Abraham H. Williams, also known as "Abram," was a Black 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 Hamilton, where Mr. Williams worked as a shoemaker. Their son, Francis Henry Williams, was born in December 1864.
Mr. Williams enlisted in Boston on June 29, 1863, and was drafted into the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry on February 22, 1864, for a three-year term. He served aboard the USS Wabash on the side of the Union and performed detached service at the Brazos Railway in Texas. He was honorably discharged at the end of his service on October 31, 1865, in Clarksville, Texas, after the Civil War.
On February 12, 1870, Mr. Williams was incarcerated in the Massachusetts State Prison. He died there on September 3, 1878, around the age of 40.
Plot 4: Abraham H. Williams
