Miss Ethel Williams, well known and popular teacher of the Brown-Norcott Mills school, died at the Charlotte Sanatorium at 5 o’clock Saturday morning after an illness of several months duration, her death being due to cancer.
At the time of her death, Miss Williams was 22 years of age. Her home was in Ocracoke Island, she being the oldest daughter of Horatio Williams.
After reading an advertisement in a paper about Mont Amoena Seminary, Miss Williams and her sister, Betty, came to Mt. Pleasant where both were graduated in 1923.Miss Williams went to work the year immediately following graduation at the Brown-Norcott Mill and was teacher her second year when she was forced to give up her position on account of illness.
Miss Williams was well known in Concord, where her personality had made for her a number of friends. During the two months prior to her death, numbers of Concord people visited her in the Sanatorium and endeavored to assist her in every way possible.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, January 12, 1925
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