Adelaide "Addie" Williams, daughter of Daniel (a Harvard-educated attorney) & Josephine Williams, circa 1892. Addie was born March 1866 at Snow Hill, Greene Co., NC and died in Norfolk in 1913. They had 3 children two of which lived to adulthood-- one was Ethel Louise Creekmur (grandmother of our submitter) who was born in Moyock on Mar. 28, 1902 and died in Hilton Head, SC on Nov. 8, 2000. She married Welsford Artz. The other child, William Preston Creekmur (born March 19, 1896) became a doctor and married Doris Schotz, They lived in Philadelphia but never had any children. Ethel & William were orphaned in 1913 when their mother died. Ethel went to live with an aunt and William was old enough to go off to Prep School. He was educated at Trinity College which later became Duke University.
Adelaide "Addie" Williams, daughter of Daniel (a Harvard-educated attorney) & Josephine Williams, circa 1892. Addie was born March 1866 at Snow Hill, Greene Co., NC and died in Norfolk in 1913. They had 3 children two of which lived to adulthood-- one was Ethel Louise Creekmur (grandmother of our submitter) who was born in Moyock on Mar. 28, 1902 and died in Hilton Head, SC on Nov. 8, 2000. She married Welsford Artz. The other child, William Preston Creekmur (born March 19, 1896) became a doctor and married Doris Schotz, They lived in Philadelphia but never had any children. Ethel & William were orphaned in 1913 when their mother died. Ethel went to live with an aunt and William was old enough to go off to Prep School. He was educated at Trinity College which later became Duke University.
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