Lenoir County NcArchives Photo Person.....Williams, Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Oglesby 
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Name:               Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Oglesby Williams
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Daughter of Edward Freeman Oglesby and Wife Elizabeth Avery Oglesby of the 
British Chapel community, Lizzie married B. F. Williams on December 25, 1910 
and had 6 children:  Fannie Katherine, Edward James,  Elbert, Margaret Hazel, 
Milton Roscoe, and Annie Marie Williams.  
    
Tombstone reads: 
Mother,
Mary Elizabeth, wife of B.F. 
Williams                                                                       

July 15, 1885
Nov.  30, 1944
"The world is better for her having lived."

Obit reads:
Williams Rites
at 4 on Friday
From Late Home
    Mrs. Mary E. Oglesby Williams, 59, wife of Ben F. Williams died about 1 am 
Thursday in a local hospital after a short illness.  Funeral services will be 
held from the home near Vine Swamp on the Trenton road at 4 pm Friday with 
Rev. Clifton Rice, Free Will Baptist minister, officiating.  Burial will be in 
the Woodington cemetery.  Mrs. Williams was a member of the Woodington Baptist 
Church.
    Surviving are her husband, two sons, Ed of Portsmouth, Va, and Roscoe of 
the home; two daughters, Mrs. A.M. Coston of Silverdale and Marie of Raleigh; 
two brothers, Alex and Sam Oglesby of Kinston RFD.
    Mrs. Williams was the mother of Pvt. Elbert WIlliams who died in England 
March 1 of injuries received in an accident.




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