!BIRTH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Ancestral File; ; The Church of Jesus C hrist of Latter-day Saints, CD-ROM dated 21 Aug 1992, Information sub mitted by...; St George Regional FHC/FamilySearch Home Field Trial, s earched Jan-Mar 1995; [shared byMary Bond <rbond@@erols.com>] The writing of Mary Coffin Johnson (written about 1899) concerning her great grandmother, Charity Williams. "Charity Williams Hiatt, the daughter of Richard Williams and Prudence Beales, was born at Monocacy, Prince Georges Co., Maryland, the 5th mo. 6th, 1750.  She was but a young child when her parents removed to Guilford Co., NC.  She married at 19 years of age William Hiatt, son of George Hiatt and Martha Wakefield Hiatt the 5th mo, 17th da, 1769.  They had a family of ten children, of whom Benajah Hiatt, my grandfather, was the eldest.  All of their children were born, and brought up and married in North Carolina. In her girlhood, she was accustomed to attend her father's still. Those were days in which intoxicants were used in every household.  Small still houses were erected on the springs, brooks and creeks, in which barley, Indian corn and a superior peach brandy was distilled for private family and neighborhood use.  These liquors were of the purest and of excellent quality. Charity Williams possessed an unusually jovial and humorous nature, a characterestic she retained to the end of her long life.  This, it is said, she inherited from the Williams side of her ancestry. Always mirthful and of a kindly disposition, the neighbor's children were delighted and danced up and down when they saw her coming.  These children remembered her for more than fifty years after she had quitted the earth, with happiest recollections.  All who knew her counted her as a most agreeable companion and friend.  One of her great grand daughters tells us that a babe was born in their home one night and great grandmother walked over the following day to visit the little newcomer.  Taking him in her arms, she asked if he had been given a name.  The reply was that he had not. "Well," she said, "He shall be called William Hiatt Coffin, in memory of my dear husband." In her later years she always walked with a cane. In dress she wore waists separate from the skirt, much like the present day style "Jackets".  She often wore them in white with a wide white apron. On the 20th of August 1824, she joined a colony of Friends of which her son, Benajah Hiatt and his family were of the number, and emigrated to Indiana, a new state.  They traveled with one carriage and one covered wagon, which contained household goods and necessary traveling equipment.  They camped in tents at night.  Her grandson, John and his wife Rebecca, newly wed, slept in the wagon.  The journey occupied six weeks.  On reaching Indiana they settled at Milton, and great grandmother resided with her son Benajah Hiatt a year or more.  Afterwards, her home was with her youngest daughter, Rebecca Unthank at Spiceland, twenty miles distant, until the close of her life. Both Charity and her husband were active, substantial Quakers.  It was placed upon the records of the church in the peculiar expression of their times, that "they were orderly and exemplary Friends." Charity died aged 89 years and 9 months and is laid to rest in the old section of the burial ground near the Friend's Church in Spiceland, Indiana."