Elizabeth 'Bessie' Williams

b 24 Feb 1872,
d 30 Jun 1920,  
bur , Sevier, Tennessee William 'Billy' Williams  
Berry Williams b 1769  
| b 08 Feb 1814 Betty Walker  
William M. Williams  d 20 Dec 1888 b 1772  
|b 11 Oct 1835 | Billy Brooks  
|d 13 Jul 1908 Lurana Brooks  
|  b 24 Apr 1818 Rachel Waters  
Elizabeth 'Bessie' Williams  d 28 Apr 1893 William 'Billy' Ogle >
|Humphrey Ownby Thomas J. Ogle Martha Jane Huskey >
|m 1900 William Thomas Ogle b 1784  
| |b 27 May 1810 Sophia Bosley  
Mary Ogle  d 29 Dec 1894 b 1789  
 b 08 Apr 1840 | Henry Bohanon Mary
 d 09 Mar 1897 Sarah E. Bohanon b 1760 Robert V. Shotwell
 b 1807 Amillia Shotwell Hannah Burdine >
 d 25 Sep 1887 b 1765

Children

1 Leonard Ownby
2 Ernest N. Ownby
3 < Frances Ownby
4 < Gaither M. Ownby
5 David Carl Ownby
6 Wade Ownby

Notes

Donald B. Reagan lists Elizabeth as being buried in the Forks of the River Cemetery, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The SMHS lists her buried in Lower Fighting Creek Cemetery.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 69, 76. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 12, 197. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 694.


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