John Howard WILLIAMS
1940 Is this him?

name: John Williams
titles & terms:
event: Census
event year: 1940
event place: Ward 4, Beverly, Beverly City, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
gender: Male
age: 30
marital status: Married
race (original):
race (standardized): White
relationship to head of household (original):
relationship to head of household (standardized): Head
birthplace: Massachusetts
estimated birth year: 1910
residence in 1935: Rural, Massachusetts
enumeration district number: 5-43
family number: 249
sheet number and letter: 10A
line number: 12
nara publication number: T627
nara roll number: 1578
digital folder number: 005460850
image number: 00292
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head John Williams M 30 Massachusetts
wife Ila Williams F 26 Massachusetts
son John Williams M 9 Massachusetts
son Leroy Williams M 7 Massachusetts
daughter Dorothy Williams F 5 Massachusetts
son Robert Williams M 1 Massachusetts
cousin-in-law Frank Bogrett M 21 Massachusetts
sister-in-law Leota Goddard F 21 Massachusetts
nephew-in-law Bernard Moses M 7 Massachusetts


If so, this is when his wife died.
NAME: Ila F Williams (Goddard)
SPOUSE: John Williams
b. 6 July 1913
d. 8 Jan 2003
residence: Peabody, MA
daughter of Frank E. Goddard and Ida A. French

WILLIAMS, Ila F (GODDARD); 89; Peabody MA; Salem E-N; 2003-1-10; matms
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