Susie Cribs in the Hospital in the 1940s
This is my grandmother on my father's side of the family Susie Cribs from Montgomery, Alabama. My grandfather was her 2nd husband, William Jackson Williams II.
Native American; William Jackson Williams Father
William Jackson Williams, the father of William Jackson Williams II lived on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in Oklahoma then moved to Houston, TX. In the early 20th Century, he worked on a fishing boat to feed his family when one day when coming home from work, he encountered the KKK, who shot and killed him.
In the day, Native Americans where not protected by law. They could be shot and killed like dogs and the law would protect their killers from prosecution. His son and Susie had no choice but to move out of Texas in fear of their lives. From that day forward, the Williams family called themselves Black (Negro was the name in that day) instead of Cherokee as protection against people wanting to kill Native Americans.
Susie Cribs, the mother of William Jackson Williams II
and
Wife of William Jackson Williams
Another Picture of Susie Cribs
Susie Cribs had a daughter who died in the Yellow Fever outbreak in the early 20th Century.
William Jackson Williams II
and
his wife Jean Julia Brown Williams
They were married at First Baptist Church in Steelton, Pa.
in 1941.
William Jackson Williams II
and
his wife Jean Julia Brown Williams
in the late 1960s.
The first son of Susie Cribs, half brother of
William Jackson Williams II
William Jackson Williams III (left), Darnell Lamont Williams (Center), Jean Renee Williams (right)
The three Children are the children of half brother
William Jackson Williams II
and Jean Julia Brown Williams
This picture was taken in Glen Hazel Heights Projects in the City of Pittsburgh, Pa.
William Jackson Williams II and his first born
Caption William Jackson Williams III
William Jackson Williams III enlisted in the late 1960s during the Vietnam War. He went to officer training school. He was a graduate of Juanita College and the University of Michigan Masters Degree Program. He had two children by his first wife, Anita, named Wendy and Doug.
Jean Renee Williams Barbour Hoy and Ronald Barbour had two children;
Ronald Barbour II and Julie Blankenship Barbour;
Ronald Barbour (back Center)
1. Myah Elizabeth Barbour (left)
Julie Blankership Barbour (right)
2. Henry Jackson Barbour (Center)
And
Jason and Heather Barbour Koprivich
Heather Robynn Barbour Koprivich;
1. William Gregory Koprivich
William Koprivich (Left)
2. Colin James Koprivich
Colin James Koprivich
Darnell Lamont Williams at work for Allegheny County on his IBM 360 Computer in the early 1970s. At the time, this computer was one of the most powerful computers in the world.
Today, it would not power your cell phone.
Darnell married Amanda Ann Porter in 1972.
Seen here with their youngest daughter Amanda Ann Williams II at Little People's Daycare.
Does she look something like Susie?
Here is an indication that our family was intermixed with Native Americans. Amanda was born looking like a Native and Asian. You can also see some resemblance to Susie.
The oldest child, Stephanie Ann Williams.
Here is Stephanie's family.
She married a Jamaican, Damine Tulloch and
had Daniel the oldest and David the youngest.
Wyndell R. Williams(top left), the youngest and last child to William Jackson Williams II and Jean Julia Williams.
Wyndell R. Williams and his wife Patrice Church Williams.
Two Creek people whose territory is Alabama. Do these people look like Susie?
Could Susie be part or all Creek? Could she be mixed with Africans because of the slave trade? After all, the Creeks were also marched to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears. Both Cherokee and Creeks are mixed with African people.
Trail of Tears - Native American History - HISTORY.com
Pain of 'Trail of Tears' shared by Blacks as well as
Native Americans
Both the Cherokees and the Creeks were taken to the same place by President Jackson's Administration. Here is the reason why Native Americans do not want Andrew Jackson's picture on their currency.
