Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1917 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Nancy Catherine Williams was born July 29, 1837, near Crawfordsville, Ind., and departed this life Dec. 6, 1917, aged 80 years 4 months and 7 days. She was one of four children born to Lucy Simms and George Williams of whom but one surinves, a sister Mrs. M. Cowan of Crawfordsville, Ind. Her mother Lucy Simms was a native of Virginia, being born near Mount Vernon, her father being a Revolutionary soldier, directly under the command of General George Washington. When slavery was at its greatest power the family turned abolitionists freed their slaves and removed to Kentucky and later to Crawfordsville, where Lucy Simms and Geo. Williams were married. Early in life this family of four children were left orphans and at the. age of eleven years the deceased went to Morroco, Ind., where she made her home with an uncle, family until her marriage to George P. Daugherty, March 28, 18§5, when she removed with her husband to a farm 2 miles south of Rensselaer on the range line road and since then has passed her life in and near Rensselaer with the exception of two years that the family lived in Lafayette. To this union was born eight children, two of them Francis and Laura dying in childhood. The remaining ones being Mrs. Paris Daugherty of Ten Sleep, Wyo., William H., Arthur 8., George A., Mrs. A. L. Padgitt and N.f Maude Daugherty of Rensselaer. This couple was permitted to live in happy wedlock for more than 60 years, her husband having passed away 2 years ago, Aug. 19, 1915. When 14 years old the deceased united with the United Brethren church at Morocco, Ina., and has held strictly to the Christian faith ever since. She was a wcman of strong personality, although a constant sufferer for the past forty years, yet this long life has been a most useful one. Her hands were never idle and her interest in the home, the family, the church, and the community never lagged till death claimed her.