I'm curious about the Stone Co. Williams families.

Here's a pioneer story for Stone Co.

My Aunt Hulda Williams Mitchell King remembers her grandmother (Eliza Jane Gore Williams - the daughter of William Carroll "Tipton" Gore of Stone Co.) telling her the story of how she came to be married in Fannin Co., TX in 1865 to John Hiram Williams Sr. She told Hilda that her family gave her a good riding pony and a pack horse to make her trip from her home in Stone Co. to Ladonia, Fannin Co., TX to marry John (Johney)Hiram Williams during the Civil War. This was a liberated woman who went to get her man. Eliza Jane, indeed, made the trip on horseback to arrive there and marry Johney (Marriage License Record filed) but he sent her back home because things in Texas were still quite unsettled. He told her she could return after the War was over. Although, Eliza Jane was Indian herself, she told of being waylayed on her way back home by some bushwacking Indians who took her good riding pony to leave her to ride her old pack horse the rest of her way to Stone Co. This story is the true legacy of the marriage of my Great Grandparents and backed up by documents. All ended well! Eliza Jane reunited with her husband and they raised a large family in Fannin Co., TX including my Grandfather who was John Hiram Jr.

The only thing we haven't figured out is how and when did Eliza Jane and John Hiram meet??

To my knowledge and the records, John Hiram Williams never was in Stone Co., MO. He was in the Oak Hill Home Guard in Fannin Co., TX during the War.

My belief is that one of the Williams Families in Stone Co. probably was related to Thomas Davis Williams, the father of John Hiram but to my knowledge his father was also never in Stone Co.

Does anyone know of a connection between the Stone Co., MO Williams' and the Fannin Co., TX Williams??? This would add to this lovely marriage story.

Clydene Williams....