Almira Williams

was born at

Mary Almira Stockbridge, Michigan, June 17, 1888; daughter of Dr. Tra C. and Charlotte (Humawald) Her mother died in the fall of 1890.

Williams.

а

later she was

A year brought, with Ther sister Laura, by her father to Montclair, New Jersey, to the home of her uncle Charles Richard and aunt Almira (Smith) Williams, and remained with them thenceforward. In April 1895, at Indianapolis, she was le= gally adopted by her uncle and aunt – few weeks before the sudden death

a

found

A more l

a

of

only

the

loving and devoted daugh= parents ever had. At fourteen she mother in Bertha (Rose)

new

care and so=

Williams under whose loving licitous admonition she developed into She was educated at pri=

womanhood.

nated

years

rate schools in Indianapolis, with love at the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, and grad= at Bryn Mawr College in 1911. She was married September 12, 1912, to J. Homer Sherman (Yale 1911) under the

great oaks

south

of

the house at

Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio. From that

time her. home

home was Fremont where