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I am the grandson of J. C. (Cliff) Langford and gg-grandson of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Williams. My grandfather Langford searched for years for his grandfather Williams gravesite and this year I located it at the Baucus Cemetery in Cass County, Texas, a very small cemetery almost overtaken by the forest, just outside of McLeod, Texas. My family and I were able to erect a Confederate Marker on his grave next to his brother's grave in the little cemetery. I have one of Dr. Williams Medical Books from his years of study in Medical College. I'm afraid I have never found a Rebecca Ward in his line. Benjamin Franklin Williams was born in 1829 in Dadeville, Talapoosa, Alabama and died 1893 Mooringsport, La. and as I said is buried Baucus Springs Cem., Cass County, Tx., just over the state line. He married on 18 Dec 1850 (the family Bible says 13 Dec) in Macon, Alabama Teresa C. Haden (1833 1873) and their children were Sherman O. Williams 1851 1941 Joseph Williams 1854 1876 America Williams 1856 1870 Sarah Williams 1859 1870 Benjamin Franklin Williams 1863 1955 Ella T. Williams 1868 1880 and Shulah Williams 1873-1880. After her death he married on 15 May 1879 in Upshur County, Texas to Sarah Adaline Bingham 1854 1886 and their children were Lela Alice Williams 1880 1964, Lee Arthur Williams 1881 1965, and Leaversie Williams 1886-1961. A year by year chronology and photos are found on my ancestry.com webpage at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1179729/person/-1979440103
Re Previous Posting: Source: Elizabeth (Ward) Ramagos' files of sixty years of research on the Ward line.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Williams
ARTICLE:
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Williams Husband of Rebecca Ward
Dr. Williams was born in Alabama in 1823, and served as a medical doctor in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He moved to Upshur County about 1870. He was the grandfather of J.C. Langford, and Dr. Williams told the following story to his grandchildren many times.
One dark night the silence was broken in the house of Dr. Williams by a knocking on the front door. It was two men who lived across the Sabine River from Big Sandy, where Dr. Williams was living. They stated that they had a sick child and wanted a doctor at once, so the doctor told them to go ahead and he would follow. He saddled his horse and mounted with his pill bags according to the custom of that day. The roads were just pig trails and as his horse traveled through the dense Sabine bottom forest, he suddenly stopped. All efforts to get the horse to move were in vain. By this time he could hear the rattles of snakes beneath the horses feet, and no doubt the horse had already been bitten which was the reason he would not move on. No matter how hard he tried to get the horse to move he failed, as the horse would only stamp his feet and neigh. After Dr. Williams had given up all hope of getting the horse to move, and still hearing the rattle of snakes and smelling the poisonous scent, he began to try to think of a way of escape. He felt above his head and found the limb of a tree, so he climbed off the horse into the tree where he spent the remainder of the night. The horse continued to groan and neigh for a while but finally lay down and became quiet. The doctor spent a miserable night, and when daylight came he could see his horse lying dead. He could not see the snakes, as they had probably gone to their dens. He climbed down from the tree and carefully made his way back home where he told his friends his story. He got help and they went to the place near where the Gulf Pump Station now is. They found the snake den and killed 13 rattlesnakes. This happened about 1880.
Child of REBECCA WARD and BENJAMIN WILLIAMS is:
i. ALICE5 WILLIAMS, d. In childhood.
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