Lenoir County NcArchives Photo Tombstone.....Williams, Colonel John 
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Cemetery:           Colonel John Williams
Name:               Colonel John Williams
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In Memory of
Colonel John Williams
Died
Dec. 11, 1850

Colonel John Williams, born in Greene County, NC  July 16, 1789, refused to go 
to Alabama when his parents moved but instead went to Kinston to live with a 
friend, John Gatlin. John had a distinguishing missing digit on one hand from 
a shooting incident. As a grown man, he was made Colonel of the State Militia, 
judge of Lenoir County Court, represented Lenoir County in the Raleigh 
Legislature for two years, was a Universalist and gave land on which to build 
the Universalist Church. A prominent businessman, he bought Governor Richard 
Caswell's mansion when he retired.
 
His first marriage was to Sarah Taylor, daughter of Ephraim Taylor or Lenoir 
County. After Sarah's death, he married Nancy Blount (Chelly) Coleman, sister 
of Blount Coleman, who died leaving twins, Benjamin Coleman & Mary Elizabeth 
(called Betsy in NC; Bettie in MS), who later went to Mississippi, never to 
return to NC. His third wife was Ann Nancy Ballard Humphreys of Onslow County 
with whom he had six children: Caroline, John, Ann, Lott, Edward and James.  
Nancy Williams lost her daughter, Olive Branch Pollock in November 1, 1850, as 
well as her husbaand, Colonel John who died on December 11, 1850.




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