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From: Eleanor Wiliams Bradley <>
Subject: [SCCOLLET] Williams
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:13:16 -0700

Posted on: Colleton Co. SC Queries Forum
Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Colleton?read=910

Surname: Williams, Hamilton, Sheridan
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If you are related to Abram Williams and Harriet Risher, you might be
interested in this letter as well.
Thanks, Eleanor Williams Bradley

To: Robert J. Williams;
Sorry your mail to me did not have a return on it.

Dr. Abraham English Williams was my great grandfather.

I think if you check you will discover that Catherine Hamilton could not
have been related to "the" Alexander Hamilton. I went down that path years
ago and definitely ruled him out. All one has to do is to see his real
parentage and where he lived. I am more inclined toward the Hamiltons that
settled near the Savannah River (some of that family moved West) or the
Hamiltons that settled in Williamsburg Township. I surely would like to
find them.

I am not even sure all the things we have been told about Hugo Sheridan
are true. Some suggest he had South Carolina roots and his brother lived
very near him. However, I am still going with the Pennsylvania and other
stories as so nicely handed down by Great-grandmother Georgianna Sheridan
Williams. That history is well distributed to all of us and thus the same
stories seem to go around and around.

I am just discovering some things about our Great-great Grandmother Catherine
Spears (Spell,Liston) Sheridan.

Do you know anything about Catherine Spears parents, Rachael and Stephen
Spears? Or about Hugo Sheridan's parents for that matter?

Abram(iour) Williams was a Justice of the Peace. On the marriage agreement
between Hugo Sheridan and Catherine Liston he signed his name Abramiour
Williams. Never have I seen Thomas, yet so many of you have that as his
middle name. If he was truly named Abram Thomas Williams then that could
be a huge clue to family names or just another blind alley.

I think you will discover that Abram Williams and Harriet Risher are buried
at what is now known as Green Pond United Methodist Church Cemetery, a
stones throw from the home they established when they married and not far
from his General Store. It was his son, Thomas R. Williams, for whom
the town of Williamsville is named. He gave the land for the Williams
Cemetery, and his homestead, built in the mid 1800's, is now listed on
the National Register of Historic Place. He was a brother of Dr.Abraham
English Williams, my Great Grandfather. (see: Cemeteries in Upper Colleton
County,SC)

If you have anything that can help me with my search, I would appreciate
it.

From: Can someone answer this question from
>MALCOLM L. WILLIAMS ?

>>Eleanor, did H.W. Smith in his communication to you ever mention any
of
>the following members of my Williams ancestors: John Grandison Williams,
>Prudence Williams, Margaret Williams, James Alexander Williams, Benjamin
>Williams, or Ann Williams? All were born in Colleton county before 1800,

Thanks
Eleanor Williams Bradley
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