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I was first pointed to this union by a Public Member Family Tree of Dmacness. The 1900 Lehigh County census given points out that Nathan T Williams was 81 years old but his wife Mary E was 49, giving her the same birth year as Mary Freyman was given on the 1870 census with parents Carl and Lovina. (see notes under father). This document is the source for the age and birth location of Nathan and the year of their marriage.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i>(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M33R-TXX : accessed 14 December 2016), N T Williams, District 2 Allentown city Ward 1, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 54, sheet 11A, family 217, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,429.
Name Mary E Williams
Event Type Census
Event Year 1900
Event Place District 2 Allentown city Ward 1, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender Female
Age 49
Marital Status Married
Race White
Race (Original) W
Relationship to Head of Household Wife
Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Wife
Number of Living Children 3
Years Married 22
Birth Date Oct 1851
Birthplace Pennsylvania
Marriage Year (Estimated) 1878
Father's Birthplace Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace Pennsylvania
Mother of how many children 5
N T Williams Head M 82 Pennsylvania
Mary E Williams Wife F 49 Pennsylvania
Hulda N Williams Daughter F 20 Pennsylvania
Frank H Williams Son M 17 Pennsylvania
Robert B Williams Son M 12 Pennsylvania
John Sweeney Boarder M 15 Pennsylvania
On further investigation the Pennsylvania State Death Certificate no. 094382 of their son Robert B Williams, entered as the same on the 1900 census above, lists father as N T Williams and mother as Mary Freeman.
Source Citation: Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania, USA; Certificate Number Range: 093151-096000. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906–1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
It is on this evidence that I connect Mary E Williams, the wife of Nathan T with Mary Freyman, daughter of Carl and Lovina Freyman.
Mary is found on FindaGrave.com online in the Egypt cemetery listed as w.o. Nathan T. Williams. The dates are oddly enough 1850-1904, not 1851 as on the census above.
Birth: 1850
Death: 1904
w.o Nathan T. Williams
Burial:
Egypt Cemetery
Egypt
Lehigh County
Pennsylvania, USA
A further source for the dates and burial location of Nathan is his page on FindaGrave.com online.
Birth: 1818
Death: 1901
h/o Mary E. Williams
Burial:
Egypt Cemetery
Egypt
Lehigh County
Pennsylvania, USA
It is not known for certain whether or not Nathan T Williams married prior to marrying Mary E Freyman at age 60.
There is a Nathan Williams, merchant, on the 1850 Mauch Chunk, Carbon County census living with a woman two years older than him named Rebecca Williams (the 1850 census does not indicate relationships). This could be a wife, though there are no children, or a sister. Ten years later we find an N T Williams, shopkeeper, in the same city on the 1860 census living alone in what may be a boarding house.
Note: The source for the marriage of Mary Freeman to Nathan T William came ab
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