Williar, Rebekka Charlotte 1828-1909

WILLIAR, EYLER, KILMER, ATWOOD

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 4/15/2016 at 12:49:58

The Grinnell (IA) Herald
Aug. 31, 1909

MRS. J.A. WILLIAR

Rebekka Charlotte Eyler was born in Frederick county, Md., November 28, 1828. She was married to John Adams Williar January 9, 1856 and moved to Chester township, Poweshiek county, Iowa, in the fall of 1877, and to Grinnell in 1895.

In October of 1905 she moved to St. Hilaire, Minn. Her husband died in Chester March 24, 1894. Mrs. Williar was mother of eleven children and is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Emma Kilmer of Brook Park, Minn., and one granddaughter, Mrs. Emma Atwood of St. Hilaire, Minn. She died at the home of Mrs. Atwood in St. Hilaire on August 25, 1909.

Services were held at St. Hilaire, conducted by Rev. S.T. Palm, pastor of the Lutheran church. Services at Chester were conducted by Professor Horn of Grinnell. Burial was at Chester cemetery, August 28, 1909.