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Thomas McCall Williams was born in 1835 in Lebanon, TN. He married Nancy (Nannie) Wilson, born March 20, 1837 also in Lebanon, TN. Civil War records show that Thomas enlisted into the Confederate Army on December 20, 1861, serving with Company E of the 44th Regiment of the Tennessee Infantry. Records also indicate he was wounded at Perryville, KY on October 1, 1862 and again at Dewry's Bluff on May 16, 1864 and was sent to a Confederate hospital in Richmond, VA. On April 15, 1865 he was captured as a prisoner-of-war by the Union Army at Bull's Gap, TN and forwarded to the Commissary of Prisoners in Louisville, KY where he remained until the end of the war and was released on June 13, 1865 after pledging allegiance to the United States at Camp Chase, Ohio.
Shortly after this he moved his family to Hickman County, making the trip by covered wagon. A 1887 map of Hickman County shows he owned a farm in the Springhill community. It is said that they named their son, William Banks, after Major-General Nathaniel Banks, who Thomas served under during the Civil War. He and his wife are buried in the Springhill Cemetery. Children born to Thomas and Nancy were: