Probable confirm or correct → Her son Sampson’s household: in 1850
Sampson Williams, 25, his wife Lydia, 25, and George, 4, Dorcas, 2, and Nancy, 1, were in dwelling 42 of Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee, next door to a David Wilder household (Ancestry record 6185976). The family typescript’s “Lydia Brewer, born 1845” probably runs two wives together: Lydia of 1850, whose maiden name no record gives, and a later wife,
Orlena Brewer (also written Oleva and Arleen), born about 1845–48. One child of the later marriage is confirmed by two records:
Joe Williams, born 22 December 1893 at Sneedville, Tennessee, died 6 December 1928 at Albion, Michigan, whose Michigan death record and 1918 marriage record both name his parents as Sampson Williams and Orlena (Oleva) Brewer (Ancestry records 2166059 and 2362224). Evidence that Sampson is Nancy’s son: the typescript
S993. Weak: that tie rests on the typescript alone, living next to the Wilders fits kinship but proves nothing, and every record here was read from the index on 1 October 2026, with no page image opened. What would settle it: a record that names Sampson’s parents. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.