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Uriah Judge Williams

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Uriah Judge Williams

Birth
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
Death
10 Mar 1923 (aged 76)
Cloud County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Agenda, Republic County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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URIAH WILLIAMS, a pioneer settler of the Minersville neighborhood, was found dead last Saturday morning, in a granary on his farm some three miles west of Hollis. He had evidently placed a halter rope around his neck, fastened the other end over a rafter, while standing on a bunk he had used as a bed and swung off. His body was found about 8:00 o'clock by his wife. Besides his wife he is survived by six sons and six daughters. He was born in Pontypool, South Wales, March 8, 1847, and was therefore two days over 76 years of age. The family came to this country in 1849, first locating at Scranton, Pa., and came to Cloud County in 1869, his parents taking a claim on Upton Creek, in Lawrence township, this county. Shortly after the discovery of the mines at Minersville, the Williams family moved there and were among the best known of that place in the days of its greatest prosperity. He was a hard worker always, whether in the mines or on the farm where he and his family had lived for many years, and where he came to his tragic death. It is said that he ended his life because of ill health and on account of domestic troubles which caused him to live in the farm granary, apart, from his wife. the cause of his death was so apparent that no inquest was held in the case. Funeral services were held at Minersville on Monday afternoon at 2:30 and burial was in the Smuck cemetery.
[Smuck cemetery -- actually he was buried at Zion Cemetery, 2 miles south of Talmo]
[Evan Walker, brother-in-law of William Henry Williams, brother of Opal Ione Walker, advised Uriah Williams probably had "Black Lung" from the coal mines, as he could hardly talk towards the end; sorta wheezed all the time.]
URIAH WILLIAMS, a pioneer settler of the Minersville neighborhood, was found dead last Saturday morning, in a granary on his farm some three miles west of Hollis. He had evidently placed a halter rope around his neck, fastened the other end over a rafter, while standing on a bunk he had used as a bed and swung off. His body was found about 8:00 o'clock by his wife. Besides his wife he is survived by six sons and six daughters. He was born in Pontypool, South Wales, March 8, 1847, and was therefore two days over 76 years of age. The family came to this country in 1849, first locating at Scranton, Pa., and came to Cloud County in 1869, his parents taking a claim on Upton Creek, in Lawrence township, this county. Shortly after the discovery of the mines at Minersville, the Williams family moved there and were among the best known of that place in the days of its greatest prosperity. He was a hard worker always, whether in the mines or on the farm where he and his family had lived for many years, and where he came to his tragic death. It is said that he ended his life because of ill health and on account of domestic troubles which caused him to live in the farm granary, apart, from his wife. the cause of his death was so apparent that no inquest was held in the case. Funeral services were held at Minersville on Monday afternoon at 2:30 and burial was in the Smuck cemetery.
[Smuck cemetery -- actually he was buried at Zion Cemetery, 2 miles south of Talmo]
[Evan Walker, brother-in-law of William Henry Williams, brother of Opal Ione Walker, advised Uriah Williams probably had "Black Lung" from the coal mines, as he could hardly talk towards the end; sorta wheezed all the time.]

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