The only daughter of Thomas Simpson, Esq. & Margaret Neil, Ann came with the family from Pennsylvania to Ann Arbor, in Washtenaw county, Michigan about 1828. In about April of 1830 the family had moved again to Pontiac, in Oakland county. It was during this time the Simpson family became acquainted with Maj. Oliver Williams' family, who were of the area's early pioneers in 1819. Again the Simpson family moved, in 1832, to Saginaw.
She became Mrs. Alpheus F. Williams on May 8, 1836 in Saginaw, Michigan.
She went west with her husband in the early days of the Gold Rush in California, returning with him to Michigan via Panama aboard the S.S. "George Law" in June of 1857 to retrieve their children (who were being schooled in the "peninsula state") for their final move to Oakland, California.
(Almost four months after the Williams family made this trip, the S.S. "Central America" - formerly the "George Law" - on September 9th, 1857 was caught in a disastrous hurricane off the Carolina coast and sank within three days, September 12th. The worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, this tragedy claimed 425 souls, and 21 tons of California gold.)
Ann spent the remaining years after her husband's death in 1884 doting on her many grandchildren. She survived her husband by almost 20 years, passing at her residence on Telegraph St. in Oakland, Alameda, California.
She became Mrs. Alpheus F. Williams on May 8, 1836 in Saginaw, Michigan.
She went west with her husband in the early days of the Gold Rush in California, returning with him to Michigan via Panama aboard the S.S. "George Law" in June of 1857 to retrieve their children (who were being schooled in the "peninsula state") for their final move to Oakland, California.
(Almost four months after the Williams family made this trip, the S.S. "Central America" - formerly the "George Law" - on September 9th, 1857 was caught in a disastrous hurricane off the Carolina coast and sank within three days, September 12th. The worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, this tragedy claimed 425 souls, and 21 tons of California gold.)
Ann spent the remaining years after her husband's death in 1884 doting on her many grandchildren. She survived her husband by almost 20 years, passing at her residence on Telegraph St. in Oakland, Alameda, California.
The only daughter of Thomas Simpson, Esq. & Margaret Neil, Ann came with the family from Pennsylvania to Ann Arbor, in Washtenaw county, Michigan about 1828. In about April of 1830 the family had moved again to Pontiac, in Oakland county. It was during this time the Simpson family became acquainted with Maj. Oliver Williams' family, who were of the area's early pioneers in 1819. Again the Simpson family moved, in 1832, to Saginaw.
She became Mrs. Alpheus F. Williams on May 8, 1836 in Saginaw, Michigan.
She went west with her husband in the early days of the Gold Rush in California, returning with him to Michigan via Panama aboard the S.S. "George Law" in June of 1857 to retrieve their children (who were being schooled in the "peninsula state") for their final move to Oakland, California.
(Almost four months after the Williams family made this trip, the S.S. "Central America" - formerly the "George Law" - on September 9th, 1857 was caught in a disastrous hurricane off the Carolina coast and sank within three days, September 12th. The worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, this tragedy claimed 425 souls, and 21 tons of California gold.)
Ann spent the remaining years after her husband's death in 1884 doting on her many grandchildren. She survived her husband by almost 20 years, passing at her residence on Telegraph St. in Oakland, Alameda, California.
She became Mrs. Alpheus F. Williams on May 8, 1836 in Saginaw, Michigan.
She went west with her husband in the early days of the Gold Rush in California, returning with him to Michigan via Panama aboard the S.S. "George Law" in June of 1857 to retrieve their children (who were being schooled in the "peninsula state") for their final move to Oakland, California.
(Almost four months after the Williams family made this trip, the S.S. "Central America" - formerly the "George Law" - on September 9th, 1857 was caught in a disastrous hurricane off the Carolina coast and sank within three days, September 12th. The worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, this tragedy claimed 425 souls, and 21 tons of California gold.)
Ann spent the remaining years after her husband's death in 1884 doting on her many grandchildren. She survived her husband by almost 20 years, passing at her residence on Telegraph St. in Oakland, Alameda, California.
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