The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Ann
Surname: Williams

Gender: Female

Birth date: 13 September 1825

Birth place: Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 8 June 1910

Death place: Greenville, Beaver, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 10 June 1910

Burial place: Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: David Williams
Mother: Margaret Edwards

Siblings

William Williams (1826-1851)

Married 8 August 1846 in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, Wales * Rhymni, Monmouthshire, Wales

Richards, William Morgan (1826-1880)

Married 26 August 1851 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales * Merthyr Tudful, Glamorganshire, Wales

View Sources

1851 UK Census	Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1860 US Census	Beaver City, Beaver, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
1870 US Census	District No.7 Greenville, Beaver, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Greenville Precinct, Beaver, Utah	Extract	Image
1900 US Census	Greenville Precinct, Beaver, Utah	Extract	Image
1910 US Census	Greenville Precinct, Beaver, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 4 February 1854 aboard the ship Golconda.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 18 March 1854.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 15 July 2019), Ann Williams entry, Company Unknown (1854).

"Saints by Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 15 July 2019), Ann Richards entry, age 28, arrived 18 March 1854 on the Golconda.

Extracted from the Autobiography of William Morgan Richards:

Ann was the daughter of David and Margaret Edwards Williams who were both faithful Baptists. Ann was one of nine children. When the youngest child was 18 months old all the family removed to Swansea, Glamorganshire. After twelve months they moved to Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. Her father gave up farming and went to work on a railway. After twelve months a piece of rock fell on him and killed him on the spot. He was buried in the Felinfoel Chapel graveyard. Two years later Ann's mother died and was buried in the same grave. All the children were left fatherless and motherless and were scattered about. When she was about eleven years old Ann moved to Rhymney where she wnet into service for her board and clothing. She was in several places until she was twenty-one years old, and she had an excellent character for her duties and honesty. On 8 August 1846 she married William Williams, a collier. Twelve months later her husband broke his backbone and was for three-and-one-half years unable to do anything to move of himself. He died 14 April 1851.

On 26 August 1851 she married William Morgan Richards, a young widower who had lost his wife, Mary Thomas, about two years earlier and his little girl a few months after that. They came to America on the "Golconda" in 1854. Ann's brother David Edward Williams (22 Nov 1822) and their sister Elizabeth Williams (22 Mar 1816) had also converted to Mormonism. Both died in Greenville, Beaver County, Utah.

Ann's niece Elizabeth Williams (2 July 1850) - the daughter of David Edward Williams by his first wife Jane Rees - became her sister-wife on 22 July 1865.