Maynard Williams was born on May 20, 1895 in Trigg County, Kentucky. He was the second of seven children born to Robert Henry Williams and Lucy Agnes Adams Williams. Robert and Lucy were both natives of Trigg County, Kentucky where Robert was a farmer. Lucy was a homemaker and was a descendant of Perry Thomas. Maynard’s siblings were Johnnie Rhea Williams, born in 1893 and married Robert Rutherford Hinson; Beulah Pearl Williams, born in 1896 and married Thomas Dudley Ford; Clarence Leslie Williams, born in 1899 and married Lizzie Mae Mize; Maggie Grace Williams, born in 1901 and married Samuel David Downs; Mallie Helen Williams, a twin to Maggie born in 1901 and married William Terry Fowler; and Joe Bailey Williams, born in 1904 and married Nellie Pieper.
Maynard grew up in an area between Linton, Kentucky and the Boyd’s Hill Church community which was known as Williams Hollow, because so many Williams families resided there. He attended the Graham School where he was an avid baseball player and was known for his softball pitching ability. . But a baseball career was not to be in his future.
On February 25, 1918, Maynard entered the U.S. Army near the end of World War I and departed for Europe on July 9, 1918. He served in Germany in Company E, 1st Pioneer Infantry. Also serving in the same regiment was his friend and cousin, James Garnett Thomas, who had joined the Army the same time as Maynard. James was killed in action and buried in Germany. Maynard attended his funeral in Germany and also later when his body was returned to Trigg County. When Maynard was discharged from the Army on July 24, 1919, he had been promoted to the rank of Corporal.
Maynard married Kitty Dorothy Mize on November 10, 1919. Kitty was born on July 31, 1900 in Trigg County and was the daughter of Robert Bailey Mize and Kennie Cunningham Mize, both natives of Trigg County where Robert was a farmer.
Maynard became a farmer and he and Dorothy resided in the Williams Hollow where Maynard lived for more than 50 years. He continued to farm until 1952 when he and Dorothy moved to the Pete Light Spring community. He then became a school bus driver for the Trigg County School system. After several years of driving the school bus, Maynard’s health began to fail and they moved to a home on the South Road of Trigg County where he lived at the time of his death.
Maynard and Dorothy were the parents of seven children, Geneva Wiliams, born in 1921 and died at the age of two; Garnett Wade Williams, born in 1923 and named after his WWI friend, and married Margaret Ann Thomas; Eulala Williams, born in 1925 and married Julian Clyde Sumner, Jr.; Irma Maxine Williams, born in 1927 and married Howard Blane Ford; Carl Bernard Williams, born in 1929; Norma Jean Williams, born in 1933 and died at the age of two; and Glenda Joyce Williams, born in 1936 and married Horace D. Grant and later married James Louis Hancock and Jerry Pepper.
Maynard died on May 11, 1975 at the age of 79 at the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz. He was buried in the Fuller Cemetery in Trigg County. Dorothy died just a little over two months later on July 23, 1975 at the age of 74 at her home on the South Road. She was buried in the Fuller Cemetery next to her husband.
LINEAGE: (Maynard Williams was the son of Robert Henry and Lucy Agnes Adams Williams, the grandson of John Wylie and Martha Jane Coleman Adams and the great-grandson of Alfred Boyd and Alpha Thomas Coleman. Alpha was the second child of Perry and Elizabeth Bridges Thomas. Perry was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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