Tommie Lee Williams Sr.

Tommie Lee Williams Sr. studied at Alcorn after his military service and became a master plumber, installing the plumbing in the Crawford Street post office. His daughter recalled that he set prices by how customers treated his children. In 1967 he lost his sight and went to a veterans hospital for the blind in Illinois to learn to live without it. In 1972 he founded We Care Community Services in the former Etta O'Neal Library at 909 Walnut Street, serving residents of Warren, Washington, Issaquena, Sharkey and Yazoo counties.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — steps away
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 1.8 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.8 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.

More markers nearby

• Old Natchez District — steps away
• Vicksburg — steps away
• Sheriff Peter Crosby — steps away
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — steps away