Suggested edit: This is my great granduncle. I know the stone says the year of birth was 1850, but it was really 1851 in Franklin County, KY. He was the son of Jacob Duffie Williams and Catharine C Mueller. I left a link to her memorial in another correction. He married Mary Emma Reddish on 2 Jul 1874 in Franklin County, KY, and they had two daughters, Lucy and Eugenia.
He was a lifelong typesetter and printer - as were his brothers - and as was the case with printers of the late 19th century, fell ill with black lung disease from the inks used for newspaper printing at the time. By 1910, when his youngest brother, Otis (also a printer) died, the dues he had paid for years to the International Typographical Union allowed him to enter the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs.
Contributor: Dee Burris Blakley
He was a lifelong typesetter and printer - as were his brothers - and as was the case with printers of the late 19th century, fell ill with black lung disease from the inks used for newspaper printing at the time. By 1910, when his youngest brother, Otis (also a printer) died, the dues he had paid for years to the International Typographical Union allowed him to enter the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs.
Contributor: Dee Burris Blakley
Suggested edit: This is my great granduncle. I know the stone says the year of birth was 1850, but it was really 1851 in Franklin County, KY. He was the son of Jacob Duffie Williams and Catharine C Mueller. I left a link to her memorial in another correction. He married Mary Emma Reddish on 2 Jul 1874 in Franklin County, KY, and they had two daughters, Lucy and Eugenia.
He was a lifelong typesetter and printer - as were his brothers - and as was the case with printers of the late 19th century, fell ill with black lung disease from the inks used for newspaper printing at the time. By 1910, when his youngest brother, Otis (also a printer) died, the dues he had paid for years to the International Typographical Union allowed him to enter the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs.
Contributor: Dee Burris Blakley
He was a lifelong typesetter and printer - as were his brothers - and as was the case with printers of the late 19th century, fell ill with black lung disease from the inks used for newspaper printing at the time. By 1910, when his youngest brother, Otis (also a printer) died, the dues he had paid for years to the International Typographical Union allowed him to enter the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs.
Contributor: Dee Burris Blakley
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