WILLIAMS, Henry A.: Died 1882

WILLIAMS, BERNHARDT, WINNEY, ANDERSON

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Date: 7/4/2013 at 06:38:54

Henry A. Williams

FARMINGTON - Mr. Henry A. Williams, ??, died Tuesday in the Beezer(sp) nursing home at Bonaparter after a long illness.

Mr. Williams was a member of the Farmington Baptist church, where services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. (CST) by the pastor, the Rev. Ronald Hutching, and a layman, Mr. Robert Anders. Burial will be in Forbes cemetery, at Keosauqua. The body is at Miller Home for Funerals, in Farmington.

A laborer by occupation, Mr. Williams spent most of his life in Jefferson and Van Buren counties. A native Iowan, he was born May 20, 1882, at Iowaville. His parents were Lewis H. and Mary B. Bernhardt Williams. He was married to the late Bessie May Winney in 1904, later he was married to Dorothy Brabham, who also died previously. Three children, five brothers, and three sisters are also dead.

Surviving are two sons and a daughter: Marion A. Williams, Farmington, and Mrs. Shirley Anderson of Kewanee, Ill. There (incomplete)

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 133, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA