Samantha Alzada Williams (b. April 06, 1833, d. April 13, 1914)
Samantha Alzada Williams43 was born April 06, 1833 in Mississippi44, and died April 13, 1914 in Desdemona, Eastland CO. Texas45. She married Nicholas Keen on 1852 in Vicksburg, Mississippi46.
Notes for Samantha Alzada Williams: Samantha Alzada Williams had relatives in or around Pollock or Alexandria Louisiana. She inherited 160 acres of land which was quite valuable. When she and Nicholas Keen and Thier family came to Texas, she gave some cousins of hers by the name of Gray the power to sell her property. These fellows were lawyers and true to the old form. She never heard from them or her property again.
Samantha was a large women and very jolly. On one of her train trips she was kidded about her Weight and the effects it had on the train. It did not bother her in the least about the family teasing. She just told them off. On this particular trip there was a bridge the train had to cross and they kidded her about causing the train to crash through the bridge. She told them that she would set as light as she could.
During the Civil war, Samantha Alzada Williams and Melinda Davis lived to gather while Thier husbands Nicholas Keen and John Newton Williams (who was the brother to Samantha and Ples Williams) were off fighting for what they believed to be right. The two women had a terrible time getting food for Thier brood. There were some orphan children they were taking care of too. The only transportation they had was a team of oxen, so Malinda and the older children would go after corn to feed the family while Samantha would take care of the little children.
The two women were going to move to Louisiana, across the river from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Now Samantha Williams believed in having plenty of soap and water if you could manage it at all. At that time, soap was really a luxury. Samantha saved all the grease and drippings that she could so she could keep one luxury on hand which was essential with a large family. Right before they made the move from Mississippi she made a big pot of beautiful white lye soap. When they stared to move the lye soap was given a special place in the wagon. Here again the oxen team was put into use for the move. Everything was going along as scheduled until the oxen decided to have a race. Kids, soap and belongings were scattered near and far down the road. Samantha Began moaning and picking up but her concern was for the beautiful lye soap that was scattered along the road. The children were forgotten by her in anxiety not to loose a single bar of soap. Malinda went to work getting the children up and stopping there fright.
I do not know who composed this story. It was in the material I received that Minnie Alice had gathered. Sense a lot of that material was from Jessi Walker who was in position of Nicholas and Samantha's family bible, I would assume that it come from him.
More About Samantha Alzada Williams: Burial: Aft. April 13, 1914, Desdemona, Eastland CO. Texas.
More About Samantha Alzada Williams and Nicholas Keen: Marriage: 1852, Vicksburg, Mississippi.46
Children of Samantha Alzada Williams and Nicholas Keen are:
Phate L. Keen, b. October 23, 1853, Mississippi47, d. date unknown.
+Amanda Jane Keen, b. August 25, 1855, Mississippi, d. April 03, 1936.
Samantha Alzada Williams (b. April 06, 1833, d. April 13, 1914)
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