Dr. Rufus Alexander Williamson, of Covington, died at his home October 26. He was born in Maury County, Tennessee, December 4, 1854, was reared near Lewisburg, Tennessee and received his degree in medicine at Vanderbilt University in 1885. He was a member of his county and state medical societies for a number of years. He is survived by his wife, seven children, two brothers and three sisters.
His grandparents, David Williamson and his wife, while still living in North Carolina, had the first four of their fifteen children; Thomas D, John J., George Robert, and James. In 1839, the family sold their North Carolina land and moved to Maury County Tennessee having purchased property from the Nathaniel Smith estate. This property was part of the Thomas Polk land grant of 1788.
Another of the land holders in that same grant was John Fendell Carr, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and the uncle of Rufus' mother Eliza B. Carr Williamson. John Fendall Carr had died September 2, 1838 the year prior to the move by the Williamsons to the area in 1839. His burial site in a family cemetery, believed to be somewhere on the property immediately south and adjacent to the Williamson property, has been lost. Another resident of the area where the Williamsons settled was Absolom Bostic II also formerly of Stokes County North Carolina. It is likely this Absolom Bostic is the Absolom Bostic who was appointed as guardian of Rufus' brother brother John Jones Williamson in 1816. He was the son of one Colonel Absolom Bostic (1740-1803), soldier and patriot, who lived on the Dan River in Stokes County North Carolina. The reason for the guardianship appointment is not given in the court records, but it is likely a caregiver died, and a single male parent was presumed to be unable to care for a child. Rufus' grandfather David Williamson resided in the same area of Stokes County North Carolina but was not a property owner. David Williamson (b: 5 May 1777 d: 25 Feb 1870) who was living with son John J. at the time of his death, was first buried on the Williamson family farm in Maury County, Tennessee but was later disinterred and buried in the Bethlehem Cemetery across the road from the farm in what is now Marshall County.
The Williamsons prospered from their farming activities in Maury County and were able to educate four of their sons in the premier medical colleges of the nineteenth century. Son John J. was educated at Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans, George Robert graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Rufus A. graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical College, and Enoch Melville graduated from of the University of Mississippi Medical College. They also built an imposing new home in the 1840s that still stands on the Maury County farm today.
The three oldest of the Williamson sons all served in the Confederate army.
After the war and the selling of the homestead (reportedly Alice was the only child to have been living in the home at the time of its being sold), several of the Williamsons moved to Mississippi and Texas including John J. Jr. M.D. and Rufus A. M.D. who practiced medicine in Midland and Covington TX respectively. Several other siblings, Mary, Olivia, Pleasant D. and Alice also settled in Texas. When John J. Williamson died on May 3, 1882 his will directed that each living child and Eliza B. would receive an equal share of the estate. Further, the property was to be sold if none of the children wished to buy out the shares of the others. The property was later sold at public auction 29 Oct 1886 by decree of the Maury County Court "in the cause of Eliza B. Williamson, et al vs William Lee Crutcher, et al" to Johnson Davis acting as proxy for T. J. Tindell, title to the 437 acre property was subsequently transferred, after being surveyed, to the Thomas Jefferson Tindell family whose descendants still own the property today
Contributor: John Early Andrews (47525492) •
Name: Ruffus Alexander Williamson
Death Date: 26 Oct 1917
Death Place: Covington, Hill, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 62 years 10 months 22 days
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1854
Birthplace: Maury Co., Tennessee
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: John J. Williamson
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Name: Eliza B. Carr
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Doctor
Place of Residence: Covington, Texas
Burial Place: Covington, Texas
Burial Date: 28 Nov 1917
Film Number: 2051961
Digital Film Number: 4165796
Image Number: 1747
Reference Number: cn 28382
His grandparents, David Williamson and his wife, while still living in North Carolina, had the first four of their fifteen children; Thomas D, John J., George Robert, and James. In 1839, the family sold their North Carolina land and moved to Maury County Tennessee having purchased property from the Nathaniel Smith estate. This property was part of the Thomas Polk land grant of 1788.
Another of the land holders in that same grant was John Fendell Carr, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and the uncle of Rufus' mother Eliza B. Carr Williamson. John Fendall Carr had died September 2, 1838 the year prior to the move by the Williamsons to the area in 1839. His burial site in a family cemetery, believed to be somewhere on the property immediately south and adjacent to the Williamson property, has been lost. Another resident of the area where the Williamsons settled was Absolom Bostic II also formerly of Stokes County North Carolina. It is likely this Absolom Bostic is the Absolom Bostic who was appointed as guardian of Rufus' brother brother John Jones Williamson in 1816. He was the son of one Colonel Absolom Bostic (1740-1803), soldier and patriot, who lived on the Dan River in Stokes County North Carolina. The reason for the guardianship appointment is not given in the court records, but it is likely a caregiver died, and a single male parent was presumed to be unable to care for a child. Rufus' grandfather David Williamson resided in the same area of Stokes County North Carolina but was not a property owner. David Williamson (b: 5 May 1777 d: 25 Feb 1870) who was living with son John J. at the time of his death, was first buried on the Williamson family farm in Maury County, Tennessee but was later disinterred and buried in the Bethlehem Cemetery across the road from the farm in what is now Marshall County.
The Williamsons prospered from their farming activities in Maury County and were able to educate four of their sons in the premier medical colleges of the nineteenth century. Son John J. was educated at Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans, George Robert graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Rufus A. graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical College, and Enoch Melville graduated from of the University of Mississippi Medical College. They also built an imposing new home in the 1840s that still stands on the Maury County farm today.
The three oldest of the Williamson sons all served in the Confederate army.
After the war and the selling of the homestead (reportedly Alice was the only child to have been living in the home at the time of its being sold), several of the Williamsons moved to Mississippi and Texas including John J. Jr. M.D. and Rufus A. M.D. who practiced medicine in Midland and Covington TX respectively. Several other siblings, Mary, Olivia, Pleasant D. and Alice also settled in Texas. When John J. Williamson died on May 3, 1882 his will directed that each living child and Eliza B. would receive an equal share of the estate. Further, the property was to be sold if none of the children wished to buy out the shares of the others. The property was later sold at public auction 29 Oct 1886 by decree of the Maury County Court "in the cause of Eliza B. Williamson, et al vs William Lee Crutcher, et al" to Johnson Davis acting as proxy for T. J. Tindell, title to the 437 acre property was subsequently transferred, after being surveyed, to the Thomas Jefferson Tindell family whose descendants still own the property today
Contributor: John Early Andrews (47525492) •
Name: Ruffus Alexander Williamson
Death Date: 26 Oct 1917
Death Place: Covington, Hill, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 62 years 10 months 22 days
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1854
Birthplace: Maury Co., Tennessee
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: John J. Williamson
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Name: Eliza B. Carr
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Doctor
Place of Residence: Covington, Texas
Burial Place: Covington, Texas
Burial Date: 28 Nov 1917
Film Number: 2051961
Digital Film Number: 4165796
Image Number: 1747
Reference Number: cn 28382
Dr. Rufus Alexander Williamson, of Covington, died at his home October 26. He was born in Maury County, Tennessee, December 4, 1854, was reared near Lewisburg, Tennessee and received his degree in medicine at Vanderbilt University in 1885. He was a member of his county and state medical societies for a number of years. He is survived by his wife, seven children, two brothers and three sisters.
His grandparents, David Williamson and his wife, while still living in North Carolina, had the first four of their fifteen children; Thomas D, John J., George Robert, and James. In 1839, the family sold their North Carolina land and moved to Maury County Tennessee having purchased property from the Nathaniel Smith estate. This property was part of the Thomas Polk land grant of 1788.
Another of the land holders in that same grant was John Fendell Carr, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and the uncle of Rufus' mother Eliza B. Carr Williamson. John Fendall Carr had died September 2, 1838 the year prior to the move by the Williamsons to the area in 1839. His burial site in a family cemetery, believed to be somewhere on the property immediately south and adjacent to the Williamson property, has been lost. Another resident of the area where the Williamsons settled was Absolom Bostic II also formerly of Stokes County North Carolina. It is likely this Absolom Bostic is the Absolom Bostic who was appointed as guardian of Rufus' brother brother John Jones Williamson in 1816. He was the son of one Colonel Absolom Bostic (1740-1803), soldier and patriot, who lived on the Dan River in Stokes County North Carolina. The reason for the guardianship appointment is not given in the court records, but it is likely a caregiver died, and a single male parent was presumed to be unable to care for a child. Rufus' grandfather David Williamson resided in the same area of Stokes County North Carolina but was not a property owner. David Williamson (b: 5 May 1777 d: 25 Feb 1870) who was living with son John J. at the time of his death, was first buried on the Williamson family farm in Maury County, Tennessee but was later disinterred and buried in the Bethlehem Cemetery across the road from the farm in what is now Marshall County.
The Williamsons prospered from their farming activities in Maury County and were able to educate four of their sons in the premier medical colleges of the nineteenth century. Son John J. was educated at Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans, George Robert graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Rufus A. graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical College, and Enoch Melville graduated from of the University of Mississippi Medical College. They also built an imposing new home in the 1840s that still stands on the Maury County farm today.
The three oldest of the Williamson sons all served in the Confederate army.
After the war and the selling of the homestead (reportedly Alice was the only child to have been living in the home at the time of its being sold), several of the Williamsons moved to Mississippi and Texas including John J. Jr. M.D. and Rufus A. M.D. who practiced medicine in Midland and Covington TX respectively. Several other siblings, Mary, Olivia, Pleasant D. and Alice also settled in Texas. When John J. Williamson died on May 3, 1882 his will directed that each living child and Eliza B. would receive an equal share of the estate. Further, the property was to be sold if none of the children wished to buy out the shares of the others. The property was later sold at public auction 29 Oct 1886 by decree of the Maury County Court "in the cause of Eliza B. Williamson, et al vs William Lee Crutcher, et al" to Johnson Davis acting as proxy for T. J. Tindell, title to the 437 acre property was subsequently transferred, after being surveyed, to the Thomas Jefferson Tindell family whose descendants still own the property today
Contributor: John Early Andrews (47525492) •
Name: Ruffus Alexander Williamson
Death Date: 26 Oct 1917
Death Place: Covington, Hill, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 62 years 10 months 22 days
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1854
Birthplace: Maury Co., Tennessee
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: John J. Williamson
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Name: Eliza B. Carr
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Doctor
Place of Residence: Covington, Texas
Burial Place: Covington, Texas
Burial Date: 28 Nov 1917
Film Number: 2051961
Digital Film Number: 4165796
Image Number: 1747
Reference Number: cn 28382
His grandparents, David Williamson and his wife, while still living in North Carolina, had the first four of their fifteen children; Thomas D, John J., George Robert, and James. In 1839, the family sold their North Carolina land and moved to Maury County Tennessee having purchased property from the Nathaniel Smith estate. This property was part of the Thomas Polk land grant of 1788.
Another of the land holders in that same grant was John Fendell Carr, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and the uncle of Rufus' mother Eliza B. Carr Williamson. John Fendall Carr had died September 2, 1838 the year prior to the move by the Williamsons to the area in 1839. His burial site in a family cemetery, believed to be somewhere on the property immediately south and adjacent to the Williamson property, has been lost. Another resident of the area where the Williamsons settled was Absolom Bostic II also formerly of Stokes County North Carolina. It is likely this Absolom Bostic is the Absolom Bostic who was appointed as guardian of Rufus' brother brother John Jones Williamson in 1816. He was the son of one Colonel Absolom Bostic (1740-1803), soldier and patriot, who lived on the Dan River in Stokes County North Carolina. The reason for the guardianship appointment is not given in the court records, but it is likely a caregiver died, and a single male parent was presumed to be unable to care for a child. Rufus' grandfather David Williamson resided in the same area of Stokes County North Carolina but was not a property owner. David Williamson (b: 5 May 1777 d: 25 Feb 1870) who was living with son John J. at the time of his death, was first buried on the Williamson family farm in Maury County, Tennessee but was later disinterred and buried in the Bethlehem Cemetery across the road from the farm in what is now Marshall County.
The Williamsons prospered from their farming activities in Maury County and were able to educate four of their sons in the premier medical colleges of the nineteenth century. Son John J. was educated at Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans, George Robert graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Rufus A. graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical College, and Enoch Melville graduated from of the University of Mississippi Medical College. They also built an imposing new home in the 1840s that still stands on the Maury County farm today.
The three oldest of the Williamson sons all served in the Confederate army.
After the war and the selling of the homestead (reportedly Alice was the only child to have been living in the home at the time of its being sold), several of the Williamsons moved to Mississippi and Texas including John J. Jr. M.D. and Rufus A. M.D. who practiced medicine in Midland and Covington TX respectively. Several other siblings, Mary, Olivia, Pleasant D. and Alice also settled in Texas. When John J. Williamson died on May 3, 1882 his will directed that each living child and Eliza B. would receive an equal share of the estate. Further, the property was to be sold if none of the children wished to buy out the shares of the others. The property was later sold at public auction 29 Oct 1886 by decree of the Maury County Court "in the cause of Eliza B. Williamson, et al vs William Lee Crutcher, et al" to Johnson Davis acting as proxy for T. J. Tindell, title to the 437 acre property was subsequently transferred, after being surveyed, to the Thomas Jefferson Tindell family whose descendants still own the property today
Contributor: John Early Andrews (47525492) •
Name: Ruffus Alexander Williamson
Death Date: 26 Oct 1917
Death Place: Covington, Hill, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 62 years 10 months 22 days
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1854
Birthplace: Maury Co., Tennessee
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: John J. Williamson
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Name: Eliza B. Carr
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Doctor
Place of Residence: Covington, Texas
Burial Place: Covington, Texas
Burial Date: 28 Nov 1917
Film Number: 2051961
Digital Film Number: 4165796
Image Number: 1747
Reference Number: cn 28382
Family Members
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CPT Thomas David Williamson
1833–1895
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Dr John Jones Williamson
1838–1912
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Dr George Robert Williamson Sr
1839–1919
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Olivia Melissa Williamson Fisher
1842–1903
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Susan Natalia Williamson Gathings
1844–1897
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Margaret E Williamson Crutcher
1846–1882
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Pleasant D Williamson
1849–1917
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William Bascomb Williamson
1852–1922
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Dr Enoch Melville Williamson
1857–1932
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