William Andrew was the son of David and Sarah Williams. He married Mary Elender Curry on Feb. 17, 1844 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
He served the Confederacy during the Civil War and enlisted as a private in Co. C, 26th NC Infantry Regiment, also known as the Wilkes Volunteers, on Sep. 1, 1863, a few months after the birth of his youngest child. He passed away from typhoid in Charlottesville, Virginia on Jan. 28, 1864.
During the 1900 Federal Census, Mary reported that she had given birth to eight children with seven still living (Sarah Elizabeth, James Martin, John Wilson, David Cornelius, Nathan, Louis/Lewis, William A.).
***NOTE: According to his Civil War Record he was around age 34 at enlistment (birth year about 1829); however, his birth year was closer to 1821 according to the 1850 Federal Census. His death date was taken from his Civil War Record.
From Susan in Cville (#47488916):
Pvt W Williams from the 26th Regiment of North Carolina is buried in the Confederate Cemetery adjacent to the University of Virginia (UVA) Cemetery. The UVA Cemetery was created in 1828 during a Typhoid epidemic and was used periodically until the Civil War. Charlottesville and the University became a major Confederate hospital site and the UVA cemetery became the final resting place for 1,097 Confederate soldiers. The soldiers were buried in rows of unmarked graves running north to south starting along the western most line of the original UVA Cemetery (now a wall of the old cemetery) and the rows filled in westwards towards Alderman Road.
After the Civil War, the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association was started by the women of Charlottesville many of whom had nursed the injured and dying soldiers. These ladies combed through hospital records to find the names, states, companies and regiments of the soldiers buried at UVA and created wooden grave markers (now gone) to place on the unmarked graves. They raised the money to build the stone wall that surrounds the Confederate graves.
In 1893, the memorial statue of a Confederate soldier was erected in the center of the graveyard and the brass plaques on all four sides of the plinth list the names of the soldiers by State. Headstones were added later for some of the soldiers but most graves remain unmarked. The base of the memorial statue reads "Fate denied them victory but crowned them with glorious immortality."
***NOTE: William's name is on the bottom right corner of the photograph of the plaque inscribed with the names of the deceased North Carolina Confederate soldiers.
He served the Confederacy during the Civil War and enlisted as a private in Co. C, 26th NC Infantry Regiment, also known as the Wilkes Volunteers, on Sep. 1, 1863, a few months after the birth of his youngest child. He passed away from typhoid in Charlottesville, Virginia on Jan. 28, 1864.
During the 1900 Federal Census, Mary reported that she had given birth to eight children with seven still living (Sarah Elizabeth, James Martin, John Wilson, David Cornelius, Nathan, Louis/Lewis, William A.).
***NOTE: According to his Civil War Record he was around age 34 at enlistment (birth year about 1829); however, his birth year was closer to 1821 according to the 1850 Federal Census. His death date was taken from his Civil War Record.
From Susan in Cville (#47488916):
Pvt W Williams from the 26th Regiment of North Carolina is buried in the Confederate Cemetery adjacent to the University of Virginia (UVA) Cemetery. The UVA Cemetery was created in 1828 during a Typhoid epidemic and was used periodically until the Civil War. Charlottesville and the University became a major Confederate hospital site and the UVA cemetery became the final resting place for 1,097 Confederate soldiers. The soldiers were buried in rows of unmarked graves running north to south starting along the western most line of the original UVA Cemetery (now a wall of the old cemetery) and the rows filled in westwards towards Alderman Road.
After the Civil War, the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association was started by the women of Charlottesville many of whom had nursed the injured and dying soldiers. These ladies combed through hospital records to find the names, states, companies and regiments of the soldiers buried at UVA and created wooden grave markers (now gone) to place on the unmarked graves. They raised the money to build the stone wall that surrounds the Confederate graves.
In 1893, the memorial statue of a Confederate soldier was erected in the center of the graveyard and the brass plaques on all four sides of the plinth list the names of the soldiers by State. Headstones were added later for some of the soldiers but most graves remain unmarked. The base of the memorial statue reads "Fate denied them victory but crowned them with glorious immortality."
***NOTE: William's name is on the bottom right corner of the photograph of the plaque inscribed with the names of the deceased North Carolina Confederate soldiers.
William Andrew was the son of David and Sarah Williams. He married Mary Elender Curry on Feb. 17, 1844 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
He served the Confederacy during the Civil War and enlisted as a private in Co. C, 26th NC Infantry Regiment, also known as the Wilkes Volunteers, on Sep. 1, 1863, a few months after the birth of his youngest child. He passed away from typhoid in Charlottesville, Virginia on Jan. 28, 1864.
During the 1900 Federal Census, Mary reported that she had given birth to eight children with seven still living (Sarah Elizabeth, James Martin, John Wilson, David Cornelius, Nathan, Louis/Lewis, William A.).
***NOTE: According to his Civil War Record he was around age 34 at enlistment (birth year about 1829); however, his birth year was closer to 1821 according to the 1850 Federal Census. His death date was taken from his Civil War Record.
From Susan in Cville (#47488916):
Pvt W Williams from the 26th Regiment of North Carolina is buried in the Confederate Cemetery adjacent to the University of Virginia (UVA) Cemetery. The UVA Cemetery was created in 1828 during a Typhoid epidemic and was used periodically until the Civil War. Charlottesville and the University became a major Confederate hospital site and the UVA cemetery became the final resting place for 1,097 Confederate soldiers. The soldiers were buried in rows of unmarked graves running north to south starting along the western most line of the original UVA Cemetery (now a wall of the old cemetery) and the rows filled in westwards towards Alderman Road.
After the Civil War, the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association was started by the women of Charlottesville many of whom had nursed the injured and dying soldiers. These ladies combed through hospital records to find the names, states, companies and regiments of the soldiers buried at UVA and created wooden grave markers (now gone) to place on the unmarked graves. They raised the money to build the stone wall that surrounds the Confederate graves.
In 1893, the memorial statue of a Confederate soldier was erected in the center of the graveyard and the brass plaques on all four sides of the plinth list the names of the soldiers by State. Headstones were added later for some of the soldiers but most graves remain unmarked. The base of the memorial statue reads "Fate denied them victory but crowned them with glorious immortality."
***NOTE: William's name is on the bottom right corner of the photograph of the plaque inscribed with the names of the deceased North Carolina Confederate soldiers.
He served the Confederacy during the Civil War and enlisted as a private in Co. C, 26th NC Infantry Regiment, also known as the Wilkes Volunteers, on Sep. 1, 1863, a few months after the birth of his youngest child. He passed away from typhoid in Charlottesville, Virginia on Jan. 28, 1864.
During the 1900 Federal Census, Mary reported that she had given birth to eight children with seven still living (Sarah Elizabeth, James Martin, John Wilson, David Cornelius, Nathan, Louis/Lewis, William A.).
***NOTE: According to his Civil War Record he was around age 34 at enlistment (birth year about 1829); however, his birth year was closer to 1821 according to the 1850 Federal Census. His death date was taken from his Civil War Record.
From Susan in Cville (#47488916):
Pvt W Williams from the 26th Regiment of North Carolina is buried in the Confederate Cemetery adjacent to the University of Virginia (UVA) Cemetery. The UVA Cemetery was created in 1828 during a Typhoid epidemic and was used periodically until the Civil War. Charlottesville and the University became a major Confederate hospital site and the UVA cemetery became the final resting place for 1,097 Confederate soldiers. The soldiers were buried in rows of unmarked graves running north to south starting along the western most line of the original UVA Cemetery (now a wall of the old cemetery) and the rows filled in westwards towards Alderman Road.
After the Civil War, the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association was started by the women of Charlottesville many of whom had nursed the injured and dying soldiers. These ladies combed through hospital records to find the names, states, companies and regiments of the soldiers buried at UVA and created wooden grave markers (now gone) to place on the unmarked graves. They raised the money to build the stone wall that surrounds the Confederate graves.
In 1893, the memorial statue of a Confederate soldier was erected in the center of the graveyard and the brass plaques on all four sides of the plinth list the names of the soldiers by State. Headstones were added later for some of the soldiers but most graves remain unmarked. The base of the memorial statue reads "Fate denied them victory but crowned them with glorious immortality."
***NOTE: William's name is on the bottom right corner of the photograph of the plaque inscribed with the names of the deceased North Carolina Confederate soldiers.
Family Members
Siblings
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Drusilla Williams Hendren
1813–1897
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Lavinia "Viney" Williams Marlow
1817–1894
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Christina "Tena" Williams
1819–1899
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Rebecca Williams Barnett
1823–1900
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Sarah "Sac" Williams
1825–1902
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Mrs Diana "Dicy" Williams Wright
1827–1914
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David Quincey Williams Jr
1831–1909
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Martha "Patsy" Williams Barnette
1835–1911
