Eldest son of Ben Franklin Williams and Esther Teeter; born on Williams farm near old Bunker Hill schoolhouse in Galena Twp. Married Bertha Ziegler on 31 Jan 1900 in Rose Lake Twp, Osceola County, Michigan at the Rose Lake Methodist Church. Joe's middle initial was recorded as "L" in the 1900 census, which is thought to have been "Leslie" after his uncle James Leslie Williams.
Joe worked the farm of his parents Ben and Esther Williams, particularly since his father's health was not good after the Civil War. Joe and Bertha had one son, Josephus Hart Williams Jr., who was three months old when Joe died at the Williams farm.
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Michigan City News, Galena Township Section, Friday 31 May 1901:
"Joe Williams of Bunker Hill, who has been ill with consumption for some time, died last Thursday morning. He was buried at Rolling Prairie Sunday. Funeral from the house at 11 a.m. He leaves a wife and one child and was a member of the Free Methodist church."
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Indianapolis Patriot Phalanx; Thursday, July 25, 1901:
JOSEPHUS WILLIAMS
"One of our brightest and best young men went to his reward May 31(30), 1901. While the nation was commemorating the services of the heroes of the civil war, this hero in the great moral and political strife with organized greed, as manifested in the liquor traffic, obeyed the Divine summons to lay aside his armor and rest. The son of an old soldier of the 21st Ind. Battery, who cast his first Prohibition vote in 1886 and who voted the ticket until his death in 1895, Joe, as he was familiarly called, early learned the truths of Prohibition. When he reached manhood, he took his stand for political righteousness and always voted for the Prohibition party. He was a candidate for township offices twice and last year was the party nominee for sheriff of LaPorte county. He was a trusted adviser in the party councils in his home county, and the life of large and noble influence was opening before him when he was taken away from loving hearts.
Joe was a model young man in every sense of the word. He grew up to manhood without any of the vices so common to young men of the present day. He was converted in early life, but did not always retain the clear witness of his acceptance with God. But last spring he was fully restored to Divine favor and died in the triumphs of a living faith in Christ.
He was married January 30(31), 1900, to Miss Bertha Ziegler, of Rose Lake, Mich., who with her baby boy, a widowed mother, brothers and sisters and a large circle of relatives and friends mourn his loss. Six cousins acted as pall bearers. Funeral services were held in the M. E. church, Rolling Prairie, Sunday, June 2, at 11.00 am. Rev. C. E. Edinger, Free Methodist pastor of South Bend, preached a powerful and stirring sermon from the words "Whither Goest Thou?". C."
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Joe worked the farm of his parents Ben and Esther Williams, particularly since his father's health was not good after the Civil War. Joe and Bertha had one son, Josephus Hart Williams Jr., who was three months old when Joe died at the Williams farm.
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Michigan City News, Galena Township Section, Friday 31 May 1901:
"Joe Williams of Bunker Hill, who has been ill with consumption for some time, died last Thursday morning. He was buried at Rolling Prairie Sunday. Funeral from the house at 11 a.m. He leaves a wife and one child and was a member of the Free Methodist church."
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Indianapolis Patriot Phalanx; Thursday, July 25, 1901:
JOSEPHUS WILLIAMS
"One of our brightest and best young men went to his reward May 31(30), 1901. While the nation was commemorating the services of the heroes of the civil war, this hero in the great moral and political strife with organized greed, as manifested in the liquor traffic, obeyed the Divine summons to lay aside his armor and rest. The son of an old soldier of the 21st Ind. Battery, who cast his first Prohibition vote in 1886 and who voted the ticket until his death in 1895, Joe, as he was familiarly called, early learned the truths of Prohibition. When he reached manhood, he took his stand for political righteousness and always voted for the Prohibition party. He was a candidate for township offices twice and last year was the party nominee for sheriff of LaPorte county. He was a trusted adviser in the party councils in his home county, and the life of large and noble influence was opening before him when he was taken away from loving hearts.
Joe was a model young man in every sense of the word. He grew up to manhood without any of the vices so common to young men of the present day. He was converted in early life, but did not always retain the clear witness of his acceptance with God. But last spring he was fully restored to Divine favor and died in the triumphs of a living faith in Christ.
He was married January 30(31), 1900, to Miss Bertha Ziegler, of Rose Lake, Mich., who with her baby boy, a widowed mother, brothers and sisters and a large circle of relatives and friends mourn his loss. Six cousins acted as pall bearers. Funeral services were held in the M. E. church, Rolling Prairie, Sunday, June 2, at 11.00 am. Rev. C. E. Edinger, Free Methodist pastor of South Bend, preached a powerful and stirring sermon from the words "Whither Goest Thou?". C."
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Eldest son of Ben Franklin Williams and Esther Teeter; born on Williams farm near old Bunker Hill schoolhouse in Galena Twp. Married Bertha Ziegler on 31 Jan 1900 in Rose Lake Twp, Osceola County, Michigan at the Rose Lake Methodist Church. Joe's middle initial was recorded as "L" in the 1900 census, which is thought to have been "Leslie" after his uncle James Leslie Williams.
Joe worked the farm of his parents Ben and Esther Williams, particularly since his father's health was not good after the Civil War. Joe and Bertha had one son, Josephus Hart Williams Jr., who was three months old when Joe died at the Williams farm.
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Michigan City News, Galena Township Section, Friday 31 May 1901:
"Joe Williams of Bunker Hill, who has been ill with consumption for some time, died last Thursday morning. He was buried at Rolling Prairie Sunday. Funeral from the house at 11 a.m. He leaves a wife and one child and was a member of the Free Methodist church."
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Indianapolis Patriot Phalanx; Thursday, July 25, 1901:
JOSEPHUS WILLIAMS
"One of our brightest and best young men went to his reward May 31(30), 1901. While the nation was commemorating the services of the heroes of the civil war, this hero in the great moral and political strife with organized greed, as manifested in the liquor traffic, obeyed the Divine summons to lay aside his armor and rest. The son of an old soldier of the 21st Ind. Battery, who cast his first Prohibition vote in 1886 and who voted the ticket until his death in 1895, Joe, as he was familiarly called, early learned the truths of Prohibition. When he reached manhood, he took his stand for political righteousness and always voted for the Prohibition party. He was a candidate for township offices twice and last year was the party nominee for sheriff of LaPorte county. He was a trusted adviser in the party councils in his home county, and the life of large and noble influence was opening before him when he was taken away from loving hearts.
Joe was a model young man in every sense of the word. He grew up to manhood without any of the vices so common to young men of the present day. He was converted in early life, but did not always retain the clear witness of his acceptance with God. But last spring he was fully restored to Divine favor and died in the triumphs of a living faith in Christ.
He was married January 30(31), 1900, to Miss Bertha Ziegler, of Rose Lake, Mich., who with her baby boy, a widowed mother, brothers and sisters and a large circle of relatives and friends mourn his loss. Six cousins acted as pall bearers. Funeral services were held in the M. E. church, Rolling Prairie, Sunday, June 2, at 11.00 am. Rev. C. E. Edinger, Free Methodist pastor of South Bend, preached a powerful and stirring sermon from the words "Whither Goest Thou?". C."
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Joe worked the farm of his parents Ben and Esther Williams, particularly since his father's health was not good after the Civil War. Joe and Bertha had one son, Josephus Hart Williams Jr., who was three months old when Joe died at the Williams farm.
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Michigan City News, Galena Township Section, Friday 31 May 1901:
"Joe Williams of Bunker Hill, who has been ill with consumption for some time, died last Thursday morning. He was buried at Rolling Prairie Sunday. Funeral from the house at 11 a.m. He leaves a wife and one child and was a member of the Free Methodist church."
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Indianapolis Patriot Phalanx; Thursday, July 25, 1901:
JOSEPHUS WILLIAMS
"One of our brightest and best young men went to his reward May 31(30), 1901. While the nation was commemorating the services of the heroes of the civil war, this hero in the great moral and political strife with organized greed, as manifested in the liquor traffic, obeyed the Divine summons to lay aside his armor and rest. The son of an old soldier of the 21st Ind. Battery, who cast his first Prohibition vote in 1886 and who voted the ticket until his death in 1895, Joe, as he was familiarly called, early learned the truths of Prohibition. When he reached manhood, he took his stand for political righteousness and always voted for the Prohibition party. He was a candidate for township offices twice and last year was the party nominee for sheriff of LaPorte county. He was a trusted adviser in the party councils in his home county, and the life of large and noble influence was opening before him when he was taken away from loving hearts.
Joe was a model young man in every sense of the word. He grew up to manhood without any of the vices so common to young men of the present day. He was converted in early life, but did not always retain the clear witness of his acceptance with God. But last spring he was fully restored to Divine favor and died in the triumphs of a living faith in Christ.
He was married January 30(31), 1900, to Miss Bertha Ziegler, of Rose Lake, Mich., who with her baby boy, a widowed mother, brothers and sisters and a large circle of relatives and friends mourn his loss. Six cousins acted as pall bearers. Funeral services were held in the M. E. church, Rolling Prairie, Sunday, June 2, at 11.00 am. Rev. C. E. Edinger, Free Methodist pastor of South Bend, preached a powerful and stirring sermon from the words "Whither Goest Thou?". C."
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