CANON CITY DAILY RECORD, CANON CITY, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO - JANUARY 2, 1946
ONE OF PIONEER RESIDENTS OF REGION SUCCUMBS
Mrs. Nora Williams of 522 West Main street, Florence, resident of Fremont and Custer counties since 1864, died at a Canon City hospital at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. She entered the hospital on December 29.
Mrs. Williams was 83 years of age. She was born in Illinois on September 29, 1862. When she was two years of age she came with her parents to what is now Custer county, and had resided in this vicinity in the intervening 81 years. She was one of the area's oldest pioneer residents.
In her long life in the Wet mountain valley and later in Florence, she saw Silver Cliff boom under the impetus of mining to become one of Colorado's leading communities.
For many years she and her husband, the late John T. Williams, who died in 1931, operated a café in Westcliffe. Following his death, Mrs. Williams moved to Florence to make her home with a daughter, Mrs. James Lennox. A son, Arthur, also resided in Florence.
Other surviving sons and daughters are Mrs. Maude Traylor of Randsburg, Calif., Miss Henrietta Williams and Azor G. Williams of Monticello, Callif., John F. of Cheyenne, Wyo., Mrs. Elizabeth Schwasnick of Sidney, Neb., and Mrs. Evelyn Fuller of Greenville, Mich; twenty grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Williams was a member of the Florence Presbyterian church. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Holt mortuary of Florence.
ONE OF PIONEER RESIDENTS OF REGION SUCCUMBS
Mrs. Nora Williams of 522 West Main street, Florence, resident of Fremont and Custer counties since 1864, died at a Canon City hospital at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. She entered the hospital on December 29.
Mrs. Williams was 83 years of age. She was born in Illinois on September 29, 1862. When she was two years of age she came with her parents to what is now Custer county, and had resided in this vicinity in the intervening 81 years. She was one of the area's oldest pioneer residents.
In her long life in the Wet mountain valley and later in Florence, she saw Silver Cliff boom under the impetus of mining to become one of Colorado's leading communities.
For many years she and her husband, the late John T. Williams, who died in 1931, operated a café in Westcliffe. Following his death, Mrs. Williams moved to Florence to make her home with a daughter, Mrs. James Lennox. A son, Arthur, also resided in Florence.
Other surviving sons and daughters are Mrs. Maude Traylor of Randsburg, Calif., Miss Henrietta Williams and Azor G. Williams of Monticello, Callif., John F. of Cheyenne, Wyo., Mrs. Elizabeth Schwasnick of Sidney, Neb., and Mrs. Evelyn Fuller of Greenville, Mich; twenty grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Williams was a member of the Florence Presbyterian church. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Holt mortuary of Florence.
CANON CITY DAILY RECORD, CANON CITY, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO - JANUARY 2, 1946
ONE OF PIONEER RESIDENTS OF REGION SUCCUMBS
Mrs. Nora Williams of 522 West Main street, Florence, resident of Fremont and Custer counties since 1864, died at a Canon City hospital at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. She entered the hospital on December 29.
Mrs. Williams was 83 years of age. She was born in Illinois on September 29, 1862. When she was two years of age she came with her parents to what is now Custer county, and had resided in this vicinity in the intervening 81 years. She was one of the area's oldest pioneer residents.
In her long life in the Wet mountain valley and later in Florence, she saw Silver Cliff boom under the impetus of mining to become one of Colorado's leading communities.
For many years she and her husband, the late John T. Williams, who died in 1931, operated a café in Westcliffe. Following his death, Mrs. Williams moved to Florence to make her home with a daughter, Mrs. James Lennox. A son, Arthur, also resided in Florence.
Other surviving sons and daughters are Mrs. Maude Traylor of Randsburg, Calif., Miss Henrietta Williams and Azor G. Williams of Monticello, Callif., John F. of Cheyenne, Wyo., Mrs. Elizabeth Schwasnick of Sidney, Neb., and Mrs. Evelyn Fuller of Greenville, Mich; twenty grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Williams was a member of the Florence Presbyterian church. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Holt mortuary of Florence.
ONE OF PIONEER RESIDENTS OF REGION SUCCUMBS
Mrs. Nora Williams of 522 West Main street, Florence, resident of Fremont and Custer counties since 1864, died at a Canon City hospital at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. She entered the hospital on December 29.
Mrs. Williams was 83 years of age. She was born in Illinois on September 29, 1862. When she was two years of age she came with her parents to what is now Custer county, and had resided in this vicinity in the intervening 81 years. She was one of the area's oldest pioneer residents.
In her long life in the Wet mountain valley and later in Florence, she saw Silver Cliff boom under the impetus of mining to become one of Colorado's leading communities.
For many years she and her husband, the late John T. Williams, who died in 1931, operated a café in Westcliffe. Following his death, Mrs. Williams moved to Florence to make her home with a daughter, Mrs. James Lennox. A son, Arthur, also resided in Florence.
Other surviving sons and daughters are Mrs. Maude Traylor of Randsburg, Calif., Miss Henrietta Williams and Azor G. Williams of Monticello, Callif., John F. of Cheyenne, Wyo., Mrs. Elizabeth Schwasnick of Sidney, Neb., and Mrs. Evelyn Fuller of Greenville, Mich; twenty grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Williams was a member of the Florence Presbyterian church. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Holt mortuary of Florence.
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