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Note: Grandma Williams is thought to have first married a Crow when she was very young. I have also heard that she possibly had some Indian blood. She did move to Arkansas with her father, James Monroe Stinnett, and stayed there for a while. Her mother had died earlier and her father had remarried. She returned to Tennessee with her Aunt Marissa Smith and married Robert T. "Bob" Williams.
My notes from the early 1980's say: Granny ran away as a child and married an Indian, a Crow fellow, while she was in Arkansas. Her mother was Rebecca J. Spain. Her father was James Monroe Stinnett.
She did not see her father again for many years. One day when "Bob" and the children were working in the fields, they heard her hollering. They threw down their hoes and ran to the house, thinking that something terrible had happened. An old man, with a long white beard was sitting on the porch. She had shouted her hair down. It was her father and he had come to see her! She did not see him again. Her inheritance was mailed to her at Enville and she used the money to purchase a sewing machine.
The same sewing machine is, I think, in the 1995 possession of Jimmie Tacker Droke at Selmer, TN. Jimmie gave me a tour of her house and proudly displayed her mother's sewing machine, that she purchased from the estate. I had previously thought that it may have burned in the house, but I suppose the estate was already settled and Jimmie had the sewing machine before the house burned. Thank Goodness!
As a child, Mother walked to Granny's house, past Hardin's Graveyard. Grandma would meet her half way. When Grandma got older, she had something wrong with her hands, the skin would peel off. Mother said it looked like onion skin. The doctor would peel off layers and throw it into the fireplace.
1-2-90 Notes from talking with Elwood Evans say that E. C. Williams died at Uncle Bobbie's (Pipie Williams) after a few days illness in July 1925.
(Sources: Beverly Freeman e-mail, 8/24/2001; Bill R. Randolph records; 1880 Census, McNairy Co., TN.)
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