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Clark Tansey Williams
11 Aug 1827 – 9 Feb 1851
| Birth | 11 Aug 1827 |
| Death | 9 Feb 1851 |
| Cemetery | Baker Family Cemetery Baker , Union County , Mississippi , USA |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169714685 |
Gravesite details
Baker Family Cemetery, documented by FAG Graver, Darrell Rakestraw, made notes location was off a Union, MS, County road into woods only accessed by AT vehicle and then had to walk by foot and knew cemetery was there with several unmarked graves.
Bio
Clark Tansey Williams until age nine lived in Hardeman County, TN, where his parents Abel and Mary Jones Williams had migrated from Campbell County, TN. Abel's father, Edward Williams and mother Elizabeth Clark had first settled Anderson County, TN, about 1802 but crossed the Clinch River into Campbell County where Clark Tansey's father, Abel Williams, had a 1818 land grant in Campbell County, TN. By mid 1820s the Abel Williams family migrated to Hardeman, TN. By 1836 Clark Tansey's family moved into the newly opened Indian land in Pontotoc (now Union County) MS, where his father, Abel Williams, received a 320 acre land grant. The homeplace was just north of Ellistown, then Pontotoc, now Union County, MS. A few years after Clark married Frances Ann Oaks, daughter of James McKinney Oaks and Jane B. Norton, Clark Tansey Williams fell from repairing his roof of their home and died of his injuries leaving his wife Frances and two small children, James Calvin Williams (my ancestor) and Elizabeth Jane Clark Williams. My Granny Priddy, Annie Blanche Williams Priddy, who was much beloved and spent the winters in our home during the 1950s, stated that the names "Clark" and "Tansey" were family names passed down the Williams line told to her by her father, James Calvin Williams. Much research has revealed the Tansey connection. Tansey surname was spelled both Tansy and Tansey in early records. Edward Williams, Clark Tansey Williams' grandfather and father of Abel Williams, was the son of Humphrey Williams and Mary Tansey, Quakers who married at Fairfax MM, Waterford, Loudoun Co., VA. They migrated 1750s into Orange County (now Alamance)North Carolina, where they with their sons joined the Quaker Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. Humphrey Williams was on the 1779 tax list of Orange, NC. Mary Tansey Williams' father, Alexander Tansey appeared in early Maryland records where his daughter Mary Tansey's birth was recorded. Edward Williams fought in the Revolutionary War as part of the Orange Co., NC, militia, and afterwards he was removed from the Quaker rolls for fighting in the Revoluation. Edward Williams and wife Elizabeth Clark migrated about 1800 to Anderson County, TN, and listed in primary land records. They migrated across the Clinch River and died in Campbell County, Tennessee. Edward has been documented as also marrying an Elizabeth Dangerfield. They had a son Alexander T. Williams (likely named for Alexander Tansy) and others in early records of Campbell County, TN.
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Unmarked Grave, noted by Darrell Rakestraw, graver of cemetery, FAG
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