Amelia Worthington Williams (March 26, 1876 – April 14, 1958) was an American historian who researched the Alamo and Sam Houston.
She was born in Maysfield, Texas, on March 26, 1876, to Thomas Herbert and Emma Massengale Williams.
[2] Some of her ancestors had been planters in South Carolina in the antebellum era; later, her father, a veteran of the Confederacy, started a plantation in Milam County.
She managed the family plantation and helped raise her four younger sisters after the deaths of her parents.
She researched and wrote about the Alamo, of which she was considered a foremost authority,[5] and Sam Houston.