Sarah Jane Williams (1891)

AMOS, STEVENSON, WILLIAMS, WRIGHT, YOWELL

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 3/9/2006 at 19:58:58

The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, January 30, 1891
Page 7

Bevington News Item

The protracted meetings were not carried on last week becuse of the death of Mrs. Williams, the pastor's wife, an excellent christian, highly esteemed by all who knew her. But the meetings are very promising this week, and are likely to do much good.
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The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, January 30, 1891
Page 3

It seems that we were mistaken last week in saying that the death of Mrs. Williams, of St Charles, occurred in the church during service. Such was the report _____ _____, and also in the Des Moines papers, but the truth is she died at her own home. It is not known how the first report started.
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Newspaper Unknown
January 1891

Mrs. Reverend Williams

(A good part of this clipping is illegible but all genealogical material that can be read is included,)

............Ohio, May 25, 1843, and came to Iowa in 1854, and was converted and joined the M. E. church at the age of 15 years in the town of Red Rock, Marion Co., Iowa, under the pastorate of Rev. Lawback, and was a faithful zealous worker up to the time of her marriage which occured Nov. 19, 1866.

In 1883 Rev. Williams took regular work and from that date to the present she filled the place of an itinerant's wife and was a help mate in the true sense of the word. She was a good kind and affectionate mother, and a loving and faithful wife. And in all relations of life her effort was to glorify God and advance his cause. During their itinerant life they served the following charges: Dallas three years, Pleasantville three years, and one and one-half years at St. Charles. In this work she always manifested a deep interest and left a lasting impression on the people where they served. After an illness of about four months she gently passed away - dying Jan. 18, 1891 ......

Relatives and friends from a distance in attendance at the funeral were: T. B. Amos and wife, son-in-law and daughter, of Pleasantville, R. R. Stevenson, brother-in-law and sister of Pleasantville; R. Wright and wife, brother-in-law and sister, of Cordova, Mrs. J. V. Yowell, sister, of Prairie City, Miss Flava Williams, niece of Indianola. Also Mrs. Rev. Preston of Winterset, Mrs. T. J. West, Indianola, and Mrs. Hubbard, Norwalk. The casket was beautifully decorated with flowers and the pall bearers were H. R. Proudfoot, J. M. Killam, John Hartman, J.Y. McGinnis, John Muselman, and Mr. Garman, of Patterson.

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