Obit of Mary Williams - Bastrop County, Texas 
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Bastrop Advertisor 4/19/1934

PIONEER WITNESS OF HOUSTON'S INAUGURATION DIES IN AUSTIN

Mrs. Mary Williams, born in 1844 while Texas was still a republic and 
one of the group which witnessed the inauguration of Gen. Sam Houston 
as Texas' first Governor, died in Austin Thursday evening at the home 
of her daughter, Mrs. Paul H. Goldmann, after a brief illness.

Mrs. Williams, who is believed to be among the last of the group 
attending the historic ceremony which made Sam Houston governor, 
was born in Bastrop County of pioneer stock, her family having settled 
in Texas in the early days while the state was still a part of Mexico. 
As a little girl she was brought to Austin by her father, Middleton 
Hill from Bastrop, to see Gen. Houston take the oath of office.

Later came the turbulent days when Texas was embroiled in the Civil 
War, and one by one she watched her four brothers march off to join 
the Confederate forces. War was not for women in those days, but she 
helped her mother to run the household and aid in various ways by 
nursing wounded soldiers who came back to the community and making 
bandages for the men at the front.

She was married in the early '70s after the war, in which her husband 
was a young lieutenant. For a time they lived at Giddings, where he 
husband owned a store. She came to Austin 26 years ago, and has lived 
for many years, with her daughter, Mrs. Goldmann, her only survivor.
- Austin American.