Navarro County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Williams, A  J 1916
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The Blooming Grove Rustler Sept 14, 1916
A.  Jefferson Williams

The Blooming Grove Rustler Sept 14, 1916

A. J. Williams (better known as Uncle Jeff) died July 24, 1916. To all
appearances as near a painless death as mortals have when the soul leaves the body.

Mr. Williams was born in Florida, Washington County, Feb 29, 1847, was a soldier
of the Civil War for two years. Had an honorable discharge at Houston, Texas, 1865.

Came home and married Miss Owens. Two children were born to them. He lost his
children when they were young.
Domestic trouble came over his home. The dark clouds of sorrow and death came
near destroying his reason, and life itself wasn't worth living (his words).

Mr. Williams was a good Christian man. His faith would take no denial "Christ to
him was a shadow of a great rock in a weary land". From this Baptism of fire, he
came out more than conqueror. Had many years of prosperous living.

His clean life and honest effort, was a bright and shining light to the unsaved.
His earthly work was well done. No slaverly faith was his.

I have heard him say to my husband (D. B. Hartzell for whom he worked so many
years) I will quit and go at something else, when he felt he had not making good
his work.

His last day he suffered pain. He did not trouble people very much with his
ills. His relatives knew he was a sick man. His last hours were spent in a
testimonial meeting. His greatest theme was to exhort people "to prepare to meet
thy God."

Last fall he spent a few days at old Dresden. He said to Mr. Fultz, "When I go
out of this world it will be like blowing out a lamp.". His wish was verified.

Mr. Williams worked the cemetery 10 years (some say longer) at Dresden. He laid
off a plot of ground, and placed a neat stone on it, to mark the spot where his
body was to rest.

The funeral was truly the grandest I have ever witnessed in old Dresden in over
sixty years. The modern automobile, not a hearse nor a wagon or horse in the
procession.

The good neighbors and friends of Emhouse, a nice company, came to pay their
last respects to a good man, a Christian gentleman.

One who knew him forty years. Mrs. M.E. Hartzell Fultz

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