Pike County Obituary.. Kesiah Williams 1859
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Karen Tapley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007328 March 20, 2003, 9:14 pm

Independ American, A. N. Worthy, Editor Troy Ala. 7 Dec. 1859

Departed this life, on the night of the 20th of November, Mrs. Kesiah
Williams, in the 79th year of her age. Mother Williams removed to this
county from South Carolina in the year 1819, and has been a citizen of
this county ever since. 
She leaves to mourn her loss 114 living children, grand-children and 
great grand-children, the most of whom lived in this vicinity, besides
many, many friends who sat around her bed day after day and night 
after night, watching her with anxious eyes through a protracted 
illness of nearly four weeks.  But alas! the monster death came and 
severed the brittle thread---she is no more. While deploring her death,
all who knew her have the sweet consolation to know that she lived a
pious life and bore her last illness with Christian foritude, she never
murmuring but always acquiescing in the dispensations of Providence. 
How sweet is to know, in the hour of death, that the angels of God 
stand ready to receive our spirits and bear them aloft to realms of
eternal bliss. A short poem follows.

Additional Comments:
I have written as this appeared in the newspaper. I have many surnames that are 
on her inventory of estate, her son E. Y. Williams was exec: this was wife of 
James Williams in all the estate, settlement records, census records, Because 
of difference in transcription of the original name and the letter 'z' could have 
appeared as 's'. In the 1850 census her daughters name was clearly Keziah wife of 
Thomas Urquhart.  I can't find where in SC this family came from to Al. in 1819 
or a maiden name for Kesiah Williams. The family was in the 1830-40-50-60-70 census 
records. Kesiah and James Williams grandson was Rev. John Lafayette Williams 
b. near Mont./ Pike Co. Al. was a Methodist (E) minister over 30 years in N. Fl. 
and S. GA. he went to Fl. along with 2 siblings, several cousins in 1854. His 
parents John Allen Williams and Catharine URQUHART married in Mont. Co. Al. 1826 
they are #901 of the 1850 Census Pike Co. Al. Please email me if you might be able 
to help me get back to SC or know where in SC this family came from? 
kindness karen