Ancestry of Charles B. & Frances F. Williams
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This is a long journey to find the ancestors and descendants of Charles B. and Frances F. Williams. There are stories out there which should be told about these two caring, friendly and kind people and stories about their ancestry. If you have corrections, additions or comments please let me know. So, let the journey begin!! --Marti
The above photo: Charles Blaine and Frances Bennett Foster Williams taken in 1971.
The ancestrial surnames of Charles B. and Frances F. Williams that are included on this site (and you may find below and on the next pages under Links) are: Williams, Foster, Thorpe, Tracy, Foresman, Andrew, Herring, Cole, Benjamin, Bennett, Church, Millin, Moyer. Other keywords are: Metamora, Talbot, Greenhills, Greensburg, Bedford, Shelby County, Butler County, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mazon, Illinois, Dayton, Kokomo, Boswell, Shandon.
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CHARLES BLAINE WILLIAMS (JR.)
Born: 31 Jul 1908, Metamora, Franklin County, Indiana USA
Married: Frances B. Foster, 24 Dec 1934, Greensburg, Indiana USA
Died: 27 May 1973, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio USA
Buried: Arlington C., Mt. Healthy, Hamilton County, Ohio USA
Other names for Charles were Chas. and Charlie.
Bachelor of Arts, 1931, Purdue University, LaFayette, Indiana USA
Father: Charles Blaine Williams (Sr.)
Mother: Mary Thorpe
FRANCES BENNETT FOSTER
Born: 22 Jun 1909, Talbot, Indiana USA
Married: Charles B. Williams, 24 Dec 1934, Greensburg, IN USA
Died: 18 Nov 1973, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio USA
Buried: Arlington C., Mt. Healthy, Hamilton County, Ohio USA
Father: Thomas Sylvester Foster
Mother: Mary Helen Foresman
Charles and Frances Williams Children:
Charles Blaine Williams (III) (See Page 4.)
Martha Jane Williams (See Page 4.)
Frances Foster at 5
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Fran and Chas Williams - c.1930
Fran with children of family and friends - 1933
Chas and Fran Williams- c.1942
Fran - 1945
Chas - 1945
Chas & Fran Williams c.1950 Greenhills, OH USA
Charlie and his Mustang c.1966
***So, how did Fran and Chas meet? Chas was attending Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana; English major. Fran was visiting her cousin Bill Foresman in West Lafayette, Indiana. Bill and Chas had become very good friends while both attending Purdue. And, they remained friends throughout their lives. Fran thought Chas was a smart aleck and she didn't really like him very much at first. However, the three of them began doing things together. Eventually, Chas and Fran dated. In fact, they dated off and on for five years or so before they married December 24, 1934, in Greensburg, Indiana, by a Justice of the Peace. The story goes that Chas asked Fran on the spare or the joyous of the moment, looked for the Justice of the Peace finding him "celebrating" Christmas Eve in a local tavern. They brought him to Chas' parent's home where the wedding ceremony took place. They honeymooned in Batesville, Indiana, but were actually trying to drive to Cincinnati but a severe snow storm had come down on the area. It wasn't for another 8 years before they had their first child, a son, Charles Blaine Williams III. And, then two years later, a daughter, Martha Jane.***
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Parents of Charles Blaine Williams (Jr.):
CHARLES BLAINE WILLIAMS (Sr.)
Born: 2 Aug 1882 Shandon, Butler County, Ohio USA
Married: 11 Dec 1904 Mary Thorpe, Metamora, Indiana USA
Died: 12 Jun 1957, Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana USA
Buried: Metamora, Franklin County, Indiana USA
Other names for Charles: CB
Father: Edward Williams
Mother: Eunice Belle Millen
MARY THORPE
Born: 18 Nov 1884 Metamora, Indiana USA
Died: 20 Sep 1982 Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana USA
Buried: Metamora, Franklin County, Indiana USA
Father: Christian Herring Thorpe
Mother: Sophia Tracy
Charles and Mary Williams children:
Ross Tracy Williams
Charles Blaine Williams (Jr.)
Marjory Williams
The photos below are of Charles Blaine Williams(Sr.) and Mary Thorpe in 1903, just before they married. They became the parents of Ross Tracy, Charles Blaine (Jr.) and Marjory. Marjory died at a 7.
Charles Blaine Williams (Sr.)
Mary Thorpe Williams holding second child, Charles Blaine Williams, Jr. circa 1909
Ross and Edith Loche Williams c1957, Tennessee vacation
Photo below is Charles B. Williams Sr. on the right. He was Station Master and telegraph operator for NY Central and the Big Four railroad companies for most of his adult life
Charles B. Williams Sr.
Parents of Frances Bennett Foster:
THOMAS SYLVESTER FOSTER
Born: 04 Oct 1869 Mazon, Illinois USA
Married: Mary Helen Foresman
Died: 07 May 1956 Kokomo, Tippicanoe County, Indiana USA
Buried: Boswell, Indiana USA
Other names for Thomas: Ves
Father: George Washington Foster
Mother: Ociana Moyer
MARY HELEN FORESMAN
Born: 24 Jan 1871
Married: Thomas Sylvester Foster
Died: 18 Jul 1909 Talbot, Indiana USA
Buried: Boswell, Indiana USA
Father: Robert L. Foresman
Mother: Frances Adeline Bennett
Thomas S. and Mary (Mae)H. Foster children:
Martha Foster
Frances Bennett Foster
Photos below are of Thomas Sylvester Foster and Mary Helen Foresman parents of Frances Bennett Foster and Martha Foster.
Thomas Sylvester Foster
Below photo: Martha Foster, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Mae) Foster, and sister of Frances Bennett Foster Williams.
The photo below is of Martha L. Foresman daughter of Robert L. and Frances Adaline Foresman. She is sister of Mary Foresman Foster and Aunt of Frances Foster Williams. Matha L. Foresman was a school teacher but she quit teaching inorder to raise her niece, Frances Bennett Foster. Martha's sister Mary H. Foresman Foster died several weeks after giving birth to Frances. So Frances's Aunt Martha whom she called Aunty took on the love, care and responsability of raising her niece. She had a two story Victorian style home in Indianapolis, Indiana, (Pennyslvania Avenue, the home no longer exists)and made it into a boarding home with several boarders. This was her main income along with the help of her brother-in-law Thomas Sylvester (Ves) Foster, Frances' Father. Thomas Sylvester Foster felt he could not raise Frances on his own, as a farmer, and gave full custody to Martha.
Martha L. Foresman
Frances and Aunty on Frances' 10th Birthday
On porch swing is Robert L. Foresman, on his lap is Frances Bennett Foster and sitting on the swing is Frances' sister Martha Foster.
R.L. Foresman was their Grandfather.
Martha L. Foresman is buried in cemetary in Dayton Indiana
The following is from a newspaper article written by Charles B. Williams (Jr.) of his Father-in-law Thomas Sylvester Foster:
Thomas Sylvester Foster was born in Mazon, Illinois, October4,1869, and died in Kokomo,Indiana, on May 7, 1956. He was the son of George Washington and Ociana (Moyer) Foster, and was the fifth child of a family of seven children. When he was six years old he moved with his parents to Benton County, on a farm near Raub, Indiana. Four years later they moved to Talbot, Indiana on a farm owned by his father.
At the age of thirty-three, he was married to May Foresman. To this reunion, two daughters were born, Martha F. and Frances B. His wife, May, preceeded him in death in July,1909 and daughter Martha passed away in 1946. On March 1, 1922, he went to Danville, Illinois. He was married to Orah (Thomas) Wagner of Danville, Illinois, formerly of Georgetown, Indiana, on July 26, 1924. They moved to Covington, Indiana, in 1933.
On October 13, 1929, he was born into God's Kingdom and left the testimony that he was wonderfully converted and that this he knew that once he was dead but now is alive. He joined Beulah Mission in Danville, Illinois, 820 N. Bowman Ave.
After coming to Kokomo in 1946, he united with Fairlawn United Brethren Church where he remained faithful till death.
He is survived by his wife Orah, a daughter Frances Williams of Cincinnati, Ohio, three step-sons Sheridan Wagner of Kokomo, Harry and Sheldon Wagner of Detroit, Michigan, one sister Ida Nace of Michigan, other relatives and many friends.
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