Robert Williams

Robert was born on November 8th, 1836 in Goshen,Washington Co,Arkansas.  Robert's father was Rial Williams and his mother was Orpha Garrett.  His paternal grandparents were Philemon Williams and Lucy Green; his maternal grandparents were Moses Garrett and Phoebe Hunt. He had eight brothers and eight sisters, named Infant Boy, Philimon, Moses, Rial, Garrett, Thomas Martin, Warren, Green, Sena, Elizabeth, Nancy, Lucinda, Margaret, Phoebe, Orpha and Matilda Ann.  He was the fourth youngest of the seventeen children. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Ervin, Burton Sanders and Infant Girl.  He died at the age of 80 in August 1917.