Hubert H. Williams of Boone Lane near Bemis, became a part of our family as he was united in marriage to Betty J. Watlington on July 20, 1950. He is a son of Andrew Leroy Williams and Claribel Robinson of Madison Co., Tenn. On his mother's side he is a descendent of Mathias Boon (b. 1786) who was an early settler in Madison Co., Tenn. Hubert grew up on a farm on Boone Lane and attended school at J. B. Young High School. He entered active service in the U.S. Army June 30th 1943 and took training in various places but ended up in the Infantry Replacement Pool and sailed for the European Theatre on 11 Sept. 44 and was assigned to Company G, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division. The First Division was already engaged in combat with German forces in Germany. They had entered Belgium Oct. 12th and Germany Oct. 13th, southeast of Aachen, Germany. The First Division of First Army had surrounded the city. He went to a foxhole in a defensive position which they held for several days and nights. On November 8 he was wounded in the arm by an enemy shell burst in front of their fox hole. Only slightly wounded, he stayed with his unit which was near the Huertgen Forest. On November 19th Hubert was severely wounded in the back by the explosion of a large caliber shell from the German heavy artillery. He was taken as soon as possible to a field hospital in Germany, Nov. 21-23, then transferred to another temporary hospital in Viebairs, Belgium. for Nov. 23-27. They feared for his life at this point and sent him to a major Catholic hospital in Paris where a thoracic surgeon, Capt. Robert Shaw, was his doctor. They performed two major surgeries and three minor surgeries on him between Nov. 27th and January 5th. Hubert credits this Dr. Robert Shaw (later a Lt. Col.) with saving his life, for some physicians had already given up on him. On Jan. 5, 1945, he was transported by air on a C-47 Transport plane to England, still belted down to a stretcher. This was Hubert's first airplane ride and he couldn't even watch the scenery!! At the 140th General Hospital in England he continued to recover but was hospitalized until he sailed to the U.S.A. on the U.S.S. George Washington hospital ship, landing June 13th, 1945. He was then sent by train to the Kennedy General Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where treatment was continued but by then he was well enough to visit his family in Jackson where he arrived on June 23, 1945. His medical care continued at Kennedy Hospital and with private physicians until his discharge on March 8, 1946. Even then his injuries were so extensive that the full recuperation of his health seemed unlikely and thus he was awarded a medical disability discharge with a partial disability pension. Hubert had two brothers in the Army at this time also, Andrew Leroy Williams, Jr. and David C. Williams. Within a few months Hubert was enrolled in college at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he earned an engineering degree. After graduation he found employment with the Rural Electrification Program in Somerville, Tenn. and later worked many years with the Southwest Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation at Brownsville, Tenn. where he served as manager for many years.