[3] His father was Willoughby Williams, an American Revolutionary War veteran and former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, who died in 1802, when he was only four years old.

[3] She later remarried to married Joseph McMinn, who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821, and who as a result became his stepfather.

[1][2][8] They lived in her family home in Nashville, Tennessee called Woodlawn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 21, 1978.

[1] Their two sons, John Henry Williams and Andrew, lived at Woodlawn.

[1] Williams died Dec. 8,1882 at the home of his daughter in Louisville, Kentucky.