Orville Ansel Williams, son of Ray and Mary Lawton Williams, died at his home near New London, town of Verona, N. Y., Wednesday morning, November 30.
He was born July 12, 1824, on the place which has always been his home. He was one of the oldest residents in town and the last of a family of eight children. He was converted in youth, baptized, and united with the First Verona Seventh-day Baptist Church. On September 15, 1862, he was married to Margaret Senn, who survives him. He is also survived by three children, Mrs. H. E. Davis of Verona, Arthur R. and Irving J., who reside on the old homestead, and by six grandchildren, besides numerous other relatives.
A noble man has fallen. He was an ideal companion and father in his home, being of a calm, even temperament, kind, generous, sympathetic and a wise counselor. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, firm and unswerving in principles he believed to be right, having been a strong abolitionist when to be such was very unpopular. Although he had passed the eighty-sixth mile-stone, his mind was unclouded and he read with great interest the Sabbath Recorder and other literature of the day. Possessing a pleasing personality he won a host of friends, by whom he will be greatly missed.
Funeral services at church, Sabbath morning, December 3. Text, Gen. xxv, 8, 9. H. C. V. H.
