Bright lady teacher.

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Raleigh Gazette, 30 January 1897.

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Raleigh Gazette, 19 June 1897.

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Raleigh Gazette, 26 June 1897.

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Raleigh Gazette, 18 September 1897.

Clarissa Williams (1870-1921) was born in northern Wayne County to Rev. Jonah Williams and his wife Pleasant Battle Williams. The 1900 census of Town of Wilson, Wilson County, lists Jonah Williams, farmer, with wife Pleasant and daughter Classey, a schoolteacher.

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