#3 - WE DESCEND FROM WILLIAMS COVE
Just southeast of Winchester, TN is a stretch of road called Williams Cove. It is named after our ancestor, Corp. J. Sherrod Williams, Sr, who was deeded the 900 acres by Andrew Jackson after the War of 1812. His father was Welsh, but he moved there from North Carolina with his wife, Polly Looney, daughter of Rev. War veteran Michael Looney. They brought the first 9 of their 18 kids, plus 3 slaves, and raised cattle, swine, horses, grain, and sugar cane.
He is buried in a most unique above-ground grave, with a lengthy epitaph on the headstone that reads, "Sacred to the memory of Sherrod Williams - He was born April 20, 1776 and died September 12, 1831, age 55 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 day. 'Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord from Henceforth, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.'" His grave, along with Polly's with the unique finger pointing upward, can be found in a garden graveyard toward the end of Williams Cove Road, behind a white house in the great bend of the road on the left, and it is worth the trip to see.
Williams was my 3rd great grandfather, an ancestor of Granny Louie Williams Hamby. Her ancestral line did not migrate far from Winchester to Bridgeport, Alabama, where she met Grandpa C.P. Hamby when he, a widower, was preaching a revival.
I am a descendant of Sherrod's Father John, from Wales England. Sherrod Would have been my uncle I believe 5th great uncle. I come from Jogn's son James then his son Phillp "Buck Spike" then his son Hardin then his son James Silas then his son James Manroe then his son Charlie Boyd Then his son Avery Ewing and that leads to me. I am Melissa Williams.
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