The Knoxville Standard, Tuesday, October 20, 1846:
"Died at his residence, Rocky Springs, Grainger county, Tennessee, at 6-1/2 a.m. on Sunday, 11th inst., Ethelred Williams, in the 73rd year of his age. Mr. W. was born in Edgefield county, North Carolina, of English ancestors. Having been left an orphan in his boyhood, the eldest of a numerous family, he applied himself sedulously to a Clerk's desk, in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina, until he had comfortably provided for his younger brothers and sisters, when finding his health much impaired, leaving them all his earnings, he set out with light purse, when just entered into his majority, to seek health and wealth in the wilds of Tennessee. Having explored the then new Territory, east and west at the repeated solicitation of the late James King, of Abingdon, Va., he formed a mercantile connection with him, and commenced business at Cheek's X Roads, Tenn., whence he removed to Bean's Station, where he prosecuted a steady, useful, honorable and lucrative business until 1821, when he moved to Rocky Springs, which he has since made his home, except a few years spent in Knoxville. The loss of his beloved wife, a most amiable and excellent woman, about 12 years since, so deeply afflicted him as to bring on an attack of paralysis from which he has never rallied, but has since been gradually sinking. For the last six months he has suffered much pain, but his mind has been calm and his patience exemplary, till finally God in his mercy has we trust, taken him to his rest. Baptized into the Church in infancy, he always retained fond longings for his Spiritual Mother and was deeply gratified and comforted by the Holy rite of Confirmation at the hands of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Otey, during the last year. He died with a calm resignation, expressing a childlike confidence in his God."
Originally buried at Shields Cemetery with his family. When that cemetery was surveyed prior to the creation of Cherokee Lake, his grave was not identified, so it was removed, along with other unidentified graves, to the relocated Shields Cemetery, now located on the back side of Holston Baptist Church.
"Died at his residence, Rocky Springs, Grainger county, Tennessee, at 6-1/2 a.m. on Sunday, 11th inst., Ethelred Williams, in the 73rd year of his age. Mr. W. was born in Edgefield county, North Carolina, of English ancestors. Having been left an orphan in his boyhood, the eldest of a numerous family, he applied himself sedulously to a Clerk's desk, in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina, until he had comfortably provided for his younger brothers and sisters, when finding his health much impaired, leaving them all his earnings, he set out with light purse, when just entered into his majority, to seek health and wealth in the wilds of Tennessee. Having explored the then new Territory, east and west at the repeated solicitation of the late James King, of Abingdon, Va., he formed a mercantile connection with him, and commenced business at Cheek's X Roads, Tenn., whence he removed to Bean's Station, where he prosecuted a steady, useful, honorable and lucrative business until 1821, when he moved to Rocky Springs, which he has since made his home, except a few years spent in Knoxville. The loss of his beloved wife, a most amiable and excellent woman, about 12 years since, so deeply afflicted him as to bring on an attack of paralysis from which he has never rallied, but has since been gradually sinking. For the last six months he has suffered much pain, but his mind has been calm and his patience exemplary, till finally God in his mercy has we trust, taken him to his rest. Baptized into the Church in infancy, he always retained fond longings for his Spiritual Mother and was deeply gratified and comforted by the Holy rite of Confirmation at the hands of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Otey, during the last year. He died with a calm resignation, expressing a childlike confidence in his God."
Originally buried at Shields Cemetery with his family. When that cemetery was surveyed prior to the creation of Cherokee Lake, his grave was not identified, so it was removed, along with other unidentified graves, to the relocated Shields Cemetery, now located on the back side of Holston Baptist Church.
The Knoxville Standard, Tuesday, October 20, 1846:
"Died at his residence, Rocky Springs, Grainger county, Tennessee, at 6-1/2 a.m. on Sunday, 11th inst., Ethelred Williams, in the 73rd year of his age. Mr. W. was born in Edgefield county, North Carolina, of English ancestors. Having been left an orphan in his boyhood, the eldest of a numerous family, he applied himself sedulously to a Clerk's desk, in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina, until he had comfortably provided for his younger brothers and sisters, when finding his health much impaired, leaving them all his earnings, he set out with light purse, when just entered into his majority, to seek health and wealth in the wilds of Tennessee. Having explored the then new Territory, east and west at the repeated solicitation of the late James King, of Abingdon, Va., he formed a mercantile connection with him, and commenced business at Cheek's X Roads, Tenn., whence he removed to Bean's Station, where he prosecuted a steady, useful, honorable and lucrative business until 1821, when he moved to Rocky Springs, which he has since made his home, except a few years spent in Knoxville. The loss of his beloved wife, a most amiable and excellent woman, about 12 years since, so deeply afflicted him as to bring on an attack of paralysis from which he has never rallied, but has since been gradually sinking. For the last six months he has suffered much pain, but his mind has been calm and his patience exemplary, till finally God in his mercy has we trust, taken him to his rest. Baptized into the Church in infancy, he always retained fond longings for his Spiritual Mother and was deeply gratified and comforted by the Holy rite of Confirmation at the hands of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Otey, during the last year. He died with a calm resignation, expressing a childlike confidence in his God."
Originally buried at Shields Cemetery with his family. When that cemetery was surveyed prior to the creation of Cherokee Lake, his grave was not identified, so it was removed, along with other unidentified graves, to the relocated Shields Cemetery, now located on the back side of Holston Baptist Church.
"Died at his residence, Rocky Springs, Grainger county, Tennessee, at 6-1/2 a.m. on Sunday, 11th inst., Ethelred Williams, in the 73rd year of his age. Mr. W. was born in Edgefield county, North Carolina, of English ancestors. Having been left an orphan in his boyhood, the eldest of a numerous family, he applied himself sedulously to a Clerk's desk, in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina, until he had comfortably provided for his younger brothers and sisters, when finding his health much impaired, leaving them all his earnings, he set out with light purse, when just entered into his majority, to seek health and wealth in the wilds of Tennessee. Having explored the then new Territory, east and west at the repeated solicitation of the late James King, of Abingdon, Va., he formed a mercantile connection with him, and commenced business at Cheek's X Roads, Tenn., whence he removed to Bean's Station, where he prosecuted a steady, useful, honorable and lucrative business until 1821, when he moved to Rocky Springs, which he has since made his home, except a few years spent in Knoxville. The loss of his beloved wife, a most amiable and excellent woman, about 12 years since, so deeply afflicted him as to bring on an attack of paralysis from which he has never rallied, but has since been gradually sinking. For the last six months he has suffered much pain, but his mind has been calm and his patience exemplary, till finally God in his mercy has we trust, taken him to his rest. Baptized into the Church in infancy, he always retained fond longings for his Spiritual Mother and was deeply gratified and comforted by the Holy rite of Confirmation at the hands of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Otey, during the last year. He died with a calm resignation, expressing a childlike confidence in his God."
Originally buried at Shields Cemetery with his family. When that cemetery was surveyed prior to the creation of Cherokee Lake, his grave was not identified, so it was removed, along with other unidentified graves, to the relocated Shields Cemetery, now located on the back side of Holston Baptist Church.
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Removed from Shields Cemetery and reinterred here by TVA in 1941.
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