do know for a fact that Joel, son of Acey, my boys’ ancestor, bought land and built a cabin for his family at Springfield across from Springfield Church. This house was still in existence in the 1980s but is gone today. Joel and Melvin Green Middleton were first cousins since their parents, Acey Williams and Carolina Williams (whose first husband, father of Melvin Green, was Seaborne Middleton) were brother and sister.
Ms. Ruth also told me that during the War of Northern Aggression, Grandma Susie decided that she was not losing any more of her family to the war. She made the remaining boys dig a deep hole in the yard at “Bear Pond”. They covered it with pine boughs. When the conscriptors came a riding to gather up the young men to be soldiers, she made the boys get in the hole under the pine boughs, with the girls on top having a tea party with their baby dolls.
Joel’s son, Thomas Watson, called “Daddy Tom”, married Sara Elizabeth Middleton, daughter of Melvin Green, who was his second cousin. Sara was called “Ma Sally” and I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting them but was told that each day, one of the grandchildren had to take “Ma Sally” to the creek to fish. She loved to fish! Less than three weeks from his death in July of 1979, I sat next to Joni Ivey Williams, her oldest son, on a five gallon bucket at the creek. We were fishing in most likely one of the same spots.
I have written this mainly for my descendents but any are welcome to this information. Hopefully you can add to it. Having been married to 2 Williams men, first cousins once removed from each other, raising 2 Williams boys, Curt and Bert, and having 3 Williams grandchildren, Christian, Jacob, and Harlieanne, I feel eminently qualified to relate as much as I knew of the saga. I have been called the Williams Chatelaine, keeper of the keys, which I now pass to you the reader.
By: Darlene Miles (Wms.) Benefield

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