Mrs. Mary Clarinda Williams, who has made her home for the past ten years with her son, Rollin Williams, at 1124 Thornton Ave., Plainfield, N. J., passed away July 1, 1948, after a long illness, at the age of 95. She was the widow of Francis H. Williams, who died in 1926.
Mrs. Williams was born on a farm near Verona, N. Y., January 14, 1853. She was the last survivor of six children born to the late Alonzo Grant and Mianda Humeston Smith. She was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Verona and had been a regular and devoted attendant at the Plainfield Seventh Day Baptist Church for more than forty years. Mrs. Williams and her husband came to Plainfield from Alfred, N. Y., in 1904.
Besides her son, Mrs. Williams is survived by three grandchildren, Francis S. Williams of Hornell, N. Y., Mrs. James Blackmere, also of Hornell, and Prof. Leland Williams of Alfred University, Alfred; and six great-grandchildren. Another son, Ellis H. Williams of Hornell, died six years ago.
Funeral services were held July 3, at 2 p.m., at the Runyon and Son "Home for Services," Pastor E. Wendell Stephan officiating. Interment took place Sunday in the family plot in Verona Mills Cemetery, Oneida County, N. Y., with Rev. Herbert L. Polan, pastor of the Verona Seventh Day Baptist Church, conducting the committal service. E. W. S.
