Hulda Williams
Sept. 19, 1846-July 30, 1936
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, July 30, 1936, page 1, col. 3-4, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Hulda Williams, Resident of Niles 87 Years, is Stricken
Mrs. Hulda L. Williams, one of the oldest residents of Niles, a lifelong member of the Methodist church, and one of the widely known of the few remaining pioneers, died this morning at 10:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Williams would have realized one of her ambitions of her later life had she lived until Sept. 19, that of becoming 90 years old. Although her health had been failing for some time, she had been seriously ill only six weeks. A stroke Tuesday night is believed to have hastened her death, which was attributed to a heart attack.
She died at 742 Maple street, the home in which she had lived for nearly 74 years. With her at the time of her death were her daughter, Mrs. Mabel M. Washburn, her only surviving relative, Mrs. Washburn's husband, Lion Washburn, and their daughter, Dorothy M. Washburn.
Mrs. Williams was the last member of the Wing Family , who came to Niles 82 years ago. Nathaniel Wing, her father, with his family, traveled by ox cart from their home in Bangor, Me., and reached Niles eleven years before the opening of the Civil war. Mrs. Williams had been a resident of Niles since that time.
Though Mrs. Williams had been feeble for a number of years, her hands were never idle. Her many friend remember her as she sat in her sunny window piecing the quilts for which she was justly famous.
Her wish to remain in the old home to the last has been respected. Her funeral services will be held there, although the definite date has not been decided.
Mrs. Williams was a member of the Ladies of th G.A.R., a lifelong member of the Methodist church, and long an active church worker. She was present at the laying of the corner stone of the present building.
Mrs. Williams was born in Bangor, Maine, Sept. 19, 1846. She had lived in Niles nearly 87 years.
She was the mother of ten children all of whom are dead. Three of them will be recalled by a number of Niles persons, Charles, Bertie and Ida May. Charles, the last survivor of the family of ten, died in 1909.
Niles Daily Star, Friday, July 31, 1936, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles News in Brief: WILLIAMS RITE MONDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Hulda L. Williams, pioneer who died Thursday morning at her home, 742 Maple street, will be Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence. The Rev. W.W. Slee, Coldwater, former pastor of the Methodist church here, will officiate, and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.