John Green Williams
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John Green Williams (1796 – December 15, 1833) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.[1] He was the father of the missionary Episcopal Bishop for China and Japan, Channing Moore Williams.
Born near Culpeper, Virginia to William Clayton Williams and Alice Grymes Burwell, Williams had several brothers (including Lewis Burwell Williams who also became a lawyer and delegate for Orange County, Virginia in 1833) and sisters.
He married Mary Ann Cringan on February 28, 1821, in Richmond, Virginia, and was active in the Episcopal Church (particularly Richmond's Monumental Church) as well as the Common Hall. In 1830, the Williams family included six children and two slaves (a man older than 55 and a young woman between 19 and 23 years of age).[2] Their children included the future Rev. William Clayton Williams (long-time rector in Rome, Georgia), Rt. Rev. Channing Moore Williams (1829–1910), attorney John Green Williams Jr. (1823–1870), Robert Findlater Williams (1831–1893), Alice Burwell Williams (1827–1896, who married Carter Harrison and became a widow after the first Battle of Manassas in 1861) and Mary Ogilvie Williams (1826–1864, who married Hubert Pierre Lefebvre).