REUTER or REUTTER/WARD/WILLIAMS/GILBERT
I’m looking for info on my GGrandfather and GGrandmother, also on any of their family members. (parents, siblings, etc.) Their names as we believe are JOHN WILLIAMS AND EDITH GILBERT WARD.
My Grandfather JACOB WILLIAMS (aka JAKE or JACK) (b. 1872) is one of four brothers born to (who we believe the parents to be) JOHN WILLIAMS and EDITH GILBERT WARD. (EDITH may have used the names of EDA, IDA, or ADA, also, maybe a middle name?). Also not sure if Gilbert was her maiden name and she possibly may have married a Ward, or if Gilbert was her middle name and possibly her maiden name was Ward. Several possibilities here.
The names of JACOB WILLIAMS other brothers are, HENRY WILLIAMS, JOHN WILLIAMS, and SAM WILLIAMS (possibly SAMUEL). ,We believe that EDITH went to Boone, Iowa from Indiana, with these fours sons without her husband, JOHN WILLIAMS. We don’t know if he passed away, deserted the family, or if they had divorced. A few years later she married GOTTLIEB REUTER, in Boone, then later left the boys with other families in the Boone, Iowa area to be raised by different families. EDITH and GOTTLIEB moved away and had children of their own. Names of these children, we have.
We believe that, my Grandfather, JACOB WILLIAMS was possibly raised by an Olson family, of Pilot Mound, Iowa, which is close to Boone, Iowa.In 1880 (age 8) and 1885 (age13), JACOB WILLIAMS was living with this family. In 1910 he was married to my Grandmother, listed as his second marriage. (JACOB and my Grandmother, WINNIE MAE SWEARINGEN married in 1906.) So probably between 1889 and 1906 JACOB WILLIAMS was married to ??? We also wonder if children were born in his first marriage? With a span of 17 years, there possibly were. If so, who are they?
It is believed that my G Grandfather, JOHN WILLIAMS, (husband of Edith) died in Indiana some years after EDITH left Indiana. Wonder if John maybe had married again, and or had moved away from Indiana then moved back before he died? And were other children were born to a possible second marriage?
We believe that our Williams are of Irish descent. Also seems to maybe be Indian blood here, too. But from JOHN’S or EDITH’S side, we don’t know.
We really are interested in which of the many JOHN WILLIAMS, my G Grandfather is, and info on his family. Also info on my G Grandmother, EDITH GILBERT WARD WILLIAMS REUTER and her family is also very welcome.
As you see, lots of questions to be answered and lots of info to be found.
Anybody with any kind of info, even long shots, please post messages here so others may see and hopefully may be able to help piece this ancestry stuff together, or you may email me directly, also. [email protected]