See http://www.steen-frost.org/Pub/Docs/Timmons_files/1873_Life_Book.pdf for William Timmons autobiography, called “Life Book.” The on-line version, supplemented with extensive footnotes, was prepared from a photocopy of the handwritten original provided to Jean Timmons by Mary Marlowe, daughter of Mary Eunice Irving, who is the grand-daughter of William Timmons.

"Another circuit rider, Bill Timmons, lived near Old Camp a few miles west of Carrollton, although he lies buried at Smyrna, another community. Timmons was particularly noted for his great piety. Among his self-imposed rules was his refusal to eat bread baked with soda. All six of his sons followed in their father's footsteps and became Methodist ministers." (p. 57)

-- At Home in Carrollton, A History Illustrated, 1827-1994. Ben Griffith, writer; Jan Ruskell, editor; Carroll County Historical Society, 1995; rev. 2003.


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1. “My father was a holiness man of a high order” -- Thomas Holmes Timmons, “Ancestral Etchings”
2. "Could be heard praying w/ family a mile away."
3. In his Life Book, Chapter III, William Timmons mentions a brother-in-law named Henry Roggers.
4. The McCorkle-Timmons genealogy records his name as “William Turner Timmons.”