Susan Ann Arendale was the daughter of Joel Blackwell Arendale and Elisabeth Dare Arendale of Bridgeport, Alabama. Her parents were among the earliest settlers in Jackson County, Alabama.
Susan was the fourth of six children. Her siblings were Richard Anderson Arendale, James Benjamin Arendale, Mary Elizabeth Arendale, Joel Blackwell Arendale, Jr, and Thomas B. Arendale.
She married Jeremiah Henry Johnson "Jere" Williams, who was the son of James and Katherine Talley Williams.
After her mother died during the Civil War, her father Joel remarried in 1868. Her father then sold the historic Old Stone House in Bridgeport, which he had previously purchased from Major Doran, to Susan and her husband Jere Williams. This home was beside a historic stagecoach trail and is known to be a place Andrew Jackson stayed while traveling through, several decades earlier.
After the purchase of this home, Susan and Jere formalized the unrecorded transfer of the adjoining land for a church and schoolhouse, as well as the Doran's Cove cemetery, to the church.
At one time, she served as deaconness of the Rocky Springs Church of Christ. She and Jere later became part of the Methodist Church and supported the congregation at Concord near their home. This is one of the first Methodist Churches in that part of Jackson County, and its existence, which has survived three buildings, is chiefly due to the Williams family line.
Susan was the fourth of six children. Her siblings were Richard Anderson Arendale, James Benjamin Arendale, Mary Elizabeth Arendale, Joel Blackwell Arendale, Jr, and Thomas B. Arendale.
She married Jeremiah Henry Johnson "Jere" Williams, who was the son of James and Katherine Talley Williams.
After her mother died during the Civil War, her father Joel remarried in 1868. Her father then sold the historic Old Stone House in Bridgeport, which he had previously purchased from Major Doran, to Susan and her husband Jere Williams. This home was beside a historic stagecoach trail and is known to be a place Andrew Jackson stayed while traveling through, several decades earlier.
After the purchase of this home, Susan and Jere formalized the unrecorded transfer of the adjoining land for a church and schoolhouse, as well as the Doran's Cove cemetery, to the church.
At one time, she served as deaconness of the Rocky Springs Church of Christ. She and Jere later became part of the Methodist Church and supported the congregation at Concord near their home. This is one of the first Methodist Churches in that part of Jackson County, and its existence, which has survived three buildings, is chiefly due to the Williams family line.
Susan Ann Arendale was the daughter of Joel Blackwell Arendale and Elisabeth Dare Arendale of Bridgeport, Alabama. Her parents were among the earliest settlers in Jackson County, Alabama.
Susan was the fourth of six children. Her siblings were Richard Anderson Arendale, James Benjamin Arendale, Mary Elizabeth Arendale, Joel Blackwell Arendale, Jr, and Thomas B. Arendale.
She married Jeremiah Henry Johnson "Jere" Williams, who was the son of James and Katherine Talley Williams.
After her mother died during the Civil War, her father Joel remarried in 1868. Her father then sold the historic Old Stone House in Bridgeport, which he had previously purchased from Major Doran, to Susan and her husband Jere Williams. This home was beside a historic stagecoach trail and is known to be a place Andrew Jackson stayed while traveling through, several decades earlier.
After the purchase of this home, Susan and Jere formalized the unrecorded transfer of the adjoining land for a church and schoolhouse, as well as the Doran's Cove cemetery, to the church.
At one time, she served as deaconness of the Rocky Springs Church of Christ. She and Jere later became part of the Methodist Church and supported the congregation at Concord near their home. This is one of the first Methodist Churches in that part of Jackson County, and its existence, which has survived three buildings, is chiefly due to the Williams family line.
Susan was the fourth of six children. Her siblings were Richard Anderson Arendale, James Benjamin Arendale, Mary Elizabeth Arendale, Joel Blackwell Arendale, Jr, and Thomas B. Arendale.
She married Jeremiah Henry Johnson "Jere" Williams, who was the son of James and Katherine Talley Williams.
After her mother died during the Civil War, her father Joel remarried in 1868. Her father then sold the historic Old Stone House in Bridgeport, which he had previously purchased from Major Doran, to Susan and her husband Jere Williams. This home was beside a historic stagecoach trail and is known to be a place Andrew Jackson stayed while traveling through, several decades earlier.
After the purchase of this home, Susan and Jere formalized the unrecorded transfer of the adjoining land for a church and schoolhouse, as well as the Doran's Cove cemetery, to the church.
At one time, she served as deaconness of the Rocky Springs Church of Christ. She and Jere later became part of the Methodist Church and supported the congregation at Concord near their home. This is one of the first Methodist Churches in that part of Jackson County, and its existence, which has survived three buildings, is chiefly due to the Williams family line.
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