Anna Eliza Williams

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• Name	Anna Eliza Williams  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	25 Dec 1824 North Carolina, USA [1, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Birth	25 Dec 1824 Pennsylvania, USA [2, 5]
  Residence	1850 North Ward, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [4]  –  24 Age: 24
  Residence	1870 Ward 8, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [5]  –  Age: 42; Occupation: Keeping House
  Residence	1880 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [3]  –  Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head: Self
  Residence	Jun 1890 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [6]
  Conference	25 May 1891 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [7]  –  AME Zion Church Conference 1891_ Telegraph_Josephine Bibb-C.M. Robinson-Annie Amos
  Race	Mulatto [4, 5]
  Name	Ann E Amos [4]
  Name	Annie E Amos [5, 6, 8, 9]
  Name	Hannah E Williams
  Occupation	Teacher
  Died	25 Mar 1911 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [2]
  Buried	​ 201 South 30th, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [9, 10, 11]
  	Lincoln Cemetery
  Notes	Anna “Annie” Eliza Williams Amos. Her mother was a native of France who married a West Indian sailor who she met in Martinique. Anna’s father was lost at sea three months before her birth on December 25, 1824, and her mother then emigrated to North Carolina the following year. Anna and her mother lived in North Carolina for six years before they moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There she met and married Aquila H. Amos and settled at 432 South Avenue in Harrisburg’s Eigth Ward. The couple were dedicated abolitionists and their home operated as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Aquila Amos experienced abuse and violence for his antislavery views and was even arrested for aiding freedom seekers in violation of the Fugitive Slave Law. In addition to her antislavery activity, Anna Amos was a founding member of the Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church and operated a kindergarten at the church for the education of African American children. She served as assistant superintendent to the church’s Sunday School for twenty years, and served as a teacher for 40 years. During the Civil War, her husband Aquila Amos enlisted with the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry and rose to the rank of sergeant. After the Civil War, Anna Amos traveled to North Carolina to become a teacher as a Freedman’s School established in Concord, North Carolina to provide education to the area’s formerly enslaved people. She subsequently returned to Harrisburg and founded the Independent Order of the Daughters of Temperance of the State of Pennsylvania. She led the organization and was instrumental in the construction of a Temperance Hall dedicated on May 14, 1896 that became the center of both temperance and woman’s suffrage activity in Harrisburg. Aquila and Anna Amos were both laid to rest in the Lincoln Cemetery.
  Person ID	I166 SOALsearch
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024

  
  
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  Father	John Williams b. 1800, France
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Cannot Find Out Williams b. 1800, France
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F69 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Aquilla H Amos, I (Age 51 years) b. Abt 1823, York, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1 Jan 1874, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 51 years)
  Children	1. Thomas E Amos (Age 85 years) b. 22 Oct 1843, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 8 Oct 1929, Gibsonia, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 85 years)  [natural]   2. William I Amos (Age 0 years) b. Dec 1850, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 21 Jul 1851, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years)  [natural]   3. James H Amos (Age 0 years) b. 1854, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 9 Oct 1854, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years)  [natural]   4. John W Amos (Age 4 years) b. 1847, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 8 Nov 1851, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 4 years)  [natural]   5. Charles H Amos (Age 0 years) b. 14 Dec 1859, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Dec 1859, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years)  [natural]   6. Maria L Amos (Age 31 years) b. 1844, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 24 Apr 1875, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 31 years)  [natural]   7. Sarah A Amos b. 1852, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA  [natural]   8. Aquilla W Amos, II (Age 14 years) b. 1858, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 26 Jul 1872, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 14 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F68 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Anna R Amos Photographed during SOAL Cleanup at Lincoln Cemetery. See our Facebook page @SavingOurAncestorsLegacy.
  		Amos-Anna E. - Block E - 2022-11-13 -0718

  
  

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  [S2] Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). [S2] Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 023151-026570. [S47] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1880; Census Place: Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1123; Page: 356C; Enumeration District: 094. [S8] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Harrisburg North Ward, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: 774; Page: 55a. Record for Ann E Amos https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8054&h=308020&indiv=try [S69] 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1870; Census Place: Harrisburg Ward 8, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1334; Page: 358B. Record for Anna Amos https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7163&h=4504363&indiv=try [S65] 1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Series Number: M123; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Vet. [S1667] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 25 May 1891 - Page 1, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 25 May 1891;), AME Zion Church Conference 1891_ Telegraph_Josephine Bibb-C.M. Robinson-Annie Amos. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99091319/ame-zion-church-conference-1891/?xid=637 [S63] U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, National Archives and Records Administration, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;). [S3] U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S4] Findagrave, (Location: Penbrook, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA; Date: 1885;), Anna R Amos unknown. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/231420730/anna-r-amos [S632] Lincoln Cemetery Grave Markers, Rachael Williams, (Name: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy; Location: Pennsylvania; Date: 2021;), Amos, Anna (Annie) Elizabeth Williams. Block E. SOAL recovered, treated with D2, and reset 2022.