Descendants of Enoch Williams
and Elizabeth "Betsy" Clanton Perkins
of Shelbyville, Tennessee

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Overview

Enoch Williams
Enoch Williams
(photo by C. S. Judd, Shelbyville, Tennessee)
This web-site concerns the descendants of Enoch Williams and Elizabeth "Betsy" Burrough Clanton Perkins. Enoch is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James David Williams, who had several other children (Benjamin, William, John, Nancy, Mary). Enoch's siblings and their descendants are listed at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6038/Williams_Family.html, maintained by Diane Spencer

Enoch Williams and Elizabeth "Betsy" Burrough Clanton Perkins had four known children:

  1. Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams (born April 15, 1827; died January 19, 1899)
  2. Martha H. Williams (born March 8, 1829)
  3. Frances "Fanny" Wills Williams (born March 26, 1831; died December 17, 1864)
  4. Enoch George Williams (born July 23, 1835; died June 12, 1909)

For further information on Enoch Williams' family, contact J. Williams at postmaster@james.com.


Acknowledgements

The information on this web-site was provided by cousin Lawrence D. Williams, of Shelbyville, Tennessee. We are deeply grateful for his extensive research and his collection of family memorabilia, including the photographs reproduced here.


Enoch and Betsy Williams

Elizabeth B. Clanton
Elizabeth "Betsy" Burrough Clanton,
wife of Enoch Williams
Enoch Williams, born March 09, 1797 in Virginia; died March 03, 1873 Shelbyville, Bedford CO, Tennessee; he was buried on the John Tune farm (now the Nona Curlee farm), a half-mile north of Whiteside Methodist Church. [John Tune's daughter Sara Anne was married to Enoch's son Madison.] Enoch was a farmer.

Enoch Williams was married in 1826 to Elizabeth "Betsy" Burrough Clanton (November 4, 1798 to June 15, 1875), the daughter of George Clanton and Frances Wills. Betsy and Enoch were third cousins on Enoch's mother's side (his sisters were Susan Willis Grooms and Sarah Willis Corbitt, so Enoch's mother was probably a Willis). Betsy attended a female college in Richmond, Virginia.

NOTE: In 1817 in Henry CO, Virginia, Betsy married Joseph Perkins. Betsy and Joseph had two sons, Joseph Franklin Perkins and Hardin Whitehead Perkins (died at age six months). To support herself and her son after her first husband died, Betsy worked in Richmond as a seamstress, making men's suits. After she married Enoch Williams, they — Betsy, Enoch, and her son Joseph Franklin Perkins — moved to Tennessee, where her father had already moved.

Enoch and Betsy Williams lived on a 200-acre farm on Midland Road in Parch Corn Creek, about four miles north of Shelbyville in Bedford County, Tennessee. According to Enoch and Betsy's granddaughter, Hardin Freeman McQuiddy:

Grandma [Betsy Williams] spun and weaved all kinds of cloth, both cotton and wool. They had fine crops, all sorts of fruits — peaches, plums, grapes, apples, and quince. They made cider and let it work for vinegar. They raised all kinds of vegetables and had peafowls, turkey, guineas, and chickens by the hundreds. Grandma never had geese, but when Uncle Matt [Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams] moved in with his wife and seven children, they had ducks galore.

Enoch's father, James David Williams

Enoch's father was James David Williams, born 1758 in Scotland; died 1833 in Bedford CO, Tennessee; James David Williams was buried on the Newt Bryant place, west of Midland, Tennessee. In 1766, James David Williams immigrated to Virginia in care of a German couple named Archibald and Martha Lingow (Lingon?), and is the ancestor of most of the Versailles and Tenth District Williams of Rutherford County, Tennessee. James David Williams served in the American Revolutionary War under George Washington; he married after the war, and had at least five children, all born in Virginia. James David Williams moved from Virginia to Tennessee in the early 1820s.

NOTE: At present, we do not know the name of Enoch's mother.



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