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C. H. and Caroline Yoe Foundation
HALL OF HONOR 2003
Amelia
Worthington Williams, Ph.D.
Rev.
James Knox Newton’s Maysfield School ca. 1890
Maysfield,
Milam County, Texas, is still a farming area producing much more than cotton
and feed grains; it has nurtured successful lives none better than Amelia
Worthington Williams, Ph.D., Texas historian. Sixty years have passed since
she completed her work that remains a world standard. Amelia made history
when she became the leading authority on the most celebrated military
engagement in Texas history—the siege and fall of the Alamo in San Antonio
in 1836. She was a member of the history faculty of The University of Texas
at Austin 1925-1951; it was there that she also collaborated with Eugene C.
Barker on the 8-volume The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1836.
Earlier, before she earned her Ph.D. in 1931, she taught at San Gabriel,
Marlow, Branchville, Baileyville, and Cameron at both Cameron High School
and its 1921 successor, C. H. Yoe High School. Still earlier she completed
studies at Stuart Seminary in Austin, Ward-Belmont Seminary in Nashville,
and Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. The Williams lot at
Little River Baptist Church cemetery is Dr. Williams’s final resting
place, near Jones Prairie and Maysfield in northeast central Milam County
marked by Little River as it winds toward the Brazos River. Milam County was
home.
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