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Author: dblbrlslngshot
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it's highly likely that the man known as serma, simeon, SCB, Sinna, synacher and
Tinecherly Williams was one Solomon Williams who married a woman named Elizabeth lamb. he
was an elder son of enoch Williams and jemima Phillips. Solomon and Elizabeth may have
converted to Mormonism from the quaker faith after Mormon wagon trains moved through
Indiana in the 1830s, and he was probably a polygamist. both Solomon and Elizabeth appear
to have had intimate knowledge about the shakers, because her name appears as
"Elizabeth lee" and "anna lee" on some documents and pedigrees, after
a leader of the shaker movement named ann lee. a shaker song was believed to have been
inspired by an angel of light named "sina cherub," and sinna cherub Williams is
shown to have married one sallie Gillespie in northwest Missouri, the same part of
Missouri where a synacher and Elizabeth Williams appear on an 1860 gentry county census.
the west union cemetery where they were buried was probably name!
d after the west union shaker settlement in knox county, Indiana, and some people who
ceceded from the shaker faith probably relocated to morgan county, Indiana where Solomon
and Elizabeth lived. here are solomon and Elizabeth's obituaries and burial records:
http://mooresvillelib.net/obitsystem/obitview.asp?ObitID=16557&iTens=...
http://mooresvillelib.net/obitsystem/obitview.asp?ObitID=16558&iTens=...
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=williams &GSfn=solomon
&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=17&GScnty=846&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=69973324&df=all&
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