John Anderson Williams

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John Anderson Williams

Birth
Columbia County, Florida, USA
Death
14 Jul 1906 (aged 66)
Seabreeze, Volusia County, Florida, USA
Burial
Fort Ogden, DeSoto County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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John Anderson Williams was born in Columbia Co., Fl to Rowland Williams, Jr. and Nancy Annie Sweat. He enlisted in the CSA in 1861. He was captured in first battle and kept a prisoner in the Rock Island Prison where he was discharged in 1865, when the war ended.
He was married twice, first to Marth E. whom he divorced when he returned home from the war and secondly he married his first cousin, Mary Ann "Mollie" WILLIAMS.

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Obit supplied by Donna McPherson.

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE (TAMPA, FLORIDA) 8/2/1906

FORT ODGEN JOHN A WILLIAMS, NOTED CONFEDERATE VETERAN CROSSES RIVER.

FORT OGDEN, July 28.---The community has been saddened by the death of one of the oldest and among the most honored Confederate Veterans of DeSoto County, Mr. John A. Williams. He and his wife and daughter, Miss Lula, had been visiting his son Frank Williams, at Daytona, in the hope of benefiting his health, but he gradually sank, and on the morning of July 15, the end came.

Ample time during the interval elapsed to give notice to the Veterans of DeSoto County and they turned out en masse to honor their brave old comrade.

The pall-bearers were Captain John Whidden and Judge Pooser of Arcadia; Judge G.W McLane and Frank Cooper, of Punta Gorda; Messrs, E.W. Thompson and J.O. Carr, of Fort Ogden.

He was laid to rest in Oak Lawn Cemetery at Fort Ogden, leaving a large family, only one of whom is single, Miss Lula, whose most sacred pleasure it was to contribute to the wants and pleasure of her father.
John Anderson Williams was born in Columbia Co., Fl to Rowland Williams, Jr. and Nancy Annie Sweat. He enlisted in the CSA in 1861. He was captured in first battle and kept a prisoner in the Rock Island Prison where he was discharged in 1865, when the war ended.
He was married twice, first to Marth E. whom he divorced when he returned home from the war and secondly he married his first cousin, Mary Ann "Mollie" WILLIAMS.

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Obit supplied by Donna McPherson.

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE (TAMPA, FLORIDA) 8/2/1906

FORT ODGEN JOHN A WILLIAMS, NOTED CONFEDERATE VETERAN CROSSES RIVER.

FORT OGDEN, July 28.---The community has been saddened by the death of one of the oldest and among the most honored Confederate Veterans of DeSoto County, Mr. John A. Williams. He and his wife and daughter, Miss Lula, had been visiting his son Frank Williams, at Daytona, in the hope of benefiting his health, but he gradually sank, and on the morning of July 15, the end came.

Ample time during the interval elapsed to give notice to the Veterans of DeSoto County and they turned out en masse to honor their brave old comrade.

The pall-bearers were Captain John Whidden and Judge Pooser of Arcadia; Judge G.W McLane and Frank Cooper, of Punta Gorda; Messrs, E.W. Thompson and J.O. Carr, of Fort Ogden.

He was laid to rest in Oak Lawn Cemetery at Fort Ogden, leaving a large family, only one of whom is single, Miss Lula, whose most sacred pleasure it was to contribute to the wants and pleasure of her father.

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