Marcellus Alphonso Williams
(1818-1888)

Died aged c. 70

Marcellus Alphonso Williams was born in North Carolina in 1818 and came to Florida in 1847. Beginning as an apprentice surveyor that year, he became one of the most influential land agents in Florida. He spent much of his life surveying land grants along the St. Johns River, the Okefenokee Swamp, the Everglades and St. George Island near Apalachicola. In the 1850s he worked on behalf of the Florida Railroad, surveying its line from Fernandina to Cedar Key and then to Tampa. After the Civil War, he was a partner in the land firm of Williams, Swann and Corley. Marcellus Alphonso Williams died in 1888.

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