Baron Dekalb Williams

Notes:

born: 7 September 1836 in Georgia
died: 3 October 1880 in Daviston, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Occupation: Overseer; Clerk
Religious Affiliation: Baptist
Served as Postmaster of the Daviston Post Office when it was reopened in 1872 after the War.
Military Service: WBTS: "Southern Rifles", D Co, 3rd Ala. Inf. Regt., CSA MUSTER ROLLS
LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT SPRINGHILL

Letter of Baron DeKalb Williams

July 26th, 1879
TO THE CHURCH AT SPRINGHILL:
Dear Brethren:
I feel impressed to try to express to you my feelings, my anxietys and to make some special requests of you. I have been hoping and thinking since the Meeting has been going on that the next day or the next I would be able to go to Meeting and could rejoice and enjoy a revival of the Spirit with you, but my health or afflictions won't admit of it, and I don't know whether I will ever be able anymore or not.
It seems that the Tide of life is receding with me and I can't see any probable wave to drift on back to the shore again. Brethren, I know I ought to be reconciled to the will and hand of the Lord, for I feel the truthfulness of the language of the Poet --
"Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come",
and I feel that I have been led and preserved by the hand of the Lord, but Brethren, I have one great object or anxiety in life.
It is very hard to contemplate a departure from my little children and family. At times I can hardly admit the thought. I do have a great anxiety to see them to the years of maturity, but I have one consolation when I think perhaps I will have to leave them, and that is I should leave them in the midst of a God-fearing, a God-loving and a God-serving people. I know they would have good council for them when they would need them. I know they would keep them from wrong as they would their own when in their sight. And not a sparrow falls to the ground without the Lord's taking notice of it.
Brethren, pray for my family, my little children, and I feel satisfied that you have not forgotten me in your petitions to a Throne of Grace, but I feel like especially asking you to pray for me. I would love to live out my full three score and ten years if it be the Lord's will. Pray that my patience and fortitude may be equal to my afflictions and as my body and flesh grows faint and weak, that my faith and hope in the Lord Jesus Christ may grow in strength and magnitude.
May the Lord bless you all and his people everywhere. I feel to rejoice that you have the evidence of the Lord's being in your midst and working a great work in this meeting.
I am as I hope your brother in Christ.
(Signed) B. D. Williams



1860 Macon County Alabama Census (Southern Division): Baron D. Williams, 23, is listed as an Overseer in the household of Barna F. Ivey.

1870 Tallapoosa County Alabama Census (Daviston): Baron Williams, 33, Merchant; Antnett 23; Antnett 6/12
1880 Tallapoosa County Alabama Census (Daviston): B. D. Williams 44, L. A. 34 wife, Lidia A. 10, A. A. (H.A.?) daughter 6, W. T. (W.P.?) son 4, B.D. son 1. Also in household are Georgeann Hodnett, 14, Black female servant; Sandy Hearth?, 24, Black male laborer; James Winston, 19, Black male laborer, and Daniel Lovelace, 19, Black male laborer.

Baron married Louisiana Antinette Motley on 3 Aug 1868. Louisiana (daughter of Coleman Pendleton Motley and Hester Ann Perkins) was born on 28 Dec 1845 in Daviston, Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA; died on 21 Mar 1922 in Daviston, Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lydia Antinette Williams and died.
2. Hester Ann Minerva Williams and died.
3. Pendleton Williams and died.
4. Baron Dekalb Williams, Jr and died.