The Daily Gazette, Sterling, Illinois

September 6, 1938 - pg 9 

FRANK  PIERCE  WILLIAMSON 

Frank Pierce Williamson, Aged Resident, Buried In Leon Cemetery 

Frank Pierce Williamson, 86, died at 5:40 Sunday afternoon at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weber, seven miles south of Prophetstown.  He had been ill since last spring and had been bed-fast the past six weeks. 

The body was removed to the Helm and Helm mortuary at Prophetstown and was returned to the Weber home Tuesday morning. 

Mr. Williamson was born May 20, 1852, at Dysert, Penn., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williamson. He moved to Kansas with his parents in 1863, and resided there most of his life.  He was married March 14, 1882, to Leila Frances Breeding of Highland, Kans. 

Since the death of his wife on Sept. 5, 1917, he had lived with his daughter at Prophetstown and with his son in Kansas.  He followed the occupation of farming.  He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Samuel Weber of Prophetstown; one son, Emery Williamson of Harington, Kans., and one sister, Mrs. Ellen Bills of Broken Arrow, Okla.  He is also survived by eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. 

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Weber home. Rev. O. E. Link of the Leon Methodist church conducted the rites.  Lloyd Wildman sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "In the Sweet Bye and Bye."  Burial was made in the Leon Cemetery.  The pallbearers were Lynn Sommers of Hooppole and Kenneth Stewart, Louis Marine, S. G. Wildman, Harry Zarr and Fred Toppert.