U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Williams, George H. (b. 1844) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Page 449 Rev. George H. Williams, one of the pioneer ministers of the West Virginia M. E. Conference, was born in Giles county, Virginia, August 19, 1844. He began preaching in the year 1872, and traveled over more rough and rugged territory embraced in the Conference than perhaps any other minister of his day. He has just recently completed the manuscript of an interesting book entitled Building Sunward, which gives a graphic description of the trials of the ministry and the triumphs of the gospel, covering a period of over forty years throughout southern West Virginia. He was married in 1866 to Mary Elizabeth Scott, and they had six children, Fernando D., Sallie B., Charles W., Willie, who died in infancy, India D., and Ivra E. His wife died July 8, 1918, they having lived together for 52 years. For fifteen years or more they had made their home in Sutton, W. Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (wife of George H. Williams) From Death Certificate, Braxton County, WV #180 FULL-NAME: Mary Elizabeth Williams BIRTH-DATE: June 8, 1845 BIRTH-PLACE: Virginia DEATH-DATE: July 8, 1918 at age 73y-1m-1d DEATH-PLACE: Sutton, Holly District, Braxton County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: None FATHER: William Scott (born in Ohio) MOTHER: Don't Know CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Dropsy INFORMANT: W. H. McCauley (of Sutton, W.Va.) BURIAL: Sutton, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Braxton County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/braxton/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------