Williams, Levi Branson

Birth:	Nov. 13, 1837 Chatham County, North Carolina
Death:	Sep. 26, 1863 Johnston's Island, Sandusky County, Ohio
Burial: Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery             Marblehead, Ottawa County, Ohio             Plot: 26

Military Service:  First Lieutenant, 63rd North Carolina
                             Company E
                             Captured at Piney Creek, Onslow County, North Carolina, March 8, 1863
                             A member of the Gratoit Group
                             Did not escape the Maple Leaf
                             Died at Johnston's Island Prison Camp, September 29,1863
                             Cause of death:  Fever, probably Typhoid
                             Did not survive the war.

Personal Information: 
                    Marriage:  Mary Ann Lindley
                                      4 September 1860
                                      Chatham County, North Carolina

                    Children:  Flora Temperance Williams born 1861

                                     Walter Levi Williams born 1862

              
                    Description:  5 Ft. 10 inches

                    Religion:  Methodist

                    Parentage: Ezekiel Williams
                                      Agness D. Reece Coffin


Some of the Writings of Levi Williams, while in prison at Johnston's Island:

 After the death of his father in 1840, he went to live with his grandfather Nathan Williams, and was raised by him.  His mother remarried and passed away in 1873.

Editors Note**  This biography has been especially hard for me to write, because Levi Williams has become one of my favorites from the Maple Leaf.  Maybe it is because he was so young; maybe it's because he seems so innocent and naïve (considering what he had been through, I'm sure he was not); maybe it's because a life so young and full of promise was snuffed out at such an early age.  His musings come from the tender heart of a poet.  Whatever the reason, it gives me peace to see him treated with such respect at the Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery site on Find-a-Grave.  My thanks to them.  Much of their information has been copied and transferred here, because I could say it no better.  Thank you Find-a-Grave.


Sources:
Find-a-Grave   http://www.findagrave.com
Ancestry  http://www.ancestry.com

"United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1W-BQG4 : 2 April 2015), Levi B Williams, 29 Sep 1863; citing Death, Johnson's Island, Erie, Ohio, United States, p. 494, NARA microfilm publication M918 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1; FHL microfilm 1,024,456.    
Poems and Memoirs of Lieut. Levi Branson Williams. by Levi Branson Williams.  1900.  Out of Print.