GRANDFATHER OF RAYMOND EDWIN OVERMIRE, SR.
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A BIOGRAPHY OF ASA HINCKLEY WILLIAMS, by Laurence Overmire (great great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated May 2020:
Asa Hinckley Williams was born on May 21, 1842, in Newport, Quebec, Canada, the son of Gilbert P. Williams and Rosalinda Torrey. Through his mother, he was related to Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock, as well as six U.S. Presidents: James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald R. Ford, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Hinckley, as he was better known, was a carpenter, joiner, and farmer. He was about 20 years old when he married his first wife Louisa Maria Cross on Sept. 23, 1862, in Sawyerville, Quebec, Canada. She was a school teacher born about 1839 in Canada. She probably died within the next few years.
When he was about 23 years of age, Hinckley married his second wife, 20-year-old Lucy Jane Lawrence, the daughter of Robert and Jemima (Ashman) Lawrence on Sept. 19, 1865, in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, the Rev. Albert K. Teele performing the ceremony. Hinckley and Lucy had three children together: Lula Louisa Williams (1866-1923, m. Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham); Mary P. Williams (1870-1903, m. Lemuel Hobbs Needham); and Esther Adelaide Williams (1872-1949, m. Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr.).
Naturalization records of January 1873 show Hinckley moved to Boston on Sept. 25, 1866. In 1877, California voting records show "Asa Hinkley Williams" living in Oakland, Alameda County, California. Perhaps, he had a restless spirit. By 1880, he was back in Milton living with his family in a boarding house and working as a carpenter.
Whatever the reason, the marriage did not last.
Hinckley's wife Lucy moved to Minneapolis about 1891 and is shown as a widow in the 1894 St. Paul and 1895 Minneapolis directories as well as the 1900 census.
Curiously enough, however, Hinckley was still alive in 1900 and was living as a boarder in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The census shows he was married, but no wife appears with him. It may be that he and Lucy separated but never formally divorced.
Asa Hinckley Williams died in Newport, Compton, Quebec, on June 1, 1909, and was buried two days later in Sawyerville by the Methodist minister D. A. Lough. Hinckley's nephews, John Williams and William Alden Williams (sons of Dudley Williams), signed the burial record as witnesses.
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GENEALOGIST'S NOTE: Next to nothing was known about Asa Hinckley Williams, the mysterious husband of Lucy Jane Lawrence Williams, at least to their descendants, and it has taken many years to piece together his story. One can only surmise that his relationship with his children was an estranged one. His grandson Raymond E. Overmire, Sr., who would have been about 13 years old when Hinckley died, apparently never met him and knew nothing about him.
Sources:
1) Overmire/Williams family files of David K. Moulton.
2) Milton, MA Town Clerk Records.
3) Marriage Certificate of Asa Hinckley Williams and Lucy Jane Lawrence, Milton, MA, courtesy of James G. Mullen, Jr., Town Clerk.
4) 1880 census, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T9_547; Family History Film: 1254547; Page: 180B; Enumeration District: 500; Image: 0364.
5) Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950
7) California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898
8) 1900 census, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roll: 674; Page: 3A; Enumeration District:1132; FHL microfilm: 1240674
9) U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
10) Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
11) Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
12) Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr., "The Making of a Square, the Memoirs of Ray Edwin Overmire" (self-published, Minneapolis, MN, ca. 1980).
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A BIOGRAPHY OF ASA HINCKLEY WILLIAMS, by Laurence Overmire (great great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated May 2020:
Asa Hinckley Williams was born on May 21, 1842, in Newport, Quebec, Canada, the son of Gilbert P. Williams and Rosalinda Torrey. Through his mother, he was related to Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock, as well as six U.S. Presidents: James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald R. Ford, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Hinckley, as he was better known, was a carpenter, joiner, and farmer. He was about 20 years old when he married his first wife Louisa Maria Cross on Sept. 23, 1862, in Sawyerville, Quebec, Canada. She was a school teacher born about 1839 in Canada. She probably died within the next few years.
When he was about 23 years of age, Hinckley married his second wife, 20-year-old Lucy Jane Lawrence, the daughter of Robert and Jemima (Ashman) Lawrence on Sept. 19, 1865, in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, the Rev. Albert K. Teele performing the ceremony. Hinckley and Lucy had three children together: Lula Louisa Williams (1866-1923, m. Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham); Mary P. Williams (1870-1903, m. Lemuel Hobbs Needham); and Esther Adelaide Williams (1872-1949, m. Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr.).
Naturalization records of January 1873 show Hinckley moved to Boston on Sept. 25, 1866. In 1877, California voting records show "Asa Hinkley Williams" living in Oakland, Alameda County, California. Perhaps, he had a restless spirit. By 1880, he was back in Milton living with his family in a boarding house and working as a carpenter.
Whatever the reason, the marriage did not last.
Hinckley's wife Lucy moved to Minneapolis about 1891 and is shown as a widow in the 1894 St. Paul and 1895 Minneapolis directories as well as the 1900 census.
Curiously enough, however, Hinckley was still alive in 1900 and was living as a boarder in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The census shows he was married, but no wife appears with him. It may be that he and Lucy separated but never formally divorced.
Asa Hinckley Williams died in Newport, Compton, Quebec, on June 1, 1909, and was buried two days later in Sawyerville by the Methodist minister D. A. Lough. Hinckley's nephews, John Williams and William Alden Williams (sons of Dudley Williams), signed the burial record as witnesses.
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GENEALOGIST'S NOTE: Next to nothing was known about Asa Hinckley Williams, the mysterious husband of Lucy Jane Lawrence Williams, at least to their descendants, and it has taken many years to piece together his story. One can only surmise that his relationship with his children was an estranged one. His grandson Raymond E. Overmire, Sr., who would have been about 13 years old when Hinckley died, apparently never met him and knew nothing about him.
Sources:
1) Overmire/Williams family files of David K. Moulton.
2) Milton, MA Town Clerk Records.
3) Marriage Certificate of Asa Hinckley Williams and Lucy Jane Lawrence, Milton, MA, courtesy of James G. Mullen, Jr., Town Clerk.
4) 1880 census, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T9_547; Family History Film: 1254547; Page: 180B; Enumeration District: 500; Image: 0364.
5) Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950
7) California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898
8) 1900 census, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roll: 674; Page: 3A; Enumeration District:1132; FHL microfilm: 1240674
9) U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
10) Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
11) Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
12) Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr., "The Making of a Square, the Memoirs of Ray Edwin Overmire" (self-published, Minneapolis, MN, ca. 1980).
GRANDFATHER OF RAYMOND EDWIN OVERMIRE, SR.
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A BIOGRAPHY OF ASA HINCKLEY WILLIAMS, by Laurence Overmire (great great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated May 2020:
Asa Hinckley Williams was born on May 21, 1842, in Newport, Quebec, Canada, the son of Gilbert P. Williams and Rosalinda Torrey. Through his mother, he was related to Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock, as well as six U.S. Presidents: James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald R. Ford, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Hinckley, as he was better known, was a carpenter, joiner, and farmer. He was about 20 years old when he married his first wife Louisa Maria Cross on Sept. 23, 1862, in Sawyerville, Quebec, Canada. She was a school teacher born about 1839 in Canada. She probably died within the next few years.
When he was about 23 years of age, Hinckley married his second wife, 20-year-old Lucy Jane Lawrence, the daughter of Robert and Jemima (Ashman) Lawrence on Sept. 19, 1865, in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, the Rev. Albert K. Teele performing the ceremony. Hinckley and Lucy had three children together: Lula Louisa Williams (1866-1923, m. Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham); Mary P. Williams (1870-1903, m. Lemuel Hobbs Needham); and Esther Adelaide Williams (1872-1949, m. Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr.).
Naturalization records of January 1873 show Hinckley moved to Boston on Sept. 25, 1866. In 1877, California voting records show "Asa Hinkley Williams" living in Oakland, Alameda County, California. Perhaps, he had a restless spirit. By 1880, he was back in Milton living with his family in a boarding house and working as a carpenter.
Whatever the reason, the marriage did not last.
Hinckley's wife Lucy moved to Minneapolis about 1891 and is shown as a widow in the 1894 St. Paul and 1895 Minneapolis directories as well as the 1900 census.
Curiously enough, however, Hinckley was still alive in 1900 and was living as a boarder in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The census shows he was married, but no wife appears with him. It may be that he and Lucy separated but never formally divorced.
Asa Hinckley Williams died in Newport, Compton, Quebec, on June 1, 1909, and was buried two days later in Sawyerville by the Methodist minister D. A. Lough. Hinckley's nephews, John Williams and William Alden Williams (sons of Dudley Williams), signed the burial record as witnesses.
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GENEALOGIST'S NOTE: Next to nothing was known about Asa Hinckley Williams, the mysterious husband of Lucy Jane Lawrence Williams, at least to their descendants, and it has taken many years to piece together his story. One can only surmise that his relationship with his children was an estranged one. His grandson Raymond E. Overmire, Sr., who would have been about 13 years old when Hinckley died, apparently never met him and knew nothing about him.
Sources:
1) Overmire/Williams family files of David K. Moulton.
2) Milton, MA Town Clerk Records.
3) Marriage Certificate of Asa Hinckley Williams and Lucy Jane Lawrence, Milton, MA, courtesy of James G. Mullen, Jr., Town Clerk.
4) 1880 census, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T9_547; Family History Film: 1254547; Page: 180B; Enumeration District: 500; Image: 0364.
5) Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950
7) California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898
8) 1900 census, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roll: 674; Page: 3A; Enumeration District:1132; FHL microfilm: 1240674
9) U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
10) Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
11) Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
12) Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr., "The Making of a Square, the Memoirs of Ray Edwin Overmire" (self-published, Minneapolis, MN, ca. 1980).
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A BIOGRAPHY OF ASA HINCKLEY WILLIAMS, by Laurence Overmire (great great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated May 2020:
Asa Hinckley Williams was born on May 21, 1842, in Newport, Quebec, Canada, the son of Gilbert P. Williams and Rosalinda Torrey. Through his mother, he was related to Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock, as well as six U.S. Presidents: James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald R. Ford, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Hinckley, as he was better known, was a carpenter, joiner, and farmer. He was about 20 years old when he married his first wife Louisa Maria Cross on Sept. 23, 1862, in Sawyerville, Quebec, Canada. She was a school teacher born about 1839 in Canada. She probably died within the next few years.
When he was about 23 years of age, Hinckley married his second wife, 20-year-old Lucy Jane Lawrence, the daughter of Robert and Jemima (Ashman) Lawrence on Sept. 19, 1865, in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, the Rev. Albert K. Teele performing the ceremony. Hinckley and Lucy had three children together: Lula Louisa Williams (1866-1923, m. Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham); Mary P. Williams (1870-1903, m. Lemuel Hobbs Needham); and Esther Adelaide Williams (1872-1949, m. Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr.).
Naturalization records of January 1873 show Hinckley moved to Boston on Sept. 25, 1866. In 1877, California voting records show "Asa Hinkley Williams" living in Oakland, Alameda County, California. Perhaps, he had a restless spirit. By 1880, he was back in Milton living with his family in a boarding house and working as a carpenter.
Whatever the reason, the marriage did not last.
Hinckley's wife Lucy moved to Minneapolis about 1891 and is shown as a widow in the 1894 St. Paul and 1895 Minneapolis directories as well as the 1900 census.
Curiously enough, however, Hinckley was still alive in 1900 and was living as a boarder in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The census shows he was married, but no wife appears with him. It may be that he and Lucy separated but never formally divorced.
Asa Hinckley Williams died in Newport, Compton, Quebec, on June 1, 1909, and was buried two days later in Sawyerville by the Methodist minister D. A. Lough. Hinckley's nephews, John Williams and William Alden Williams (sons of Dudley Williams), signed the burial record as witnesses.
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GENEALOGIST'S NOTE: Next to nothing was known about Asa Hinckley Williams, the mysterious husband of Lucy Jane Lawrence Williams, at least to their descendants, and it has taken many years to piece together his story. One can only surmise that his relationship with his children was an estranged one. His grandson Raymond E. Overmire, Sr., who would have been about 13 years old when Hinckley died, apparently never met him and knew nothing about him.
Sources:
1) Overmire/Williams family files of David K. Moulton.
2) Milton, MA Town Clerk Records.
3) Marriage Certificate of Asa Hinckley Williams and Lucy Jane Lawrence, Milton, MA, courtesy of James G. Mullen, Jr., Town Clerk.
4) 1880 census, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T9_547; Family History Film: 1254547; Page: 180B; Enumeration District: 500; Image: 0364.
5) Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950
7) California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898
8) 1900 census, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roll: 674; Page: 3A; Enumeration District:1132; FHL microfilm: 1240674
9) U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
10) Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
11) Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
12) Raymond Edwin Overmire, Sr., "The Making of a Square, the Memoirs of Ray Edwin Overmire" (self-published, Minneapolis, MN, ca. 1980).
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