(1809–1849)
Susanna M. Williams was born in North Carolina and moved with her father, Solomon Williams, one of Stephen F. Austin‘s Old Three Hundred colonists who received title to a sitio and a labor [177.14 acres] of land in the area of present Matagorda and Waller counties on August 7, 1824. He was born in 1785 in North Carolina and raised near his neighbor Churchill Fulshear who was also an Old Three Hundred colonist. The city of Fulshear is named for Churchill Fulshear. Williams served in the War of 1812. In Texas, he voted in the alcalde election at San Felipe in December 1824 and in January 1827 signed a statement declaring loyalty to the Mexican government and protesting the Fredonian Rebellion.
Susanna’s mother is unknown. She is also an Old Three Hundred colonist of Texas.
In 1830 she married Geroge William DeMoss in Matagorda County. Together they had two children, George Washington and Henry. DeMoss died in 1838. Susanna married Enoch Morgan Thomas in 1840, and their children were Martha, Nathaniel, Sarah Catherine, and Ann Elizabeth “Eliza”. Susanna died shortly after Ann Eliza was born.
She is buried in Old Columbia Cemetery next to her husband, Enoch Thomas.
There are no headstones or other markers on their graves.
Handbook of Texas Online author unknown (1952, Updated September 1, 1995) https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/williams-solomon
Avera, Winston C. Jr. (December 11, 2024)
