Thomas M. Williams

As printed in 1905

THOMAS M. WILLIAMS.

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Mr. Williams was the son of George Mr. Williams engaged in business em-

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€ral branches. moved to Pittsburg, and engaged in the

George MacWilliams was a farmer, manufacture of rope, in concurrence with and lived at Cooteshill, County Cavan, the theory of the physicians that the in-

Ireland. and was married to Elizabeth halation of the fumes of tar used in the

McCrea. He died at the age of twenty- )recess would be beneficial. After living four, leaving a widow and two children, at Allegheny City several years, and his

Thomas and Agnes Nancy. health again becoming precarious, he ac-

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America; but after the passage tickets and household goods by steamer down were bought, the mother was taken sick the Ohio and up the Mississippi River with what was supposed to be only a as far as Galena, but concluded to return severe cold. The doctor ordered her to Burlington, where he had friends, and the seashore to await recovery, and the located on the Irish Ridge road. After son and daughter reluctantly sailed, exfarming for several years, Mr. Williams meeting the mother on the next vessel, removed to the city, bought property

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" ' None knew him but to love him — None named him but to praise.'

He died, as he had lived, without an enemy, and the sympathies of a whole community have followed him to his final resting place on earth.

"His funeral took place yesterday afternoon, and was largely attended, not only by our citizens generally, but by almost the entire Masonic fraternity of the city, of which society he had long been a bright and most honored member, and of which he was grand senior warden for the State at the time of his death."

Mrs. Letitia (Bcnning) Williams, born in Oxford, Pa., Nov. 13, 1805, was the daughter of John and Jane (Hopkins) I'.ending. The father was born at Xewtoncumavady. County Derry, Ireland, 1774, and died at Piiiladelphia when he was forty-five years of age. He came to America when eighteen years old, but returned to Ireland and kept a store at Coleraine until he returned to Amcrica a few years later. He was a man of great enterprise in manufactures and general merchandizing, and accumulated quite a fortune. His religious faith was Presbyterian; in politics a Jacksonian Democrat. His wife, Jane Hopkins, was born at Newtoncumavady within two and one-half miles of the sea, and from their home passing ships were in plain view. The family were of the Covenanter, or Presbyterian, faith. They had nine children, all except the first one born in the United States. Letitia, the fourth child, was married in Philadelphia to Thomas M. Williams, Dec. 3. 1R27, and died at P.burlington, Iowa, March 12, 1883. She was a woman in whom the love of home and family was very strong, a most devoted wife and mother, of marked patience and cheerfulness, facing every peril and trial of life with wonderful endurance and an abiding Christian faith.

Children: George, Elizabeth J., Rev. Addison C, Milton B., Mrs. Matilda W. Power, and Mrs. Letitia C. Waite.

As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.