Daughter of Maxie Thomas Chappell and Susie Viola (Livingston) Chappell
The 1900 US Census of Etowah Co., AL enumerated the household of 40 Y/O Maxey Thomas Chappell, a farmer, and his 34 Y/O wife, Susie Viola (Livingston) Chappell. Also living in the household were their four children: 17 Y/O Mary Virginia Chappell, 15 Y/O John Mathis Chappell, 12 Y/O Esther E. Chappell and 11 Y/O Gussie Alma Chappell.
The 1910 US Census of Turkeytown, Etowah Co., AL enumerated the household of 53 Y/O Maxie Thomas Chappell, farmer, and his 45 Y/O wife, Susie Viola (Livingston) Chappell. Also living in the household were their daughters: 23 Y/O Esther E. Chappell and 20 Y/O Gussie Alma Chappell.
Gussie Alma Chappell (23 Y/O) married Amos Oliver Williams (41 Y/O) on 09 Oct 1913 at Etowah Co., AL.
The 1920 US Census of Hollis, Etowah Co., AL enumerated the household of 47 Y/O Amos O. Williams, a farmer, and his 28 Y/O wife, Gussie. Also living in the household were their children: 2 years 3 months old Mary Elizabeth Williams and 4 months old Myra Almedia Williams.
The 1930 US Census of Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL enumerated the household of 58 Y/O A. O. Williams and his 39 Y/O wife, Gussie Alma Williams. Also living in the household were their children: 12 Y/O Mary Elizabeth Williams, 10 Y/O Myra Almedia Williams and 5 Y/O Alice Ruth Williams.
Amos Oliver Williams was living in Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL in 1935 but the 1940 US Census of Coloma, Cherokee Co., AL enumerated the household of 60 Y/O R. D. Connell and his 68 Y/O wife, Edda Connell. Also living in the household was 68 Y/O Amos Oliver Williams, married, living there as a lodger. There is no explanation why he is living separately from his wife, Gussie.
The 1940 US Census of Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL enumerated the household of 50 Y/O Gussie Williams. Also living in the house was her 15 Y/O daughter Alice Ruth Williams. Her 22 Y/O married daughter, Mary Elizabeth Young, and her 25 Y/O husband, Ernest Young, a cotton mill employee, were also residents of the household.
Gussie Alma (Chappell) Williams was the 2nd cousin 5 times removed through her father, Maxie Thomas Chappell, of POTUS Thomas Jefferson. (See Find A Grave Memorial #544).
Bio by Gresham Farrar.
(From Find-A-Grave)
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