"Soon as man, expert from time, has found. The key of life, it opens the gates of death."
Died at midnight, May 8, 1883, in Manning, Iowa, Mrs. Anna M., wife of Dr. Robert R. Williams, aged 31 years, 6 months, and 22 days.

Mrs. Williams was the daughter of Robert and Belle Martin, of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. She was born at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and removed while young with her parents to Wisconsin where she was brought up and educated. While attending school at the University of Wisconsin she formed an acquaintance of Dr. Williams who was then her classmate and together they finished their course, and graduated in 1874. Here was formed the tie which bound them for life, but which death has severed so rudely and so soon. In 1873 she made an open profession of the love of the Savior and united with the Presbyterian Church at Madison and afterwards transferred her membership to Mr. Hoyt's church at Mt. Horeb. Here, June 6, 1882, she was united in marriage with Dr. Williams. It seemed but the consummation of the plan which they had formed long before and happiness and prosperity were spread out before them. Selecting Manning as their place of residence, they had built and nearly completed a home, but scarcely had they entered upon its enjoyment when the bride of a summer was stricken down, and all the joy was turned to weeping and sorrow. The disease which caused her death was of the brain, and produced a sort of stupor from which she was seldom aroused, so that she communicated but little with her friends. This circumstance only serves to render their grief the more poignant.

Mrs. Williams was a loving companion, a kind friend and an active Christian woman. Her warm heart and genial disposition had gained for her a glad welcome among the strangers whom she met in Manning, and hundreds of friends extend heartfelt sympathy to her devoted husband and relatives in this their sore bereavement. Her mother was with her during the last two weeks of sickness. After brief religious services at the residence, her remains were carried to the depot and taken back to the home of her youth, to the cemetery at Mt. Horeb, where funeral services will be conducted today by the minister who performed her marriage ceremony in June last.

''Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the North wind's breath,
And stars to set - but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!"