Family register
Sydney Messer Williams Jr.
Sydney Messer Williams Jr. (5 August 1910 – 2 December 1968) was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts to Sydney Messer Williams and Mary Peele (Hunnewell) Williams. He died in 1968, in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Early life
Sydney Messer Williams Jr. was born on August 5, 1910, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Sydney Messer Williams and Mary Peele Hunnewell.[1][5][7] The record of his parents' marriage states that Sydney Messer Williams married Mary Peele Hunnewell on June 11, 1908.[6]
His father was born in Vevey, Switzerland, according to the same record.[1]
Military service
During the Second World War, Williams served as a private first class in Italy with the 10th Mountain Infantry Division.[3]
Career
His 1968 obituary described him as a sculptor and stated that he graduated from Harvard in 1932.[4]
Marriage and family
The records disagree on the number of his children: one states that he had seven, while his obituary records four daughters and five sons.[2][4]
Later life and death
Williams died on December 2, 1968, at the Monadnock Hospital in Peterborough, New Hampshire, after a long illness, aged 58.[2][4] Funeral services were held at the Unitarian Church.[4]