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The following is written in the hope of discovering more information about the John Gid Williams family of Dyer County. Please, if you find errors or can add information, let us know. John Gid Williams was born circa 3 December 1836 in Hardeman County, Tennessee, and died in the Newbern-Trimble area of Dyer County, Tennessee circa 6 Feb. 1927. He was a son of Benjamin Williams, born circa 1814 in North Carolina, and Jane M. Thompson (Williams). Children of Jane M. Thompson & Benjamin Williams are thought to have been:
1. John Gid WILLIAMS born circa 1837 Jane M. Thompson was a daughter of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle & Gideon Thompson. Rebecca & Gideon Thompson married in 1817 in Rutherford County, MiddleTennessee, and died there. [The maternal grandparents of Jane M. Thompson--that is, the parents of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle--were Robert McCorkle and his 2nd wife Margaret "Peggy" Morrison, both originally of Rowan County, NC, then of the Murfreesboro area, Rutherford County, Tennessee; then the maternal grandparents, Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle, became early white residents of Dyer County in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee.] [Jane M. Thompson (Williams) had a sister _?__ Thompson, who married a Mr. ____ Dickey.] Descendants of Jane M. Thompson (Williams) and husband Ben Williams included the above John Gid Williams of the Newbern area. John Gid Williams had (I think) these Dyer County, Tennessee, children: (one) a daughter named Ella Williams (Moore), who lived in Trimble, Dyer Co., Tenn., in 1949; (child two) Asa Williams, who married ____ Youree; (child three) Ben Williams; and (child four) ?Nettie Williams? who married a (?) Mr. Holloman & a Mr. Parks (?) ; and (child five) ? Jennie Williams? who never married. Source of above: Records of Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox), Newbern, Tennessee, who died circa 1962; but this portion of her records is hard to read. Aunt Kate wrote that she said "Cud'n John Gid Williams" but had not known why he was a cousin until his daughter Ella Williams Moore explained the connection to Aunt Kate. The following is quoted from a letter of a maternal [McCorkle] aunt of Jane M. Thompson (Williams), the aunt being Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roache): "...my father [Robert McCorkle] settled on the Yadkin River [NC] and lived there until 1808. He then pulled up stakes and moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee, settled on Stone's River. Lived there until 1817. There my sister Rebecca [Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson)] and I were both married that same year [1817]. That same year [1817] we all moved about 8 miles on to Bradleys Creek and lived there until 1827. There my sister Rebecca [Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson] was left a widow, went home to my father's and in 2 short years died leaving two little orphans [2 daughters] who were kindly cared for by their uncles Edwin and Robert [that is, cared for by Edwin Alexander McCorkle & his wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle; and by Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & his wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle]. A letter written from "Verdant Plain" [now the Churchton community of Dyer County] from Jane M. Thompson Williams' maternal grandmother, Margaret "Peggy" Morrison McCorkle, describes the young Jane M. Thompson as being "as merry as a lark" in Dyer County.
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