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While you're here, check out these Wilcox County Wills!
My families lived in the vicinities of Snow Hill and Furman, Alabama.
Many of these people need identifying!! Please take a moment and check out the photos. Print them out and show them to your elderly relatives! Someone, somewhere, must know who these folks are!
The best source on the web for Wilcox County information and links to Wilcox researchers is the USGENWEB Wilcox County, Alabama site maintained by B.J. Smothers. Click on the box below to visit this site.
My ancestors were among the early settlers in Alabama, particularly in Wilcox County. Silas White Arnett Albritton, my great-great-great-grandfather was one of the early arrivals in the area then known as Snow Hill (now Furman), Alabama. He married three times--first to Eunice Polk, a grand-niece of President John Polk; then to Sarah Adkins Griffin (my 3xg-grandmother), then last to a widow, Mary McElroy. A Captain in the "Indian Wars," family history says that when the Yankees came through Furman after the Civil War it was Captain Albritton who asked them to spare the town as he had served his country in the Indian Wars. In deference to him, they did just that.
Albrittons, Williamses, Purifoys, Moores, Lees, Gulleys and Watsons intermarried here. Many of these families moved on to Union Parrish, Louisiana, or on to Texas and Arkansas. The Gulleys were directly related to those involved in the "Gully-Chisholm" Feuders in Kemper, Mississippi--a tale that has been told in print a few times, most recently in a book called "Bloody Kemper."
John Calhoun Williams, of Allenton, Alabama, married Mary Sophronia Albritton, a daughter of Silas White Arnett Albritton and Sarah Adkins Griffin on November 3, 1872. They had ten children, including my grandfather, John Saunders Williams.
Thomas Edwin Watson (son of Floyd Watson and Margaret McWhorter) and Dora Gulley were my great-grandparents. The older woman, seated on the left, is Dora's mother, Mary Ann McCondichie (who married John Jay Gulley). My grandmother, Minnie Gay Watson is the little girl seated on the ground on the left-hand side of the photo.
I would love to hear from anyone researching these families or this County/area. I'm always glad to share information!
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This page was updated on December 30, 2003.
This was the home of my grandparents, John S. Williams and Minnie Gay Watson, in the late 1960's.
John Calhoun Williams, my great-grandfather
Thomas Edwin Watson and Family
A Note of Thanks
I would especially like to thank Cindy Waren McCoy, of Furman, Alabama, who so graciously took the time to find and send copies of these wills to me. She is a generous, dedicated (and apparently tireless!) genealogy researcher and has transcribed many of the Wilcox Cemetary listings for the ALGENWEB Wilcox County site and online archives. Without wonderful people like Cindy, all of our family research would be far more difficult!
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