Obit for John Wilhight Williams - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

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Source:  THE KINGFISHER TIMES, Thursday, June 24, 1926 - Obituary


John Wilhight WILLIAMS, who was a member of the Union Missionary Baptist 
church, died in his eighty-fifth year at his home here in this city on the 
15th day of June, 1926, after a lingering sickness for more than eight years, 
two years of which time he was utterly helpless and confined to his bed. 

Brother WILLIAMS was born in Madison County, Mississippi, on the 26th day of 
April, 1841.  He was a slave and as soon as the war began he went into the army 
and enlisted in Company C52, Regiment U.S Colored-Infantry.  

After he was discharged from the army he returned to his home in Madison County, 
Mississippi, where he remained untilt the year 1879.  He then removed from his 
home and went to Clay Center, Kansas, where he lived for fourteen years and when 
this country was opened to settlement in 1892, he came here and has ever since 
made this his home.

John Wilhight WILLIAMS was married to Miss Eliza C. O'BANION in Clay Center, 
Kansas, on the 15th day of February, 1889, who survives him. He also leaves 
surviving him his sister, Hattie RUSSELL, and his daughter, Ruth WILLIAMS, of 
Clay Center, Kansas, and son, Fred WILLIAMS of Kingfisher.

There is not an old-timer here in our city, either among the white or colored, 
who does not remember him as one of the foremost workers and had on the full 
order of faith, hope and charity.