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WILLIAMS OF FLAT GAP, EASTERN KENTUCY

Currently our family is quite widespread, so it is time to set down in these e-pages our family history as we know it.

The history I write here is for myself and my two sisters. Our own heritage begins in Eastern Kentucky, but in our adulthood, we have moved throughout the United States to California, Central Kentucky and Florida.

Our father was HENRY MAURICE WILLIAMS born in 1914 on September 18 in Flat Gap, Kentucky to TOM WILLIAMS AND JESSIE AUGUSTA JAYNE WILLIAMS. He was born into a family of "Teachers and Preachers" who still carry on this trait through the Jayne side of the family. His father, Tom came from Magoffin County and was an innovative farmer. Once in the 30's, the Louisville Courier-Journal wrote an article on his farming practice of terracing the hills on his farm to better cultivate crops. In addition, they studied his farming practices of raising healthy turkeys. Henry Maurice Williams was also an "ag man" who graduated from Berea College in Kentucky, taught agriculture in the Johnson County Kentucky School System at Oil Springs, became a County Agent with the University of Kentucky Extension Service and eventually became an agronomist for Southern States Cooperative where he worked for the rest of his life (September 14, 1914-February 1977). HENRY MAURICE WILLIAMS married EMMA ELIZABETH DAVIS [January 13, 1919-September 28, 2006][daughter of WILLIAM PROCTOR DAVIS and LOULA BELLE CASTLE of Tutor Key, Eastern Kentucky in 1939 in Pikeville, Kentucky. Here then is the lineage of this WILLIAMS FAMILY of FLAT GAP, JOHNSON COUNTY KENTUCKY: