Ancestry of
Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

Charles Bingley Ames

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• • Grandfather of Ben Ames Williams — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Sylvanus Ames Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Lee Johnson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Oct 1812 
  • Birth Location:
  • Amesville, Athens, Ohio 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Aug 1888 
  • Death Location:
  • Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Odd Fellows Cemetery, Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Jane Longstreet
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Sep 1855 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Fisher Ames

  Sarah Marshall Ames (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  Charles B. Ames

• Sources for Charles Bingley Ames

  • ¹ Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981, Lyons, Image 98 of 186.
  • ² Federal Census, MS, Noxubee County, 1880, Macon, E.D. 31, p. 9, Image 8 of 41.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 18076, Supplemental 01, Application for Sarah Ethelyn (Ames) Hefty.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/27/2023).
  • ⁵ Jackson County, Ohio Genealogical Society, Jackson County, Ohio: History and Families, 175th Anniversary, 1816-1991, Vol. 1, Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company (1991), 211.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 202.
  • ⁷ Willard, Eugene B., et. al., A Standard History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, n. p.: The Lewis Publishing Company (1916), 797.