Amelia Worthington Williams

Amelia Worthington Williams (March 26, 1876 – April 14, 1958) was an American historian who researched the Alamo and Sam Houston.

Biography She was born in Maysfield, Texas, on March 26, 1876, to Thomas Herbert and Emma Massengale Williams. She was a collateral descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette. Some of her ancestors had been planters in South Carolina in the antebellum era; later, her father, a veteran of the Confederacy, started a plantation in Milam County.

Williams was an instructor at the University of Texas from 1925 to 1951. She researched and wrote about the Alamo, of which she was considered a foremost authority, and Sam Houston. Portions of the dissertation were published in Southwestern Historical Quarterly in 1933 and 1934. "A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and of the Personnel of its Defenders," Ph.D. dissertation, 1931. Following General Sam Houston, 1793–1836. The Steck Company, 1935. The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813–1863. With Eugene C. Barker. 1837–1843.

Papers Williams' papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin.