Fatima Massey Williams Papers, 1857-1929

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Fatima Massey Williams Papers, 1857-1929

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Love letters, 1858-1859, other correspondence, financial and business items, a bank account book, and other miscellaneous items of Fatima Massey Williams and her husband, William T. A. Williams (1840-circa 1912), a wheelwright of Rolesville, Wake County, N.C. The correspondence includes eleven letters to the Williamses from Fatima's brothers, Thrush and Alpheus Massey, Confederate soldiers with the 31st North Carolina Regiment near Petersburg, Va., in 1863 and 1864, concerning their health, troop movements, and army life.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Williams, John, 1840-1926

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Fatima Massey Williams, daughter of Craton Massey and Harriet Horton Massey of Wake County, North Carolina, was born around 1840. She had one sister, Irene Massey, who never married, and two brothers, Thrush and Alpheus Massey, Confederate soldiers of the 31st North Carolina Regiment. Fatima married William T. A. Williams, a wheelwright, in October 1859 and thereafter resided in Rolesville, North Carolina. The Williamses apparently had at least one son, Robert Bob S. Wil...