Margaret Elizabeth (Bell) Williams (1852 - 1903)

Born 29 Dec 1852 in Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Jesse Green Williams — married 13 Aug 1873 in Randolph, Pontotoc, Mississippi, USA

Descendants

Died 27 May 1903 at age 50 in Roberta, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, United States

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Biography

Margaret Elizabeth Bell was born on 29 Dec 1852 in Roberta, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (present day Bryan County, Oklahoma), USA. She died of tuberculosis on 27 May 1903 (aged 50) in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (present day Bryan County, Oklahoma), USA and was buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma, USA.^[1]

Research Notes

The children of Margaret Elizabeth Bell and Jesse Green Williams are of my mother's generation and were frequently mentioned.

My mother told of "picking cotton" ("I neva picked cotton, but my Momma did...": Jonny Cash) as a teenager at "the Williams place". It was common even in the 1940's that rural schools started in August and closed during September so the children could help with the harvest. This practice ceased in Durant (a metropolis) sometime earlier. I don't know when.

I recall Pate visiting us on several occasions in the 1940-50's. I think I may have spoken on the phone with Pate's son Gil in San Francisco CA sometime in the late 1960's -early 1970's. I recall my mother urging me to contact some Williams who was working for Del Monte, the fruit processing firm. Perhaps I did.

There were a few Williams people at my mother's funeral in 1998. They were elderly women. I don't think I'd never seen them before and, though they identified themselves and expressed condolence, I can not remember their names.

Of this, this Fred Hawthorne writes "I would assume that the elderly women that you referred to as attending your mother's funereal where either the younger wives of Jessie Green Williams' sons or perhaps their daughters.".

Joe Sneed 15:55, 1 May 2013 (EDT)

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 26 September 2019), memorial page for Margaret Elizabeth Bell Williams (29 Dec 1852–27 May 1903), Find A Grave: Memorial #42558860, citing Pioneer Cemetery, Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma, USA; Created by: Michelle, Added: 30 Sep 2009, Maintained by Michelle (contributor 46955048) .

• Appears lower right in photo taken about 1895, probably in Durant, OK.
• This person was created through the import of JDS_09_17_10.ged on 09 February 2011.
• 1860 US Census, Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Page 34 line 23.
• CEA LETTER 1
• Robert (Bob) McDonald, 2634 Arroyo Dobbie, San Marcos, TX 78666, (512) 396-3210.

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of JDS_09_17_10.ged on 09 February 2011.