Ellen Ann Williams, daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Saloma Hall Williams, was born in Royalton, Niagara county, New York, Aug. 16, 1841, and died at her home in Darlington, Wis., Jan. 10th, 1904. When a small child, her people moved to Illinois and settled near Scales Mound. She received her early education at a little school near Scales Mound and the graded school in the village, and later attended the Warren Academy at Warren, Ill., after which she taught, for several years, in Scales Mound and vicinity. She recieved her college education at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.
At the age of twenty she was immersed and joined the Free Will Baptist church. She possessed no small amount of literary talent and during her school days and until she became too deeply engrossed in her home duties, she devoted much time to that work. She has left numerous compositions, both in poetry and prose, which are highly valued.
During the Civil War her parents moved to Warren, Ill. and there she was married to Charles Richmond Bridgman of Wiota, Wis., Nov. 5, 1865. They settled on a farm nwo in the township of Lamont, where they resided until the fall of 1895, when they moved onto the Chamberlian farm near Darlington and in 1899 moved into thte city, where they have since resided.
Mrs. Bridgeman was the mother of six children. Her husband and five children survive her: Wilbur Henry, Stanley, Wis., Halcyon Bertha, died April 14, 1876, John Charles, Chicago, Benjamin William, Phillips, Wis., Ellen Carlotta, now Mrs. S.P. Huntington, Green Bay, Wis., and Rhoda Saloma of Darlington.
Mrs. Bridgman had suffered from poor health for nearly a year; she was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago last September, where she remained for treatment for nine weeks, receiving no permanent benefits. She returned home Nov. 14th and from that time failed rapidly until she departed this life.
The Republican Journal 4 Feb 1904
At the age of twenty she was immersed and joined the Free Will Baptist church. She possessed no small amount of literary talent and during her school days and until she became too deeply engrossed in her home duties, she devoted much time to that work. She has left numerous compositions, both in poetry and prose, which are highly valued.
During the Civil War her parents moved to Warren, Ill. and there she was married to Charles Richmond Bridgman of Wiota, Wis., Nov. 5, 1865. They settled on a farm nwo in the township of Lamont, where they resided until the fall of 1895, when they moved onto the Chamberlian farm near Darlington and in 1899 moved into thte city, where they have since resided.
Mrs. Bridgeman was the mother of six children. Her husband and five children survive her: Wilbur Henry, Stanley, Wis., Halcyon Bertha, died April 14, 1876, John Charles, Chicago, Benjamin William, Phillips, Wis., Ellen Carlotta, now Mrs. S.P. Huntington, Green Bay, Wis., and Rhoda Saloma of Darlington.
Mrs. Bridgman had suffered from poor health for nearly a year; she was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago last September, where she remained for treatment for nine weeks, receiving no permanent benefits. She returned home Nov. 14th and from that time failed rapidly until she departed this life.
The Republican Journal 4 Feb 1904
Ellen Ann Williams, daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Saloma Hall Williams, was born in Royalton, Niagara county, New York, Aug. 16, 1841, and died at her home in Darlington, Wis., Jan. 10th, 1904. When a small child, her people moved to Illinois and settled near Scales Mound. She received her early education at a little school near Scales Mound and the graded school in the village, and later attended the Warren Academy at Warren, Ill., after which she taught, for several years, in Scales Mound and vicinity. She recieved her college education at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.
At the age of twenty she was immersed and joined the Free Will Baptist church. She possessed no small amount of literary talent and during her school days and until she became too deeply engrossed in her home duties, she devoted much time to that work. She has left numerous compositions, both in poetry and prose, which are highly valued.
During the Civil War her parents moved to Warren, Ill. and there she was married to Charles Richmond Bridgman of Wiota, Wis., Nov. 5, 1865. They settled on a farm nwo in the township of Lamont, where they resided until the fall of 1895, when they moved onto the Chamberlian farm near Darlington and in 1899 moved into thte city, where they have since resided.
Mrs. Bridgeman was the mother of six children. Her husband and five children survive her: Wilbur Henry, Stanley, Wis., Halcyon Bertha, died April 14, 1876, John Charles, Chicago, Benjamin William, Phillips, Wis., Ellen Carlotta, now Mrs. S.P. Huntington, Green Bay, Wis., and Rhoda Saloma of Darlington.
Mrs. Bridgman had suffered from poor health for nearly a year; she was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago last September, where she remained for treatment for nine weeks, receiving no permanent benefits. She returned home Nov. 14th and from that time failed rapidly until she departed this life.
The Republican Journal 4 Feb 1904
At the age of twenty she was immersed and joined the Free Will Baptist church. She possessed no small amount of literary talent and during her school days and until she became too deeply engrossed in her home duties, she devoted much time to that work. She has left numerous compositions, both in poetry and prose, which are highly valued.
During the Civil War her parents moved to Warren, Ill. and there she was married to Charles Richmond Bridgman of Wiota, Wis., Nov. 5, 1865. They settled on a farm nwo in the township of Lamont, where they resided until the fall of 1895, when they moved onto the Chamberlian farm near Darlington and in 1899 moved into thte city, where they have since resided.
Mrs. Bridgeman was the mother of six children. Her husband and five children survive her: Wilbur Henry, Stanley, Wis., Halcyon Bertha, died April 14, 1876, John Charles, Chicago, Benjamin William, Phillips, Wis., Ellen Carlotta, now Mrs. S.P. Huntington, Green Bay, Wis., and Rhoda Saloma of Darlington.
Mrs. Bridgman had suffered from poor health for nearly a year; she was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago last September, where she remained for treatment for nine weeks, receiving no permanent benefits. She returned home Nov. 14th and from that time failed rapidly until she departed this life.
The Republican Journal 4 Feb 1904
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