Ancestors of Ralph and Twyla Williams
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Buried at Cohone Cemetary
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Nickname:
Ruth
Known as Ruth, she was married first to Ralph T. Williams. She later remarried,in 1960, to Edward Higgins.
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In the book about Aunt Verna, Grandma writes about "Great-grandfather Laing, who died about 1921. The Laings were Mr. Husband's maternal grandparents, but Pearl and her brother Lynn grew up in the Husband home, being raised by her older half-sister as if she were one of Verna's children.
When I, Ralph Williams, was less than a year old, he wanted to go visit his family in Missouri, so he rode there with my family. The only condition was that there wasn't any extra room, so he had to hold the baby (me). I married his granddaughter, Twyla. She is in a round-about way named after my grandmother...
From J.C. Bailey's autobiography:
In 1930 I held a meeting at Bures, Saskatchewan. Everyone that attended often enough to learn the truth obeyed it. Heads of families they all were and I suppose that there are more than 20 members of the church today as the result of that meeting. It was then that the Krogsgaards, the Olsons, and Brother Mont Lock became obedient to the faith. Numbers are not always the sign of a successful meeting.Sister Lock was instrumental inhaving the meeting held in Bures in the summer of 1930. Later that year they moved to Bengough. They asked me to come and hold a meeting in their home in Bengough. There was no money to rent a hall. We had a two week's meeting there andthree people became obedient to the faith. Among those who attended that meeting was a Mrs. Pennock. She suggested that we hold a meeting in their school house. This we were very happy to do. When the meeting was two days old the trustees announced that we could not use the school house. Mrs. Pennock invited us togo to her home. I had announced there would be an opportunity to ask questionsand so that second night in the school house this woman asked a question aboutinfant baptism. I would rather not have had that question so early in the meeting but I answered it. As our audience was made up mostly of United Church people and Lutherans the answer was not very satisfactory. This opposition really advertised the meeting and the second night in that prairie home we had 65 people.
"Grandma" Lock used to stay with my best friends, the Hotchkiss family. She wasour sunday-school teacher all the time she stayed with them.
