williams branch · 1870–?
Mettie Rhodema Williams Long
Mettie Rhodema Williams was born February 19, 1870 in Iowa, the ninth child of Nicholas Columbus Williams and Catherine Belinda Martin. She was born during the family's second Iowa period, after their wartime exodus from Missouri.
Appears in
Vignette · in From Rowan County to the Palouse
Everything taken except one horse they kept in the brush
Order No. 11 emptied five counties. Belinda traded somehow for oxen and took the children out — three weeks on the road, two hundred and fifty miles.
1863–1873
Arc
From Rowan County to the Palouse
An orphan who got one day of school walked his family three thousand miles across America — by wagon, by riverboat, and finally by freight team — and ended it at the head of a golden-wedding table on a Washington prairie.
1826–1899Images
