Henry Clinton Williams

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Henry Clinton Williams

Birth
Refugio County, Texas, USA
Death
9 Oct 1929 (aged 73)
Bexar County, Texas, USA
Burial
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
1P-450
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Son of Henry Boyling Williams and Elizabeth Winstead. Husband of Angeline Putman; Married November 22, 1882. To this marriage 8 children were born with 6 of which living to adulthood.

Henry Clinton Williams descended from persons who came to Virginia and the Carolinas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was born on his father's stock ranch in 1856. In 1879, Henry Boyling and his son Henry Clinton moved to Bexar County. It was in that time that Henry Clinton gathered cattle throughout south Texas, and to quote a page he wrote in the book, The Trail Drivers of Texas, in which he said, "I went to Kansas and drove a drag herd with pack horses from Caldwell County, Texas."

Henry Clinton was a tall man of good posture who truly rode tall in the saddle all his life. He and his sons continued to use the "Hb" Brand originated and used by Henry Boyling.

A full biography written by granddaughter Marguerite Williams Blackwelder can be found here: http://mackgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/henry-clinton-williams.html
Son of Henry Boyling Williams and Elizabeth Winstead. Husband of Angeline Putman; Married November 22, 1882. To this marriage 8 children were born with 6 of which living to adulthood.

Henry Clinton Williams descended from persons who came to Virginia and the Carolinas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was born on his father's stock ranch in 1856. In 1879, Henry Boyling and his son Henry Clinton moved to Bexar County. It was in that time that Henry Clinton gathered cattle throughout south Texas, and to quote a page he wrote in the book, The Trail Drivers of Texas, in which he said, "I went to Kansas and drove a drag herd with pack horses from Caldwell County, Texas."

Henry Clinton was a tall man of good posture who truly rode tall in the saddle all his life. He and his sons continued to use the "Hb" Brand originated and used by Henry Boyling.

A full biography written by granddaughter Marguerite Williams Blackwelder can be found here: http://mackgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/henry-clinton-williams.html