SANFORD GLEN WILLIAMSON 1841-1910
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Sanford Glen Williamson was born 23 Sept 1841 near Marietta, GA. His father was Allen Williamson (b. 1812 Elbert Co., GA, d. 3 Jun 1880 Walker Co., GA) and his mother was Mary Barnhart.
S.G. Williamson grew up on Chickamauga Creek, Walker Co. GA. There he met Nancy Jane Whitlow, daughter of the pioneer settler of Cherokee Georgia, Miles Washington Whitlow. They married about 1866, just after S.G. Williamson received his discharge from the Confederate Army. Glen served with distinction in the military.
Just before 1870, Glen and Nanie Williamson moved down to Cherokee Co., AL, first to Center, Cedar Bluff, and, finally to Pollard's Bend, where Glen superintended a fine farm on very fertile land.
Glen became involved in politics in Cherokee County and by 1872 was the Sheriff. One letter from his wife's sister, Allie Whitlow, indicated that he traveled as far as Arkansas on legal business, as the case dictated.
Glen and Nanie had nine children:
1. Emma Williamson (1867-1900), mar. Johnson B. Hale,
2. Lucy E. Williamson (1869-1870),
3. Charlsie Etta Williamson (1872-1926),
4. Sanford Ernest Williamson (1874-1915), mar. Myrtle Sewell,
5. Bessie Miles Williamson (1876-1957),
6. Mattie Williamson (1878-1964), mar. Robert Waldrop,
7. Mayme Williamson (1881-1961), mar. Ramon dePoe,
8. Willie Williamson (1883-1889),
9. Lily Glen Williamson (1889-1927), mar. Frank Haynes Sheppard.
S.G. Williamson was actively involved in politics and community affairs. He served as Sheriff of the county and ran unsuccessfully for Probate Judge in the late 1890's. In a letter written to a campaign supporter, Mr. Thomas, S.G. Williamson explained that he was beaten by "money and whiskey used against me on the day of Election." The Alabama Archives has petitions written in 1899 from ardent supporters of S.G. Williamson complaining about nefarious tactics used by S.G. Williamson's opponent in the Probate Judge election.
S.G. & Nanie were both raised in the Christian tradition, Glen's father having been a Methodist minister, so both were active in missionary work and supported several local churches.
He and Nanie kept in touch with relatives who had moved to Texas. Nancy J. Whitlow's brother, John G. Whitlow moved to a farm near Weatherford, Texas in 1872. S.G. Williamson's brother William A. Williamson and wife, Susan (Mann) Williamson, moved to Johnson's Station, Tarrant Co., Texas, then to Kennedale, TX. William had previously been married to Ellen Whitlow, Nannie's sister. Ellen Whitlow Williamson died of breast cancer in 1868. Another of Nanie's sisters, Martha Whitlow Garrett, moved with her husband, Wm H. Garrett to Kennedale, TX in Oct 1872.
Family letters show that S.G. & Nanie Williamson met with her sister, Allie Whitlow Powell & husband, Thomas Powell, and they traveled together to Texas to visit John & Mary Whitlow, Billy & Matt Garrett, and William & Sue Williamson in the Fall of 1880.
S.G. Williamson died in 1901. His widow, Nancy Jane Whitlow Williamson lived until 1922.
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Note to Reader: the following letter was provided by a Whitlow cousin. It is included here because it explains a lot of Williamson relationships. The writer, Andrew Taylor Walden, was born 1869 in Walker Co., GA. For brevity's sake, only pertinent portions of the letter are included here:
"Thursday Night
November the 14th, 1946
4306 E. 14th Ave.
Chattanooga, Tenn
Dear Mary Jewel,
This is kind of personal information on this page. Glad to do what I have done for you. Oct. 1893, while at Vandale, Ark., I met and formed the acquaintance of James Williamson, a wealthy merchant of Vandale, Ark. - 62 years old - I met accidentally, it seems so anyway. I went in to his store to eat a snack. He asked where I was from. I told him I was from Walker Co., GA, 30 miles south of Chatt., Tenn. Well, his next question was "Did you ever know a family by the name of Williamson?" My answer, he said, was one of the greatest surprises of his life. He got up, shook hands with me, when I told him I was Allen Williamson's grandson. Well, he says, your name is Williamson. No, I say, my name is Walden. My mother was the 2nd child and oldest daughter of Allen Williamson. He said his father was born in N.C., came to Ark. when he was 20 years old, married, raised a family in Cherry Valley, Ark. and died in old age. I asked him if he had ever met any of the family before. He said I was the only one of the relations he ever met. My time was short to talk to him. He insisted that I visit him and spend some time in his home. He was 6 feet tall, weighed 220 lbs, sandy complexion, very brilliant and sociable. One brother was a Dr. in Harrisburg, Ark. The youngest brother, Hugh, was a member of the Ark. Legislature. As I was working 18 miles south of Vandale and aiming to come home soon, I never met him anymore, but the information he gave me was worth a lot to me. I told Dad about him. Dad said Granddaddy got letters from his brother, John, after him and Ma married. James told me his father was John Williamson, Sr. of N.C. and his only brother was Allen Williamson. So, this information is satisfactory to me.
Allen Williamson (father of the subject of this biography, Sanford Glen Williamson) was the 2nd son and 7th child of John and Mary Williamson. He was born Buncombe Co., NC June 1810.
Granddaddy Allen married Mary Barnwell of Cobb Co. GA in his 18th year. To Allen and his wife were born seven children: James 1833, Emily July 1835, William Jan 1837, Sarah 1839, Glenn 1841, Abram 1843 and Nancy 1845. Their mother died and was buried at Marietta, GA, August 1845.
Granddaddy Allen, with his sister and seven motherless children moved and settled in the upper McLemore's Cove, Walker Co., GA, Nov 1847, where he came into possession of 320 acres of fine land on the Chickamauga Creek. He built a fine gristmill and sawmill soon after coming to the Cove - all run with water power. The Cove was thinly settled at that time but new settlers were moving in from NC, SC, Tenn. and other parts of GA. The county was settling fast.
Granddaddy was a local Methodist minister. While attending conference in Forsyth Co.. GA, he met and on a courtship, married his second wife, Mary Durham, Nov 1847. One child was born, Rebecca (Aunt Joe) 1848.
Uncle Glen, his wife and children, Aunt Sarah Neal, her children, Geo. and Tudy, Uncle Silas Neal, Aunt Joe and two grown daughters are bur. in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Uncle Jim, I suppose, was buried on the battlefield in Ark. where he was killed.
Aunt Nancy, her family, Aunt Mary and sister Frank's nine month old baby girl, Myrtle Bishop are all bur. Lafayette Cemetery.
Grannie outlived Granddaddy from June 1872 to Feb 1880. As the property by his Will was her life time, it was sold the Fall of 1880. Uncle Glen was the executor. A. Andrews (Sandy) was the buyer.
Aunt Sara, her two children, Uncle Silas and his family moved to Alabama near Uncle Glen in Cherokee Co. (Ala.)
Uncle Foster and Aunt Nancy bought the Hammonds farm and gristmill, three miles south of Lafayette.
We (Jesse Walden's family) moved to Shinbone Valley near the old burned mill on Duck Creek, four miles west of Lafayette.
I was at Sarah's house about two hours in Ala. I didn't go to Uncle Glen's nor Aunt Joe's, as I had been gone some time and was anxious to get home to see Daddy, as he always was first and last in my life. I have always been glad of the love I had and the confidence I had in Daddy.
Mary Jewel, I have given you facts in this record allowing only for mistakes in dates, which I would be supposed to make. I hope you will appreciate the effort. Again, your Mother, being three years older than me, will be able to correct my dates, if they are wrong. As there has been some misunderstanding in regards to Allen Williamson's ancestors and his birth place, I will give you folks some information on the subject that I am sure you haven't got.
While I am wholly uneducated, make my grammar as I talk and write, I think people understand me pretty well, being as I am a natural genealogist, I have spent time looking up my ancestors on both sides of the house. I am glad I am the son of Jesse Walden and Emily Williamson - would not be anyone else.
Signed,
A.T. Walden
Marriages and Deaths:
James mar. Manda Robertson of Cobb Co., GA.
William's first wife was Ellen Whitlow of Walker Co., GA.
Glen's wife was Nannie Whitlow, sister to William's first wife.
Abraham died single during the Civil War. Died at home.
Emily (my Mother) mar. Jesse Walden, Oct. 25, 1855.
Sarah, mar. George Neal of Chattooga Co., GA 1859.
Nancy mar. three times: James Graham 1860, John Nevel 1864, he disappeared, W.A. Foster of Walker Co., GA 1872.
Rebecca (Aunt Joe) mar. Silas Neal of SC, 1868.
Granddaddy died at his home in the Cove June 1872.
Uncle Jim was killed in battle in the Rebel Army about 1863 in Ark.; his wife died shortly afterwards at their home in Adkins, Ark; Granddaddy brought their only child, Mollie, a little girl to his home where she died in childhood.
Uncle William's first wife, Ellen (Whitlow), died (of breast cancer), and was buried in Ala. near Center 1868.
Uncle William and his second wife died of old age at their home at Kennedale, Tex.
Uncle Glen, his wife (Nancy Whitlow) and children, Aunt Sarah, her two children and Uncle Silas all died at their homes near Center, Ala.
Aunt Joe (wife of Silas Neal, mentioned above) died at the home of her daughter, Mollie Whitlow, in Weatherford, Parker Co., Tex. (John Gholston Whitlow mar. as his second wife, Mollie Neal, 1894.)"
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From The History of Cherokee County:
The earliest known members of the Williamson family to live in Cherokee County were Sanford Glen Williamson (1841-1901), his wife Nancy Jane Whitlow Williamson (1843-1922), and their children. Prior to moving to Cherokee County, Sanford Glen Williamson and his wife lived in Walker County, Georgia, in the area that is now Chickamauga Park. He served with distinction in the Confederate Army and was decorated with a Medal of Honor. After the War Between the States ended, he and his wife moved to what is now Cedar Bluff and later to the Pollards Bend area. Their nine children were born in Cherokee County.
Sanford Glen and Nancy Jane Williamson were the parents of nine children, four of whom never married. Their children were: Emma Williamson (1867-1900) who married Johnson B. Hayes; Lucy E. Williamson (1869-1870); Charlsie Etta Williamson (1872-1926); Sanford Ernest Williamson (1874-1915) who married Myrtle Sewell; Bessie Miles Williamson (1876-1957); Mattie Williamson (1878-1964) who married Robert Waldrop; Mayme Williamson (1881-1961) who married Ramon dePoe; Willie Williamson (1883-1889); and Lily Glen Williamson (1889-1927) who married Frank Haynes Sheppard.
Sanford Ernest Williamson, the oldest son of Sanford Glen Williamson, remained in Cherokee County, where he and his wife, Myrtle Sewell, were the parents of Glen Sanders Williamson (1903-1971) and of Annie Louise Williamson (1909-1972). Sanford E. Williamson finished Birmingham Dental College in 1908 and was, perhaps, the first dentist in Cherokee County.
Glen Sanders Williamson is perhaps the best known of the Williamson family in Cherokee County. He began work as an errand boy at Cherokee County Bank upon his graduation from high school in 1920, and remained there, having risen to the position of president at the time of his death in 1971. He served four terms on the Centre City Council and was in his second term as mayor when he died. He was active in Centre First Methodist Church where he served on the Board of Stewards, was Church Treasurer and Church Trustee.
Family history of other members of the Williamson descendants is as follows: Mattie Williamson Waldrop and Robert Waldrop were the parents of Evelyn Waldrop, who married Edward Poe and had one child, William Edgar Poe; of Robert Glen Waldrop who had two children, Jean Waldrop-Vaughn and Jane Waldrop-Lewis; and of Ramon Waldrop. Robert Glen Waldrop lived much of his life in Jefferson County, where he served as mayor of Homewood for many years. Lily Glen Williamson Sheppard and Frank Haynes Sheppard were the parents of Nan Elizabeth (1913-); of Mildred Louise Sheppard (1915-); and of Frances Jean Sheppard (1917-). Emma Williamson Hale and Johnson Hale were the parents of Tiffie E. Hale, who married Clinton Elliott, had one child, Harry Clinton Elliott; of Norma Hale, who married Jess Cox; and of Clyde Louise Hale.
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In 1914, Nancy Jane Whitlow Williamson's brother, John Gholston Whitlow, died in Weatherford, Texas and left considerable property to the Williamsons in Alabama and their cousins, the Powells & Whitlows in Georgia and the Garretts in Texas.
John Whitlow Evans Powell, of Nashville, Ga., traveled to Texas in 1914 & 1915 to settle the estate and sell the property on behalf of the Powell & Whitlow heirs in Georgia, the Williamson heirs in Alabama and the Garrett heirs in Texas, all families of men who married daughters of Miles Washington Whitlow, 1812-1885, of Walker Co., GA:
"In the County Court, Parker County, Texas, Case # 1731, Estate of John G. Whitlow, dec'd, T.A. Wythe, Executor.
On this the 24th day of July, 1914, this court, being in regular session came on to be heard the application of Mrs. Mary Whitlow, surviving wife of J.G. Whitlow, deceased, and the application of J.W.E. Powell, et. al., legatees and devisees under the Will of J.G. Whitlow, deceased, for division of the estate, as between the said applicants and a settlement of their claims to the same, said applications both filed this day."
"The right, title and interest of the applicants, J.W.E. Powell, T.W. Powell, Mattie Wilkes, A.R. Powell, J.H. Powell, and Mollie Turner, heirs and only heirs at law of T.W. Powell & Albina Powell, also T. Hale and N. Hale, Charlcie Williamson, Bessie Williamson, Mattie Waldrop, Mamie DePoo, Lillian Sheppard and S.E. Williamson, heirs and only heirs at law of S.G. & Nancy Williamson and also Luther Garrett, E. Garrett, Gertrude Youngblood, Nellie Clowdus, Allie Tweddle and R.P. Garrett, heirs and only heirs at law of W.H. & Martha Garrett be and the same is divested out of said parties and the same is vested in the said Mary Whitlow [and] all Parker County deed records of [deceased] be vested in aforesaid legatees."
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SANFORD GLEN WILLIAMSON 1841-1910
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Sanford Glen Williamson was born 23 Sept 1841 near Marietta, GA. His father was Allen Williamson (b. 1812 Elbert Co., GA, d. 3 Jun 1880 Walker Co., GA) and his mother was Mary Barnhart.
S.G. Williamson grew up on Chickamauga Creek, Walker Co. GA. There he met Nancy Jane Whitlow, daughter of the pioneer settler of Cherokee Georgia, Miles Washington Whitlow. They married about 1866, just after S.G. Williamson received his discharge from the Confederate Army. Glen served with distinction in the military.
Just before 1870, Glen and Nanie Williamson moved down to Cherokee Co., AL, first to Center, Cedar Bluff, and, finally to Pollard's Bend, where Glen superintended a fine farm on very fertile land.
Glen became involved in politics in Cherokee County and by 1872 was the Sheriff. One letter from his wife's sister, Allie Whitlow, indicated that he traveled as far as Arkansas on legal business, as the case dictated.
Glen and Nanie had nine children:
1. Emma Williamson (1867-1900), mar. Johnson B. Hale,
2. Lucy E. Williamson (1869-1870),
3. Charlsie Etta Williamson (1872-1926),
4. Sanford Ernest Williamson (1874-1915), mar. Myrtle Sewell,
5. Bessie Miles Williamson (1876-1957),
6. Mattie Williamson (1878-1964), mar. Robert Waldrop,
7. Mayme Williamson (1881-1961), mar. Ramon dePoe,
8. Willie Williamson (1883-1889),
9. Lily Glen Williamson (1889-1927), mar. Frank Haynes Sheppard.
S.G. Williamson was actively involved in politics and community affairs. He served as Sheriff of the county and ran unsuccessfully for Probate Judge in the late 1890's. In a letter written to a campaign supporter, Mr. Thomas, S.G. Williamson explained that he was beaten by "money and whiskey used against me on the day of Election." The Alabama Archives has petitions written in 1899 from ardent supporters of S.G. Williamson complaining about nefarious tactics used by S.G. Williamson's opponent in the Probate Judge election.
S.G. & Nanie were both raised in the Christian tradition, Glen's father having been a Methodist minister, so both were active in missionary work and supported several local churches.
He and Nanie kept in touch with relatives who had moved to Texas. Nancy J. Whitlow's brother, John G. Whitlow moved to a farm near Weatherford, Texas in 1872. S.G. Williamson's brother William A. Williamson and wife, Susan (Mann) Williamson, moved to Johnson's Station, Tarrant Co., Texas, then to Kennedale, TX. William had previously been married to Ellen Whitlow, Nannie's sister. Ellen Whitlow Williamson died of breast cancer in 1868. Another of Nanie's sisters, Martha Whitlow Garrett, moved with her husband, Wm H. Garrett to Kennedale, TX in Oct 1872.
Family letters show that S.G. & Nanie Williamson met with her sister, Allie Whitlow Powell & husband, Thomas Powell, and they traveled together to Texas to visit John & Mary Whitlow, Billy & Matt Garrett, and William & Sue Williamson in the Fall of 1880.
S.G. Williamson died in 1901. His widow, Nancy Jane Whitlow Williamson lived until 1922.
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Note to Reader: the following letter was provided by a Whitlow cousin. It is included here because it explains a lot of Williamson relationships. The writer, Andrew Taylor Walden, was born 1869 in Walker Co., GA. For brevity's sake, only pertinent portions of the letter are included here:
"Thursday Night
November the 14th, 1946
4306 E. 14th Ave.
Chattanooga, Tenn
Dear Mary Jewel,
This is kind of personal information on this page. Glad to do what I have done for you. Oct. 1893, while at Vandale, Ark., I met and formed the acquaintance of James Williamson, a wealthy merchant of Vandale, Ark. - 62 years old - I met accidentally, it seems so anyway. I went in to his store to eat a snack. He asked where I was from. I told him I was from Walker Co., GA, 30 miles south of Chatt., Tenn. Well, his next question was "Did you ever know a family by the name of Williamson?" My answer, he said, was one of the greatest surprises of his life. He got up, shook hands with me, when I told him I was Allen Williamson's grandson. Well, he says, your name is Williamson. No, I say, my name is Walden. My mother was the 2nd child and oldest daughter of Allen Williamson. He said his father was born in N.C., came to Ark. when he was 20 years old, married, raised a family in Cherry Valley, Ark. and died in old age. I asked him if he had ever met any of the family before. He said I was the only one of the relations he ever met. My time was short to talk to him. He insisted that I visit him and spend some time in his home. He was 6 feet tall, weighed 220 lbs, sandy complexion, very brilliant and sociable. One brother was a Dr. in Harrisburg, Ark. The youngest brother, Hugh, was a member of the Ark. Legislature. As I was working 18 miles south of Vandale and aiming to come home soon, I never met him anymore, but the information he gave me was worth a lot to me. I told Dad about him. Dad said Granddaddy got letters from his brother, John, after him and Ma married. James told me his father was John Williamson, Sr. of N.C. and his only brother was Allen Williamson. So, this information is satisfactory to me.
Allen Williamson (father of the subject of this biography, Sanford Glen Williamson) was the 2nd son and 7th child of John and Mary Williamson. He was born Buncombe Co., NC June 1810.
Granddaddy Allen married Mary Barnwell of Cobb Co. GA in his 18th year. To Allen and his wife were born seven children: James 1833, Emily July 1835, William Jan 1837, Sarah 1839, Glenn 1841, Abram 1843 and Nancy 1845. Their mother died and was buried at Marietta, GA, August 1845.
Granddaddy Allen, with his sister and seven motherless children moved and settled in the upper McLemore's Cove, Walker Co., GA, Nov 1847, where he came into possession of 320 acres of fine land on the Chickamauga Creek. He built a fine gristmill and sawmill soon after coming to the Cove - all run with water power. The Cove was thinly settled at that time but new settlers were moving in from NC, SC, Tenn. and other parts of GA. The county was settling fast.
Granddaddy was a local Methodist minister. While attending conference in Forsyth Co.. GA, he met and on a courtship, married his second wife, Mary Durham, Nov 1847. One child was born, Rebecca (Aunt Joe) 1848.
Uncle Glen, his wife and children, Aunt Sarah Neal, her children, Geo. and Tudy, Uncle Silas Neal, Aunt Joe and two grown daughters are bur. in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Uncle Jim, I suppose, was buried on the battlefield in Ark. where he was killed.
Aunt Nancy, her family, Aunt Mary and sister Frank's nine month old baby girl, Myrtle Bishop are all bur. Lafayette Cemetery.
Grannie outlived Granddaddy from June 1872 to Feb 1880. As the property by his Will was her life time, it was sold the Fall of 1880. Uncle Glen was the executor. A. Andrews (Sandy) was the buyer.
Aunt Sara, her two children, Uncle Silas and his family moved to Alabama near Uncle Glen in Cherokee Co. (Ala.)
Uncle Foster and Aunt Nancy bought the Hammonds farm and gristmill, three miles south of Lafayette.
We (Jesse Walden's family) moved to Shinbone Valley near the old burned mill on Duck Creek, four miles west of Lafayette.
I was at Sarah's house about two hours in Ala. I didn't go to Uncle Glen's nor Aunt Joe's, as I had been gone some time and was anxious to get home to see Daddy, as he always was first and last in my life. I have always been glad of the love I had and the confidence I had in Daddy.
Mary Jewel, I have given you facts in this record allowing only for mistakes in dates, which I would be supposed to make. I hope you will appreciate the effort. Again, your Mother, being three years older than me, will be able to correct my dates, if they are wrong. As there has been some misunderstanding in regards to Allen Williamson's ancestors and his birth place, I will give you folks some information on the subject that I am sure you haven't got.
While I am wholly uneducated, make my grammar as I talk and write, I think people understand me pretty well, being as I am a natural genealogist, I have spent time looking up my ancestors on both sides of the house. I am glad I am the son of Jesse Walden and Emily Williamson - would not be anyone else.
Signed,
A.T. Walden
Marriages and Deaths:
James mar. Manda Robertson of Cobb Co., GA.
William's first wife was Ellen Whitlow of Walker Co., GA.
Glen's wife was Nannie Whitlow, sister to William's first wife.
Abraham died single during the Civil War. Died at home.
Emily (my Mother) mar. Jesse Walden, Oct. 25, 1855.
Sarah, mar. George Neal of Chattooga Co., GA 1859.
Nancy mar. three times: James Graham 1860, John Nevel 1864, he disappeared, W.A. Foster of Walker Co., GA 1872.
Rebecca (Aunt Joe) mar. Silas Neal of SC, 1868.
Granddaddy died at his home in the Cove June 1872.
Uncle Jim was killed in battle in the Rebel Army about 1863 in Ark.; his wife died shortly afterwards at their home in Adkins, Ark; Granddaddy brought their only child, Mollie, a little girl to his home where she died in childhood.
Uncle William's first wife, Ellen (Whitlow), died (of breast cancer), and was buried in Ala. near Center 1868.
Uncle William and his second wife died of old age at their home at Kennedale, Tex.
Uncle Glen, his wife (Nancy Whitlow) and children, Aunt Sarah, her two children and Uncle Silas all died at their homes near Center, Ala.
Aunt Joe (wife of Silas Neal, mentioned above) died at the home of her daughter, Mollie Whitlow, in Weatherford, Parker Co., Tex. (John Gholston Whitlow mar. as his second wife, Mollie Neal, 1894.)"
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From The History of Cherokee County:
The earliest known members of the Williamson family to live in Cherokee County were Sanford Glen Williamson (1841-1901), his wife Nancy Jane Whitlow Williamson (1843-1922), and their children. Prior to moving to Cherokee County, Sanford Glen Williamson and his wife lived in Walker County, Georgia, in the area that is now Chickamauga Park. He served with distinction in the Confederate Army and was decorated with a Medal of Honor. After the War Between the States ended, he and his wife moved to what is now Cedar Bluff and later to the Pollards Bend area. Their nine children were born in Cherokee County.
Sanford Glen and Nancy Jane Williamson were the parents of nine children, four of whom never married. Their children were: Emma Williamson (1867-1900) who married Johnson B. Hayes; Lucy E. Williamson (1869-1870); Charlsie Etta Williamson (1872-1926); Sanford Ernest Williamson (1874-1915) who married Myrtle Sewell; Bessie Miles Williamson (1876-1957); Mattie Williamson (1878-1964) who married Robert Waldrop; Mayme Williamson (1881-1961) who married Ramon dePoe; Willie Williamson (1883-1889); and Lily Glen Williamson (1889-1927) who married Frank Haynes Sheppard.
Sanford Ernest Williamson, the oldest son of Sanford Glen Williamson, remained in Cherokee County, where he and his wife, Myrtle Sewell, were the parents of Glen Sanders Williamson (1903-1971) and of Annie Louise Williamson (1909-1972). Sanford E. Williamson finished Birmingham Dental College in 1908 and was, perhaps, the first dentist in Cherokee County.
Glen Sanders Williamson is perhaps the best known of the Williamson family in Cherokee County. He began work as an errand boy at Cherokee County Bank upon his graduation from high school in 1920, and remained there, having risen to the position of president at the time of his death in 1971. He served four terms on the Centre City Council and was in his second term as mayor when he died. He was active in Centre First Methodist Church where he served on the Board of Stewards, was Church Treasurer and Church Trustee.
Family history of other members of the Williamson descendants is as follows: Mattie Williamson Waldrop and Robert Waldrop were the parents of Evelyn Waldrop, who married Edward Poe and had one child, William Edgar Poe; of Robert Glen Waldrop who had two children, Jean Waldrop-Vaughn and Jane Waldrop-Lewis; and of Ramon Waldrop. Robert Glen Waldrop lived much of his life in Jefferson County, where he served as mayor of Homewood for many years. Lily Glen Williamson Sheppard and Frank Haynes Sheppard were the parents of Nan Elizabeth (1913-); of Mildred Louise Sheppard (1915-); and of Frances Jean Sheppard (1917-). Emma Williamson Hale and Johnson Hale were the parents of Tiffie E. Hale, who married Clinton Elliott, had one child, Harry Clinton Elliott; of Norma Hale, who married Jess Cox; and of Clyde Louise Hale.
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In 1914, Nancy Jane Whitlow Williamson's brother, John Gholston Whitlow, died in Weatherford, Texas and left considerable property to the Williamsons in Alabama and their cousins, the Powells & Whitlows in Georgia and the Garretts in Texas.
John Whitlow Evans Powell, of Nashville, Ga., traveled to Texas in 1914 & 1915 to settle the estate and sell the property on behalf of the Powell & Whitlow heirs in Georgia, the Williamson heirs in Alabama and the Garrett heirs in Texas, all families of men who married daughters of Miles Washington Whitlow, 1812-1885, of Walker Co., GA:
"In the County Court, Parker County, Texas, Case # 1731, Estate of John G. Whitlow, dec'd, T.A. Wythe, Executor.
On this the 24th day of July, 1914, this court, being in regular session came on to be heard the application of Mrs. Mary Whitlow, surviving wife of J.G. Whitlow, deceased, and the application of J.W.E. Powell, et. al., legatees and devisees under the Will of J.G. Whitlow, deceased, for division of the estate, as between the said applicants and a settlement of their claims to the same, said applications both filed this day."
"The right, title and interest of the applicants, J.W.E. Powell, T.W. Powell, Mattie Wilkes, A.R. Powell, J.H. Powell, and Mollie Turner, heirs and only heirs at law of T.W. Powell & Albina Powell, also T. Hale and N. Hale, Charlcie Williamson, Bessie Williamson, Mattie Waldrop, Mamie DePoo, Lillian Sheppard and S.E. Williamson, heirs and only heirs at law of S.G. & Nancy Williamson and also Luther Garrett, E. Garrett, Gertrude Youngblood, Nellie Clowdus, Allie Tweddle and R.P. Garrett, heirs and only heirs at law of W.H. & Martha Garrett be and the same is divested out of said parties and the same is vested in the said Mary Whitlow [and] all Parker County deed records of [deceased] be vested in aforesaid legatees."
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