Benjamin Macelroy Williams

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"The Tomahawk," Wednesday, January 17, 1968
Benjamin M. Williams. . .
Benjamin M. Williams, age 82, of Butler, RFD 1 (Dryson Grove Community) died in Cannon Memorial Hospital, Banner Elk, N.C., Sunday at 11 a.m. after a lengthy illness. Native of Watauga County, N.C., but had made his home in Johnson County for the past 15 years. Son of the late Dr. William and Mary Johnson Williams, he was a retired employee of General Motors Corp., and a member of the Dyson Grove Baptist Church.
Survivors are: wife: Mrs. Runa Williams, Butler; two sons, James Jarvis Williams, Butler, and Lee Williams, Hillsville, Va.; five daughters: Mrs. Virginia Harwins, Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Edith Barrand, Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Eliabeth[sic] Hyder, Elizabethton, Mrs. Sarah Cooks, Utica, Mich., Mrs. Louise Williamson, Southfield, Mich.; 16 grand-children[sic]; 7 great-grand-children[sic]; also a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conducted from the Dyson Grove Baptist Church Wednesday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Clyde Campbell and Rev. Keene Roark officiating. Burial was in the Mast cemetery.
Pall-bearers[sic]: Grandsons and nephews.
Flower-bearers[sic]: Ladies of the church and neighbors.
Lewis Gentry Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Benjamin married Florence Gertrude Hicks about 1908 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Florence (daughter of William Edward Hicks and Louisa Eveline Arney) was born on 5 Jan 1888 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 10 May 1950 in Wayne County, , , Michigan; was buried in Mast Cemetery, , Johnson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louise married Charles Marvin Williamson on 15 Jul 1950 in Wayne County, , , Michigan. Charles was born on 2 Aug 1925 in Wayne County, , , Michigan; died on 4 Dec 2011 in Oakland County, , , Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]