William Williams (1831-1890) married Nancy C. Adams (1833-1911) in 1855. He was a descendant of Roger Williams and Elder Daniel Williams whose father, Edward, came into Kentucky with Daniel Boone. Owen, Daniel, Isaac and William emigrated from Wales to Rhode Island and Massachusetts. They were Quakers. They spread out to Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky.

The children of William Williams and Nancy C. Adams were:

Sarah, married Arbury Staytoh

Fanny, married David Dillon

James, married Lizzie (children - Clemma, Willie, Ollie, Kate, Gincy)

Kirby, married Belle Adams (children - Glen, Forest, Kelly, Bert, Grace, Hobart, Hendricks, Frank, Verner)

Jennie, married Anderson Ward (children - Grace)

Frank, married Vina (children - Mabel, Guy)

Alice, married Frank Peck (children - Mamie (step daughter))

Lee, married Mary Davis

Margaret, married Lee Jones (children - Thelma, Ben, Nelda)

William R. (10/13/1860 - 11/2/1927) married Mary Jane Stalker (10/23/1862 - 10/14/1945). Their children were Ethel (5/26/1889 - 10/12/52), Alpha Mildred (11/9/1890 - 5/20/78), Daisy Ruth (7/24/1893 - 11/20/50), Wenona Belle (7/27/1896 - 6/13/47), Darwin (1897 - 1897), Charles D. (9/21/98 - 7/9/80), Ernest (2/9/1901 - 3/21/65).

The following note about Roger Williams is from Sally Hale:

Roger Williams was the son of James and Alice Perberton Williams of London.

He received a good education, taking a bachelor's degree at Pembroke

College, Cambridge, Jan 1627. Roger Williams embarked at Bristol 1 Dec.

1630, in the "Lyon" and arrived at Boston, February 5, 1631.

He settled in Salem, Ma. in April and went to Plymouth soon after but

returned to Salem in 1633 and became pastor. October 9, 1635 he was

sentenced to banishment and he left Salem in January, buying land from the

Indians and being one of the founders of the Rhode Island Colony.

Roger Williams was a very interesting individual, who antagonized most of

the church hierarchy where ever he went. Having been denied his pulpit in

Salem he went to Plymouth where the colony was having trouble obtaining

ministers. They had had one drunkard and one lecher sent by the West India

Co. and were glad to get Roger, but he soon set their theological teeth on

edge as well. He decided that his true calling was as a missionary to the

Indians and going into the "wilderness" out of Plymouth contacted and

befriended the Narragansetts. He learned to speak the language and wrote

the first grammar of a native American language while with them. When he

was again banished from Salem he led a small party of dissenters south to

settle on land offered him by the Narragansetts, on an island in

Narragansett Bay. He was one of the thirteen original proprietors of

Providence Plantation, 1638. He sent an Agent to England to secure a

Charter from the British Parliament, 1642. He was President of the Colony,

September 1654 to May 1657.

Because of Roger Williams' concepts of religious freedom, he

attracted many groups not welcome in Boston where the "Puritans" held sway.

The Puritans sought to preserve the "Church of England" but in a purified

form. Roger welcomed the members of "The Religious Society of Friends"

(Quakers) and founded his own brand of Protestantism, the Baptists. They

went on to splinter, to his dismay, but he continued to support their right

to dissent. He defended Native Americans in Colonial Courts and won at

least one trial. He was very interested in commercial enterprise and

started many industries that he thought would be profitable. Read a good

biography. There are many as he is one of the more interesting individuals

of his period.