Mrs. Etha M. Williams (1897-1974)

ARTHUR, CANADAY, JACKSON, MEEK, MOORE, SHEROD, UNKIRCH, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Volunteer Paul French
Date: 5/20/2006 at 14:07:22

BIRMINGHAM—Mrs. Etha M. Williams, 76, died this morning at the Good Samaritan Home in Keosauqua after a lengthy illness.

Services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. At the BirminghamUnited Methodist Church. Burial will be in Winchester Cemetery. Arrangements are in charge of the Burch Funeral Home.

Mrs. Williams was born September 28, 1897 at Birmingham, the daughter of Henry and Zadie Sherrod Jackson. She was married Oct. 20, 1915 to Orion Meek, who died April 9, 1941. On Dec. 7, 1946, she was married to Ezra Williams. He died Sept. 29, 1964.

Mrs. Williams was a member of the Birmingham United Methodist Church. She is survived by one son, Harold Mee, Stockport; two step-daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Unkrich, Birmingham; and Mrs. Margaret Arthur, Sumner.

Also surviving are one grandson, seven step-grandchildren, one great grandson, 11 step great grandchildren; one brother, Clarence Jackson, Ottumwa; and two sisters, Mrs. Edna Canaday, Birmingham; and Mrs. Alpha Moore, Eldon.

[handwritten date of Sept. 21, 1974]

Source: undated newspaper clipping with no source cited contained in “Family History” of the Barker, Sherod, and Forbes families and descendants compiled by Bernadine Forbes Clark, December 1980.