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Title:
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Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Emma Williams
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Collection Name:
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WPA Collection
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Collection Number:
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WPA Bio 1738
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Item Description:
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Williams, Emma - Biographical information for Mrs. Emma Ingrid Parson Williams; "Mrs. Edward Williams", no source, n.d.; "Mrs. Emma Williams, Resident Here for 45 Years, Died Monday", Saratoga Sun, Oct. 23, 1941
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Date:
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Undated
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Link to Finding Aid:
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https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Notes:
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born: Jun. 12 [or 7], 1859, in Sweden - Lutheran
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Notes:
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settled in home at Saratoga (Carbon Co., Wyo. - o/a 1898 - 1941/death)
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Notes:
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Williams, Edward (husband, born: ? - married: 1889 in North Dakota - died: ? - buried: ?
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Notes:
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children: 1 son
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died: Oct. 20, 1941 (age: 82), at home of daughter-in-law, Mrs. Nell Williams, at Saratoga (Carbon Co., Wyo.)
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Notes:
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funeral: Oct. 22, 1941, in Presbyterian Church at Saratoga (Carbon Co., Wyo.) - arrangements by Gould Mortuary
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Notes:
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buried: in Saratoga Cemetery (Memorial ID: 45804502) at Saratoga
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as child, worked as field hand - emigrated via ship "Heckla" [Captain Smith later piloted Titanic] with family to America (1876)
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first lived at St. Paul (Minn.) - spent several years in Montana and North Dakota
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Notes:
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)
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Notes:
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worked on ranches - cooked in hotels and restaurnts - washed for feighters, et al
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Rights:
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No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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Type:
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Text
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