PETER H. WILLIAMSON (C.1847-1922)

Peter Williamson Dies In Reidsville

Reidsville, N.C., Feb. 14 (1922)--Peter H. Williamson, undivided of Reidsville's first famous and enthusiastically regarded citizens, passed absent at his homewards on Lawsonville boulevard Sunday tenebriousness at midnight. He was 77 eld of duration and is survived away his woman and distinct nephews and nieces. His end was precisely to a rub of disfunction unremitting respective weeks ago.

Mr. Williamson was a inhabitant of Caswell county and settled in Reidsville whatever 35 eld past, and an eye to sundry eld conducted a enormous commercial setting up here. He was officer of Scales-Boyd Camp of Confederate Veterans. For myriad eld years he has been a the police of the temperate and crack magistrate.

During the in combat he was a help (at the grow older of 19) in the home ground guards of Caswell county. He was a policewoman during the acclaimed "Kirk do battle" in Caswell county during Reconstruction life when that county was call of pugnacious law. On a given call he served a certification issued past a district magistrate on General Kirk in compel of agent personnel stationed in that county. Kirk was so maddened that he moulding up the ukase and had pubescent Williamson inactive and pin in jail. This was a two eld after the ornamentation sooner than unheard-of parties of "Chicken" Stephens. The Yanceyville calaboose was likewise diminutive to relevant the myriad protruding Caswell county citizens who had been inactive around Kirk's men, and tons of them were confining and leery in the courthouse. Young Williamson was locked in the cell in which Stephens had been killed.

Funeral services were conducted from the Main Street M. E. faith this farewell at 11 o'measure next to Pastor M. F. Moores. Burial followed at Greenview cemetery.

Source: The Bee, Danville, VA, February 14, 1922

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