Bert Williams
Bert Williams was born about 1878 in Vermont and farmed at Brookfield in Orange County. His brother, Fred Williams, lived at Northfield. A niece, Alice Williams, taught school at Randolph and stayed with her uncle's family.
On Wednesday, 7 August 1901, Bert married Rose Reed of Williamstown, the next town north. The Rev. R. H. Abercrombie, minister of the First Congregational church at Brookfield, married them at the parsonage. On 8 May 1902 a baby was born in their house. Their daughter Gladys Loella, born about 1902, was the only child with them in 1910.
The autumn of 1903 went hard for him. At the Northfield fair in September he was knocked down by a runaway team and lay senseless for about twenty minutes. In December a veterinarian tested his cows for tuberculosis, the cattle disease that could pass to people in milk. Twelve of his sixteen were diseased, and they were killed. He was left with one heifer and three calves.
He built again. He had put a telephone into the house that summer and had the house painted the next year. In 1906 there was a husking at his place, and he and Rose went to Boston on the railroad excursion.
On 9 June 1920 Gladys married Herbert William Knowles, a young farmer from Rockburn, Quebec. Their son Alfred Williams Knowles, born in 1922, carried Bert's surname as his middle name.
In April 1950 Bert, seventy-two, was still working his farm on the Northfield Road north of Brookfield's Pond Village post office. Rosa, seventy, kept house. Living with them were their son-in-law Herbert Knowles, two of their grandchildren, Zita, seventeen, and Leon, thirteen, a young lodger and a hired man.
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Cite: Heirology, "Bert Williams (b. 1878)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/bert-williams-1878-4e4b50.