William W. GRAHAM

Submitter: Dan Williams

Husband: William W. GRAHAM
Born: 1833 Place: MS
Married: January 20, 1856 Place: Clarke Co., MS
Died: About 1862 Place:  
Cemetery:   Place:  
Father: James GRAHAM
Mother: Mary "Polly" LEE
Other Spouses:  

Wife: Sarah TWITCHELL
Born: February 1, 1836 Place: Washington Co., AL
Died: 1866 Place: Probably Leon Co., TX
Cemetery: Parker Cemetery  Place: Leon Co., TX
Father: Edward TWITCHELL
Mother: Sally BRAMLETT
Other Spouses:  

Children:

1 Name: F Columbia GRAHAM
Born: January 9, 1857 Place: Clarke Co., MS
Died: November 7, 1941 Place: Leon Co., TX
Cemetery: Stevens Cemetery Place: Leon Co., TX
Spouse 1: Thomas Rasbury HAWES
Married: October 6, 1870 Place:  
Spouse 2: Anderson Harrison STEVENS              Photo
Married: January 23, 1876 Place:  

2 Name: M William Franklin GRAHAM
Born: June 30, 1862 Place: Probably Leon Co., TX
Died: November 12, 1952 Place: Dallas, Dallas Co., TX
Cemetery: Stevens Cemetery Place: Leon Co., TX
Spouse 1: Aslee TEAL
Married: about 1882 Place:  
Spouse 2: Ida WOODARD
Married: November 8, 1888 Place: Leon Co., TX

NOTES:
This family (minus William Franklin who was not yet born) came to Leon Co. with William's parents and siblings and their families in late 1858 in a wagon train that included the families of William Solomon Jackson BOYKIN, Richard Hardy BOYKIN, Rowell BOYKIN, James Alexander BOYKIN, Sr., Richmond PATE, Frank WILLIAMS, M. T. SHOEMAKER, M. C. CARMICHAEL, S. A. CASTLES, and R. C. BRYAN, with their respective married sons' and daughters' families and other families whose names are not known.

After the War of Northern Aggression started, William returned to Mississippi (where his uncle Jacob Walker LEE still resided) to fight and did not return.  He is presumed to have died while serving the CSA.  His son, William Franklin was born after he left.  Sarah died of pneumonia when the children were still small (ages 9 and 4) and the children went to live with their widowed grandmother, Polly Lee GRAHAM.  Uncle Jacob Walker LEE came to Leon County in 1868 and, after a year on Lyn Branch, moved next to Polly and her grandchildren at Kidd's Mill between Flo and Midway, where he stayed until about the time of Columbia's first marriage.  Presumably with his widowed sister now having a son-in-law to look after her, he moved on to Freestone County near several of his Blakely-in-laws.

Sarah's father was born in Massachusetts into a long line of Massachusetts Twi(t)chells dating back to the Puritans who arrived in 1630.


SOURCES:
Clarke Co., MS 1850 census
Leon Co., 1880 census
Brent Twitchell
Stevens Cemetery
Parker Cemetery
The Jacob LEE Family -- Ancestors and Descendants by Cecil and Fay Parrish SMITH