Halifax-Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Williams, Gertrude Taylor 1942
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 09-18-1942, P. 1
GERTRUDE TAYLOR WILLIAMS

   Mrs. Gertrude Taylor Williams died at her home in Lee Street last Friday 
night, 77 years of age, one of our town’s most useful and prominent women and 
widow of the late William George Williams, who was General Superintendent of the 
Camp Manufacturing Company for many years. She was a native of Como, N.C., a 
daughter of the late William E. Taylor and Mrs. Amanda Cobb Taylor, and had made 
her home in Franklin for more than 50 years.

   Especially active and worth-while in the work of her church, Mrs. Williams 
had been the teacher of the King’s Servants Bible Class for 25 years until her 
health waned a few years ago. She was President of the Woman’s Missionary 
Society of that church for several years, and for eight years was Associational 
Superintendent of the Woman’s Missionary Union of the Blackwater Association. 
Within the long history of the local church, few women indeed have made a 
greater contribution to its progress and missionary endeavors than Mrs. 
Williams.

   Mrs. Williams is survived by two sons, Wharton Williams of Franklin and Frank 
Camp Williams of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; by four daughters, Mrs. Judson Norfleet 
of Newberry, Fla., Mrs. B.B. Alsop of Washington, Mrs. R.J. Tucker and Miss 
Gertrude Williams, both of this town; one brother, John C. Taylor; two sisters, 
Mrs. W.M. Howell and Miss Mary E. Taylor, all of Como; 12 grandchildren and nine 
great-grandchildren.

   Funeral services, attended by an unusually large assemblage of friends, were 
held from the residence Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock, conducted by her pastor, 
Rev. R.D. Stephenson, and the Rev. Gordon L. Price of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.  The 
pallbearers were: Wharton and Frank Williams, Billy Bryant Williams, Billy 
Tucker, Frank Williams, Jr., R.J. Tucker, B.B. Alsop and John A. Williams. 
Burial was made in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.


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