Mystery Man Identified

From the Burnet County TXGenWeb website:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txburnet/WilliamsUnk.html

Archie Dee Williams (1894–1955)
Born 15 MAY 1894 in Oakalla, Burnet County, TX
Died 19 JUL 1955 in Baytown, Harris County, TX
Photograph taken in Oakalla in 1911 at age 18

A veteran of WWI, Archie was the third of eight children of lifelong Burnet County residents Jonathan "Babe" Williams (1867–1956) and Liller Virginia "Sis" Reavis Williams (1869–1947).

Burnet County World War I Veteran

WILLIAMS ARCHIE D
US ARMY 1917-19 WWI
SERIAL NO 223 97 48
41ST CO 11TH REC BN 162ND DEPOT BRIG

Archie Dee Williams, born May 15th, 1894 in Oakalla, was the third of eight children born to Jonathan "Babe" Williams and Liller Virginia "Sis" Reavis Williams. On October 7th 1917 at the age of 23, Archie had joined the U.S. Army and reported to the 162nd Depot Brigade at Camp Pike, in Pulaski, Arkansas. As a Wagoner with the 41st Company of the 11th Receiving Battalion, he was commissioned until January 25, 1919 when he returned home from service in France to his family farm. As shown here, Archie's uniform tunic features the red Discharge Stripe on his left arm with three War Service Chevrons on the sleeve; on his right sleeve is a Wound Chevron. On his left collar is the T disc emblem for TRAIN issued to troops serving on ammunition and service supply trains. Archie's skill and familiarity with moving heavy horse-drawn wagons and large farm equipment, as well as his family's then-new Ford Model A truck, would undoubtedly serve the Army well in its transportation efforts. Shortly after the war, Archie married his sweetheart Tommie Lee Taylor (1903-1961) of Lampasas. They moved to what is now Baytown, Texas and had a boy and a girl: Donald Alvis Williams (1923-1993) and Lois Marie Williams (1925-1991). He worked for the Humble Oil and Refinery company until his death in 1955.   Below: Archie's WWI draft card, his widow's application for his military marker, and his gravesite. He is buried next to his wife at the Memory Gardens cemetery in Baytown.

The Babe Williams Family of Burnet County in 1912

Taken in 1912 by Babe's brother Joe, this portrait shows Babe and Sis Williams with their eight children. Standing L to R are Naomi, Lillie, Leona, Arthur, and Archie; seated L to R are Carl, Babe, Claude, and Sis. Standing in front is Hermer, the youngest. By age:

Jonathan "Babe" Williams (1867–1956)
Liller Virginia "Sis" Reavis (1869–1947)
Leona Williams (1889–1961) never married
Arthur Alvin Williams (1891–1969) married Bessie Ola Swinney
Archie Dee Williams (1894–1955) married Tommie Lee Taylor
Lillie Perline Williams (1896–1968) never married
Naomi "Omi" Williams (1898–1969) married Edwin Buell Goodwin
Claude Oliver Williams (1900–1967) married Hazel Thelma Frazier
Carl Elvin Williams (1902–1924) never married
Hermer Chester Williams (1909–1982) married Grace Marie Cameron

The youngest of eight children, "Babe" Williams was born in Burnet County in 1867, on his father Jonathan "Jack"'s homestead on the south bank of the Lampasas River between Oakalla and Maxdale, where Jack had settled in 1856. At 21 Babe married the 18 year-old Liller Virginia "Sis" Reavis, whose large family lived on the north side of the river; two of his brothers had already married Reavis sisters.

By the 1940s, three of the Williams sons (Arthur, Archie, and Claude) had moved their families near each other to Pelly (now Baytown) near Houston. Babe, Sis, and their other five children are buried in the old Gillum Cemetary in Oakalla.