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Submitted: 6/17/12 • Approved: 6/17/12 • Last Updated: 6/28/18 • R715007-G428994-S3
Thomas
PRIVATE
Civil War Confederate
November 1, 1832 - July 3, 1886
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Friday, July 9, 1886
WILLIAMS, Thomas W. - Died at his home near Maguires Store in this county on Saturday, the 3rd inst., at 7 p.m. Mr. Thos. W. Williams in the 54th year of his age. Mr. Williams was the oldest son of Uncle David Williams who was one of the earliest settlers of the valley of White river in this county. The deceased was buried on the 4th inst. at the old McCamey Graveyard which is in sight of the old homestead where he was born Nov. 1, 1832 and near where he had lived for 54 years with exception of a few years that he resided in Fayetteville after his marriage and the 4 years he served as a soldier in the Confederate army. Mr. Williams was married in Sept. 1851 in Fayetteville to Miss Sallie McGarah, daughter of Capt. Wm. McGarah, who was the first settler of Fayetteville. Fourteen children were born unto them, eleven of whom are yet living, the oldest of whom is our neighbor and townsman, Mr. A.L. Williams. In the early days of the war he enlisted in Col. Pettigrew's company of volunteers as a private and did faithful duty to the service until the war ceased and surrendered with Col. S.P. Pittman and others from this town at Ft. Smith in the summer of 1865. When the war was over he returned to his farm on White river and remained upon it, tilling the soil, until life's close. His death was not unexpected as he had been suffering several months with jaundice. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, having been made a Mason in 1861 and was a member in good standing of Sylvia lodge at Maguire's Store which lodge, assisted by members of Washington lodge No. 1 of this place, buried him with the usual Masonic burial service at 5 p.m. the 4th inst. His widow and 11 children survive him. As previously stated, he was connected both by birth and marriage to the first families of Fayetteville and Washington county. His father was an old hunter and trapper who penetrated the wilds of Northwest Arkansas at a very early day while the buffalo yet roamed over our prairies and hills. The widow of our deceased friend and neighbor was the oldest daughter of Capt. Wm. McGarah by his second wife. She was born, grew to womanhood, was married and lived near the McGarah Springs east of College avenue in Fayetteville until after the birth of her first son, Alfred, who is now himself a father and is living in 100 yards of where he and his mother were born.
Sallie
July 15, 1836 - October 30, 1910
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