Month: November 2010

In genealogy, you start with what you know, working backwards in time from your most recent ancestors.  That’s what I’m doing with the migrating Williams Family.  We know Mom and Dad met and married in El Paso, but before that, the family headed by Jess C. Williams aka Popsy resided in Fabens, Texas.  Elizabeth [Mom] was ten, Louise was eight, and Jerry was only two when Popsy purchased the Fabens Waterworks in 1931. (1)  They lived there until 1939, the year Mom graduated from high school, a period roughly commensurate with the Depression. 

Fabens lies between El Paso and Sierra Blanca, so Uncle Jerry and I stopped there on our way to see cousin Tom D.  Continue reading “Before El Paso, there was Fabens”

Just after I landed in El Paso last month (but after lunch, of course), my aunt and uncle took me on sightseeing tour — sort of Homes-of-the-Stars, the Williams Family version.

Our first stop was Awbrey Road in the Lower Valley.  This house, 147 Awbrey, was where our grandparents, Jess and Amy Williams (better known to us as Mopsy and Popsy), lived when Mom and Dad met and married in 1944 and where oldest sister spent her first few months. (1) Continue reading “El Paso Places”