The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-27
CHILDREN OF THE RENO
 LUTON.
Minnie c. Shinn. Little Rock, Margaret Letcher Wells, Rus-
 seIlvilIe, and Others.
From the Lltae Roek eaaette.

From the Little Rock Gazette
 Jesse Williams of Prince Williams County, Virginia, and the great grand father of these men and wom en. enlisted under Dinwiddie's call in the French and Indian war, 1774, under Lieutenant Colonel Washing ton in the First Virginia regiment of 150 men, and attempted to reach the confluence of the Monongahela and Alleghany in time to rescue the small band of troops located there under Trent of the Ohio company. Two descendants of this Trent live in Washington County.
 The men in this march from Wills Creek, Virginia, to Fort Du Quesne had to drag their cannons, had no tents, insufficient provisions and no means to bridge rivers. They quar- tered at Great Meadows, fought at Fort Necessity, argued with the South Carolinlans, who came as re Inducements and claimed precedence over them on account of their arrog ant captain, who claimed the right to supercede Washington because his commission had on 1t the royal sig nature. Washington left hlm Tn care of the rude fort, and with his Virginians cut road twenty miles through the country towards Du Quense. He soon fell back to the fort. On the third of July the fight at Fort Necessity occurred, and on the fourth of July Washington cap itulated upon honorable terms and withdrew from the country.
 In 1755 Jesse Williams again en- tered the service, and with Washing toms small provincial force joined Braddock at Fort Cumberland. He marched the long tedious march to Fort Du Quesne, was present at that battle, and was one of the thirty Vir- ginians who remained to cover the flight of the ruined arm.
 In 175S, under Washington again, he moved with Forbes against Fort DuQuesne. He was present at it's capture, helped to raise the first flag over the bastions and to name the place "Pittsburg."
 In the war of the Revolution he was one of the first enlistments from Virginia, and held the rank of cap. tain. He was engaged in the battles of Great Bridge, Siege of Boston, Long Island, Fort Washington, Re treat through New Jersey, Trenton, Princetown, Brunswick, Boundbrook, | Quibbletown, Germantown, Fort Mercer, Whltemarsh was encamped at Valley Forge when Congress had apparently abandoned the army, Monmouth, White Plains, second march across New Jersey, Yorktown.
 The grandfather on the maternal side, Thomas Rowe of Virginia, was a colonel in the Revolutionary war; was in the New Jersey campaign the campaign around Philadelphia, the campaign at the South under Greene, and was at the surrender at Yorktown.
 David Williams, son of Jesse Will Hams, married Betsy Rowe in Vir, glnia. He enlisted from that State in the war of 1912, and served with distinction throughout the war, and afterwards in the Seminole war. He moved to Kentucky in the early part of the century and settled in Frank In county. His children were Jacob Williams, Dr. Urban V. Williams, Bettie, Millie, Hettie and Susan. Dr. U. V. Williams has been fol many years the surgeon at the K. M. L., and is one of the leading physi' clans at Frankfort. Ills children are John, Pattie and Minnie. Bet tie married Jepthah Robinson, a leading farmer of Franklin county. Children, David, Owen, Austin, Jay Hettie, Ruth, Sue, Jacob, Frank and Sallie. Hettie married Dr. Andrew Neat, a prominent physician of New Albany. Children: Dr. Thomas Neat of New Albany, Estelle Brink ley, Louisville; Ella Ford, Pittsburg Pa.; Addis and Ben. Sue married George Poor and moved to Texas Children: George, Lizzie, Sue and Minnie. Jacob Williams, the father of Mrs. NJ. c. Shinn, wife of Prof J H. Shinn, Otis Williams and Mattie Williams, of Little Rock, Joseph De sha Williams and Maggie Wells wife of J. W. Wells of Russellville, Lucien and Virgil, Memphis, Tenn. was prlvate in the Fifth Kentucky (Hawkin's) Regiment in Humphrey Marshal's Corps afterwards trans ferred to Hardee's Corps, Breckin ridges Division, and in the Orphan (Hanson's) Brigade of the Confeder ate Army and renamed therein throughout the war, participating IT the fight at Stone River, Chickamau ga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta and in the march to the Sea. The Wll ] Hams line has been true to it's heatf in every trial and struggle from l643 when it landed in Virginia, down tc