Category: Williams Family
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An Old Photo and the Story of Holly Grove Baptist Church
I found this photo of a group of children and adults at Holly Grove Baptist Church in Haywood County, Tennessee, a few weeks ago at my parents’ house. It appears to date to the early 1940s. The people in the photo are hard to identify, but I am fairly certain my grandmother, Elizabeth Castellaw Williams…
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Home Sweet Home
Photograph that appeared in the Brownsville States Graphic newspaper in an article about my grandmother’s updated kitchen. Growing up, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house in Haywood County, Tennessee. Lloyd “Bo” Williams and Elizabeth Castellaw Williams, whom we called Daddy Bo and Granny, both grew up near the house on Poplar…
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Happy Mothers Day
Since it’s Mother’s Day, I thought I would share three stories my mother, Shirley Lovelace Williams, has told me over the years. One of my mom’s earliest memories comes from when she was about eight years old. She had been looking forward to traveling with her family from Brownsville, Tennessee, to Memphis to visit their…
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Stitching keeps church neat amid Providence landmarks
This article, published in the Jackson Sun on Friday, Aug. 12, 1983, includes my grandmother, Elizabeth Castellaw Williams. By BETTYE ANDERSONJackson Sun reporter Jane Carr, Doris Naomi “Nonie” Warren, and Elizabeth Williams, far right, work on a cross-stitch quilt to raise money for Providence United Methodist Church. The women, including the pastor’s wife, Faye Howard,…
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Will Williams
Trying to get the research posted correctly while figuring out HTML at the same time is proving to be a challenge, to say the least. Tonight I have been working on the Will Williams branch of my genealogy. He was my paternal grandfather’s father. Will experienced a great deal of loss, although that was not…