Jean married WILLIAM, Daniel about 1774 in Prussia. Daniel (son of WILLIAM, Jaques Antoine and BECCUE, Judith) was born on 19 Aug 1751 in Zerrenthien, Pomerania, Prussia; died on 25 Sep 1819 in Rossow, Brandenburg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married WILLIAM, Jean on 15 Nov 1798. Jean (son of WILLIAM, Jaques Antoine and SENECHAL, Marie) was born on 13 Apr 1761 in Battin, Brandenburg, Germany; died on 8 Jan 1851 in Rossow, Brandenburg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BETTAC, Jean. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: KERSTEN, F W. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married WILLIAM, Marie in Nov 1833. Marie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: L'ARAME, Jean. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: VOLKER, Tobias. Tobias was born on 1 May 1813; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Family/Spouse: Louise. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BETTAC, Jean. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.
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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]

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18 March 1929 Evening News of The Tonawandas
Mrs. Maria Haseley Dies At Her Home In Sanborn
Mrs. Maria Haseley, 85 years old, died Saturday at her home in Sanborn. She was the widow of the late William F. Haseley. She was the mother of William F., Albert and Paul Haseley, Sanborn; Mrs. Fred Haseley, Mrs. Gust Lavenduskey, North Tonawanda, Gustuf Haseley and Mrs. George Hartman, Niagara Falls, Mrs. Martha Quandt, Lockport; Mrs. Otto Miller and Mrs. Edwin Wurl, Martinsville; John Haseley, LaSalle, and Mrs. John Ferchen, Bergholz, and sister of Gustave Williams, Sanborn; William and Albert Williams, Lockport, and Ferdinand Williams, Bergholz. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the late residence and half an hour later from the St. Peters church, Walmore. Interment will be at Walmore.
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NF Gazette

Haseley-At Sanborn, N. Y., Saturday, March 16, 1929, Maria Haseley, 85 years of age, wife of the late William P. Haseley. Mrs. Haseley is survived by the following sons and daughters: William P., Jr., Albert and Paul all of Sanborn, Mrs. Fred Haseley and Mrs. Gustus (sic) Lavanduskey (sic), both of North Tonawanda, Gustus (sic) and Mrs. George Hartman, both of Niagara Falls, Mrs. Martha Quandt of Lockport, Mrs. Otto Miller (sic) and Mrs. Edward Wurl, both of Martinsville, John, of Niagara Falls, and Mrs. John Ferchen of Bergholtz, and four brothers, Gustave Williams, of Sanborn, William and Albert Williams of Lockport, and Ferdinand of Bergholtz. Funeral services will be held from the home on Wednesday afternoon at 2 0'clock and from St. Peter's Lutheran church at Walmore at 2:30. The Rev. Edward Graubau (sic)will officiate. Interment will be in the Walmore cemetery.

Marie married HASELEY, Friedrich Wilhelm on 22 Nov 1860 in Bergholtz, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Friedrich (son of HASELEY, Johann David and KRUMBACH, Christine Justine) was born on 27 Sep 1839 in Wallmow, Brandenburg, Prussia; died on 26 Aug 1912 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Williams, William A., a native of Germany, was born December 19. 1845, and came to this country with his parents in 1857, settling in Niagara county, N. Y., where he attended the public schools and the Lockport Union School. His first business experience was as a clerk in the hat store of Howard Strong, where he remained for three years. He then entered the service of Jason Collier & Sons, dry goods merchants, and continued with this firm until 1868. when he engaged in business on his own account, in company with Messrs. Lerch & Van Dusen, under the firm name of Lerch, Williams & Van Dusen, and after the death of Mr. Van Dusen, in 1869, the business was conducted by Lerch & Williams for ten years. In 1878 the firm of Williams Bros. was organized, which is now one of the largest wholesale and retail dry goods houses in the city. April 5, 1867, he married Miss Emilie Hutzel of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and they have two children, a son, Eric Johann Williams, and a daughter, Katherine Hutzel Williams.




From:
Landmarks of Niagara County, NY
Edited by William Pool
D. Mason & Company, Publishers, 1897

Wilhelm married HUTZEL, Emilie on 5 Apr 1867. Emilie was born in 1854; died on 16 Mar 1899 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niagara Gazette

WALCK-At Bergholtz, N. Y., Albertlna A.,widow of the late Albert Walck; mother of Albert C, Mrs. Wm. Gombert and William Walck of Bergholtz. N ,Y., Gotthold A. Walck of Niagara Falls. N, Y. Mrs. Ella Mavis at home. Funeral from the family home. Tuesday. Nov. 17th at 2 p.m. and at the Bergholtz Lutheran church at 2.30 p. m. Burial in Bergholtz cemetery.

Albertine married WALCK, Albert Christoph on 27 Nov 1873 in Bergholtz, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Albert (son of WALK, Christoph Friedrich and WENDT, Frederike Wilhelmine) was born on 24 Apr 1848 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 13 Feb 1925 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BERGHOLTZ, March 7 - Ferdinand August Williams, 86 years old a resident of the Town of Wheatfield for the past 81 years, died vesterday afternoon at the home of his daughter. Mrs. John Proefrock. 9 Fremont street, North Tonawanda where he had been making his home for the past few months. Born in Bergholtz, Germany Mr. Williams came to this country when five years old with his parents. Since then he had made his home in Bergholtz and vicinity operating an extensive farm. He is survived by three sons. John and Ferdinand, of Lockport, and Philip A., of Niagara Falls, three daughters, Mrs. Proefrock, of North Tonawanda, Mrs. Fred W. Lindke. of Medina, and Mrs. Rudolph Mlllevllle, of Niagara Falls; 19 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and a brother, Gustav Williams, of Sanborn. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the Proefroc.k home and at 2:30 at St. James' church in this village, The Rev. Otto Bruss will officiate and interment will be in St. James' cemetery, Bergholtz.

Ferdinand married WALK, Eldice Lydia Magdalene on 27 Nov 1873 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Eldice (daughter of WALK, Christoph Friedrich and WENDT, Frederike Wilhelmine) was born on 2 Feb 1850 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; died on 22 Oct 1923 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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NF Gazette

Aged Lockport Merchant Dies
Albert E. Williams Founded Store in 1857
LOCKPORT, June I6.-Albert E. Williams, 81, who with his late brother, William A. Williams, founded the mercantile firm of Williams Brothers company in 1857, died at 9 o'clock this morning at his home at 327 High street. He had been ill for several years and was forced to retire in 1928 because of poor health.
Born in Speppin (sic), Germany, Mr. Williams and his brothers came to this country with their parents when but small boys. The family settled near Sanborn, coming to this city a few years later. He was an extensive traveler.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Williams for many years gave liberally of his time and money for the Y. M. C. A. and Grace Episcopal church of which he was an active member. He was a member of the Town and Country club and the Tuscarora club.
Surviving are the widow, Emily Dameron Williams, of this city, and two brothers, Gustave H., of Sanborn, and Ferdinand W., of Niagara Falls. The funeral services have not been arranged for.

Family/Spouse: DAMEROW, Emma Amanda Elisabeth. Emma (daughter of DAMEROW, Wilhelm Georg and PLASTER, Martha Elisabeth) was born on 14 Mar 1869 in Niagara County, NY; died on 6 Aug 1942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]