Time Line ALW3 6/08
A Short History of Timothy C. Williams 1858-1943 by Hubert H. Williams
1772 Spencer Davis is born in Virginia. Spencer is Timothy's maternal adoptive grandfather.
1774 Obediah Williams is born. He is Timothy Williams's paternal great grandfather.
1790 Nancy ? is born in Virginia. She later marries Spencer Davis. They take in many orphans. Nancy "Grandma" Davis is known for weaving & spinning of cloth. She is Timothy's maternal adoptive grandmother.
1793 Anna Wilson is born. She is Timothy's paternal grandmother.
1795 Eliphalet Williams is born. He is Timothy's grandfather.
1817 Eliphalet Williams marries Anna Wilson.
1818 Cane Creek Baptist Church is established
1823 John C. Harris is born. He is Timothy's father in law by Cora.
1825 Benjamin J. Harris is born. He is Timothy's father in law by Nan. The town of Harrisburg (now Malesus) was probably named after his family.
1828 William J. Haire is born. He is Timothy's mother's 3rd husband & Timothy's second stepfather.
1830 William Andrew Jackson Williams is born in Scott Hill, Tennessee. 'Bill Jack' is the youngest of 8 children of Eliphalet & Anna Williams. Bill Jack was a farmer & carpenter. He is Timothy's father.
1833 Betty Elizabeth Nowell is born. Betty is Timothy's mother in law by Nan.
1837 Mary Ann Temple is born. She is an orphan raised by Spencer & Nancy Davis. Mary is Timothy's mother.
1837 Obediah Williams dies. He is Timothy's paternal great grandfather.
1843 Rebecca Catherine Day is born. She is Timothy's mother in law by Cora, his first wife.
1846 Eliphalet Williams dies. He is Timothy's paternal grandfather.
1848 Bill Jack Williams marries Mary Ann Temple. She becomes an excellent seamstress. Bill Jack & Mary are Timothy's parents.
1849 James T. Scott is born. He is Timothy's brother in law by Sadie.
1853 Anna L. S. Williams is born. "Sadie" is Timothy's oldest sister and later wife of James T. Scott.
1856 Nancy R. Williams is born. She is Timothy's sister.
5/8/58 Timothy Cornelius Williams is born in Henderson County, Tenneessee. He is the son of Bill Jack & Mary Williams
1859 Losada Williams (Bill Jack's twin sister) dies
? Benjamin Harris marries his second wife, Betty Elizabeth Nowell. They are Timothy's in laws by Nan, his second wife.
1860 Bill Jack Williams family lives in the home of Grandma Davis
1860 Nancy Jane Harris is born. She is the oldest girl of 8 children of Benjamin & Betty Harris. She finishes the sixth grade in school. Nan is Timothy's second wife.
1861 Civil War
1862 While preparing to enlist in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, Bill Jack was ordered by Union soldiers to build coffins for slain officers
1863 Bill Jack Williams dies of pneumonia at 33 years old. Timothy is 4 year old and moves with his mother and sisters into Grandma Davis' home for the next 10 years.
? John Harris marries his second wife, Rebecca Day.
1864 Mary T Williams marries John Williams (no relation to Bill Jack?) after her husband & Timothy's father Bill Jack dies in 1863.
1864 Cora Bell Harris is born. She is the daughter of John & Rebecca Harris. Cora is very beautiful and is Timothy's first wife.
1866 William J. Williams is born. He is the son of Mary & John Williams. He is Timothy's step brother.
1867 John Williams dies. He is timothy's first stepfather.
1869 Anna Williams dies. She is Timothy's paternal grandmother.
1870 Mary Williams family still living w/ Grandma Davis. James L. Scott is operating her farm. Timothy is 12 & the largest boy in the Rocky Hill community of Henderson County. He is paid 5 cents a day to drive a team of oxen to plow fields.
1873 Timothy, age 15, moves in with his sister Sadie & her husband James T. Scott in the Oak Grove community near Milan, Tennessee in Gibson County
1874 Timothy goes to work with the railroad building train track bed in west Tennessee and southern Mississippi. Later he found out that Jesse & Frank James were on the crew hiding out from the law.
1876 Rebecca Harris dies. Cora is 12 years old & the oldest of Rebecca's 6 children. Rebecca is Timothy's mother in law.
1882 Benjamin Harris dies. He is the father of Nan who is later Timothy's second wife.
1885 Timothy cuts wood in Harrisburg (now called Malesus) for the wood burning engines in trains.
1885 Timothy Williams marries Cora Bell Harris. Cora is very beautiful. They moved to the Smith sisters farm on Clovesport Jackson Rd (now called Steam Mill Ferry Rd) which had a cotton gin. The average price of cotton is 7.6 cents per pound.
1885 Betty Harris dies. She is the mother of Nan who is later Timothy's second wife.
1887 John Harris dies. He is Timothy's father-in-law by Cora.
1887 Anna G Williams is born. She is the daughter of Timothy & Cora Williams.
1888 Anna Williams dies @ 1 year old.
1888 Sadie Williams Scott dies @ 35. She is Timothy's sister.
1889 Etna Bell Williams is born. She is the daughter of Timothy & Cora Williams.
1890 Nan and her youngest brother Hardy move in with her sister Maggie & Asa Powell for 4 years .
1891 Florence Lee Williams is born. She is the daughter of Timothy & Cora Williams.
? Cora sister, Alice Etta Harris, her husband Jacob David Hill & their 2 daughters Vestha & Gladys come to visit with Timothy, Cora and Nan every year.
1893 Timothy works in the Jackson Steam Dyeing & Cleaning Works with his mother and step father William Haire until he became sick. Timothy is told by the doctor to return to the farm.
1893 William Haire, Nan's third husband dies & she sells the business.
1894 Cora Williams dies during complications @ child birth @ 30 years old. She is Timothy's first wife. (assume child dies also). The average cotton price is 4.6 cents per pound.
1894? Timothy's sister Nancy R (Nanny) Williams Scott, her husband Winfield Scott & their 4 children, Emma, John, Charlie & Roma Lee Sr. come to live w/ Timothy for several months.
1894 Timothy Williams marries Nancy Harris. Miss Nan is Cora's first cousin. She is 6 feet tall and strong. She helped organize the WMU @ Cane Creek Baptist Church. She taught Timothy to read & write using the Bible.
1894 Timothy is a sharecropper on the Smith sisters' farm for 14 years. He operates a one mule cotton gin. The average cotton price is 9.2 cents per pound. Hubert now owns a part of this farm.
1894 Timothy helps build the Anderson Presbyterian Church.
1895 Claribel Robinson is born. She is Timothy's daughter in law by Roy.
? On 2 occasions Nan's youngest brother Hardy Harris comes to live w/ Timothy & Nan for 4 or 5 years.
1896 Eva Odell Williams is born. She is daughter to Timothy & Nan Williams.
1898 Andrew Leroy Williams is born. Roy is the son of Timothy & Nan Williams.
1900 Timothy purchases 163 acres from W. L. Black. It had 2 log houses each having 2 rooms. It had a spring of flowing water. He pays off his land in 6 years by raising and selling mules.
1900 The Jackson Fibre Company builds a factory (Bemis Bag Company) model town 3 miles from Timothy's farm
1901 Timothy builds a 2 story 3 room house on his property on Old Bolivar Highway (now riverside Drive extended).
1901 Mary Lou Williams is born. Mildred is the daughter of Timothy & Nan Williams.
1905 Nan's uncle Tom Nowell comes to live w/ Timothy & Nan for 3 years.
1905 Nan's brother Hardy Harris helps Timothy build an addition to their 2 room plank house & a large barn.
1907? After her younger sister Mary Lou Shelton dies, Nan cares for her 3 children, Thomas Earl 14, Hugh 11 & Clyde 8. Timothy & Nan support Thomas Earl in his school work to become a Methodist minister.
1908 Florence Williams marries Arthur Gradie Bowman. He dies 2 years later of the mumps at age 19.
1909 Cotton prices are 10-12 cents per pound.
1914 The Cane Creek Baptist Church floods.
1914 Timothy age 56 has a hernia trying to lift a hog into a wagon.
1915 Timothy enters the hospital & told not to farm for 15 months. His daughter Eva, age 18, drops out of school and takes over his milking chores and milk route in Bemis.
1916 Mary Ann Temple Williams Williams Haire dies. She is Timothy's mother.
1917 World War I. The cotton prices are 27 cents per pound.
1920 Roy Williams marries Claribel Robinson.
1921 Timothy builds a 3 room house with a porch on his property for his daughter Eva and husband Ben Hundley.
1922 Madison Baptist Church is built. Charter members: Timothy, Nan, Mildred & Roy Williams and Eva & Ben Hundley. The debt is paid off in the same year.
1927 Nan's sister Maggie Powell is widowed & comes to live w/ Timothy & Nan w/ her children Gertrude & Bess. Bess later was a Baptist missionary & counseled Timothy's granddaughter Clara Lynn Williams.
1928 James Scott dies. He is Timothy's brother-in-law by Sadie.
1929? Timothy's grandson, Grady Bowman (Florence's son) comes to live with Timothy for 6 months.
1930 Modern fertilizer of phosphate, potash and ammonia are available to the average dirt farmer. Average cotton prices are 5.7 cents per pound.
1932? Timothy's grandson Herman Fleming Jr. (Florence's son) comes to live w/ Timothy.
1933 Federal program puts planting controls to stabilize cotton prices.
1933 Timothy's daughter Mildred & her husband George Harlan Hughes & their children Betty Jane & Peggy June come to live with Timothy for 3 years.
1935 Nan Williams dies of a stroke. She is Timothy's second wife.
1936 Roy Williams' family (Claribel, Leroy, Hubert and David) moves in with Timothy and Roy runs a milk route in Jackson.
1938 Timothy's 80th birthday and family reunion and barbeque. 110 people attended.
1940 Timothy's son Roy gets a job in Jackson at a produce company. The average laborer makes $10-12 per week and only a few jobs are available. Timothy sells 15 acres of his red oak timber to a sawmill for $800.
1940 Timothy's daughter in law Claribel Williams (by Roy) inherits the 90 acre Charlie Hoggett farm on Boone lane from her father Orrin Eaton Robinson. Her sister Rebecca Robinson comes to live with Timothy for several months.
1941 This a cold winter with temperatures 16 degrees below zero. There is a 3 inch snow on Easter. Timothy is house bound for more than 6 weeks.
1942 Timothy's grandson Leroy is drafted into World War II.
1942 Timothy and his grandsons Hubert & David plant 50 fruit trees and 2000 strawberry plants on Roy's farm. Claribel purchases a model C Allis Chambers tractor with a plow and disc harrow and metal wheels. A farm laborer is paid $2 per day for plowing 7-8 hours.
1943 Hubert is drafted and is wounded in action at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He recuperates in a Memphis hospital from 10/43-3/46,
1943 Timothy Williams is confined to his bed in his daughter Mildred Hughes' house and dies after a 6 months illness.
1943 Nanny Scott dies. She is Timothy's sister
1944 David volunteers to serve in the Air Force in World War II. He is an airplane mechanic and photographer of North Africa and the Middle East.
1979 Mildred Hughes dies. She is Timothy's daughter.
1980 Etna Bentley dies. She is Timothy's daughter.
1981 Roy Williams dies. He is Timothy's son.
1983 Eva Hundley dies. She is Timothy's daughter.
1984 Florence Bowman dies. She is Timothy's daughter.
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