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WILLIAMS, Nancy G

Female 1919 - 1968  (49 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  WILLIAMS, Nancy G was born on 27 Feb 1919 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY (daughter of WILLIAMS, Robert Arthur Bernhard and RENNICK, Ella Mary Louise); died on 11 Mar 1968.

    Family/Spouse: KRACKE, William. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  WILLIAMS, Robert Arthur Bernhard was born on 11 Sep 1886 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY (son of WILLIAMS, Gustave Hermann and WALK, Christine); died on 23 Jan 1972 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.

    Notes:

    Niagara Falls Gazette
    Robert Williams Dies; Lockport Store Head
    LOCKPORT - Robert A. Williams, 85, president of the Williams Bros. Department Store, died Sunday at Lockport Memorial Hospital where he was a patient for three days. He lived at 28 Waterman St. He had been in ill health for some time but continued to visit regularly at the 104 year old store at 78 Main St. The store is one of the city's oldest firms. He was born in Sanborn, a son of the late Gustav A. Williams and Christine Walck Williams. The department store was founded in 1868 by two uncles, the late William A. and Albert E. Williams.
    Joined Firm in 1904.
    Robert Williams joined the firm in 1904 as a salesman in the yard goods department. He marked 67 years with the firm last December. He worked in the floor covering department for many years and became known as the "dean of the profession" to customers and by those in the floor covering industry. He was the last of the second generation management of the firm. A son, James R. Williams continues the family tradition as vice president and general manager.
    Church Treasurer
    Robert Williams was a long, time member of Trinity Lutheran Church where he had been a council member and treasurer for many years, In 1966, he was honored on retirement after 22 years of service on the board or directors of the Lockport Savings & Loan, Assn., since merged. with the Niagara Permanent Savings & Loan Assn. Mr. Williams until 1971 was a member of the board of directors of the Cold Springs Cemetery Assn. He was a former exempt fireman, and had been a member of the Lockport Area Chamber of Commerce and the Niagara County Historical Society. Services Tuesday Survivors besides his wife, Ella Rennick Williams, and son, James R.; include two daughters, Mrs. Harry Dickinson of here and Mrs. David L. Russell of Athens. Ohio; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Lange Funeral Home, 136 East Ave. here. The Rev. Ernest Heuer will officiate at services at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Cold Spring Cemetery.

    Robert married RENNICK, Ella Mary Louise on 19 Aug 1913 in Morristown, NJ. Ella (daughter of RENNICK, James and Meta) was born on 14 Jul 1886 in NJ; died in Nov 1980 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  RENNICK, Ella Mary Louise was born on 14 Jul 1886 in NJ (daughter of RENNICK, James and Meta); died in Nov 1980 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    Children:
    1. WILLIAMS, Robert Rennick was born on 15 Jun 1914 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 9 Feb 1916 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    2. WILLIAMS, Margaret Joy was born on 28 Nov 1916 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 14 Apr 2009 in Naperville, DuPage County, IL.
    3. WILLIAMS, Jean Graves was born on 27 Feb 1919 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 23 Nov 1994 in Athens, Athens County, OH.
    4. 1. WILLIAMS, Nancy G was born on 27 Feb 1919 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 11 Mar 1968.
    5. WILLIAMS, James Rennick was born on 2 Mar 1924 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 20 Sep 2001 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  WILLIAMS, Gustave Hermann was born on 14 Dec 1841 in Stettin, Prussia (son of WILLIAM, Jean and SCHULTZ, Friedericke Wilhelmine); died on 1 Jan 1940 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY.

    Notes:

    Buffalo Courier Express

    FUNERAL TODAY FOR PIONEER, G. H. WILLIAMS
    Sanborn man long had been associated with development of his (sic) area
    Courier-Express Niagara Falls Bureau.
    Sanborn, Jan. 2 - For the last Civil War soldier of this area, Gustave Herman Williams, 98, funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Williams, formerly an active farmer on the Lockport Road in the Walmore area, lived here in retirement several years. An immigrant from Stettin, Germany, Mr. Williams was active in work of the old Buffalo Synod, now a part of the American Lutheran Church. He came to Walmore in 1857, following the second migration from Prussia of a large number of dissenters from the religious program of King Frederick Wilhelm III. Mr. Williams' parents belonged to a group led by J. A. A. Grabau, militant pastor, who defied the king's attempt to consolidate two religious groups in the Prussian kingdom. He was the last of the immigrant group.
    Niagara County was a comparative wilderness when he came to the Walmore-Bergholtz area, he was wont to recall. Two-wheeled carts, oxen, Indian trail roads were some of the factors he spoke of to his grandchildren, numbering eighteen, and to his 24 great-grandchildren. Pioneers made their livelihood by cutting cord wood piled in huge stacks along the rail way, which is now the Falls road of the New York Central. Joined Sixth Cavalry
    Hardly had the newcomer cut himself a farm out of the hardwood district, when he was to heed the call of Lincoln for troops. Having fled religious persecution in which hordes of their kin were cast into dungeons. the German pioneers felt keen sympathy for the oppressed in the South. Mr. Williams entered Company K, Sixth Cavalry, early in the Civil War and was mustered out honorably in 1865. .He was the last of the Boys in Blue from this area.
    The year afterward, he married Christine Walck. To them were born William F., Albert P., Hugo F., Robert G. Williams, proprietors of Williams Brothers' Lockport department store, all of the Lock City, Edward H., of the Ward, Road, and two daughters, both deceased, Emma A., and Mrs. Edward L. Haseley. Susan Elizabeth Milleville, arrived to become his 24th great grandchild on December 30th. Fond of children, the nonagenarian kept his interest in them despite loss of sight. Recollections of hardships in Niagara County always impressed his visitors. He was renowned for a remarkable memory, being able to describe scenes and locations in his native Prussia more accurately than recently returned travelers.
    He was an elder of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Walmore for eighteen years.
    The Rev. Edward A. Grabau, pastor of St. Peter's, will preside at last rites in the family home in Franklin Street at 1 o'clock, and at St. Peter's at 2. Burial will be in the Walmore Cemetery.
    -
    Niagara Falls Gazette

    Gustave Williams' Death Recalls
    Pioneer Days in Niagara County
    His life Closely Associated with Walmore and Bergholtz Districts.
    Tales that Father Gustave H. Williams, Sanborn nonagenarian, who died at his home in that village last week, told of early rural life in Niagara County were being pieced together in many a Walmore-Bergholtz home this week. Though a veil came over the eyes of the old resident, blotting the sight of several modern inventions from his eyes, nevertheless his kin and acquaintances found the pioneer farmer the source of many an engaging narrative on the development of the Niagara region.
    The death on New Year's Day, 1940, of Mr. Williams, 98, reunited a pioneer couple who had seen and told of the changes in Niagara, county in the course of nearly a century. Born in Prussia on December 14. 1841, Mr. Williams came to the Walmore-Bergholtz district, near the Municipal airport, from Bergholtz, Germany, in June, 1857. He married Christine Walck on November 8, 1866, and together the pair saw the present suburban area emerge from a hardwood forest sparsely populated.
    Lewiston Busy Place
    When Father Williams first came to Niagara county in June, 1857, Lewiston, not Lockport, and Suspension Bridge, Manchester, or Niagara Falls, was the seat of activity - despite the earlier opening of the
    Erie canal The river village with its wide streets was the main seat of learning. The famous old Union school in Lockport was yet to become famous as a Niagara Academy. Wind blown vessels still came to the docks at Lewiston, and Father Williams came thence from Bergholtz, Prussia, to locate on a farm near the Ward and Niagara road. Later he shifted his farming operations to what is now known as the old Williams farm on the Lockport road, near the Tuscarora road in the Walmore district. Walmore and Bergholtz in America shared with Milwaukee, Wis., the distinction of being a haven for two major migrations from Germany, the Germany of earldoms, dukedoms, and duchys (sic), the first in 1839, the second in 1845.
    Comes to U. S.
    King Frederick Wilhelm III of Prussia attempted to force the Reformed and the Lutheran churches into one body, but a militant body of the latter, led by the Rev. J. A. A. Grabau assisted by Pastor Van Rohr of the Bergholz-Walmow region in Prussia, stubbornly resisted. Pastor Grabau and many of his fellow leaders were imprisoned. This early Prussian treatment failed to quench the spirit of the dissenters, so the Rev. Grabau finally obtained permission for his people to emigrate to America.
    For the fugitives, the trip across the Atlantic had its share of terrors and thrills. Lightning hit the main mast of one of the first barks loaded with Germans en route to the United Sates, and at times it seemed that the band would never see land again. It took the William family more than six weeks to cross.
    What is now Suspension Bridge, Father Williams recalled, held only a handful of homes, modest Irish dwellings. At what is now the site of the Zion Lutheran church, at Tenth street and Michigan avenue, was a huge grove of hickory nut trees which provided quite a feast for the strangers.
    Built Crude Homes
    The homes on the Indian reservation were located more to the north of the present settlement, many being without stairs and some with only high slit open windows. The farm of Chief John Mt. Pleasant was one of the attractions of the Niagara area, being a huge affair where he grew corn in abundance. Numerous Indian workers and travelers-the stages stopped at the place, as one of the sights of Niagara-had their quarters there.
    The Tuscarora road, winding trail from La Salle, was but on oxen trail leading from the Indian fishing grounds along Cayuga creek through a thick swamp to the reservation. Not far away, near the municipal airport, was an Indian pit-fall which early German settlers continued to use for bear while breaking home lands out of the woods.
    News Spreads
    Even in Prussia, word of Niagara County's famous hardwoods, hickory, oaks and elms, had spread. An old Prussian belief was that wheat would thrive in grounds where hard wood abounded.
    The first plantings grew rapidly in what is now the Town of Wheatfield where Father Williams and his bride, Christine Walck, first made their home. The Williams family saw the Civil War break out right on the heels of their arrival. From that period till his retirement, decades ago, Father William noted the rural happenings and progress of Niagara county. His death last week removed a living encyclopedia (sic) of Niagara history from the local scene.

    Niagara Gazette - 12/16/1936

    SANBORN, Dec. 16.-Gust&ve H.
    Williams, of Franklin street, celebrated
    his ninety-fifth birthday at his
    home on Dec. 14. Mr. Williams has
    five'sons, Willam P., Albert P., Hugo
    and Robert Williams, of Lockport,
    and Edward Williams, of Lockport
    road. A daughter, Miss Emma Williams,
    died in 1928. Mrs.' Edward L.
    Haseley, another daughter, died in
    February of this year.-His wife, Christine
    Walck, died in 1920. There are
    also 18 grandchildren and 16 great
    grandchildren. Ferdinand Williams,' a
    brother, lives at Niagara Falls.
    At the age of 15, Mr. Williams came
    with his, parents from Germany and
    lived to the Ward road until his marriage
    when they moved to the present
    homestead where he was a successful
    farmer. Twenty five years ago he
    moved to his present home in franklin
    street, where his granddaughter,
    Miss Martha Williams, cares for him.
    He is in good health, except for
    failing eyesight, and enjoys listening
    to the radio. Mr. William's is'one of
    the two veterans of the Civil War to
    this community. His sons and families
    and many friend's visited him during
    the weekend and on his birthday

    Gustave married WALK, Christine on 8 Nov 1866 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Christine (daughter of WALK, Gottfried and SCHULZ, Christine Friedericke Louise) was born on 11 May 1846 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 22 Apr 1920 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  WALK, Christine was born on 11 May 1846 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY (daughter of WALK, Gottfried and SCHULZ, Christine Friedericke Louise); died on 22 Apr 1920 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY.
    Children:
    1. WILLIAMS, Emma Helene Auguste was born on 18 Aug 1867 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 17 Aug 1928 in Niagara County, NY.
    2. WILLIAMS, William Ferdinand Gustav was born on 8 Jan 1869 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 31 Mar 1943 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    3. WILLIAMS, Martha Emilie Rebecka was born on 28 Mar 1871 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 30 Apr 1871 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY.
    4. WILLIAMS, Rudolph Heinrich Edward was born on 2 Mar 1872 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 17 Oct 1945 in Niagara County, NY.
    5. WILLIAMS, Albert Hermann Philipp was born on 31 Aug 1874 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 13 Jul 1962 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    6. WILLIAMS, Ella Cordelia Christina was born on 17 Jun 1878 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 12 Feb 1936 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY.
    7. WILLIAMS, Hugo Johannes Friedrich was born on 4 Jan 1881 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 6 Jan 1971 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    8. 2. WILLIAMS, Robert Arthur Bernhard was born on 11 Sep 1886 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 23 Jan 1972 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.

  3. 6.  RENNICK, James was born about 1853 in Ireland; and died.

    James married Meta about 1884. Meta was born in Apr 1862 in Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Meta was born in Apr 1862 in Germany; and died.
    Children:
    1. RENNICK, James was born in Jul 1884 in NJ; and died.
    2. 3. RENNICK, Ella Mary Louise was born on 14 Jul 1886 in NJ; died in Nov 1980 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    3. RENNICK, George was born in May 1889 in NJ; and died.
    4. RENNICK, Frederick was born in Jan 1892 in NJ; and died.
    5. RENNICK, Robert was born in Jan 1895 in NJ; and died.
    6. RENNICK, Meta was born in Oct 1897 in NJ; and died.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  WILLIAM, Jean was born on 4 Jan 1818 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (son of WILLIAM, Jean and WILLIAM, Marie); died on 10 Sep 1883 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY.

    Notes:

    Note - all of the children changed their name from "William" to "Williams"

    Jean married SCHULTZ, Friedericke Wilhelmine on 1 Apr 1841 in Rossow, Brandenburg, Germany. Friedericke (daughter of SCHULTZ, Christian and ZIMMERMAN, Louise) was born on 1 Apr 1813 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 15 Nov 1898 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  SCHULTZ, Friedericke Wilhelmine was born on 1 Apr 1813 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (daughter of SCHULTZ, Christian and ZIMMERMAN, Louise); died on 15 Nov 1898 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY.
    Children:
    1. 4. WILLIAMS, Gustave Hermann was born on 14 Dec 1841 in Stettin, Prussia; died on 1 Jan 1940 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY.
    2. WILLIAMS, Marie Bertha Louise was born on 10 Oct 1843 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 16 Mar 1929 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY.
    3. WILLIAMS, Wilhelm A was born on 19 Dec 1845 in Prussia; died on 27 Oct 1932 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    4. WILLIAMS, Ernst Albert was born on 21 Jan 1848 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 11 Aug 1852 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
    5. WILLIAMS, Albertine Auguste Karoline was born on 8 Jan 1850 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 14 Nov 1925 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY.
    6. WILLIAMS, Ferdinand August was born on 11 Dec 1851 in Bergholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 6 Mar 1938 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY.
    7. WILLIAMS, Albert Ernst was born on 3 May 1853 in Stettin, Prussia; died on 16 Jun 1934 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.

  3. 10.  WALK, Gottfried was born on 14 Jan 1820 in Wallmow, Brandenburg, Prussia (son of WALK, Christian and KLEINSCHMIDT, Wilhelmine Euphrosine); died on 16 Dec 1852 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY.

    Gottfried married SCHULZ, Christine Friedericke Louise about 1844 in New York. Christine was born on 28 Sep 1824 in Wollin, Kreis Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Prussia; died on 20 Jun 1906 in Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  SCHULZ, Christine Friedericke Louise was born on 28 Sep 1824 in Wollin, Kreis Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Prussia; died on 20 Jun 1906 in Niagara County, NY.
    Children:
    1. WALK, Johann was born before 1846; died before 5 Oct 1850.
    2. 5. WALK, Christine was born on 11 May 1846 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 22 Apr 1920 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY.
    3. WALK, Auguste Elisabeth was born between 1848 and 1950 in Niagara County, NY; died on 3 Aug 1850.
    4. WALK, Heinrich Ferdinand was born on 6 Oct 1848 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died before 5 Oct 1850.
    5. WALK, Wilhelmine Elizabeth was born on 8 Apr 1850 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 21 Aug 1932 in Altamont, Effingham County, IL.
    6. WALK, Johanna Maria Elizabeth was born on 23 Sep 1851 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 20 Nov 1933 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
    7. WALK, Johannes was born on 17 Feb 1853; died on 17 Feb 1853.



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