Thomas Eugene Williams (1883 - 1936)

Born 18 Jun 1883 in Mississippi, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Birdie May (Harris) Williams — married 5 Jan 1905 in Miller, Arkansas, United States

Died 23 Apr 1936 at age 52 in Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Thomas Eugene (or Eugene Thomas) was born about 1883 in Grenada County, Mississippi. He is the son of Robertson H. Williams and Victoria Crawford. His mother died when he was young, and in 1900, "Eugean" is enumerated on the federal census in the Grenada home of his father and his father's second wife. ^[1] Thomas married Birdie Harris in 1905. ^[2]

Obituary Texarkana Gazette 24 Apr 1936

T.E.WILLIAMS

T.E. Williams, 53, died at the family home on College Hill at 1 p.m. Thursday from a heart attack. He had been a resident of Texarkana for the past 34 years, coming here from Buford, GA.

Beside his wife, Mrs. Birdie Williams, he is survived by five sons; Jack, Edward, Earl, J.W. and Gordon Williams; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Perry, Mrs. Mozelle Nicholas and Estelle Williams; his mother, Mrs. M.E. Williams, and sister, Mrs. W.F. Gordon, all of whom reside in Texarkana.

Funeral services will be held at the College Hill Baptist church at 3:30 p.m. Friday with the Rev. L. B. Burnside officiating. Interment will be in the Harmony Grove cemetery. Active pallbearers are; County Judge Milton Oats, W.B. Branch, Chief of Police W.E. Davis, Lonnie Lawhon, Sheriff T.C. Sewell, E.P. Little, Will Harris and Dan Young. Honorary pallbearers are; F.A. Fitzgerald, Little Rock Judge H.M. Barney, Allen Winham, A.R. Fleniken, L.D. Young, Henry Faulkinbury, G.R. Eakles, Pinson Bell, William Winham, A.L. Stinson, W.W. Harris, Mayor E. C.Seibert, Ed Vinson, Willis B. Smith, W.A. Helms, A.D. Sullivan, L.Q.Orr, M.B. Choate, S.A. Buchannon, S.R. Baxter, W.E. Dunn, Milton Vinson, Marlin Giles, Grady Holmes, D.C. Atchison, E.H. Peyton, Martin Banks, Will Greer.

Research notes

Perhaps because their mother died when they were still children, most of the children of Victoria Crawford Williams don't have birth date information that remains the same from record to record. Even the birth order of the Williams siblings is somewhat uncertain.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M96G-FZT : accessed 13 December 2021), Eugean Williams in household of Roberson H Williams, Beat 1 Grenada town Ward West, Grenada, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 36, sheet 3A, family 55, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,808.
2. ↑ "Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQR2-YMH : 10 January 2020), Thomas E. Williams, 1905.