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Appendix A
Documents and Notes

Some letters have been edited slightly, as for spelling and punctuation. However, the
greatest care has been exerted not to distort the thesis of any material by this editing.
Documents Concerning the Life and Work of
Helen Williams (chapter 1)
1.1 Excerpts from the taped memories of Elder Hugh Williams (Helen Williams’ son)

My father, Eugene Williams, … was a young minister when I was born. He
married a young lady by the name of Helen May Stanton. Both of them had gone to
Battle Creek College.
Helen May Stanton, my mother, was very talented in speech. She gave readings
from memory and was entertaining. Those days they didn’t have TV and other
sources of easy entertainment like they do today, and so they were not much more
talented but made more use of their ta lents.
Mother also aspired, because of being so successful in entertaining, to be a
speaker, a minister. She’s told me that that was one reason she wanted to marry a
minister, because it would more easily open the doors for her to be in the ministry.
This she was successful in accomplishing to the point that she had a min-isterial
license, which was given to very few at the time she was living… .
So my father and mother built their life around the ministry… . It happened that I was
born while they were having some meetings in a nice little place called Bell’s Corners… .
It was early in 1897 that we moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan… . My memory
begins here… . My father supervised the building of a church while we were at
Grand Rapids… .
We went to the Sabbath school, of course… . I listened to the sermons. I must
have had a clear conception of the Saviour because one night I dreamed about
Him… . Jesus said, “Hugh, I see you there.” … I never forgot the beautiful feeling
that came over me to be remembered by Him… .
My father and mother both were in ministerial work, and so when we were
young we always had a baby sitter in our home… .