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- MARTHA JANE TURLEY was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, 21 December 1821 and died in Gallatin County, Kentucky, 14 November 1871. She is buried on the Williams farm in a family graveyard. She moved to Gallatin County with her parents to the farm her father purchased which was adjacent to the land
of Myrix Josiah Williams. Junietta (Gough) Williams, Myrix Williams's first wife, died 17 January 1846 leaving him a widower with five children. Martha Jane Turley married Myrix Williams 29 October 1846.
Myrix Josiah Williams was born in Madison County, Kentucky 14
July 1811, the son of John and Elizabeth (Collins) Williams from Virginia and whose ancestors came from Wales. When he was about nineteen years of age his parents moved to Gallatin County where he married Junietta Gough 8 November 1831. He joined the Baptist Church in 1842 and became clerk of the Ten Mile Association. Later he was Moderator. Myrix Josiah Williams was a staunch Whig and voted twice for Henry Clay. After the "Rebellion" he joined the Democratic Party and was elected to the Legislature in Kentucky in 1865. He was a magistrate for forty years. He was made a Mason in Tadmore Lodge #108, Chapter #51, and united with the Council and
Commandery at Covington. He was elected Grand Master. Myrix Josiah Williams died at his home near Glencoe, Kentucky, 25 May 1897 and was buried at his family graveyard.
In 1850 Martha Jane and Myrix Williams were living next to Elizabeth Turley in Gallatin County, Kentucky. There were seven children in the home. Five were children of his first marriage and the two youngest, Zacheri T. Williams, a two year old, and William T. Williams, three months, were sons of Martha Jane. In 1851 Martha Jane and Myrix Williams sold her share of her father's estate to her oldest brother, Joseph Turley.
By 1860 there were only six children living in the home. in
1865 and 1866 Myrix served simultaneously in the state legislature and as Masonic Grandmaster.910 His responsibility as Clerk of the Association at Ten Mile Church lasted over a span of twenty years. Three sons of Martha Jane and Myrix Williams became ministers. One, Frank Williams, was, according to the History of Ten Mile Church, one of the most prominent and useful ministers in Kentucky and was well known all over the state.
In addition to the five children in the Williams home in 1870,
there was listed a Peter, age 35, unemployed. This probably was Peter Turley, brother of Martha Jane (Turley) Williams. Martha Jane (Turley) Williams died in 1871 and in 1874 Myrix Williams married Minerva Donaldson. A daughter, Maggie, was born to this couple.
A letter about Myrix Williams from the Grand Lodge says that he had, in addition to his children, sixteen grandchildren, thirty great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren.
Children of Myrix Josiah and Martha Jane (Turley) Williams:
Zacheri Taylor Williams b. 1848
William Josiah Williams b. 26 November 1850919
James H. Williams b. 1852
Mary Williams920
Joseph Franklin Williams b. 1859921
Bettie Williams b. 9 June 1861
Turley Family Records, page 389-390
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- note on Find a Grave:
Myrix Josiah Williams was born near Richmond, KY on July 14, 1811, a son of John Williams (c. 1764/7-1816?) and Elizabeth Collins (?-?), both from Virginia but believed to have met in Madison Co KY, where they married. They named Myrix for his grandfather William Miricks Williams and his great-grandfather, Josiah Stone [. . .] Myrix' name is at times misstated in census records as "Max" or even "Miax." The name seems to be of Welch origin, a permutation of Miricks or Myrick or even today, Merrick. [. . .]
Betsy Collins Williams (Myrix' mother) was the daughter of Nancy Anne Garland (?-?) and John Collins (?-?). Both the Williams and Collins families had settled in Madison County VA (later, KY) after moving into KY from VA. The Williams were located on Tates Creek, while the Collins family lived on Muddy Creek. Both families attended Viney Fork Baptist Church. In about 1830, John and Betsy Williams relocated their family from Richmond, KY to Napoleon in Gallatin County KY.
John Williams' parents were Welshman William Miricks Williams (abt 1735-1814, Madison County KY) and Elizabeth Stone (April 14, 1749, Stafford County Virginia-b/f 1787?). In addition to son John, William and Elizabeth Stone Williams were the parents of two other children, William Jr (c. 1764/7-?) and Mary (1770-?). Elizabeth and William were married in Prince William County VA in 1764. Elizabeth was a daughter of immigrant Josiah/Josias Stone (abt 1725-1790) and Mary Coleman (abt 1720-1789). Josiah Stone was born in England and married Mary Coleman on June 17, 1747 in Stafford CO Virginia. In 1778, Josiah Stone bought land and a slave from William Miricks/Mirix Williams. Josiah Stone died in Stafford County VA in 1790; Mary, his wife died the year before.
It is believed William's first wife, Elizabeth, died before 1787. In that year, a census and tax assessment was conducted in Madison County Virginia (later, Campbell CO KY). William Miricks Williams was enrolled together with one son below the age of 21. [ . . .]
William M. Williams' second wife was Ann(a) Milam (?-by 1810). According to the Madison County KY census of 1810 [. . .] no wife is listed. [. . .] it is reasonable to conclude that William's second wife, Ann(a) Milam had died before the 1810 Census was conducted. [. . .]
Junietta Gouge (Feb 25, 1815-June 17, 1846) and Myrix Josiah Williams were married in Grant County KY on Nov 8, 1831. Junietta Gouge [. . .] was one of nine children born to James M. Gouge (1777-1858/60) and Ellen (Ella) Jane ("Nellie") Jewett /Juett (1789-1849) of Grant County, KY. James and Nellie were married in 1807. In addition to Junietta, their children included Louisiana, James M., Marietta, William Taylor, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette P., John Quincy, and Henry Clay Gouge. Of these children, perhaps the most locally prominent was T.J. ("Uncle Jeff") Gouge, a farmer and sometime hotelier in Williamstown and the father of seventeen children.
James Gouge was from Virginia and lived in Bourbon County KY before settling permanently in Grant County. It has been said that James moved to Kentucky as early as 1798, with his widowed mother. James is listed in the Grant County Census of 1820. In 1824, James Gouge bought a lot in Williamstown, Grant County. He is presumed to have built a home on this lot. It has also been recorded that by 1814, James Gouge was operating a tavern near the hamlet later to be named Mason. However, the tavern owner appears to be a James Gough, not James Gouge. [. . .]
Ellen Jane Jewett and James Gouge are buried in a now-isolated Gouge Family cemetery in Mason along Route 25. Their graves are on a rise of ground, in a thicket between the highway and the tracks of the Southern Railroad, a quarter mile south of the Lawrenceville Road in Grant County. In June 2006, their two gravestones were located by a covey of their relatives, who found the markers completely hidden in underbrush and for that, surprisingly well preserved. A third stone marker is that of Joseph Juett, Oct 26, 1792-Nov 12, 1849, a brother (I believe) of Ellen Jewett Gouge.
James and Nellie Gouge were active Baptists. James was listed as a member of the Fork Lick Old Baptist Church. The formal name of this church was "the Particular Baptist Church at Fork Lick." Prior to the founding of this church, the Fork Lick members had been associated with what they themselves called the "Baptist Church at Dry Ridge." [. . .]
Junietta Gouge and Myrix Josiah Williams were the parents of four children, Louisiana (June 8, 1834-August 4, 1934, named for an aunt); Sarah (?-?); Nancy and John, who died in 1846 at age 19. Louisiana married Henry Clay Castleman in 1850. Sarah married Washington Huey and was the mother of four: Lee; Oscar M., a pastor of Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, KY and friend of Cecil V. Cook Sr (1871-1948) [paternal grandfather of the writer of this sketch]; Annie (Gaines); and Samuel. Daughter Nancy became the wife of John Crouch (1835-1903) and the mother of Sara Crouch Huey (1861-1956) [maternal great grandmother of the writer of this sketch]. Two other children were born to Myrix and Junietta, who died quite young; they were Mary Jane (1838-1842) and Joannah (1845-1845), who lived but five months.[. . .]
In 1830-31, Myrix built a home for Junietta in Dry Ridge, Grant County KY. They lived there until Junietta's death in 1846. [. . .] Myrix moved to Glencoe after Junietta died, where he saw to the construction of a two-story brick home overlooking the community. Myrix served as Glencoe Magistrate for 40 years.
Myrix' granddaughter, Sara Crouch and her husband James Huey, told their granddaughter Betty Cook that Myrix, tall, proper and severe, required everyone to come to breakfast properly dressed. He read the Louisville Courier Journal every day and looked up in his dictionary any words he did not know. Rain or snow, he saw to his riding horse every morning. Myrix was remembered as generous and hospitable but "ruled with an iron hand," Sara said.
Junietta Gouge Williams died a month before her 31st birthday. She is buried on a gentle slope in the cemetery at Ten Mile Baptist Church, Tapering Point Road, in Napoleon, Gallatin County KY. [. . .] Young Junietta died of an unremembered cause. The culprit could have been the harsh gauntlet of childbirth, far more deadly in those days, to mothers than to their babes. [. . .]
Space was left for Myrix in the Ten Mile Baptist Church Cemetery. But soon enough Myrix married Martha Turley (Dec 22 1821-Nov 14 1871). Myrix and Martha were the parents of five children: Taylor, Billie, Jimmie, Betty and Frank (Joseph Franklin). In 1874, Myrix, widowed once again, married Minerva Donaldson and with her became the father of Maggie Williams (Mrs. J.E. Wolford), who lived in Louisville. [. . .]
The sudden death of young Junietta and the prompt second marriage of her husband, is a reminder of duties owed to the living. Myrix quickly got a mother for his young children, including daughter Nancy, then three years old. Junietta, in her dying, may have made Myrix promise to re-marry. We cannot know. But we do know that little Nan Williams, with hardly a memory of her mother, grew up to be an articulate, extraverted and literate woman, a venturesome widow and an honored matriarch in the home of her daughter, Sara Crouch Huey, in Union, KY. Sara named her only daughter after Nan. [. . .]
Myrix was buried in a family cemetery in Glencoe. Although Myrix had been an active Baptist, the funeral took place in his home and the graveside ceremony was conducted by the Masons. Myrix had been Grand Master of the Kentucky Masons in 1865-66. He also served in the KY legislature in that year. His headstone could still be read in 2006.
This brief biography has been taken from Volume I of a book of family history entitled ALL OF THE ABOVE I, by Richard Baldwin Cook. For additional information, visit the contributor profile, #47181028.
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