Living

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Death:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VP38-RPT

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Obituary:
News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - January 12, 1996
Deceased Name: HENRY W. PERSONS
88, of California died Monday.
He was retired in 1969 as senior vice president of Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., was former president of Fort Wayne Metropolitan Human Relations Commission and president of Anthony Wayne Council of Boy Scouts.
Surviving are his wife, Mary; daughters, Antoinette Channer of Cascade, Mich., and Ellen Wyse of Diamond Bar, Calif.; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services were today in Laguna Niguel Presbyterian Church, Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Preferred memorials are gifts to Henry W. Persons memorial fund, Laguna Niguel Presbyterian Church, 30071 Ivy Glenn, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, or a charity.

Henry married Mary Elisabeth Harvey. Mary was born on 27 Feb 1911 in California, USA; died on 12 Apr 2002 in Diamond Bar, Los Angeles Co, California, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Photo:
http://www.eastaurorabee.com/news/2010-12-16/Editorials/Out_of_the_Past.html
Richard Persons is seen standing beside this Winton automobile, c. 1903-1907. His wife, Pearl Williamson, is in the back seat on the right. The other people were friends of the Persons family. Photo courtesy of "Images of America: Town of Aurora 1818-1930"

Death Notice:
Kingston NY Daily Freeman 1966 Grayscale - 3946.pdf http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2010/Kingston%20NY%20Daily%20Freeman/Kingston%20NY%20Daily%20Freeman%201966%20Grayscale/Kingston%20NY%20Daily%20Freeman%201966%20Grayscale%20-%203946.pdf
R. S. Persons Sr. Dead
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -
Richard S. Persons Sr., who retired in 1947 after eight years as commissioner of the State Division of Standards and Purchases, died Sunday in a nursing home here. He was 88. He lived at 112 Church St.

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Ancestry, siblings, etc.:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Qs8CAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=pearl+williamson+richard+%22Persons%22&source=bl&ots=mZ0kAVAe2p&sig=m-y22MEi6Cu8jwK3pG2bmLl0X2w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_CsT_DuFbTH0AGKmqmJDA&sqi=2&ved=0CGgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=pearl%20williamson%20richard%20%22Persons%22&f=false

Richard married Pearl I. Williamson about 1904. Pearl (daughter of Eli Samuel Williamson and Laura Ann Keeler) was born in Dec 1879 in Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Photo:
http://www.eastaurorabee.com/news/2010-12-16/Editorials/Out_of_the_Past.html
Richard Persons is seen standing beside this Winton automobile, c. 1903-1907. His wife, Pearl Williamson, is in the back seat on the right. The other people were friends of the Persons family. Photo courtesy of "Images of America: Town of Aurora 1818-1930"

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He was a twin...his twin sister died in infancy.

Henry married Rebekah Ellen Sandford on 30 Jun 1876. Rebekah was born about 1852; died on 22 Feb 1942 in East Aurora, Erie Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

North Tonawanda NY Evening News 1942 Grayscale - 0349.pdf http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/North%20Tonawanda%20NY%20Evening%20News/North%20Tonawanda%20NY%20Evening%20News%201942%20%20Grayscale/North%20Tonawanda%20NY%20Evening%20News%201942%20%20Grayscale%20-%200349.pdf
Mrs. Rebekah E. Persons,
Comptroller's Mother, Dies
East Aurora, N.Y. (UP)? Private funeral rites will be held this afternoon for Mrs. Rebekah Persons, 90, one of the founders
of women's activities in this community.
Mrs. Persons, who died yesterday, was the mother of Erie
County Comptroller Richard S. Persons, and the widow of the
late Henry H. Persons, prominent banker and merchant

Notes:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pamckean/BeersHistory/townshipbradford9.htm
E. S. WILLIAMSON, proprietor of Williamson's restaurant, Bradford,
was born in Buffalo, N. Y., March 12, 1847, a son of Ely and Elizabeth (Riding) 'Williamson, natives of England. His father was a mechanical engineer, and established the Buffalo Steam Engine Works in Buffalo, N. Y., known now as Tiff's Engine Works. He still lives in Buffalo, and is now eightyone years old. E. S. Williamson was given a good business education, graduating from Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Buffalo. In 1864 he removed to the oil regions and worked in the oil fields, buying an interest in some wells. He then became manager of the hardware store of D. C. :Backus, and in 1877 established three stores for Kerr, Geider & Co., in Brad ford, and superintended their business till 1879, when he again turned his attention to the oil industry. In 1882 he went to Richburg, Allegany Co., N. Y., and established the Central Machine Shop which afterward burned, and in 1883 he returned to Bradford and opened the restaurant which he is still conducting. He was married in 1878 in Buffalo, N. Y., to Miss Lottie A. Keeler, and they have two children: Pearl and Hazel. Truman Keeler: father of Lottie A., is now deceased; Nancy A. (Hoard) Keeler, her mother, still survives. Mrs. Williamson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Williamson is a Master Mason, and in politics is a Democrat.

1900 Census:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSXV-GF2

Eli married Laura Ann Keeler on 18 Sep 1878 in Buffalo, Erie Co, New York, USA. Laura (daughter of Truman Keeler and Nancy Hoard) was born on 18 May 1856 in Wellsburg, Erie Co, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 17 May 1911. [Group Sheet]