34. Henry Julius Williamson was born on Dec 19 1875.(36) He was an Accountant for Cleveland Creamery Company in Cleveland, Ohio. (37) According to Earl Eugene Williamson, Henry Julius Williamson attended Hiram College.
He was married to Ruth Valda Gaylord (daughter of
Sylvester Gaylord Jr and Maria McMillen) on Dec 20 1899.
(38) Ruth Valda Gaylord
was born on Dec 26 1874 in Stow, Ohio.(39)
It is rumored that Ruth Valda Gaylord was half American Indian. Earl
Eugene Williamson, son of Gaylord Sylvester Williamson, reports that he remembers
that, as a young child, he was lying in bed with his grandmother, Ruth Valda
Gaylord Williamson, and she told of an Indian man who would come to visit her
and her mother in their cabin in Michigan. Earl also reports that he heard from
his aunt, Valda Gaylord Williamson Hamilton, that her mother (Ruth Valda Gaylord
Williamson) was half Indian (I have heard this rumor in the past as well). Earl
reports that there is a UP Michigan branch of the Gaylord family (perhaps with
Minnesota connections), and a Summit County, Ohio branch. Ruth Valda was born
in Michigan or Minnesota, but her Uncle Eugene (for whom Earl is named) encouraged
her to move to Ohio.
According to Earl, Ruth had a sister whom he called "Aunt Sadie" and
an "Uncle Eugene" Gaylord. It was this uncle, who resided in Minneapolis,
for whom Earl was given his middle name. Henry Julius Williamson and Ruth Valda
Gaylord had the following children:
+53 i.
Ruth Valda Williamson.
+54 ii.
Henry Julius Williamson.
+55 iii.
Gaylord Sylvester Williamson.
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