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About Keziah Elizabeth 'Floating Cloud' Williams
Keziah 'Floating Cloud' Brooks Cherokee 'Chota' Origins documentation:
Source: Regarding Phillip 'Buckspike' Williams, son of Keziah - Philip was quarter blood Cherokee. Philip's Mother's name was translated as "Floating Cloud"-Source for name -"No More Muffled Hoof Beats" by Estelle S. Rizk 1960 (based on interviews with Thornton Kennard).
Source- Guion roll testimony Claim 10862 of Great-Grandson Robert S. Williams and Philip's 98 year old neighbor Mrs. Mahala Turner in 1908 at Vanceburg,KY that " Philip was quarter blood Cherokee, white bred and educated for a chief and that Philip had always told her same." Also testimony of Great-Great Grandson Alfred Greeley Williams at Marble City.OK re Guion Rolls Claim 8370 in 1907 that "My great -great grandfather was Philip Williams, a minister of the tribe and died in the tribe". Note: The Guion Roll Claims were for the Eastern Band Cherokee enrollees who had not been captured or submitted and sent to Oklahoma. - 5th Great-Grandmother, DNA proven, Jacqueli Finley
The Life Summary of Keziah Elizabeth
When Keziah Elizabeth Brooks was born in 1735, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, her father, Littleton Brooks, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Brooks, was 20. She married James Williams in 1752, in South Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 16 November 1785, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 50.
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James Williams 1730–1785
Keziah Elizabeth Brooks 1735–1785
Marriage: 1752
Philip Williams 1753–1848
Jarrett Williams 1755–1778
Isaac Williams 1756–1815
John Williams 1757–1818
William Williams 1758–1846
Mark Williams 1760–1774
James Williams II 1763–1851
Hardin Williams 1764–1837
Rachel Nancy Ann Williams 1764–1844
Anna Nancy Williams 1764–1840
Frances Williams 1772–1850
James Sherrod Williams 1776–1831
Below not for Keziah died abt. 1785:
Source Citation
Probate Records (Maury County, Tennessee); Author: Tennessee County Court (Maury County); Probate Place: Maury, Tennessee
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Notes: Wills, Vol F-G, 1851-1898
Source Citation
Godfrey Memorial Library; Middletown, Connecticut; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Volume Number: 19
Below citation is NOT for this Keziah Brooks - please look up on Archives.com and read:
Source Information
Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line].
Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.
Name: Keziah Brooks
Volume: 19
Page number: 293
Reference: Gregory Stone Gen. Anc. and Des. of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Ms. 1320-1917. By J. Gardiner Bartlett. Boston. 1918. (905p.):192
From My Heritage and All Things Cherokee:
Keziah Elizabeth Williams (born Brooks (Cherokee Princess)), 1735 - 1785
Keziah Elizabeth Williams (born Brooks (Cherokee Princess)) was born on month day 1735, at birth place, Virginia, to Littleton Brooks and Elizabeth Ann Brooks (born Wallings). Littleton was born in 1720, in Hawkins, Tennessee, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1703, in Sullivan, George Washington, Virginia, USA.
Keziah had 7 siblings: Littleton Brooks, James Brooks and 5 other siblings.
Keziah married James Williams. They had 12 children: Phillip Buck Spike Williams, Charles Williams and 10 other children. Keziah passed away on month day 1785, at age 50 at death place, North Carolina. She was buried at burial place, Tennessee. https://www.myheritage.com/names/keziah_brooks
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Keziah Elizabeth 'Floating Cloud' Williams's Timeline
1735 |
1735
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Sullivan, Stafford County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1753 |
February 10, 1753
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Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
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1754 |
March 18, 1754
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Farnham, Richmond, VA, United States
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1755 |
1755
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Virginia, Colonial America
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1756 |
1756
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Charleston, Johnston, NC, United States
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1758 |
1758
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Richmond, Wise, VA, United States
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1760 |
1760
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Pendleton, Seychelles
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1760
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Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina, United States
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1763 |
May 13, 1763
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Augusta County, Virginia
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