THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, March 19, 1936

 

Joseph Bargett Williams, one of the two last surviving Confederate veterans in Montgomery County (Tennessee), and grandson of the first white man to settle in Tennessee, died at his home in Idaho Springs, Tenn. a few days ago. He was a brother of Septimus Williams, who is the father of Mrs. Ed Johnson, and lives with his daughter at their Bon Terra Estate home north of Flagler Beach.

The deceased Williams would have been 95 years of age next August, and his brother here is now 89 years old and still active.

A clipping from a Tennessee newspaper said the following about the aged veteran of the war between the states:

"Mr. Williams' death closed the final chapter in one of the most interesting lives in Montgomery County history. He was born at the old Williams homestead on Red River, on August 25, 1841. His grandfather, Septimus Williams, a native of Virginia, came to Tennessee in 1795.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, and at which a special choir sang three songs, including "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground." As the last song was being sung, Mrs. J. Moore Dickson, an official of the Caroline-Meriwether­Goodlett Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, placed the Confederate flag at the head of the grave, and thus ended one of the most interesting lives in that county’s history.”