I am searching for the ancestry of Nancy(Jane Or A.)Hall born January 10,1817,who married Alexander Williams of W. Va.

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Married in 1835 By Rev. Alderson. . One of her sons was Austin Williams, b. 1846

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The cemetery information clarifies her name as Nancy J. Hall and provides a date of death, but the parents still need to be determined.

Answer 1

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Birth:  Jan. 10, 1817 Death:  May 10, 1885 Wife of Alexander Williams.     Burial: Alex Williams farm on the old Persinger Road  Nicholas County West Virginia, USA   Created by: Bev Record added: Jun 14, 2004  Find A Grave Memorial# 8929270 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=1985917&GRid=8928717& Alexander Williams Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Share Learn about sponsoring this memorial... Birth:  Jul. 5, 1816 West Virginia, USA Death:  Mar. 29, 1896 Canvas Nicholas County West Virginia, USA Married, NANCY HALL, Bef. 1836, Virginia; He and his wife lived to see all of their children married and were able to give them a good start in the world, and had plenty left for themselves. He took a great delight in raising stock and for many years had large herds of cattle and sheep, and everything he put his hands to seemed to prosper    Burial: Alex Williams farm on the old Persinger Road  Nicholas County West Virginia, USA   Created by: Bev Record added: Jun 14, 2004  Find A Grave Memorial# 8928717

Answer 2

This is all I can find:

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Williams history from VanBibber Pioneer E-Newsletter

Vol. 4 No. 3 Jan. 2001

FAMILY OF HUGH WILLIAMS  AND JANE BELL

 

3.  HUGH3 WILLIAMS (JEREMIAH2, WILLIAM1) was born 1767 in Virginia, and died Abt. 1852 in Nicholas County, Virginia.  He married JANE BELL January 18, 1791 in Greenbrier County, Virginia.  She was born 1776 in Virginia, and died Abt. 1875 in Nicholas County, West Virginia.

 

Notes for HUGH WILLIAMS:

Hugh Williams married Jane Bell in Greenbrier County on January 10, 1791 by the Rev. John Alderson.  The land book of 1787-1821 shows that Hugh paid taxes on 100 acres in the Culbertson Creek area near Williamsburg in Northwest Greenbrier County.  He shows up in the 1820 Nicholas County census at the same time that William Williams first appeared there.  Hugh settled on Hughes Ferry, Nicholas County.  He owned 100 acres of Dulbertson Creek in 1787.  The 1840 census of Nicholas County place William Williams (b. 1800-1810), Alexander Williams b. 1816 and Andrew Williams b. 1813 in a cluster with Hugh Williams.  Hugh and Jane lived next door to Alexander and Hancy (Hall) Williams until Hugh's death. Jane remained there, alone, after Hugh's death.

 

More About HUGH WILLIAMS:

Burial: Abt. 1852, Alex Williams farm on the old Persinger Road (currently called Lewis Farm on Ward Road), Canvas, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

 

More About JANE BELL:

Burial: Aft. 1850, Alex Williams farm on the old Persinger Road (currently called Lewis Farm on Ward Road), Canvas, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

 

Children of HUGH WILLIAMS and JANE BELL are:

 i. WILLIAM4 WILLIAMS, b. February 1794, Greenbrier County, Virginia; d. December 16, 1869, Nicholas County, West Virginia; m. ELIZABETH JONES, September 1817; b. Bet. 1796 - 1798, Greenbrier County, Virginia; d. March 31, 1882, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

 

More About WILLIAM WILLIAMS:

Burial: Williams Family Cemetery, Spring Creek, Nicholas County, West Virginia

 

More About ELIZABETH JONES:

Burial: Williams Family Cemetery, Spring Creek, Nicholas County, West Virginia

 

 ii. CALEB WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1796.

 iii. FRANCES PARTHENIA WILLIAMS, b. 1798, Greenbrier County, Virginia;

m. HENRY NEFF, June 22, 1824, Greenbrier County, Virginia; b. Unknown, Unknown.

 iv. JANE ANN WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1804, Nicholas County, Virginia; d. September 22, 1872, Nicholas County, West Virginia; m. DAVID CAMPBELL ROBINSON VANBIBBER, September 02, 1824, Nicholas County, Virginia; b. November 16, 1799, Nicholas County, (then Kanawha), Virginia; d. March 01, 1889, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

 

Notes for JANE ANN WILLIAMS:

Jane died at the age of 68 years of old age.  The informant was her husband David VanBibber.

 

Notes for DAVID CAMPBELL ROBINSON VANBIBBER:

In the 1850 Census for the Western District of Nicholas County, the VanBibber family is listed on lines 21 thru 30, David, age 50; Jane, age 45; Moses, age 21; James, age 19; Donally, age 17; Felicity, age 14; Nathan, age 12; John, age 9; Major, age 9; and Davis, age 6.  He owned real estate valued at $2,000.

 

David VanBibber's obituary as it appeared in the Nicholas County Chronicle in March 1889:  "David C. R. VanBibber was born, in Nicholas county, then Kanawha, November 16th, 1799, died March 1st, 18i8i9, aged 89 years, 3 months and 15 days.  In his death Nicholas county has lost a man and citizen of sterling worth.  Mr. Vanbibber was an intelligent gentleman, pleasant and agreeable in his manners, a true friend, a good  neighbor a kind father and while he was not a member of any church, we have reason to believe that he was a Christian, one "not lost but gone  before."

 

His mind well stored with useful information, acquired in a long lifetime of association with his fellow men, and from reading, was vigorous to the last.  One of the oldest citizens of this section, it was a treat to listen to his narration of incidents in the early days, but he is gone and thus link by link is broken the chain that connects  the past to the present.

 

He leaves seven sons, three of whom, Moses, James and N D are in the West, Mathias, Andrew D., Nathan B and John C. live in this county.  Two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Nebergall, who lives in Nebraska and Mrs. Felicity Nebergall, who lives in Iowa.  While he had been in declining health for several years, his last sickness was of only nine days duration and he passed away "like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

 

We all miss him as a neighbor, friend, citizen, father; but we have the hope that our loss is his gain. - Requescat in peace!"

 

 v. MALINDA WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1809, Greenbrier County, Virginia; d. Abt. 1880, Nicholas County, West Virginia; m. STEPHEN TAYLOR, April 18, 1826, Nicholas County, Virginia; b. Abt. 1801, Greenbrier County, Virginia; d. Aft. 1844, Nicholas County, Virginia.

 

Notes for MALINDA WILLIAMS:

Malinda is listed as Head of Household in the 1850 Census for Nicholas County with seven children.  She was probably as a widow at that time.  She appears on lines 3 thru 10 in the census for the Western District.

 

In the 1880 Census for Nicholas County she is listed as age 71 in the household of her brother-in-law Alexander Williams (65 and his wife Nancy J.

 

Notes for STEPHEN TAYLOR:

Stephen and Malinda were married by John Campbell.  According the Brenda Collins Dillon's Taylor Family History, they were married on April 11, 1826, in Nicholas County, Virginia.

 

Stephen may have died sometime between the 1840 and 1850 Census.  Probably after the birth of his last child, Mary Ann who was born in 1844.

 

 vi. ANDREW WILLIAMS, b. 1813, Nicholas County, Virginia; m. ELIZABETH _____?, Unknown; b. Unknown, Unknown.

 vii. ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, b. July 05, 1816, On Muddlety, Nicholas County, Virginia where the old Jones Mill stood.; d. March 29, 1896, Canvas, Nicholas County, West Virginia; m. NANCY HALL, Bef. 1836, Virginia; b. January 10, 1817, Virginia; d. May 10, 1885, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

Answer 3

Notes for ALEXANDER WILLIAMS:

Children list from Will probated April 1, 1896.

 

 

A memorial to the life of Alexander Williams, by Dempsy, which appeared in the May 9, 1896 issue of the Nicholas County Chronicle:

 

"He was born in the year 1816, on Muddlety where the old Jones mill now stands.  He went to school when a boy in a log cabin near the brick yard on Arbuckle branch.  His father moved to this side of Gauley and settled  where M. W. Whitman now lives.  After the subject of this sketch grew to manhood he was married to Miss Nancy Hall.  he then bought 50 acres of land on Gauley near Persinger Ford, and he and his wife, father and mother, took up their abode in a dense forest.  His father and mother lived with him until their death.  There are but few people now living who know anything of the hardships and privations that those of the early settlers had to undergo.  Neighbors were few and far between, but nothing daunted he and his wife; they were good workers and beat back the forest until they soon had a good farm and were able to buy more land, and as land was cheap in those days he added survey to survey until he owned a large boundary, and as his family grew up he put them to work and kept them at it until he cleared out a large farm.  Every one about him had to work; he hired considerable work done, in fact, I did an immense amount of work for him, and will have to say he was as good to pay his hands as anyone I ever worked for, and the best of all was his old lady treated her work hands the same as she would treat a preacher or lawyer.  They lived on the old home place until they raised 11 children, 8 girls and 3 boys, and all of them living but two.  He and his wife lived to see all of their children married and were able to give them a good start in the world, and had plenty left for themselves.  He took a great delight in raising stock and for many years had large herds of cattle and sheep, and everything he put his hands to seemed to prosper.  He was good to the poor and contributed liberally to benevolent purposes.  He seemed to have a knack of making money that few are possessed with, and has left a considerable amount to each of his children.  I will say as a friend to them, as I have reason to believe that they are all friends to me, to settle his estate without litigation.  His seat is vacant among us, his voice is stilled, his body resting on an eminence overlooking a large farm where he spent fifty years of toil and labor and had many scenes of pleasure with his companion and children.  So it is, in the midst of life we are in death."

 

More About ALEXANDER WILLIAMS:

Burial: Bet. March - April 1896, Alex Williams farm on the old Persinger Road (currently Lewis Farm on Ward Road), Canvas, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

 

More About NANCY HALL:

Burial: May 1885, Alex Williams farm on the old Persinger Road (currently Lewis Farm on Ward Road), Canvas, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

 

 viii. ELIJAH WILLIAMS, b. Unknown.

 ix. HUGH WILLIAMS, b. Unknown.

 x. JOHN WILLIAMS, b. Unknown.

 xi. MARGARET FRANCES WILLIAMS, b. Unknown.

 xii. MARY WILLIAMS, b. Unknown.

 xiii. SARAH WILLIAMS, b. Unknown.

 

Submitted by Walter Bailey  -- baileywm@pa.net  --  Descendant and researcher of the Williams family.  Walter would like to hear from anyone who descends from David C.R. Van Bibber and Jane Williams.