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

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Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams

Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams (born April 15, 1827; died January 19, 1899) wed Sarah Anne Tune on December 9, 1853; her parents were John Tune and Mary "Molly/Polly" Cooper. Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams was a farmer.

Madison Williams family
The Madison Williams family

 
Photo at left: Madison and Sara Williams with eleven of their children, arranged in order of age. Front row, seated (right to left): parents Sara Anne Tune Williams and Madison Monroe Williams, 1-Charles Franklin, 2-John Enoch, 3-Mary Elizabeth. Back row, standing (right to left): 6-George Peyton, 8-Eva Frances, 9-Emmett Madison, 10-Lewis Cooper, 11-Mattie M., 12-Samuel Bell, 13-Sara Annie, and 15-Jarmon Whitman. Three of Madison and Sarah's children had already died by the time this photograph was taken: 4-Marilda Jane, 5-William Thomas, and 14-Robert Tune. Not present: 7-James Henry "Big Jim" Williams, whose picture is on the wall.


Descendants of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams

Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune had 15 children:

  1. Child #1 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Charles Franklin Williams (born February 05, 1855; died August 14, 1926). Charles married Margaret E. Gregory on October 01, 1879. Charles was a farmer in Cave City, KY. Charles and Margaret had one daughter.

  2. Child #2 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    John Enoch Williams (born February 05, 1856; died November 02, 1913). John married Mollie Knott. John had the grocery on the northeast corner of Public Square in Shelbyville, Tennessee until his death. John and Mollie are buried in Willow Mount Cem., Shelbyville, Tennessee.

  3. Child #3 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Williams (born September 14, 1857; died December 15, 1933). Married to Volney S. Parsons. Betty and Volney are buried in Willow Mount Cem., Shelbyville, Tennessee. They had two sons.

  4. Child #4 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Marilda (Marildy) Jane Williams (born August 28, 1859; died August 22, 1886). Married to Dooley Pate. Their two sons, Edward and Fred Pate, died young. All four family members are buried in the Williams Cem. on Hickory Hill Road, Bedford CO, Tennessee. Marilda was a schoolteacher.

  5. Child #5 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    William Thomas Williams (born February 02, 1861; died September 29, 1887; buried in the Williams Cem. on Hickory Hill Road, Bedford CO, Tennessee). Not married. He was a Baptist minister.

  6. Child #6 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    George Peyton Williams (born November 05, 1862; died May 30, 1929). George was pastor of North Fork Baptist, also El Bethel Baptist (Bedford CO, Tennessee) around 1900-03 before moving to CA. Was pastor Glenn Baptist in Glenn, CA at the time of his death (he was killed by a Jersey bull). Married first to Ella Wheeler (born February 02, 1862; died October 30, 1918). Married second to Eula Brown Epps. George and Ella had four children.

  7. Child #7 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    James Henry "Big Jim" Williams (born April 13, 1864; died December 13, 1932). Married on December 27, 1899 to Mary "Mollie" Priscilla Ann Scott (born September 17, 1872 in Scottsboro, AL; died April 07, 1962), whose parents were Robert Thomas Scott and Nancy Jane Kennamer. Big Jim was Sheriff of Bedford County, Tennessee from 1914 to 1915. The family moved in 1922 from Tennessee to Linden, Marengo CO, AL where they had a 300-acre farm.

    James Henry "Big Jim" Williams and Mollie Scott had six children:

    1. Child #1 of James Henry "Big Jim" Williams and Mollie Scott:
      Thomas Monroe Williams (born December 19, 1900; died in a car accident on August 22, 1952). Married to Irene Supple. Five children:
      1. Willie Ruth Williams. Married to Dr. Huey Green McDaniel. Five children: Martha Michelle, Margaret Renee, Huey Barrett, Mischa Ruth, and Stephen Thomas.
      2. James Emmett Williams. Married to Maggie Jean Chapman. Three children: James Emmett Jr., Thomas Michael, Karen Jean.
      3. Ruby Jean Williams. Married to George Ward. Two children: Edward Scott, Ralph Ryan.
      4. Annie Carol Williams. Married to Leroy Fultz. One child: Melesia Ann Fultz.
      5. John Scott Williams. Married to Ruth Ellen Compton. Three children: John Scott Jr., Angela Lynn, Donald Dwain.

    2. Child #2 of James Henry "Big Jim" Williams and Mollie Scott:
      Margaret Williams (born 1902; died 1990). Worked in New York City at St. Luke's Hospital as a nurse in orthopedics. Enlisted in mid-1940s in the Army Nurse Corps, became a captain; served 12 years in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Germany, and was President Eisenhower's nurse in 1955. Not married.

    3. Child #3 of James Henry "Big Jim" Williams and Mollie Scott:
      James H. Williams, Jr. (born 1905; died 1974). Married in 1934 to Julia Cummings. Two children:
      1. James D. Williams, doctor. Married first to Barbara Briese. Three children: James Scott (married to J. Lai), Lynette (married to Jeff Berk), Laura (married to Thomas C. Drew). Married second to Linda Ferndal Hallsted.
      2. John Scott Williams, film editor. Not married.

    4. Child #4 of James Henry "Big Jim" Williams and Mollie Scott:
      Robert Scott Williams (born 1907; died 1995). Married to Margaret Harlow (born 1911; died 1990). Three children:
      1. Molly Williams. Married to Robert Wayne Swagerty. Three children: Scott, Karen, Denise (married to Rolando Meza).
      2. Scott Harlow Williams. Married to Rachel Slaughter. Two children: Tamra, Walter.
      3. Norman Scott Williams, sheriff. Married to Mardene Lueskow. Two children: Clifton, Mason.

    5. Child #5 of James Henry "Big Jim" Williams and Mollie Scott:
      Ruth Williams (born February 28, 1911; died February 19, 1981; buried in Fresno, California). Married July 15, 1935 to Joe Thomas (born July 28, 1894; died March 1, 1983; buried in Fresno, California). She was a nurse. No children.

    6. Child #6 of James Henry "Big Jim" Williams and Mollie Scott:
      Elizabeth Laura "Kitty" Williams. Married to Carl "Bud" Bernhardt Thompson (born September 17, 1913; died June 30, 2001; buried in Fresno, California); he was an optician for Bausch and Lomb for 45 years. Kitty is a retired businesswoman, living in California. No children.

  8. Child #8 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Evaline "Eva" Frances Williams (born December 21, 1865; died August 14, 1899). Eva was a schoolteacher who taught in Midland, Rutherford CO, Tennessee.

  9. Child #9 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Emmett Madison Williams (born May 29, 1867; died January 29, 1934). Married on November 23, 1899 to Ollie Turrentine. They had five children.

  10. Child #10 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Lewis Cooper Williams (born December 1868; died June 05, 1930). Lewis was a farmer in Smith's Grove, Kentucky.

  11. Child #11 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Mattie Malinda Williams (born July 11, 1870; died April 23, 1899). Married in December 1897 to R. A. Rushing. She was a schoolteacher. Their baby was born April 1899 and died five months later.

  12. Child #12 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Samuel Bell Williams (born August 25, 1872; died August 18, 1970). He was a farmer, and moved to California in the 1890s.

  13. Child #13 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Sarah Anne Williams (born March 22, 1874; died June 1971; buried in Arlington, Kentucky, next to her first husband). Married first to Will Jackson, a doctor (died in Arlington, Kentucky). Married second to a widower, Carroll Jones (buried in Louisville, Kentucky, next to his first wife). Sarah Anne Williams was a nurse. No children.

  14. Child #14 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Robert Tune Williams (born August 16, 1876; died May 02, 1877; buried in the Williams Cem. on Hickory Hill Road, Bedford CO, Tennessee).

  15. Child #15 of Madison "Matt" Monroe Williams and Sarah Anne Tune:
    Jarmon Whitman Williams (born November 09, 1879; died January 04, 1966). Married first in 1907 to Alice Hines. Married second on November 17, 1942 to Florence Coverdale Wakner. Jarmon was a farmer, fruit grower, and packer for E & M Hines in Fresno, California.

Family Memories

In 1940, Hardin Freeman McQuiddy wrote this recollection of her Uncle Matt and Aunt Sarah:

In pumpkin time I never tasted pumpkin as sweet as Aunt Sarah's or turnip greens and hog jowl as fine. I never saw such a bountiful provider as Uncle Matt. I have known 20 or more to go home with them from church, all the family had gone to church. The dinner would be cooked, set back on the stove, ready to take up. There was always plenty and enough to feed a few more should they come in late. Milk, butter out of the spring fresh and cool as any refrigerator, and never until Aunt Sarah's last days did they need a cook or wash-woman. She did all her work and was perfect.

Aunt Sarah and Uncle Matt raised 14 children to be grown; there were 15 but one little boy Robert died in his first year. In that large family not a black sheep could be found. I've thought often they never had an uneasy thought about their children's conduct. She feared no evil for they did no evil. The older brothers looked after the young ones and same way with the sisters. Their neighbors were friends and they married among them, raised fine families and held high places of honor, and to this day I know of no blemish in mind or character. Uncle Matt and Aunt Sarah raised them in the fear and admonition of the Lord.



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