Mrs. Margaret Williamson nee Mrs. William Firmage, quietly slept away at the home of her son, Mr. John Firmage, on Fourth street, on last Friday morning, aged 72 years.
The funeral took place on July 1st from the Mormon church where appropriate services were held, Mr. W.B. Rae being the principal speaker on this mournful occasion.
Every seat in the church was occupied and many mourners followed the remains to their last resting places.
The sands of life had well run down and the end came peacefully after a lingering illness. For many years she was a sufferer from acute rheumatism.
Her maiden name was Margaret Farmer, a farmer’s daughter, and was born at Sellar Dyke, Fifeshire. When William, her oldest son, was 17 years old, her husband died leaving her with a family of five to raise. She went to the work and by laboring night and day she educated them and brought them all to manhood and womanhood. Four survive her, Mr. Wm. Firmage, Mr. John Firmage, Mrs. John McBride, all of Rock Springs, and Mr. James Firmage, now living on a farm in Minnesota. One daughter died in Dundee, Scotland, leaving three children.
The deceased has several brothers in Scotland, veterans of the Crimean war.
Up to the time she crossed the Atlantic, seventeen years ago, she was an exceptionally strong woman, but as soon as she arrived in Utah she was attacked by rheumatism and she became a martyr to it up to her death.
She married a second time to Mr. Williamson, but there was no issue, and for several years her sons and daughters were her support. The deceased lived an upright Christian life; a life of usefulness; one of love and duty to her family. Now she is at rest and may she sleep in peace.
--Rock Springs Miner no. 28 July 06, 1899
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