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David Andrew Williams

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David Andrew Williams

Birth
Hardin County, Tennessee, USA
Death
23 Jan 1888 (aged 42)
Hollywood, Clark County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Hollywood, Clark County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Williams, David Andrew, was born in Hardin Co. Tenn. Sept 28,1845, he was married to Mary C. Callaway July 13,1878. His affliction was paralysis. In 1884 it began in his hands and gradually diffused itself through his whole system. His long affliction and the peculiarity of his case might have been much profit to the medical fraternity had it watched the stages of his disease. His affliction was four years and five months standing. His flesh all virtually perished away. The last two years of his illness he was entirely helpless. In the year 1855 he professed religion and joined the Methodist Church, and died in peace. January 23, 1888 aged 43 years, 4 months and 15 days. He was the son of Mrs. Lucinda Hitchcock.
(The Southern Standard, 2-10-1888, p3c3)

His widow Mary C Dunn Callaway Williams applied for a Civil War Widows pensions showing he fought in the Civil War in Newton's Arkansas Cavalry Company A from 1863-1865.
Williams, David Andrew, was born in Hardin Co. Tenn. Sept 28,1845, he was married to Mary C. Callaway July 13,1878. His affliction was paralysis. In 1884 it began in his hands and gradually diffused itself through his whole system. His long affliction and the peculiarity of his case might have been much profit to the medical fraternity had it watched the stages of his disease. His affliction was four years and five months standing. His flesh all virtually perished away. The last two years of his illness he was entirely helpless. In the year 1855 he professed religion and joined the Methodist Church, and died in peace. January 23, 1888 aged 43 years, 4 months and 15 days. He was the son of Mrs. Lucinda Hitchcock.
(The Southern Standard, 2-10-1888, p3c3)

His widow Mary C Dunn Callaway Williams applied for a Civil War Widows pensions showing he fought in the Civil War in Newton's Arkansas Cavalry Company A from 1863-1865.


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