Hamilton G. Williams and larkin williams

Hamilton G. Williams is one of few landowners to be buried near the present-day Tyson, in the Byrnes-Stuart Cemetery that borders the southern edge. Three members of the Williams family are buried there: Hamilton, who died in 1851, his 13-year-old son also named Hamilton Williams, who died in 1846, and John Williams, an unknown relation. 

Williams owned land at the south of present-day Tyson in 1838, which would be purchased for $904 by the executor of his will, Samuel Byrnes. Hamilton’s father, Thomas Williams, was also a major landowner in the area surrounding present-day Tyson. Larkin Williams, likely a brother of Hamilton, is the namesake of the nearby Larkin Williams Road. Note that Hamilton was also frequently spelled as “Hamelton”, and Larkin spelled as “Larken.”  

Williams was a common last name at the time, and due to this, records of enslavement for the family have not clearly been identified. In 1850, a “Master Williams Estate” enslaved two girls aged 15 and 17, and a 9 year old boy.