Abraham H. Williams, also known as 'Abram,' was a multiracial man born in 1838 to Peter and Nancy Williams in Lowell, Massachusetts. He married Mary Haskell on January 4, 1863, in Gloucester, when he was 24 and she was 18. The couple lived in Wenham, where Mr. Williams worked as a shoemaker.
Mr. Williams enlisted in Boston on June 29, 1863, and was drafted into the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry on January 22, 1864, for a three-year term. He served on the USS Wabash and performed detached service at the Brazos Railway in Texas. Mr. Williams was honorably discharged at the expiration of his service on October 31, 1865, in Clarksville, Texas, after the Civil War ended.
On February 12, 1870, Mr. Williams was incarcerated in the Massachusetts State Prison. He died there on September 3, 1878.
Plot 4: Abraham H. Williams
