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About Mary Williams
Mary (Turley) Williams' son Maj. John Robert ("Jack") Williams was one of the first settlers of Grenada, Miss. She and the others went to Mississippi soon after he did. He also owned about a third of the original lots in the town of Graysport and a plantation 18 miles east of Grenada where the town of Williamsville was, originally Williams Landing.
Mary (Turley) Williams owned lots in Grenada, and a townhouse there, and a plantation 6 miles east of town on or near Knight's Creek. She lived with her son James Turley Williams, who married his first cousin Eliza(beth) Shropshire Lowry/Lowery. They had no children. (Eliza was the daughter of Elizabeth Turley and Rev. James Lowry)
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Birth: 1780
Kershaw County South Carolina, USA Death: Mar. 18, 1842 Yalobusha County Mississippi, USA
Wife of Robert Williams, Esquire, and daughter of Peter Turley, both of Kershaw County, South Carolina. Both her husband and father were soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Her husband was 20 years her senior, so it would be possible that it was a second marriage for him.
Mary Turley Williams and son James Turley Williams are thought to have been buried in the family cemetery on or near the plantation they owned east and west of Knight's Creek. Most of the Williams property is now part of Hugh White State Park. The Williams estate passed to descendants, the Mayhew, Perry, and Rosamond families, relatives. The Perry plantation, called "Pleasant Retreat," was the site of this cemetery, adjoining the Rosamond plantation, and adjoined the south border of Weir Springs Plantation.
It is possible there was a Mt. Zion church located at this site in the 1840s. The 1844 will of James Turley Williams makes reference to a bequest to Mt. Zion Church and to "walling in and covering over in substantial manner" his mother's and brother John Williams' graves.
In the 1940s-50s the Pleasant Retreat Cemetery was still in beautiful though neglected condition. The cemetery was distinctive for the ornate monuments showing marked sophistication and wealth. By the 1970s vandals had destroyed most of the monuments. It is located east of and parallel to the Weir Springs Road, now called Wildlife League Road. The old plantation road is now a trail running southward from the site of the Perry and Rosamond homes and is sometimes referred to as Perry Cemetery #2, the Perry Cemetery #1 being the much arger negro Perry cemetery further south off Wildlife League.
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Parents:
Peter Turley (1755 - 1812)
Elizabeth Turley (____ - 1837)
Spouse:
Robert Williams (1760 - 1825)
Children:
Tabitha Williams Williams (1798 - 1853)*
John Robert Williams (1800 - 1842)*
Elizabeth A Williams Rosamond (1804 - 1857)*
Ann E Williams Fraser (1807 - 1833)*
Mary Turley Williams Mayhew (1810 - 1896)*
James Turley Williams (1812 - 1844)*
Rebecca Williams Williams (1814 - 1866)*
Margaret Williams Ingram (1820 - 1851)*
Siblings:
Mary Turley Williams (1780 - 1842)
James Turley (1788 - 1817)*
Rebecca Turley Fraser (1798 - 1843)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial: Williams-Perry-Rosamond Grenada County Mississippi, USA
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Created by: Ray Record added: Apr 25, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 89106639 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=williams&GSfn...
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Mary Williams's Timeline
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Flat Rock, Kershaw County, SC, United States
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