Steuben-Republican   October 1905

        Ephriam B. Williams was born in Orleans county, N.Y. January 10, 
1833.  In 1836, he came with his parents to Steuben county, Indiana, 
where the family settled near Orland.  Six years later the family 
removed to a farm in Otsego township.  He was married in 1857 to Susan 
Pierce who, after a very brief wedded life, died.  In 1864, he married 
Martha Cooper who together with two daughters survive him.  A third 
daughter died in 1881. 
        The last thirteen years of his life, Mr. Williams spent in 
Angola in the quiet retirement of his home.  Like most men who come to 
advanced years he did not see life's western shadows lengthen without 
feeling the heavy touch of pain and decrepitude.   For years he 
suffered, suffered keenly and almost incessantly.  This kept his life 
out of the public view, but to his neighbors and friends who were 
privileged to look within the sheltering walls of his home he was known 
and admired as a man of modest bearing, great patience and undoubted 
devotion to his family.  September 28, 1905, he fell asleep aged 72 
years, 8 months and 18 days.  Funeral services were held at the home 
Saturday at 2 p.m., conducted by Elder Vernon Stauffer. 
Interment at Pleasant Lake. 

Sent by J. A. Childers