Williams, Alice Mary Moon, 1860-1952.

Alice Moon Williams was born in Reedsburg, Ohio in 1860. In May of 1891, she married George Louis Williams, an 1891 graduate of the Oberlin Theological Seminary, and the two sailed for China to work as missionaries under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They spent one year in Tientsin before joining the Oberlin Band at Taigu, Shansi Province. In 1899, Alice Williams returned on furlough to the United States with her three girls. George Williams was to have followed but was murdered at Taigu by the Chinese Boxers on July 31, 1900. Alice Williams settled in Oberlin where she became a co-founder of the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, serving as a trustee for twenty years. She returned to China for three years in 1909 and for two years in 1935. She died in Oberlin on January 13, 1952.