The Lincoln Star, Sunday, July 1 or 4,1926: 
Obituary
Mrs. Mary C. Williams

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary C. Williams were held at the First Plymouth 
Congregational church Wednesday, June 30 at 2 o'clock. Rev. Etvine Inglis, 
pastor of the Vine Congregational church and T.S. Dunn, pastor of the Rokeby 
Congregational church, officiating. Charles Putney sang, accompanied on the 
organ by Mrs. Carrie Raymond.

The pall bearers representing friends at First Plymouth and Rokeby were:
Arthur J. Charles, W.G.S. Cook, G.O. Loos, S.A. Anderson, George Allen, 
Henry J. Banister. 

Hononrary pall bearers representing the W.C.T.U. were:
Mrs. Allie Jackson, Mrs. E. Peterson, Mrs. Logan A. Rogers, Mrs. M.E. Pierce, 
Miss Ether(sic) Rogers, Mrs. W.W. Pierce, Mrs. John C. Kern, Mrs. George R. 
Burgess, Mrs. Oscar Reddish, Mrs. Herbert L. Angelo, Mrs. J.J. Jones, Mrs. 
Hardin R. Angelo. Burial was in Yankee Hill cemetery.

Mary Catherine Brown, daughter of Samuel and Mary ? Brown was born on a 
farm near Bryan Williams county, Ohio, February 14, 1853 and passed away 
in Lincoln, Neb., June 28, 1926.

She grew to womanhood on the farm in Ohio and fitted herself for teaching.  
She began her work when young, teaching in Ohio and Iowa. In 1871 her 
father brought his family to Nebraska and came into Lincoln on the first 
Burlington train coming in here. Here she taught in Yankee Hill precinct at 
Pleasant Hill and Yankee Hill. Among her pupils were Judge Allen W. Field, 
now deceased, his sister Sugent? ?. Field Worlev of the Methodist mission 
in China, Mary Horn Charles, deceased and Jessie Gurnaet(?) Safford of 
Yankee Hill.

On November 27, 1873, Thanksgiving day, Miss Brown was married to 
Anson S. Williams who died in 1908. Of their eight children, four preceded 
her in death. Ella, Ralph and Myron all died in 1887, Homer died in 1923.
The survivors are George J., and Frank A. of Lincoln and Watson and 
Mrs. Helen Wiebusch of Broken Bow, Neb.  She also leaves eight grandchildren.

Mrs. Williams was of pioneer ancestry, her parents being natives of Ohio and 
she brought to Nebraska, fifty-five years ago, the enterprising spirit and 
courageous vision of the pioneer. Primarily a home woman devoted to her 
family, her interest and sympathy embraced the community, the county 
and the state till the ever widening circle included not only our own nation 
but foreign lands.

Mr. Williams came from Massachutts (sic) in 1869 and his farm in Yankee Hill 
precinct was the home. Their house was always open to the community and 
was a center of influence for everything helpful and elevating.

Mrs. Williams was a member of the Plymouth Congregational church until the 
organization of a Congregational curch at Rokeby of which she was a charter 
member. After the death of her husband she came into Lincoln to live and 
returned to the membership of Plymouth.

She was also a charter member of the Yankee Hill W.C.T.U., which was 
organized in 1889.

In the church work and temperance work she was untiring. She was deeply 
interested in the introduction of temperance instruction into the schools.  
For years she attended also to the distribution of literature.

Mrs. Williams had a rare executive ability and during all these years she filled 
at various _____ offices in the gift of the church and the union.

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