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THE CONNALLY FAMILY

'1f1HE connection with the Connally line came with the mar­' riage of Governor Morehead's son, James Turner Morehead,Jl to Mary Elizabeth (or Lily, as she was often called) Connally,

the daughter of Thomas Dickson Connally and his wife Frances (or Fanny) (Kerr) Connally. Thomas Dickson Connally, born in Milton, Norih Carolina, was son of Thomas and Susan (Ball) . Connally, and grandson of George and Frances (Moore) Connally, the former son of John arid Peggy Connally, the earliest known of the family, and the laUer (Frances) a daughter of Robert Moore.

The ancestry of Mrs. Thomas DicKson Connally, Frances (or Fanny) Kerr, is not so simple a story; and in order to understand it one must begin with the 'Villiams family: Nathaniel vVilliams, born in Hanover County, Virginia, had four sons, namely: Na­thaniel, Jr., who married Mary Ann 'Villiamson; Colonel Joseph, who married Rebecca Lanier; John, who married Elizabeth 'ViI­liamson, a sister of Mary Ann; and Robert 'Yilliams, who married Mary Elizabeth Lanier, sister to Rebecca. Robert and Mary Eliza­beth.had a daughter, named for her mother, Mary Elizabeth 'Vil­Iiams, and she married a Robert Williams of the eastern part of Virginia, and they had one son, Rober't'Villiams, from whom Senator John Sharp 'Yilliams is descended. This last Robert's father died not long after, and his mother, Mary Elizabeth ('Vil-Jiams) \Villiams, then married the well-knowIl; evangelist, Rev. John Kerr. Among their numerous children were two daughters,

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Mary Graves Kerr, who married her cousin, Nicholas 'V ill iams, a son of Colonel Joseph '''illiams above mentioned, and another Frances (or Fanny) Kerr, who became, as has been said, the wife of Thomas Dickson Connally.

It is said that after Thomas Dickson Connally had been a mer­chant and cotton factor in New Orleans, he became a merchant in '"J I;' ,' ..

Jackson, Tennessee, where his wife died. He then started with his .(:, ~ ~ , . ~ . three children to North Carolina, but died on the way, when he was ", ' - . but thirty-three years old. Their children were as follows: ~Iar- [ ~ f _ 'A

garet, who d~ed in infancy; John Kerr Connally, who married Alice 1.~~,-' : . '; :;*,," Thomas, and whose daughter, Mary Curry Connally (Mrs. \Valter'~ t-,._. S. Andrews of Newport), is mentioned in the chapter on the Graves G,.... :---­family; Mary Elizabeth (also known as Lily) Kerr Connally, who ~ -y,. '", •

-.v .-1; ..> .married Governor Morehead's son, James Turner ,Morehead; and C ,,_L ~

Fanny Susan Connally, who married C. 'V. Guerrant and is now ~ ... :. J.:' • I •

living at Lynchburg, Virginia. Their three children were adopted , ......:..d ( .. - • • • : .) r-; • . .. ~

by their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Nichola'S ,Williams, whose c. n. x' . . ~

own daughter, Susan, had been accidentally shot by her brother, ~-c ........ ,

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so that Susan's name was added to Fanny Connally's, ~vhose name .~- ' -

was the diminutiv~ for that of her mother. Mr. Nicholas 'Villiams, adopted father of the Connally children,

was the son of Colonel Joseph Williams, as has been said, and was a brother of the first Robert Williams, both sons of Nathaniel \Vil­liams of Virginia and grandsons of the John Williams who came from Wales about 1669, where he had a beautiful country-seat called "Flangellan." The \Villiams family have always been prominent in the South and 'Vest, one of whom was territorial governor of Mississippi, whose national Senator, John Sharp Wil­liams, is of that family. Colonel Joseph Williams was a member of the Hillsboro Convention of 1775, and was appointed by the House to be Lieutenant Colonel of the Field Officers of Minute Men. ' He led his regiment on Rutherford's Cherokee campaign in 1776, and shared in defeating the Tories at "Shallow Ford" on

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October 15, 1780. His house, but three miles from the battle­ground, was called "Panther Creek," and there he died on October

'I ,,1 11, 1827, and is buried in the family cemetery. In 1776 he married I~/ Rebecca Lanier, a sister of Mary Elizabeth Lanier, both daughters

j\:J ...--_;:, of Robert Lanier, a member of the Provincial Congress of Nqrth Carolina, and granddaughters oLIhomas and Elizabeth (Hicks) Lanier, Thomas being son of John, the first American Lanier, who v

\ ~ . came to Virginia in 1716 and settled on a grant of land ten miles square, where the city of Richmond now stands. It is said that the Laniers were related to Washington.

Robert Williams, who married Mary Elizabeth Lanier, was a member of the Provincial Congress from Granville County, North Carolina, in 1773. /

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Ordained, December 31, 1876 (Asheville, NC)

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