OBIT: Howard M. WILLIAMS, 1899, Riggles Gap, Blair County, PA

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HOWARD M. WILLIAMS.

  To our Bellwood correspondent we are indebted for the following:
  Howard M. Williams, a well known young man of Antis township, died 
very suddenly at the home of his uncle, Michael Nearhoof, on Saturday 
evening about 6 o'clock of neuralgia of the heart.  Mr. Williams was a 
carpenter by trade and was building a front porch for his uncle.  
During the day he was apparently well until at the supper table he 
complained of feeling sick.  He left the table and walked out in the 
air.  The men followed him to the barn and found him very sick.  In a 
few moments he died.  A doctor was summoned, but his coming was in 
vain, for the patient was too quickly beyond the reach of remedies.  
For eight years Mr. Williams had taught school in Antis and Logan 
townships and during that time had won many friends.  He was a very 
fine young man and his sudden death will be a grief to a large circle 
of acquaintances.  He was 38 years of age and made his home with his 
aged mother, Mrs. Mary Williams, at Riggles Gap, Antis township.  One 
sister, Ella, and two brothers, Wilfred and Stewart, all at home, 
survive him.  The funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 10 
o'clock a.m., as Asbury church, where his remains will be laid to rest.

Morning Tribune, Monday, July 3, 1899