Williams.

A year

war

born at

Mary Almira Williamo Slockbridge, Michigan, June 17, 1888; daughter of Dr. Ira C. and Charlotte (Hummawald) Her mother died in the fall of 1890. later she was brought, with her 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-only before the sudden death of the loving and devoted daugh= had. At fourtron she

a

few

aunt.

ter

weeks

no

found Williams

A more

a

parents

neu

ever

mother in Bertha (Rose)

under whose

loving

and 50=

ingecare and

licitous admonition she developed into

womanhood. She was educated at pri= rate schools in Indianapolis, with love years at the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, and grad= nated at Bryn Mawr College in

She

was

1911.

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 was Fremont where