Moses Williams

In the record Generation 7 — Earl's earliest known

1. S1731850 U.S. Federal Census — Moses Williams household, County of Owsley, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 8054, record 17453010, image 4192506_00389. SCHEDULE I.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated on the 4th day of Sept 1850 by Luther Brawner, Ass't Marshal; dwelling and family 281/281, lines 18–25. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Moses Williams, 50, Farmer, real estate $750, born TENNESSEE, cannot read or write; Nancy Williams, 48, born Tennessee, cannot read or write; Nathan 21, Laborer; a son of 18 whose given name has faded off the page; Lydia, 15, born TENNESSEE; George 10; Nancy 8, born Tennessee; Abraham, 5, born KENTUCKY. 🔑 A new generation on a line that had none — published as a candidate, PROBABLE since 24 September 2026. The Williams side stops at Lydia on this record; this sheet puts her, at fifteen, in the household of Moses and Nancy Williams in the county she marries in six years later [S143], and there is no second Lydia Williams on the page. ⚠ The hedge is stated plainly: an 1850 schedule states no relationship whatever. Ancestry's own word is inferred. This is the same evidentiary shape as James and Elizabeth Brock [S167] [S169] and it is weaker — that is a two-census chain, this is one sheet. It is published as a CANDIDATE, not probable, not confirmed, and nothing has been written to the tree. 🔑 Age 15 contains the tree's 30 May 1835 by two days. Reference day 1 June 1850; 15 requires a birth between 2 June 1834 and 1 June 1835. The tightest corroboration the date has; the day itself is still unattested by any document. 🔑 The family left Tennessee between c.1842 and c.1845 — Nancy, 8, born Tennessee; Abraham, 5, born Kentucky. Lydia was a child of about seven to ten when they moved. 🔑 Lydia's birthplace is Tennessee, in her own household, at fifteen — the first of three contemporaneous records to say so, with the 1856 bride's column [S143] and the 1860 Travellers Rest sheet [S171]. ⚠ Both parents illiterate (col. 13 ticked). ⚠ Line 21's given name is unread. Ancestry indexes James, 18; the ink is no longer on the page, and he is recorded here as unread, not as James. ⚠ The $750 leads with a 7 in this hand; $450 cannot be wholly excluded. ⚠ What would settle the parentage is the 1840 schedule with the same household, an Owsley County marriage bond for Lydia in 1856 naming a father's consent, or a probate for Moses Williams. None has been pulled.
2. S6201870 U.S. census — McKee Precinct 1, Jackson County, Kentucky, p. 6. Ancestry record 18553557. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 38: Moses Williams, 69, farmer, born Tennessee, real estate $300; Nancy, 67, keeping house, born Tennessee. Next door, Riley Williams, 50, born Tennessee, and his family; one door on, Samuel Evans, 31, and Nancy Ann, 27.
3. S6351880 U.S. census — Boston Township, Madison County, Arkansas, p. 37. Ancestry record 5403284. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 23–24 June 1880. Dwelling 312: Sam Evans, 43, farmer, born North Carolina; Nancy, his wife, 37, born Tennessee; Mary, 11, and Geo. B., 9, born Kentucky; three younger children born Arkansas. Next line: Nanci Williams, 78, mother-in-law, widowed, born Tennessee, mother born Virginia; cannot read or write. The Ancestry index makes her a head of household; the page says mother-in-law.
4. S863W. M. Wilder, Wilder and Some Connecting Families (typescript), p. 571, “A Tennessee Fragment”. Ancestry U.S. Family History Books, record 4519537298. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “F-2 James Wilder b in Va. m Nancy Hays, came to Tennessee with his father [David Wilder of Luther, Hancock Co.] and later moved to ‘Old Settlement’ Ky. They had: G-1 Nancy Wilder (dau of James & Nancy Hays Wilder) b in Tenn. abt 1802 d in Madison Co., Ark. after 1878, m Moses Williams (b abt 1799 in Tenn. d 7/27/1874 Madison Co., Ark.)”, “who was a veteran of the War of [1812]”. A compiled family history; the entry continues on p. 572, not yet read.
5. S993W. M. Wilder, Wilder and Some Connecting Families (typescript), page numbered (290), “A Tennessee Fragment”; Ancestry U.S. Family History Books. Ancestry record 4514386444. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28–29 September 2026. Probable The same entry as S863, here complete on one page: “G-1 Nancy Wilder (dau of James & Nancy Hays Wilder) b in Tenn. abt 1802 d in Madison Co., Ark. after 1878, m Moses Williams (b abt 1799 in Tenn. d 7/27/1874 Madison Co., Ark.) who was a veteran of the War of 1812 and his widow drew a pension therefore. They m 2/15/1819 in Hawkins Co., Tenn.” It names their son Sampson Williams, born in Hawkins County (“1925”, a typing slip for 1825), and James Wilder's parents as David Wilder, born in Virginia about 1760, died at Luther, Tennessee, aged 96, a Revolutionary soldier, and Nancy Elkins. A compiled family history by the same author as S863, so not independent of it. No marriage register has been read. Moses Williams's War of 1812 widow's pension would test the marriage and her maiden name.
6. S11721860 U.S. census, Jackson County, Kentucky, P.O. McKee, dwelling and family 295, lines 17–21. Ancestry record 39429512. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Probable Moses Williams, 60, farmer, real estate $540, personal $250, born Tennessee, cannot read or write; Nancy, 56, born Tennessee, cannot read or write; George B., 20; Nancy Ann, 17, at school; Absalom (“Absolum”), 15, at school; all born Tennessee. The census states no relationships. The pairing (Moses born Tennessee about 1800 with Nancy) matches 1850 in Owsley County (S173), from which Jackson County was partly formed in 1858; Nancy’s age has moved eight years, not ten. Lydia is not in the house.