1819 --- THE U. S. AND INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE RECORDS 1560-1900
Name: Isaac Smith Williams
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Kentucky
Birth Year: 1802
Spouse Name: Elizabeth Glasscock
Spouse Birth Place: Kentucky
Spouse Birth Year: 801
Marriage Year: 1819
Marriage State: Missouri
Number Pages: 1
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Citation: Source number: 1593.335; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1 --- Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. --- Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie. --- Description: This database contains marriage record information for approximately 1,400,000 individuals from across all 50 United States and 32 different countries around the world between 1560 and 1900. These records, which include information on over 500 years of marriages, were extracted from family group sheets, electronic databases, biographies, wills, and other sources.

1837 --- U. S. GENERAL LAND OFFICE RECORDS 1776-2015
Name: Isaac Smith Williams
Issue Date: March 15, 1837
Place: Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
Land Office: Jackson
Meridian: 5th PM
Township: 31-N
Range: 13-E
Section: 3
Accession Number: MO0630__.183
Document Number: 3681
Original URL: https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Citation: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. --- Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007.

1858 --- MISSOURI WILLS AND PROBATE RECORDS 7661988
Name: Isaac Smith Williams
Residence Date: About 1858
Residence Place: Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Will Date: December 2, 1858
Probate Date: December 2, 1858
Probate Place: Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
Inferred Death Year: 1858
Item Description: Non-Packet
Others Listed Relationship: Isaac Smith Williams
William J Williams --- Son
Jacob Williams --- Son
Francis M Williams --- Son
Jane Randal --- Daughter
Green Randal --- Son-in-law
Seinthia Hitt --- Daughter
Bradford Hitt --- Son-in-law
Jasper Williams --- Son
John Wesley Williams --- Son
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Citation: Miscellaneous Probate Records, 1807-1916; Probate Index, 1816-1918; Author: Missouri. Probate Court (Cape Girardeau County); Probate Place: Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1766-1988 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. --- Original data: Missouri, County, District and Probate Courts.

1858 --- CAPE GIRARDEAU AND ADJOINING COUNTIES, MISSOURI CEMETERY INDEX 1810-1938
Name: Isaac Smith Williams
Death Year: 1858
Burial Place: Missouri, USA
Cemetery: McKendree
Cemetery Description: 1/4 mile west of Old McKendree church building, three miles east, slightly north of Jackson, on Williams Creek road to Cape Girardeau.
Comments: Died On December 6, 1858
Age: 56Y - !M - 23D
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Cape Girardeau and Adjoining Counties, Missouri, Cemetery Index, 1810-1938 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2001. --- Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Cemetery Records of Cape Girardeau and adjoining counties in Missouri. Chillicothe, MO, USA: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, c1965. --- Description" Collection of cemetery records from Cape Girardeau and adjoining counties in Missouri.

THE GENEANET COMMUNITY TREES INDEX
Name: Isaac Smith Williams
Gender: M (Male)
Birth Date: 13 oct. 1802 (13 Oct 1802)
Birth Place: Kentucky, Kentucky, USA
Death Date: 6 déc. 1858 (6 Dec 1858)
Death Place:
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
Father: William Wesley Williams
Mother: Elizabeth Foster
Spouse: Suzannah Waller --- Elizabeth Glascock
Child: Cynthia Ann Williams --- Francis Marion Williams --- Isaac Williams --- Jacob Niphon Williams --- James Williams --- John Wesley Williams --- John Williams --- Mary Jane Williams --- Newell Smith Williams --- Newton Jasper Williams --- Squire Van Buren Williams ---Thomas H Benton Williams --- William Jackson Williams
View on Geneanet: https://gw.geneanet.org/lindajochristensen?n=williams&oc=&p=isaac+smith
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. --- Original data: Geneanet Community Trees Index. Paris, France: Geneanet. --- Description: This collection contains an index of more than 1.5 million family trees accumulated into a single database. The information in this collection was compiled through Geneanet, a collaborative genealogy website. Each record in the index includes a link to the originating family tree on Geneanet. Records from the original site can be viewed in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Military

1814 --- COL RUSSELL'S REGIMENT

Name: Isaac Smith Williams
Rank: Private
Regiment: Col. William Russell's Regiment Of Mounted Rangers
Enlisted: One year for service on the frontiers of Missouri and Illinois. Mustered: The Cape Girardeau Company was completed and mustered into service. Date: July 2, 1814 Duty: Engaged in guarding the frontiers when the battle of the "SINK HOLE" occurred. Location: This battle was fought in what is now Lincoln County, Missouri, not far from Cape au Grus.
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Information: HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Goodspeed, pages: 490-495.

Sink Hole Incident
1814 --- SINK HOLE INCIDENT ----- Isaac Smith William, private, Cape Girardeau County Company commanded by Colonel William Russell.The most famous of those expeditions was made in 1814 by a company of mounted rangers raised by Peter Craig of Cape Girardeau County. Many of the members of the company had served under Captain Ramsey in 1813; they were now enlisted for a period of one year to serve on the frontiers of Missouri and Illinois, and they became part of a regiment commanded by Colonel William Russell. This company did very much service during these Indian troubles, and fought the famous battle of the Sink Hole. There were sixteen officers and ninety-one privates of which Samuel K. Parker was one. After the company was organized and mustered into service, it was sent to north Missouri and while there fought the battle of Sink Hole. This was in Lincoln County, not far from Cape au Gris. The account here given of this battle was written by Colonel John Shaw of the Wisconsin Historical Society: "Captain Peter Craig commanded at Fort Howard. About noon, five of the men went out of the fort to Byrne's deserted house on the buff, about one-fourth of a mile below the fort, to bring in a grindstone. In consequence of back water from the Mississippi, they went in a canoe and on their return were fired on by a party supposed to be fifty Indians, who were under shelter of some brush that grew along at the foot of the buff near Byrne's house and about fifteen rods distant from the canoe at that time. Three of the whites were killed and one mortally wounded and as the water was shallow, the Indians ran out and tomahawked their victims. The people of the fort ran out and fired on the Indians across the back water, a few inches deep, while another party of about twenty-five ran to the right of the water with a view of intercepting the Indians, who seemed to be making toward the buff or high plain west and north of the fort. The part of twenty-five and Captain Craig's soon united. On the buff was the cultivated field and deserted residence of Benjamin Allen. The field was about forty rods across, beyond which was pretty thick timber. Here the Indians made a stand and here the fight began. Both parties fired, and as the fight waxed warm, the Indians slowly retired as the whites advanced. After the fight had been going on perhaps some ten minutes, the whites were reinforced by Captain David Musick, of Cape au Gris with about twenty men. He had been on a scout toward the head of Cuiver River and had returned within about one-half mile of the fort and about one and a half miles of the scene of the conflict and had stopped with his men to grazed their horses, who, hearing the firing, they instantly remounted and dashed toward the place of battle. Dismounting in the edge of the timber on the buff, and hitching their horses, they rushed through a part of the Indian line and shortly after, the enemy fled, a part bearing to the right of the sink hole toward Bob's Creek, but the most of them taking refuge in the sink hole, which was close by where the main fighting had taken place. About the time the Indians were retreating, Captain Craig exposed himself about four feet beyond his tree and was shot through the body and fell dead. James Putney was killed before Captain Craig, and perhaps one or two others. Before the Indians retired to the sink hole, the fighting had become animated; the loading was done quickly and shots rapidly exchanged and when one of our party was killed or wounded, it was announced aloud. The sink hole was about sixty feet in length and from twelve to fifteen feet in width and ten or twelve feet deep. Near the bottom, on the southeast side, was a shelving rock, under which perhaps some fifty or sixty persons might have sheltered themselves. At the northeast end of the sink hole, the decent was quite gradual, the other end much more abrupt and the south east side almost perpendicular and the other side about like the steep roof of a house. On the southeast side, the Indians, as a farther protection in case the whites should rush up, dug under the shelving rock with their knives. On the sides and in the bottom of the sink hole were some brushes, which also served as something of a screen for the Indians. Captain Musick and his men took part on the northeast side of the sink hole and others occupied other positions surrounding the enemy. As the trees approached close to the sink hole, these served in part to protect our party. Men who had families at the fort gradually went there, not knowing but a large body of Indians might seize the favorable occasion to attack the fort while the men were mostly away, engaged in the exciting contest. The Indians in the sink hole had a drum made of a skin stretched over the section of a hollow tree, on which they beat quite constantly and some Indians would shake a rattle called She-shuqui, probably a dried bladder with pebbles within and even for a moment would venture to thrust his head in view with his hand elevated, shaking his rattle and calling out "Peash! Peash!" which was understood to be a sort of defiance, or as Blackhawk, who was one of the party says in his account of that affair, a kind of bravado to come fight them in the sink hole. When the Indians would creep up and shoot over the rim of the sink hole, they would instantly disappear and while they sometimes fired effectual shots, they in turn became occasionally the victims. From 4 o'clock P. M. the firing was incessant, our men generally reserving their fire until an Indian would show his head and all of us were studying how we could more effectually attack and dislodge the enemy. At length Lieutenant Spears suggested that a pair of cart wheels, axle and tongue, which were seen at Allen's place, be obtained and a moving battery constructed. The idea was entertained favorably and an hour or more was consumed in its construction. Some oak floor puncheons from seven to eight feet in length were made fast to an axle in a upright position and port holes made through them. Finally the battery was ready for trail and was sufficiently large to protect some half dozen or more men. It was moved forward slowly and seemed to attract the particular attention of the Indians, who had evidently heard the knocking and pounding connected with its manufacture and who now frequently popped up their heads to make commentary discoveries and it was at length moved up within less then ten paces of the brink of the sink hole on the southeast side. The upright plank did not reach to the ground within some eighteen inches, the men calculation to shoot beneath the lower end at the Indians, but the Indians from their position had decided the advantage of this neglected aperture, for the Indians, shooting beneath the battery at an upward angle would get shoots at the whites before the rangers could seen them. The Indians also watched the port holes and directed some of their shots at them. Lieutenant Spears was shot dead in the head and his death was much lamented, as he had proven himself an intrepid officer. John Paterson was wounded in the thigh, and some others were also wounded behind the battery. Having failed in its design, the battery was abandoned after sun down. Our hope all along had been that the Indians would emerge from their convert and attempt to retreat to where we supposed their canoes were left, some three or four miles distant, which case, we were firmly determined to rush upon them and endeavor to cut them off totally. The men generally evinced the greatest bravery during the whole engagement. Night was now coming on and the reports of a half a dozen guns in the direction of the fort by a few Indians, who rushed out of the woods skirting Bob's Creek not more than forty rods from the north end of the fort, was heard. This movement on the part of the few Indians who had escaped when the others took refuge in the sink hole was evidently designed to divert the attention of the whites and alarm them for the safety of the fort, and thus effectually relieve the Indians from the sink hole. This was the result, for Captain Musick and men retired to the fort, carrying the dead and wounded and made every preparation to repel a night attack. The men at the fort were mostly up all night, ready for resistance if necessary. There was no physician at the fort and much effort was made to set some broken bones. There was a well in the fort and provisions and ammunition to sustain a pretty formidable attack. The women were greatly alarmed pressing their infants to their breasts, fearing they might not be permitted to behold another morning's light, but night passed away without seeing or hearing an Indian. The next morning a party went to the sink hole and found the Indians gone. They had carried off their dead and wounded except five dead bodies left on the northwest side. From all signs it appeared some thirty or forty of them were killed or wounded. Lieutenant Gray reported eight of our party killed, one missing and five wounded. The dead were buried near the fort and a man was sent to St. Charles for medical assistance. Lieutenant Gray assumed command. Those who were killed at this battle were Captain Craig, Lieutenant Spears, Alexander Giboney, James Putney, Antoine Pelkey, Hubbard Taylor and Francois Lemmey. John Patterson, Benjamin Hale and Abraham Letts were wounded. The company was soon mustered out and the men to their homes.
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Information: HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Goodspeed Publishing Company, pages: 171-174.

This is a follow up on the Battle of the Sink Hole listing all the men under the command of Captain Peter Craig. ----- Craig's Company May 1814-June 1815 ----- Capt. Peter Craig - Lt. Wilson Able - Lt. Drakeford Gray - Lt. Edward Spear - Ensign John Giles - Sgt. William Blakeney - Sgt. Daniel Harklerood- Sgt. William Fugate - Sgt. Enos Randol - Sgt. John Rodney - Corp. Jeremiah Able - Corp. Abraham Letts - Corp. William McCarty - Corp. Thomas S. Rodney - Corp. Charles Sexton - Corp. Perry W. Wheat. Privates: John Able - James Atkinson - Tessant Barkums - Francis Barribeau - Peter Barribeau - Thomas Boyce - Jonathan Brickey - James Scott Brown - John Brown - George P. Bush - William B. Bush - Stephen Byrd - John Cameron - Charles Cardinal - Burrel Castley - Jesse Cochran - John Cooper - A lexander Cotie - Baptiste Cotie - William Crump - Elias Davis - Ludwell Davis - John Dotson - Hugh Dowlin - Able Galland- Alexander Giboney, Jr. - Isaac Georgy - Louis Guliah - Benjamin Haile - Charles Hamilton - James Hamilton - Frederick Hector - Louis Heneaux -Abijah Highsmith - John Hodge - John Holcomb- John Houk - Baptiste Janis - Baptiste Janis, Jr. - Stephen Jarbveaux - Jehoida Jeffrey-Andrew Johnson - William King - Batiste Labeaux - Baptiste Lacroy - Francois Lammey - Joseph Lammey - John Langston -Charles Loyd - William Martin - James Massey - Nathan McCarty - Stephen McKinzie - Mark Murphy - Benjamin Ogle - John Patterson - SAMUEL PARKER - Antoine Pelkey - Samuel Phillips - James Puntey - Tessant Reeves - John Roach - Robert Robertson - Alexander Scott-John Shepherd - Joshua Simpson - Joseph Sirwards - Edward Stephenson - Hubbard Tayon - Solomon Thorn - John D. Upham-Pascal Valle - John Vance - George Van Leer - Louis Vanure - William Wathen - John Watkin - Frederick Webber - William Wells-John Wiggs - Michael Wigo - Isaac Smith Williams - Jenkin Williams - David Wilt - George Wilt - Levi Wolverton.
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Information: HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, Goodspeed Publishing Company, pages: 490-491 AND TALES OF BLACKHAWK, THE RED HEAD AND THE MISSOURI RANGERS, by Robert E. Parkin, page: 4.