William Mathews Marks

b. 30 July 1863, d. 28 May 1928
  • William Mathews Marks was born on 30 July 1863 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
  • Spencer Crain Marks and Laura Hall Snodgrass appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Montgomery County, Alabama, and also three servants.. Other members of the household included William Mathews Marks, Mary Ellen Marks.
  • Spencer Crain Marks and Laura Hall Snodgrass appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Montgomery, Alabama, at Bibb Street. Other members of the household included William Mathews Marks, Spencer Crain Marks. There is an 18-year-old nurse in the household, and Laura Marks is enumerated three households away, apparently in error.
  • Spencer Crain Marks and Laura Hall Snodgrass appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama, at 520 Bibb Street and one female domestic servant.. Other members of the household included William Mathews Marks, Ethel Marks.
  • He was a cotton factor, according to the 1900 census.
  • He married Jane Hawkins Andrews, daughter of Alexander Boyd Andrews and Julia M. Johnson, on 10 April 1901 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, at the Church of the Good Shepherd.
  • The following appeared on 11 April 1901 in The Times: (Raleigh, April 10) One of the most brilliant and fashionable marriages celebrated in North Carolina this season was that of Miss Jane Hawkins Andrews, daughter of Col. A. B. Andrews, vice-president of the Southern Railway Company, to Mr. W. M. Marks, a prominent cotton broker of Montgomery, Ala., at 9 o'clock in the Church of the Good Shepherd, this city. The church was profusely decorated and thronged with an audience of Raleigh's most fashionable folk and distinguished people from all parts of this and neighboring States.
         The ceremony was very simple. There were no bridal attendants save ushers. They were Messrs. John, William, Alexander and Graham Andrews, brothers of the bride, and Mr. Watkins Robards, of this city.
         After the ceremony a reception was in progress at the residence of Colonel Andrews, on Blount Street, until 11 o'clock. Nearly five hundred guests attended, and the affair was on a magnificent scale.
         The following were among the guests: Col. A. S. Buford, Mr. W. R. Johnson, Richmond; T. G. Gannon, wife and daughter, Washington, D. C; Colonel and Mrs. John S. Cunningham, N. C; Col. Julian S. Carr, Durham.
         Mr. and Mrs. Marks left on a special train at 12:30 o'clock for a northern tour.
  • William Mathews Marks appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Montgomery, Alabama, at 525 South Perry Street. Other members of the household included Julia Andrews Marks, William Mathews Marks Jr. and Alexander Andrews. Marks.
  • He was a cotton merchant, according to the 1910 census.
  • William Mathews Marks and Jane Hawkins Andrews appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Montgomery, Alabama, at 525 South Perry Street and one female domestic servant.. Other members of the household included Julia Andrews Marks, William Mathews Marks Jr., Alexander Andrews. Marks and Laurence Hall Marks.
  • He was a cotton broker, according to the 1920 census.
  • William Mathews Marks and Jane Hawkins Andrews arrived in the Port of New York on 29 August 1925, accompanied by Julia Andrews Marks, William Mathews Marks Jr., Alexander Andrews. Marks and Laurence Hall Marks aboard the SS Lapland, having departed Cherbourg on the 21st.
  • William Mathews Marks died on 28 May 1928 at age 64 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
  • His wife Jane Hawkins Andrews became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
  • According to W. B. Hall Papers, transcription of births from Bolling Hall's prayer book, "In 1944 Mrs. W. M. Marks, 525 S. Perry St., Montgomery, Ala., owned this prayer book." This would have been the wife of William Mathews Marks, grandson of Bolling Hall. Churchill Marks, who married Sallie Watkins Wood, was a son of William M. Marks' father's brother Samuel Blackburn Marks. William Mathews Marks and Bolling Hall.
  • Last Edited: 10 Jul 2014

Family: Jane Hawkins Andrews b. 4 November 1874, d. 5 December 1952