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Sarah Dougherty Williams

27 Sep 1846 – 28 May 1924

Birth27 Sep 1846
Death28 May 1924
CemeteryNew Hope Cemetery
Burton , Howard County , Missouri , USA
Added byDavid Sharp on 16 Jul 2015
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HIGBEE NEWS (Randolph Co MO)--Friday, 30 May 1924, Vol 38 No 6--Mrs. Sarah Williams Dead--Mrs. Sarah Williams, a former well known resident of the Myers vicinity, died at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of her daughter, MRS. JOHN GILVIN, of Ft. Worth, Texas. The body will arrive over the Katy today and interment will be made at New Hope by the side of her husband, JACOB WILLIAMS, who died some five or six years ago. Mrs. Williams was a daughter of the late "JIMMIE" DOUGHERTY and was 78 years old. --Friday, 6 June 1924, Vol 38 No 7--Mrs. Sarah Williams, brief mention of whose death was made in our last issue, died at the home of her daughter, MRS. JAS. GILVIN, in Ft. Worth, Texas, at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, May 29, 1924, her death following an illness of seven hours, resulting from an attack of heart failure. Deceased was the daughter of the late "Jimmie" Dougherty, and was born in Howard county on September 27, 1846, and was in her 78th year. She was married to JACOB WILLIAMS in 1863, and is survived by their three children--MRS. GILVIN and Mrs. BETTIE GEORGE of Ft. Worth, and Mrs. CORA GRACE of Oklahoma--four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters--Mrs. ANNIE ATKINS of this place, and Mrs. MARY GEORGE of Armstrong, and five brothers, S. E. DOUGHERTY of this place, WOOD, TIM, JEFF and JOE, all of the Myers vicinity, besides a host of more distant relatives and a legion of friends. She spent most all of her life on a farm near Myers, near where she was born, moving to Higbee five years ago, and following the death of Mr. Williams about a year later went to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Gilvin. The body, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Gilvin, Mrs. Betty George, Mrs. Cora Grace, and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. George, the former a grandson, arrived Friday and was taken to New Hope, where funeral services were held by the Rev. E. M. Richmond, in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends, and where interment was made by the side of her husband. Deceased was a devout member of the Christian church, with which she united in early girlhood, and held her membership with the church at New Hope.

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