Baron Dekalb Williams

1836 - 1880  (44 years)

• Name	Baron Dekalb Williams
  Birth	7 Sep 1836	, , Georgia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Oct 1880	Daviston, Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA
  Person ID	I5835	Master
  Last Modified	11 May 2012

  
  

  Family	Louisiana Antinette Motley,   b. 28 Dec 1845, Daviston, Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA d. 21 Mar 1922, Daviston, Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	3 Aug 1868
  Children	1. Lydia Antinette Williams   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Hester Ann Minerva Williams   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Pendleton Williams   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Baron Dekalb Williams, Jr   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2074	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 7 Sep 1836 - , , Georgia, USA Death - 3 Oct 1880 - Daviston, Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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.