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Subject: [KYBATH] Mrs. W.H. Williams-Obit
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:03:44 EDT

>From microfilm at the Bath Co. Library
Outlook
26 Oct 1893
Mrs. Minerva Williams, wife of Esquire Wm. H. Williams, died of fever at
about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning Oct 24 at her home at the Old Slate Furnace
Place, near town.
Mrs. Williams was attacked by a severe spell of fever during the past summer.
She lingered along and appeared to be getting well slowly after the severity
of the first attack abated. But the first of the week she suffered a relapse
and her physician saw that the end was near at hand. All that loving
ministrations could effect was done to make her last hours as easy as
possible, and she fell into the last sleep, no more to awake in a troubled
world.
Mrs. Williams was born near this town 54 years ago, and had resided in the
county all of her life. She was a daughter of Richard and Margaret Stamper.
Her sister, Mrs. Rueben Traylor, of Pendleton County, is the only surviving
child of her father's family. She was married to Wm. H. Williams when a
young woman and lived happily with him the balance of her life. The husband
and the following children survive: Mrs. George Robertson, of Salt Lick
Creek; John W., Keeper of the County Infirmary; William, of Hazelton, Kan.;
Smith of Frankfort, Kan; Mrs. Lizzie Rodgers, of near town; Joseph, of
Preston; and Elva and Lou, the two latter living at home.
Mrs. Minerva Williams was a superior woman and one endowed with the
noblest qualities of wife, mother and friend. She was idolized by her husband
and children, and richly did she deserve it. She was the queen of her own
home, and ruled her subjects by the intensity and unselfishness of her love.
She was the embodiment of all the womanly virtues, and will be missed and
mourned by each member of her family as long as they survive. She possessed a
wide circle of fiends who loved and esteemed her for her kindnesses, tactful
resources, gentle ministrations, and all those neighborly acts prompted by an
unselfish friendship.
Funeral services were held at the residence on Wednesday and at 10 o'clock
a.m., the remains were interred in the Owingsville Cemetery in the presence
of a large number of sorrowful relatives and friends.

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