WILLIAMS, BARSTOW

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Marin Journal
Thursday, October 26, 1899
Page 10

Husband Follows Wife
Death of Geo. B. Williams Within Four Days After that of His Wife

Last week we recorded the death of Mrs. Geo. B. Williams of Petaluma, mother of Mrs. S. F. Barstow. We now announce the sad intelligence that the husband has followed the wife into the other world. His death occurred Thursday, Oct. 19.

And now the loving people who lived together so many years in this world are reunited in the next, for George B. Williams passed over the river at 10 o’clock on Thursday morning, says the Budgett. He was apparently in as good health as usual up to Wednesday and Thursday morning was on his feet about an hour before death came.

George B. Williams was a native of Lincoln county, Maine, aged eighty-nine years, ten months and fourteen days, and had been a resident of Petaluma almost continuously since 1851. He had been a farmer when a young man, but came to California on a schooner in ’49, and went into the mines. Afterwards he was one of the builders of the old Globe hotel in San Francisco, a landmark to this day on Commercial and Dupont streets. This hotel he ran for a year and came to Petaluma and bought land. In 1854 he build the first Washington hotel, hauling the lumber from the redwoods, and ran it for a year.

He was one of the oldest citizens of Petaluma, and his death will be regretted by all who have known him during his long residence in Petaluma. His tall figure though bent with age, was often seen on the business streets, as he continued quite active to the last and loved to mingle with his many old and young friends, for whom he always had a pleasant word and by whom he was highly esteemed.