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WILLIAMS Family History, Part III

Carrie (WILLIAMS) COLE (1870-1909)

141A. Carrie WILLIAMS was born, along with a twin, in October 1870 in Indiana. She married Charles H. COLE (Sr.), a musician, about 1885, and had one son:^{[Cen 1900]}

141A1.

Charles H. COLE, Jr.

12 Sep 1887

26 Feb 1972

(84)

Charles H. COLE (Sr.) in 1905. He was about 40 years old.

Carrie (WILLIAMS) COLE died four years later in 1909. She was about 38 years old.

Cora (WILLIAMS) THRIFT (~1872-)

141C. Cora WILLIAMS was born in Kansas about 1872. She married but had no children.

In 1900, a young woman, believed to be Cora's younger sister Mattie WILLIAMS is noted living as a boarder with Cora and Joseph THRIFT. Mattie's birth month and year correlate, as does Cora's annotated birth month of May 1872 in Kansas. Per the census, this Cora and Joseph were married for five years and Joseph, a native of Kansas and son of English immigrants, worked as a dog trainer.^{[Cen 1900]}

Unfortuately, I can find no further record of either Cora or Joseph after 1900 in California.

Al WILLIAMS⁴ (1874-1940)

141D. Albert WILLIAMS⁴ and a twin who died in infancy were born on October 17, 1874 in a dugout or storm cellar on his uncle's farm in Kansas, probably in or around Glen Elder, in Mitchell County, where the family had moved in 1871. This was just two months after a plague of grasshoppers devastated the area and many farmers moved back east. Not long after, the family moved west to California, settling in Woodland, Yolo County. According to the 1900 census, Albert, age 25, lived with his aunt and uncle, William and Sarah in Woodland, Yolo County, California.^{[Cen 1900]}

Al married Cora Ethel (MILLER) FISHER, a widow with six children, on January 21, 1914 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. He fathered four children:

141D1.	Elsie Alberta WILLIAMS	7 Mar 1914	15 Feb 2001	(86)
141D2.	Gladys Elaine WILLIAMS	30 Jun 1916	29 Mar 1998	(81)
141D3.	Harold WILLIAMS	19 Apr 1918	21 Apr 1918	(3 days)
141D4.	Edward Carl WILLIAMS	4 Apr 1920

After his father Ira left during the 1880s, allegedly to pursue women, Al went to live with his uncle, William, in Woodland, Yolo County. At that time, the Sacramento delta was all wetlands with plentiful game, so Al and his brothers bought a scow and hunted ducks to make a living. He made just enough money to take care of his mother and siblings and became a crack-shot, a skill he would rely upon later during hard times. Living on the delta presented one main problem: mosquitoes. According to his elder daughter, Elsie, he got malaria and was advised by a doctor to move to wine country and drink claret wine to help make blood. He left Yolo County for the Asti Swiss Colony Winery in northern Sonoma County. There he befriended Theodoric Leathe FISHER, the foreman at the winery. Theodoric was a sickly man suffering from consumption (tuberculosis) so Al often hunted quail and doves to help provide Theodoric with meat to help him keep weight on.

Al's good friend, Theodoric died in 1911 leaving his widow Cora Ethel (MILLER) FISHER and six children behind. Three years later, Al, a shy man, got up the nerve to ask Cora to marry him. After their wedding on January 21, 1914, the family moved to a ranch (BLUNT place or GILL place?) behind the Petrified Forest near Mt. St. Helena which Al helped excavate and turn into a park. This was probably by 1912 when Al registered to vote in Santa Rosa as a resident of Rincon precinct. He was a Republican.

Later, apparently between 1914 and 1916, Al's father Ira met Cora's former mother-in-law, Harriet (CHAPMAN) FISHER. Ira took to her and they also married.

Al's son Ed recalls that, as a young boy, on Sundays the two of them would walk about four miles to stepdaughter Pearl MALUGANI's home (later dubbed the DERBY Ranch) where Al drank homemade red wine with Pearl's husband Charlie. Later Cora would come pick them up and drive them home.

Ed also recalls that in 1932, Al's stepson Earl FISHER's home burned down in a still fire, and the FISHER's moved in with them at the GILL place. A while later, the WILLIAMS moved out to the COGAN place, a 25-acre plot that they bought with a loan that stepson-in-law Raymond FECHTER backed for $2,000. This place had an old three-bedroom home with porches on two sides. It burned down about 1936 when mice got into matches stored in the pantry.

After the COGAN place fire, Al and Cora moved in with stepdaughter Sonoma (FISHER) CLARKE.

Al WILLIAMS died May 14, 1940 in Sonoma County, while still living with Sonoma's family, at the age of 65. His son Ed, with help from Herb FECHTER and Kenneth SAXTON, dug his grave, variously reported to be at Oak Knoll (alternatively "Okie Knoll") Cemetery on SHARP's property off Petrified Forest Road or the BUTLER property above Porter Creek Road.

Amos WILLIAMS (1876-1946)

141F. Amos WILLIAMS was born in February 11, 1876 in California, probably Woodland, Yolo County. Amos married Hermana C. (SUGGETT) from Missouri, about 1903. They had at least one daughter:

141F1.

Blanche H. WILLIAMS

(1904)

In 1900, Amos and his younger brother Earl were living with Thomas H. WILLIAMS, believed to be a cousin, in Suisun, Solano County, California as laborers on his farm. Nearby to the extended WILLIAMS families, brothers Charles and Harvey were also enumerated with the REECE family.^{[Cen 1900]}

The WILLIAMS were living at 222 E Street in Washington township, on the Yolo County side of West Sacramento by 1910, where Amos worked as an electrician for the railroad.^{[Cen 1910]} By 1920, Amos was still working as an electrician for the railroad, but had moved across the river into Sacramento proper where they resided at 1716 N. Street. There, Hermena's mother and sister, Sarah and Maria SUGGETT, lived with them, along with six roomers.^{[Cen 1920]}

Amos WILLIAMS died on July 2, 1946 in Napa County, California. He was 70 years old.

Hermana C. (SUGGETT) WILLIAMS died 26 years later on November 14, 1972 in Sacramento County, California. She was 91 years old.

Wilford S. WILLIAMS (1878-1974)

141G. Wilford S. WILLIAMS was born February 18, 1878 in California. He served in the Philippines and/or the Boxer Rebellion and is known to have returned to the U.S. but later lost contact with his family. He died in Yolo County, California on August 28, 1947 at the age of 69.

Earl WILLIAMS (1880-)

141H. Earl WILLIAMS was born in August 1880 in California, probably in Woodland, Yolo County. He married and had at least one daughter:

141H1.

Thelma WILLIAMS

In 1900, Earl and his elder brother Amos were living with Thomas H. WILLIAMS, believed to be a cousin, in Suisun, Solano County, California as laborers on his farm. Nearby to the extended WILLIAMS families, brothers Charles and Harvey were also enumerated with the REECE family.^{[Cen 1900]}

Martha "Mattie" (WILLIAMS) STANDLEY (1881-1959)

141K. Martha "Mattie" Helen WILLIAMS was born on March 6, 1881 in California. She married Henry Charles STANDLEY about 1906, but had no children.

Mattie appears to have been living as a boarder with Cora and Joseph THRIFT, likely referring to Mattie's older sister Cora, in Fruitvale, Alameda County, California in 1900. There she worked as a teacher.^{[Cen 1900]}

The STANDLEYs lived in San Francisco after their marriage where they are noted living at 2248 Market Street. Henry was employed as a marine engineer for schooners.^{[Cen 1930]} Ten years later they had moved northeast to O'Farrell Street and this time Henry was noted as a steamship engineer.^{[Cen 1920]}

Come 1930, the STANDLEYs had moved nearby to 1104 Gough Street, where Henry worked as a building construction engineer and Mattie worked a keeper at a lodging house. In 1930, Mattie's younger sister Mamie (WILLIAMS) JOHNSON and her husband were also living with them.^{[Cen 1930]} Nephew Ed recalls that the STANDLEYs owned two apartments on Gough Street. They sold them and moved to Calistoga by the 1940s.

Henry Charles STANDLEY died on June 3, 1949 in Napa County. He was 73 years old.

Martha Helen (WILLIAMS) STANDLEY died nine years later on January 6, 1959, in Napa County, California. She was 77 years old.

Nephew Ed recalls Mattie's generosity. Not having any children of her own she gave freely to her nieces and nephews, notably one year she gave 14 of them a trip to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Charles (James) E. WILLIAMS (1883-~1941)

141I. Charles (James) E. WILLIAMS was born in September 1883, possibly in Woodland, Yolo County, California. He was said to have been crippled by polio, but according to his niece, Elsie Alberta (WILLIAMS) HITCHCOCK, he fell as a baby, injuring his sciatic nerve and causing his leg to be stunted. Charles married a woman named Birdie (JANIE?) and had at least two children:

141I1.	James WILLIAMS
141I2.	Ethel G. (WILLIAMS) VAIL

In 1900, brothers Charles and Harvey were enumerated with the REECE family among extended families of Robert WILLIAMS in Suisun Township, Solano County, California. Also nearby were elder brothers Amos and Earl, who were living with Thomas H. WILLIAMS, believed to be a cousin.^{[Cen 1900]}

A Charles James WILLIAMS is found in the 1912 Great Register of Voters for Sonoma County. This Charles James was a farmer living in the Rincon Precinct of Santa Rosa along with father Ira T. and brother Albert WILLIAMS.

In 1920, the WILLIAMS were living on near Yolo Street and Riverbank Road, along the Sacramento River, in Washington Township (West Sacramento), Yolo County, California. Charles worked as a general clerk.^{[Cen 1920]}

Son Jimmy was assigned to the U.S.S. Arizona in 1941. The day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jimmy transferred to the U.S.S. Pigeon, escaping certain death. When the U.S.S. Arizona was sunk on December 7, 1941, Jimmy was erroneously reported dead. When Charles was wrongfully notified of his son's death he died of a heart attack with the telegram in his hand.

Mayme (WILLIAMS) JOHNSON (~1884-)

141L. Mayme (or Mammie) WILLIAMS was born about 1884 in California. She married Fred E. JOHNSON, but had no children.

By 1930, the JOHNSONs were living with Mamie's elder sister Mattie (WILLIAMS) STANDLEY in San Francisco, where she worked as a waitress in a restaurant and Fred worked as a clerk.^{[Cen 1930]}

Harvey Roy WILLIAMS (1888-1947)

141J. Harvey Roy WILLIAMS was born on September 25, 1888 in California, probably in Woodland, Yolo County. He married Bertha (WADEMAN), the daughter of German immigrants from Nebraska. They had at least one son:

141J1.

Lowell R. WILLIAMS

In 1900, Harvey and his elder brother Charles were enumerated with the REECE family among extended families of Robert WILLIAMS in Suisun Township, Solano County, California. Also nearby were elder brothers Amos and Earl, who were living with Thomas H. WILLIAMS, believed to be a cousin.^{[Cen 1900]}

The WILLIAMS were enumerated in the 1930 census east of Woodland in Woodland Township, Yolo County, California. There Harvey worked as a machinist in a machine shop and Bertha's brother, Rudolph (F.) WADEMAN, lived with them and worked in a planing mill.

Harvey Roy WILLIAMS died on February 7, 1947 in Yolo County, California. He was 58 years old.

Laura (WILLIAMS) WAHLANDER (>1900-)

141M. Laura WILLIAMS was born after 1900, the last born daughter of Ira and Elizabeth WILLIAMS. She was born after a lengthy separation by her parents.

Laura WILLIAMS married a WAHLANDER, believed to be Adrian WAHLANDER, born March 5, 1906 and died February 13, 1989 in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California.