The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 28 Jan 1897, Page 5. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of this obituary, please send me your mailing address. (Instead of submitting this to any specific Mailing List, I am submitting it to the General list in the hopes that it will be seen by a more diverse group.) "Great sympathy is felt for David Packer of Plains in his bereavement, having lost the "wife of his youth" so unexpectedly after a brief but severe illness, leaving three motherless children, one only three weeks old. Mrs. Packer's maiden name was WILLIAMS, being the daughter of William and Margaret Williams. Her mother died when Elizabeth Ann was two years and six months old, and when reaching the age of six years she was deprived of her father, he being one of four victims of an explosion at the Prospect colliery. After the death of her father she was taken into the care of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas David Williams as their own child, and with the interest of a father and mother did they nourish her until death separated them. She was born Oct. 17, 1871, married to David Packer Nov. 17, 1890. Their married life was short, but fraught with happiness. She had been a member of the Miner Congregational Church from childhood. The funeral services were held at the church, the pastor and Revs. D.J. Jones and R.R. Jones officiating. Thomas Thomas, ironmonger, Merthyr Tydfil, William Thomas and Evan Thomas, ironmonger, Aberdare, and Edward Williams of Glen Neath were her uncles on her mother's side." Nancy Cook ncook@heery.com Pasadena, MD, USA