So is this another family with Richard and another younger Nancy and young children, since it's in another county? Or would it be possible that Richard started another family with a younger wife? We always speculate that some of our "black-sheep" ancestors might have done such. But there's no proof. And I think a farmer would hardly be able to do such a thing!
I am also begining to wonder if another Richard Williams might have been around the same age...who might have been a cousin perhaps? This ancestry business is not for those with a linear mind, as there are millions of possibilities.
And I now have to look at all the sons of the sons, to find who Jas. W. and John C. Williams were who administered Nancy Williams' estate in the Probate dated May of 1860...before she was on at least one census report in August! Unfortunately the grandsons I find, were all around 10 years old in 1860.
Incidentally, her spinster daughter, Cassie might have had some kind of disability, because when she died in Kentucky in 1880, the record (hand written including the cause of death) indicates they didn't know where either of her parents was born) She is listed as having been in Trigg County, KY for 40 years, but having no known physician. Perhaps she was staying with another cousin.
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