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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Thomas Williams Note Born: Married: Died: 1858 at Grayson County, , , KY
WIFE
Name: Elizabeth ? Born: Died:
CHILDREN
Name: Jacob, Sr. ? Williams Born: Died:
Name: James Hollis Williams Born: 2 Feb 1797 at Virginia ? , , , Died: 3 Aug 1870 at Grayson County, , , KY Wife: Sena (senny, Cenny) Metzel
NOTES
1). Jacob Williams, Sr., who dies in Grayson County in 1858 is listed as a son of Thomas. If Jacob, who lived on the farm next to James on Grindstrone Fork of Rock Creek, is James brother, then Thomas is James father. This Jacob there are several in theline is 25 years older than James Hollis. The question is which Thomas Williams. There are 22 Thomas Williamses listed in various Kentucky and Virginia records. The most likely one is a Thomas Williams listed as a landowner in what was to become Larue County. He owned 483 acres in three tracts near Hodgenville in the same farming community as Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He lived there in 1808. It is unknown when he came or left. The original fort on Nolin where pioneers settled was called Phillip s Fort or Station. This fort was established in 1783 or 1784. There are Phillipses buried with the Williamses at the Williams Grave Yard on Grindstone Fork of Rock Creek. Among the early arrivals at Phillips Fort was John Larue, who is buried at the Nolin Cemetery. Larue s epitaph is the same as that chosen by James Hollis son in law Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace. Hodgenville, the seat of Larue county, is located on the site of Robert Hodgen s mill on the Nolin River. The mill was built in 1789 near Phillips Fort, which was built in 1781, in what was then Hardin county. Hodgenville was established in 1818 and became the county seat when Larue county was created in 1843. The first post office opened as Hodgensville in 1826 and was renamed Hodgenville in 1904. The population in 1990 was 2,721. Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville and the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site is on US 31E south of town. The same or another Thomas Williams accompanied Simon Kenton on one of his first trips to Kentucky. These two planted the first corn crop in Kentucky. This Thomas was later the jailer for Washington County, were he once had to jail Kenton for alleged land fraud. There was such a public outcry and Thomas hated so much to jail his old partner, that he released Kenton after only a few days.

						

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