Madge Cleveland Williams

(Mrs. C.J. Williams)

January 5, 1917

MRS. C.J. WILLIAMS DIED AT HOSPITAL

After Several Weeks Illness Young Wife of Popular Rice Grower Expires

Death at all times is sad, but

it is particularly so when the

clammy fingers of the dark

angel touches one who has not

'attained the prime of life; and

such an one was his victim

when at the hospital here Tues-

day night Mrs. C.J. Williams,

on the threshold of motherhood,

passed away.

Only last March the Specta-

tor published the notice of her

marriage. Today it chronicles

her death. As Miss Madge

Cleveland, daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. J.N. Cleveland of Glen

Flora, she was beautiful and

accomplished, and when she was

wooed and won by Mr. Clarence

J. Williams, it was in truth said

that a happy marriage had been

consumated, for under most

auspicious surroundings they

began housekeeping, each a

helpmeet[sic] to the other, and the

future full of promise. Then

she fell ill. Everything that

love could suggest or that

money could provide was done,

but she became worse, and final-

ly Death claimed her for his

own. To a broken-hearted

young husband and to the be-

reft parents and brothers goes

out the heart-felt sympathy of

the entire community.

Mrs. Williams was but 23

years of age. She was a mem-

ber of the Baptist church, and

the funeral services were con-

ducted by Rev. Thornton A.

Payne of the First Baptist

church of Wharton Wednesday

afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The

funeral was held from the resi-

dence of Mr. and Mrs. J.H.

Herring, qand the interment was

in the City Cemetery.

The floral offerings were

many and beautiful.

This obituary from an original obituary in the Wharton Spectator dated January 5, 1917 at Wharton County Historical Museum. Transcribed by Janet Barrett Hobizal. Back To Obituaries

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