Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
SD DIVISION Is
BELIEVED IN ACTION
FROM CASUALTYLIST
Death of Captain JeWett Viii
Iiams, of Athens, and Heavy
List of PrivateS Named Lead
to SuppoSition

Captain Henry Lee Jewett Williams,
son-in-Iaw of Chancellor David Barrow,
of the University of Georgia; son of
the late DR.. Howard Williams, of Ma
con, and one of Georgia's most promi-
nent young men, has been killed in
action in France.
A telegram to this effect was re-
ceived Friday by Chancellor Barrow.
and the news was further confirmed
Saturday by the days casualty list
which contained the name of Captain
Williams.
Captain Williams was commander of
d company. Three Hundred and TWEEN
ty-sixth infantry, Eighty-second divi-
sion, trained at Camp Gordon, which
went overseas only In April.
News of his death has caused the
question to be asked, HAS the Eighty
second division or a part thereof been
in the thick of the lighting in Frances"
While it seems natural to suppose
that if Captain Williams, an officer of
the line, has been killed In action, he
was with his command at the time, Sat
urday's casualty list containing the
name of Captain Williams, had no 9TH
er names or officers or men of the di-
vision, so far as is known. There were
only a few other casualties among the
officers, and these were not southern
men. The casualty list of privates was
heavy, and it may be that among these
were some members of the division.
NO Confirmation
Actual confirmation of the aSSump-
ton that the Eighty-second division or
nf nnitS in the hattla
only be obtained in further news from
France. Further news of the circum-
stances of Captain Williams death
would also settle the question more def
initely. 1t was pointed out Saturday in
Atlanta that the young officer might
have been temporarily detached from
his command when he met his death.
Captain Williams was a native of Ma
con, Ga, the son of the late DR.. How
ard j. Williams, former president of
the state board of health and one of
the leading surgeons of the state He
was thirty years old
The young officer was one of the
most prominent and popular young men
in the state. Graduating from the Un:-
versity OF Georgia with high honors.
where he was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and where he won a Rhodes
scholarship, he went to Oxford, Eng
land, where he made a magnificent rec
ord. Taking orders, he was assigned
to the rectorate of an Episcopal church
at Milledgeville, Ga, and then went to
the chair of New Testament Greek at
the theological school Of the Univer-
sity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn.
Waived Exemption
When America entered the war, Cap
tain Williams resigned his position at
Sewanee and waving all exemption
and refusing to seek a chaplaincy, of
which he might have been assured. en-
tered the first officers training camp
at Fort Mcpherson. To his friends he
declared his belief that as an officer
of the line he could serve his God and
his country better than as chaplain
or in civil life. He was commission al
a captain and assigned to Camp Cor
don. At Camp Gordon he was attach
ed to the depot brigade until March
of this year, when, shortly before the
regiment left for the port of embarka-
ton. he was transferred to d com
pany, Three Hundred and Twenty-s1xta
infantry.
Captain Williams is survived by his
wife. the daughter of Chancellor Bar
row. and one young daughter He also
leaves his mother, Mrs. Kittie Jewet
Williams; three sisters, Mrs. Eldridge
Cabiness, of Bolingbroke, Ga; MISS
Hannah Williams and Miss Duchie W.T.
Iiams. Captain Williams was a nephe
of George B. Jewett, prominent Ma
con citizen.