The Williams surname

In the chronology 68 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Williams, A. S. 1 entry, 1891
  • April 13, 1891: Students organize the University German Club
• Williams, Albert 2 entries, 1960–2020
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• Williams, Alfred, Jr. 1 entry, 1931
  • by August 28, 1931: Alfred Williams & Co. of Chapel Hill is formed to take over the University's Students' Supply Store
• Williams, Archie G. 1 entry, 1954
  • May 29, 1954: Betty June Hayes wins the Democratic nomination for Register of Deeds
• Williams, B. S. 1 entry, 1925
  • May 5, 1925: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Roberson and chooses its first six-member board under a new charter
• Williams, Ben 1 entry, 1895
  • about 1895: Brodie Lloyd builds a rental house on Oak Avenue before the Alberta mill opens
• Williams, Mrs. Ben 1 entry, 1945
  • May 11, 1945: A Carrboro club for town improvement and beautification organizes
• Williams, Benjamin 3 entries, 1775–1807
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• Williams, C. F. 1 entry, 1956
  • July 12, 1956: The Negro Men's Civic Club asks for a Black member on the Chapel Hill school board
• Williams, C. R. 1 entry, 1949
  • June 20, 1949: Southern Railway renames its Chapel Hill depot Carrboro
• Williams, Carter 2 entries, 1951–1964
  • by October 25, 1951: Contract let for the 100-bed state tuberculosis hospital at Chapel Hill
  • dedicated September 27, 1964: Binkley moves to Willow Drive
• Williams, Clawson 3 entries, 1956–1958
  • 1956–1958: The fight over Sunday racing, 1956–1958
  • October 28, 1957: Judge Clawson Williams upholds the Orange County racing law against Orange Speedway
  • January 10, 1958: The state Supreme Court strikes down Orange County's Sunday racing law
• Williams, Clawson L. 1 entry, 1946
  • August 20, 1946: A Superior Court judge rules Orange justices of the peace cannot try speeding and other traffic cases
• Williams, Clyde 1 entry, 1968
  • November 5, 1968: Orange County voters return commissioners Harvey Bennett and William Ray
• Williams, Dessie 1 entry, 1943
  • April 14, 1943: Dessie Williams, the University's superintendent of building operations, dies
• Williams, Elisha 1 entry, 1912
  • July 16, 1912: Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel
• Williams, F. Carter 3 entries, 1916–1963
  • 1916–1961: The Orange County Building and Loan Association, 1916–1961
  • January 23, 1961: Orange County Building and Loan renames itself Orange County Savings and Loan
  • October 13, 1963: Binkley Church breaks ground for its fellowship hall and education wing
• Williams, F. M. 1 entry, 1924
  • by July 3, 1924: The contract is let for the new Orange County Training School building
• Williams, George F. 9 entries, 1969–1977
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• Williams, Gloria 7 entries, 1964–2009
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• Williams, Gloria 1 entry, 1984
  • February 21, 1984: Orange County commissioners adopt a minimum housing code for rental homes outside the towns
• Williams, Hattie 1 entry, 1960
  • by August 25, 1960: Louise C. Hamlin becomes librarian of Hillsboro's Confederate Memorial Library
• Williams, Henry Horace 25 entries, 1883–1943
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• Williams, Horace 7 entries, 1854–1973
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  • 1854 to 1855: Benjamin Hedrick's house with an eight-sided room goes up on East Rosemary Street
  • June 1920: Louis R. Wilson and W. C. Coker are raised to Kenan professorships
  • January 11, 1941: Fire destroys the University airport hangar and seven training planes
  • June 15-16, 1942: The state lets the contract for a new road to the Horace Williams airport
  • March 9, 1943: Paratroopers from Fort Bragg drop on the Horace Williams airport
  • February 9, 1961: UNC moves the Mitchell family graves from the campus to the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
  • about 1973: UNC opens community garden plots at Mason Farm and the Horace Williams tract
• Williams, India 1 entry, 1997
  • November 14, 1997: The BSM marches to South Building with 22 new demands for Chancellor Hooker
• Williams, J. A. 3 entries, 1960–1968
  • 1960–1994: Caring for the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, 1960–1994
  • November 11, 1960: The university's attorney finds the trustees never deeded the cemetery to the town
  • March 7, 1968: UNC orders bushes cut, new lights and more campus police after prowlers enter women's dormitories
• Williams, J. Alvin 4 entries, 1952–1963
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  • November 11, 1952: Carrboro commissioners keep Police Chief J. Alvin Williams after rival petitions
  • March 29, 1956: Carrboro commissioners suspend the police chief for two weeks
  • May 7, 1963: Carrboro re-elects Mayor C. T. Ellington in a record turnout
  • March 3, 1963: Carrboro police chief J. Alvin Williams leaves office
• Williams, J. C. 1 entry, 1953
  • January 3, 1953: Fire destroys the Carolina Club night spot west of Chapel Hill
• Williams, J. G. 1 entry, 1931
  • by May 22, 1931: J. G. Williams opens a flagstone quarry on Morgan Creek near Chapel Hill
• Williams, Joe 2 entries, 1981
  • February 6-8, 1981: Ben Chavis gives the keynote at the BSM's Discovery conference for Black History Month
  • October 1981: Stephen's...after all opens as a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza
• Williams, John 11 entries, 1767–1799
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• Williams, John 2 entries, 1795–1796
  • August Term 1795: The court issues a habeas corpus for Sarah Rickets's daughter Polly, held by Absalom Roach
  • February Term 1796: The court orders Levi Whitted to support Mary Jackson's child
• Williams, John S. 2 entries, 1952–1953
  • February 4, 1952: County commissioners put three farmers on the Chapel Hill zoning commission
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
• Williams, Jonathan 2 entries, 1978–1989
  • 1978–1994: Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week at UNC, 1978–1994
  • April 9-15, 1989: Poets Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer give a reading in the Biology Department's Coker Room
• Williams, L. A. 3 entries, 1916–1919
  • May 3, 1916: Orange County holds a county-wide school commencement at Hillsboro
  • October 10, 1916: State and university educators set up a teacher-training program for Orange County
  • by March 6, 1919: The University School of Education begins a survey of the Orange County schools
• Williams, Lilly B. 1 entry, 1917
  • about 1917: Lewis J. Johnson builds a two-story house on Shadylawn Road
• Williams, Linda Shealey 1 entry, 1993
  • October 28, 1993: Many Voices, One Community holds a candlelight vigil for the schools' multicultural plan
• Williams, Lonas 2 entries, 1949
  • May 29 to June 5, 1949: The Chapel Hill Jaycees open the Williams Lustron house for public inspection
  • April 1949: Railway Express agent Lonas Williams starts Chapel Hill's first Lustron house, on Stephens Street
• Williams, M. J. 1 entry, 1944
  • May 25, 1944: The National Munitions plant at Carrboro receives the first National Security Award given in North Carolina
• Williams, Mack 2 entries, 1924–1927
  • February 18, 1924: Chapel Hill and Carrboro police raid two stills south of town
  • May 1, 1927: Chapel Hill policeman Mack Williams dies on duty
• Williams, Marcus 8 entries, 1970–1975
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  • 1970–1994: Women's complaints and affirmative action at UNC, 1970–1994
  • by March 1974: Marcus Williams is elected UNC's second Black student body president
  • October 18, 1974: Chancellor Taylor reports UNC's Black faculty grew to 36 in a year
  • October 11, 1974: UNC trustees tentatively approve selling the University utilities and call for a local water and sewer authority
  • December 1974: UNC trustees reject a full-time, independent affirmative action officer
  • by February 11, 1975: Chancellor Taylor withdraws the University's backing for the student FM station
  • February 14, 1975: UNC trustees endorse a new physical education building
  • March 21, 1975: UNC trustees approve revised campus traffic and parking rules
• Williams, Mary Louise Gunter 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: Architect Wade Williams builds a Wright-influenced house for himself on Whitfield Road
• Williams, Mrs. O. B. 1 entry, 1929
  • October 1, 1929: Mrs. O. B. Williams opens the Chapel Hill Kindergarten School in the Methodist church
• Williams, O. Dale 1 entry, 1984
  • January 12, 1984: A ten-year federal heart study coordinated at UNC's School of Public Health reports that lowering cholesterol cuts heart attacks
• Williams, Patty 1 entry, 1794
  • May Term 1794: The court orders Thomas Nelson to bring in the child Patty Williams says he took from her
• Williams, Paul 3 entries, 1963–1979
  • by August 1, 1963: Young men of Hillsboro organize a Jaycees club
  • November 6, 1979: Fred Cates is elected mayor of Hillsborough again, unseating Paul Williams
  • 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
• Williams, Philip 1 entry, 1978
  • November 28, 1978: UNC cuts Odum Village rents after residents expose years of utility overcharges
• Williams, R. Murphy 1 entry, 1917
  • late October or early November 1917: James Sprunt gives $30,000 for a new Presbyterian church at Chapel Hill
• Williams, R. Wade 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: Architect Wade Williams builds a Wright-influenced house for himself on Whitfield Road
• Williams, Ray 1 entry, 1993
  • February 3, 1993: The Ackland Art Museum extends its hours to five days a week
• Williams, Raymond M. 2 entries, 1965–1967
  • 1965–1977: Chapel Hill and Carrboro town and school board elections, 1965–1977
  • May 2, 1967: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Sandy McClamroch and chooses four aldermen
• Williams, Richard 1 entry, 1790
  • November 24, 1790: A road jury reroutes the road from Hillsborough to General Person's around a hill
• Williams, Roy 9 entries, 1978–2021
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• Williams, Samm-Art 1 entry, 1981
  • March 23-25, 1981: The Negro Ensemble Company performs Samm-Art Williams's Home in Memorial Hall
• Williams, T. Franklin 1 entry, 1965
  • April 4, 1965: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Council on Human Relations sets up a steering committee
• Williams, Talcott 2 entries, 1916
  • 1916–1931: The Newspaper Institute at Chapel Hill, 1916–1931
  • December 7-9, 1916: The state Press Association holds a Newspaper Institute at the university
• Williams, Ted 2 entries, 1942–1943
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• Williams, Thomas A. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 25, 1891: St. Matthew's rector invites bids to build a chapel
• Williams, V. S. 1 entry, 1867
  • 1867–1868: Sarah J. Woodson teaches at the freedmen's school in Hillsborough
• Williams, W. E. 1 entry, 1947
  • by September 18, 1947: Carrboro opens Westwood Cemetery
• Williams, Mrs. W. R. 1 entry, 1948
  • May 30, 1948: The Junior Service League deeds the Carrboro Health Center to the Carrboro Civic Association
• Williams, Wallace 1 entry, 1964
  • November 10, 1964: Chapel Hill Exchange Club gives Police Chief W. D. Blake its Book of Golden Deeds award
• Williams, Walter 2 entries, 1916
  • 1916–1931: The Newspaper Institute at Chapel Hill, 1916–1931
  • December 7-9, 1916: The state Press Association holds a Newspaper Institute at the university
• Williams, William 2 entries, 1775–1776
  • 1775–1779: Orange County's militia in the Revolution, 1775–1779
  • summer 1776: Orange County militia join Griffith Rutherford's campaign against the Cherokee
• Williams, Winona 1 entry, 1945
  • May 31, 1945: Efland High's senior class gives the school a plaque for former students who died in the war
• Williams, Winslow 2 entries, 1941–1942
  • March 24, 1941: Carrboro softball players start a drive to light a softball field
  • January 5, 1942: Tire rationing board for southern Orange County receives its first quota
• Williams, Mrs. Winslow 1 entry, 1945
  • May 11, 1945: A Carrboro club for town improvement and beautification organizes
• Williams, Winslow E. 2 entries, 1943–1960
  • by January 22, 1943: Dwight Ray of Carrboro joins the Chapel Hill ration board
  • by April 7, 1960: Charlie Ellington becomes Carrboro's mayor as R. B. Todd leaves the office to be town clerk

In books and archives 14 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Williams family family, 2 works
• Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814 19 works
• Williams, Roy, 15 works
• Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940 9 works
• Williams, John, 1727-1798 3 works
• Williams, Deunta, 1 work
• Williams, James D. (James Dale), 1949- 1 work
• Williams, James, 1740-1780 1 work
• Williams, John Buxton, 1844-1887. 1 work
• Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008 1 work
• Williams, Lewis, 1786-1842 1 work
• Williams, Scott, 1968- 1 work
• Williams, Ted, 1918-2002 1 work
• Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 1 work

In the historical records 786 records

159 deeds, 4 records of enslaved people, 191 marriages, 358 court minutes, 41 tax list entries and 33 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Williams marriages in full · Search the name in every collection