Background
Williams, Walter Erskine was born on April 19, 1860 in Collierville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Edmund Jones and Almyra Probert (Smith) Williams.
Williams, Walter Erskine was born on April 19, 1860 in Collierville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Edmund Jones and Almyra Probert (Smith) Williams.
B.Ph., State University of Mississippi, 1885 (winner University senior debaters’ medal).
Admitted Texas bar, 1890, practicing at Fort Worth. Specialist in probate law. Member City Council, Fort Worth, 1894-1896.
Special county judge, Tarrant County, Texas, 1897.
Candidate for congressman at large, Texas, 1932. President General Board of Lay Activities Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1922-1926.
Visited Oriental countries and Europe, 1924-1925, to present plans for a world brotherhood, also correspondent Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and lecturer before the Comparative Law School of China, Shanghai, 1924. Lecturer, Law Department, Southern Methodist University, winter 1931.
Member City Council, Fort Worth, 1894-1896. Member Commision on Nationalism, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Member of commission Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to establish autonomous church in Brazil, 1930.
Member American Bar Association (state council for Texas, 1927-1928.
Mason, Knights of Pythias.
Married Ida East. Quillian, October 19, 1892 (deceased). Married second, Beth F. Rucker, December 27, 1933. Children: Orline Estella (Mistress Louie M. White), Walter Erskine (deceased), Probert Frances, Lillian Gray, Thomas Quillian, Florence Minerva (Mistress J. Turner Llndley), Ida Lois (Mistress North. H. Riveire).