Andrew Lynde WILLIAMS

1889 - 1930  (41 years)

• Name	Andrew Lynde WILLIAMS
  Baptism	1889	Scandinavia Lutheran Church, Scandinavia Twp, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
  Birth	18 Aug 1889	Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
  	His draft registration shows 18 August 1890, which may be correct if he was 40 when he died.
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Cannery Worker
  Death	13 Sep 1930	Okanogan, Okanogan County, Washington
  Burial	Bayview Cemetery, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington
  	as A L Williams, aged 40
  Notes	The Wisconsin Births Index shows his birth year as 1889. In the 1908 Bellingham, Washington, city directory, he is Lynde Williams, student, boarding with his father at the Whatcom County Court House. In the 1910 Bellingham directory, he is Lynde A Williams, student, boarding with his father at 1513 E. Single, unemployed with no occupation, and living with his father and brother and sister in Bellingham, WA, at the time of the 1910 census. In the 1911 Bellingham directory, he is still at home with his father and siblings. His occupation is hoseman for the Bellingham Fire Dept. In the 1912 Bellingham directory, he is still a hoseman for the fire department but has no address. In the 1914 Bellingham directory, he is a machinist living at home with his father and siblings at 1513 E. In the 1917 Bellingham directory, he lives at 1513 E, no occupation. Registered for the draft as Andrew Lynde Williams in Bellingham, Washington, on June 5, 1917. At that time, he was living at “1513 E.” in Bellingham. He worked as a fish cannery employee at the Lummi Bay Packaging Co. He was single. He was described as tall and of medium build with blue eyes and brown hair. In the 1918 Bellingham directory, he is listed as “U S Army” but residing at 1513 E. In the 1920 Bellingham directory, he resides at 1408 Humboldt, the home of his sister’s family. No occupation. In the 1920 census, Lynde is living with his sister and her family in Bellingham, Washington. He is a cannery mechanic at a fish cannery. In the 1921 Bellingham directory, he lives at 1408 Humboldt. He is a machinist. In the 1923 Bellingham directory, which includes Whatcom County, there is an A L Williams living in Lynden. An article in the Bellingham Herald, May 1, 1925: Andrew Lynde Williams Jr., son of the late “Andy” Williams, veteran police chief of Bellingham, and Whatcom County Sheriff, who died at Okanogan recently, was committed to the Northern State hospital at Sedro-Woolley, at conclusion of a sanity hearing in the superior court Thursday afternoon. The younger Williams’ condition, it was said, followed as a result of a series of accidents and severe disappointments. Early this year he went to Alaska to work at one of the fish canneries but was brought back last week when his condition became worse. Treatment at the Northern State Hospital is expected to result in improvement. As a youth, he is recalled as a star player in the backfield of Whatcom high school’s football team. He foremerly served on the Bellingham police department, in which latter service deafness developed. The young man gained recognition for his services in the aviation at Kelly field during the world war. The story is told that he faked his way into the army air service by reading the physical examiner’s lips, having acquired that ability after becoming partially deaf. In the 1930 census, he is living with his sister and family in Bellingham. He was a steamship mechanic. That census shows that Andrew was a veteran of the World War. An obit in the Bellingham Herald, headlined Lynde Williams Dies, in the September 13, 1930 edition: Lynde (Windy) Williams, son of the late Andy Williams, veteran police officer and one time sheriff and acting chief of police, died after a brief illness today on a ranch in Okanogan county where he had spent the greater part of the last ten years. Williams was a former member of the local fire and police departments and also served for some time as night merchant patrolman. He also made several trips to Alaska with P.A.F. crews and, since leaving Bellingham, made a few trips as assistant engineer on ocean steamers. During his high school days at Whatcom, Williams was a football star, playing on the same team with Fred Spenger, Ben Tidball, Tom Gaffney, Starr Sutherland and other well remembered players. So far as could be learned here, the only close relative surviving is a sister, Mrs. Layman (Esther) Day, who resides on the Okanogan farm. Williams was about 38 years of age. An article in the September 16, 1930, edition of the Bellingham Herald notes that Lynde Williams was given a military funeral, officiated by the local Albert J. Hamilton post of the American Legion. Williams had been a charter member of the post. During the World War, he was a sergeant first class in the air service.
  Person ID	I7087	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2015

  
  

  Father	Andrew Ove WILLIAMS,   b. 10 Aug 1853, Wisconsin d. 12 Feb 1925, Okanogan, Okanogan County, Washington (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Mary Melissa KING,   b. Sep 1862, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois d. 11 Nov 1908, Washington (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	30 Jul 1884	Olmsted County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F5417	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart