Olive Janice Williams b. 14 Sep 1905 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 6 May 1990 Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA: Lincoln Cemetery Ancestors

Olive Janice Williams

Name	Olive Janice Williams [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Born	14 Sep 1905 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Gender	Female
Education	Juilliard Conservancy
Residence	23 Jun 1907 1700 Walnut, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [11] – Living at this address when Scott Williams was delivered on 23 Jun 1907 at 11:30am at his parents' home by Midwife Mrs. Mary Beaner.
Residence	1910 135 Balm, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [9] – Age: 4; EnumerationDistrict: 0079; MaritalStatus: Single; RelationToHead: Daughter
Picnic and Spelling Bee For Harrisburg Schools p.2	17 Jun 1919 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [12] – Picnic and Spelling Bee For Harrisburg Schools-Olive Williams Competes for Wickersham p.2
Residence	1920 137 Balm, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [7] – Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter
Affiliated Organization	21 Jun 1922 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [13] – Girl Scouts Troop #16. Badges: Musician and Scribe, by Mayor George A. Hoverter.
Graduation	1923 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 14] – Yearbook Text: "A very intelligent young lady who just loves to study music. She also posses an unusually pleasant disposition. With her go our best regards"
Residence	1923 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 15]
Education	Oct 1923 Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA [16] – Olive began her studies at the Howard University Conservatory.
Residence	1924 Washington, District of Columbia, USA [16]
Tennis Club Formed_Olive Williams Secretary	3 Jul 1924 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [17] – Tennis Club Formed at Phyllis Wheatley YMCA Olive Williams Secretary
Howard Choral Society at Harrisburg	4 Apr 1925 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [18] – Howard Choral Society Sings Messiah For Harrisburg Audience
Senior Student Recitals At Howard University	12 Jun 1926 Washington, District of Columbia, USA [19] – Olive performs in Howard University senior recitals
Students Returning to School	18 Sep 1926 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [20]
Residence	1927 District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA [20]
Newspaper Clipping	15 Feb 1927 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [14] – Piano Recital in Harrisburg
Concert at Wesley Union	12 Mar 1927 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [21] – Harrisburg Society Column- Pittsburgh Courier 12 Mar 1927
Graduation	May 1927 Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA [16] – Author of Senior Class song. Member of: Delta Sigma Theta. Student Council, 1923 Girls' Glee Club. Choir. Kappa Mu.
Olive plays Chopin	30 Jul 1927 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [22]
Residence	1928 Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA [23]
Job	1928 South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA [23] – Music Teacher
Olive Williams visits Mrs. R.L. Vann	14 Sep 1929 Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA [23] – Olive Williams Spent Several Days with her cousin Mrs. R.L. Vann
Residence	1930 132 North Linden, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [10] – Age: 23; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; AttendedSchool: Yes; CanReadWrite: Yes; CityWard: 8th Port of; EnumerationDistrict: 0038; RegistrationDistrict: 0038; Single MaritalStatus: Single; Daughter RelationToHead: Daughter
Residence	1930 Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA [24] – Attending graduate school at Columbia University
Miss Olive Williams To Give Recital	19 Jun 1930 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [24]
Songs and Speeches	25 Apr 1932 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [25] – Olive Williams Guest Soloist at Fahnestock Hall.
Announce Soloist for Choral Society Concert	26 Apr 1932 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [26] – Miss Olive J. Williams will be the piano soloist with the Community Choral Society at its concert in Fahnestock Hall Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock.
Musician	28 Apr 1932 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [27] – Community Choral Society of Harrisburg at 8 o'clock at Fahnestock Hall will be under the direction of Mrs. Salome Sanders, and Miss Olive Williams, pianist, will be the guest soloist.
Olive Williams Plays Brilliantly	1 May 1932 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [28] – Very High praise Notable Performances by Community Choral Society-Olive Williams Plays Brilliantly
To Appear At Central M.E.	27 Oct 1932 Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA [29]
Noted Colored Singers To Give Concert Here	19 Apr 1933 Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA [30]
Peerless Octet To Attract Big Throng Tonight	20 Apr 1933 Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA [31]
CONCERT FRIDAY AT WEATHERLY	6 Jun 1933 Hazleton, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA [32] – CANDLE-lighting TIME A Southern sketch, by Olive Williams
Peerless Concert Company Concert	6 Oct 1933 Shippensburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA [33]
Colored Singers To Give Concert	31 Oct 1933 Marion, Marion, Ohio, USA [34]
Residence	1935 Fessenden Academy, Martin, Marion, Florida, USA [5] – Teacher at the Fessenden Academy
Job	1935 Fessenden Academy, Martin, Marion, Florida, USA [5] – Music Teacher
Publication	Mar 1935 Fessenden Academy, Martin, Marion, Florida, USA [35] – "A Bright Day In Spring" a poem published in Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life.
Publication	Aug 1935 Fessenden Academy, Martin, Marion, Florida, USA [36] – "Promise" a poem published in Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life.
Publication	Sep 1935 Fessenden Academy, Martin, Marion, Florida, USA [37] – "Request" a poem published in Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life.
Residence	1940 Lincoln High School, Marion, Perry, Alabama, USA [5] – Age: 34; Occupation: Teacher; AttendedSchool: No; ClassofWorker: Wage or salary worker in private work; EmploymentCode: 1; EmploymentDetails: No; EmploymentHistory: No; EnumerationDistrict: 53-1; GradeCompleted: College, 4th year; HoursWorked: 45; Income: 600; IncomeOtherSources: No; IsEmployed: Yes; PublicEmergencyWork: No; ResidenceFarmNineteenThirtyFive: No; SeekingWork: No; WeeksWorked: 36; Single MaritalStatus: Single
Job	1940 Lincoln High School, Marion, Perry, Alabama, USA [5, 38] – The Lincoln School
Negro Chorus Coming	14 Apr 1942 Greenville, Darke, Ohio, USA [39] – Negro chorus of 23 young people from Marion, Alabama, at the Church of the Brethren Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The singers are high school students from 15 to 21 years of age, under the direction of Miss Olive J. Williams.
Lincoln Chorus Here	16 Apr 1942 Arcanum, Darke, Ohio, USA [40] – Olive brings the Lincoln School Little Chorus to Ohio
Newspaper Clipping	19 Dec 1944 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [41]
Betty Lee's Social Diary	6 Feb 1945 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [42]
Ethnicity	American [9]
Olive Member of Harrisburg Symphony	22 Feb 1945 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [43] – Harrisburg Symphony Choir To Give Program
Olive Williams Sings at Meeting	9 Nov 1945 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [44]
Workshop at Raccoon State Park	15 Aug 1946 Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, USA [45] – Miss Olive J. Williams of Harrisburg Weekend Girl Scout Leader Workshop at Raccoon State Park
Residence	1950 134 Linden, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [2, 4, 8] – Age: 43; Occupation: Teacher Piano; ClassofWorker: Own Business; EnumerationDistrict: 73-74; HoursWorked: 10; Industry: Lume; LiveOnFarm: No; OccupationCategory: Working; ThreeOrMoreAcres: No; Daughter RelationToHead: Daughter; Never Married MaritalStatus: Single
Residence	1950 132 North Linden, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [2] – Relation to Head: Daughter; Marital Status: Never Married
Mrs. King To Appear At Coppin College	26 Nov 1965 Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [46] – Coretta Scott King Accompanied by Olive J. Williams at Coppin College
Race	Black [9]
Race	Negro [2, 5, 6, 8]
Race	Negro [10]
Name	Olive J Williams [2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Died	6 May 1990 Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [3, 4, 47, 48, 49]
Buried	201 South 30th, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [3, 47, 48]
	Lincoln Cemetery
Person ID	I127 SOALsearch
Last Modified	1 Nov 2024

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Relatives:

Father	Professor James Henry Williams, I (Age 78 years) b. 11 Aug 1876, District 2, Fauquier, Virginia, USA d. 30 May 1955, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 78 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Carrie Estelle Scott (Age 88 years) b. 1876, Yellow Hill, Biglerville, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 May 1964, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 88 years)
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F11 Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Sources

[S60] U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Harrisburg Central High School Yearbook; Year: 1923. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012. Page 50.
Description of Olive Janice Williams:
"A very intelligent young lady who just loves to study music. She also posses an unusually pleasant disposition. With her go our best regards."
[S2261] 1950 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1116; Page: 20; Enumeration District: 73-74.
[S129] U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
Record for Olive Janice Williams
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=105384932&indiv=try
[S245] U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2019;), The Baltimore Sun; Publication Date: 26 May 1990; Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Olive J. Williams dies; music teacher was 84

A memorial service for Olive J. Williams, a retired music teacher and composer, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. James Episcopal Church, Lafayette and Arlington avenues.

Miss Williams, who was 84 and lived on The Alameda, died May 6 at Baltimore County General Hospital of a circulatory illness.

She retired about 20 years ago as a music teacher in the Baltimore schools. She had worked in the city schools since the mid-1950s and also taught voice and piano to private students.

Also, she had worked with private choirs and was a volunteer musical director at the Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church.

A student of Afro-American music, she wrote and arranged spirituals. Some of these pieces were included in a book of spirituals called "Look Away," and some were performed at the Douglas Memorial Community Church.

Born in Harrisburg, Pa., she was a 1927 graduate of Howard University, earned a master's degree in music at Columbia University and did graduate work at the Juilliard School and Pennsylvania State University.

After graduating from Howard, she taught at several Southern schools, including South Carolina State College, the Dorchester Academy in Tennessee [sic: Georgia], the Marion School in Alabama and the Fessenden Academy in Florida. Among her students at Marion was Coretta Scott King.

OLIVE J. WILLIAMS

From 1944 until taking the teaching job in the Baltimore school system, she operated a music studio at the YMCA in Harrisburg.

Fond of travel, both in this country and abroad, she became known as Aunt Olive among foreign students at Morgan State University who were often guests in her home.

She was a member of the Wilson Park Improvement Association, the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Maryland Music Educators Association and the Music Educators National Conference.

Her survivors include a nephew, Scott W. Williams of Buffalo, N.Y.; and three grandnieces.

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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-olive-janice-williams/130682730/
[S22] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Marion, Perry, Alabama; Roll: m-t0627-00073; Page: 21B; Enumeration District: 53-1.
Record for Olive Williams
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2442&h=66428112&indiv=try
[S21] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0038; FHL microfilm: 2341760.
Record for Henry Williams
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=6224&h=17106667&indiv=try
[S36] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Harrisburg Ward 8, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1558; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 84.
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Record for Olive J Williams
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=62308&h=235753853&indiv=try
[S5] 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Year: 1910; Census Place: Harrisburg Ward 8, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1336; Page: 22b; Enumeration District: 0079; FHL microfilm: 1375349.
Record for Olive J Williams
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7884&h=108929561&indiv=try
[S27] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0038; FHL microfilm: 2341760.
Record for Olive J Williams
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=6224&h=17106669&indiv=try
[S32] Pennsylvania, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1906-1911, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania (State). Birth certificates, 1906–1913; Box Number: 87; Certificate Number Range: 064051-067050.
[S1174] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 17 Jun 1919 - Page 17, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 17 Jun 1919;), Picnic and Spelling Bee For Harrisburg Schools p.2 17 Jun 1919.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93750263/picnic-and-spelling-bee-for-harrisburg/?xid=637
[S289] Newspapers.com - The Evening News - 21 Jun 1922 - Page 3, (Name: The Evening News; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 21 Jun 1922;), Girl Scouts Honored_Troop 16_21 Jun 1922 21 Jun 1922.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88442194/girl-scouts-honoredtroop-1621-jun-1922/?xid=637
[S292] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 15 Feb 1927 - Page 4, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 15 Feb 1927;), Piano Recital by Crystal Bird High Scoot Student Olive J Williams_Telegraph_15 Feb 1927 15 Feb 1927.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83215745/piano-recital-by-crystal-bird-high/?xid=637
[S2906] Williams, Olive Janice, Scrapbook/Photo Album, Gwen, Pearl, Auttaway, and Olive. Included in an identified photograph of multiple young girls. Location Unknown (But is most likely in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the 1920s).
https://lincolncemetery.org/
[S5319] The Bison: 1927, Howard University. The Bison: 1927 | Howard University Yearbook. Vol. 4, 1927.
Olive Janice Williams “Ollie”
Harrisburg. Pa. Central High School
"A quitter never wins."
Delta Sigma Theta. Student Council, 1923 Girls' Glee Club. Choir. Kappa Mu.
([Howard University, 1927, p. 84]

Wrote the words to the Class of 1927
Senior Class Song

words by Olive J. Williams

Music by [illegible]

([Howard University, 1927, p. 91]
https://dh.howard.edu/bison_yearbooks/107
[S1173] Newspapers.com - The Evening News - 3 Jul 1924 - Page 17, (Name: The Evening News; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 3 Jul 1924;), Tennis Club Formed_Olive Williams Secretary 3 Jul 1924.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93748990/tennis-club-formedolive-williams/?xid=637
[S5306] Newspapers.com - The New York Age - 1925-04-04 - Howard Choral Society Sings Messiah For Harrisburg Audience, (Name: The New York Age; Location: New York, New York; Date: 1925-04-04;), Howard Choral Society Sings Messiah For Harrisburg Audience 1925-04-04.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-age-howard-choral-society-s/138825096/?xid=637
[S5307] Newspapers.com - The New York Age - 1926-06-12 - Senior Student Recitals At Howard University, (Name: The New York Age; Location: New York, New York; Date: 1926-06-12;), Senior Student Recitals At Howard University 1926-06-12.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-age-senior-student-recitals/138825644/?xid=637
[S2509] Newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Courier - 18 Sep 1926 - Page 7, (Name: The Pittsburgh Courier; Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Date: 18 Sep 1926;), Students Returning to School -Pittsburgh Courier 18 Sep 1926 18 Sep 1926.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106343452/students-returning-to-school/?xid=637
[S2664] Newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Courier - 12 Mar 1927 - Page 11, (Name: The Pittsburgh Courier; Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Date: 12 Mar 1927;), Harrisburg Society Column- Pittsburgh Courier 12 Mar 1927 12 Mar 1927.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107166707/harrisburg-society-column-pittsburgh/?xid=637
[S2665] Newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Courier - 1927-07-30 - Page 6, (Name: The Pittsburgh Courier; Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Date: 1927-07-30;), Harrisburg Society-The Pittsburgh Courier 30 Jul 1927 1927-07-30.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107168572/harrisburg-society-the-pittsburgh/?xid=637
[S2510] The Pittsburgh Courier - 14 Sep 1929 - Page 7, (Name: The Pittsburgh Courier; Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Date: 14 Sep 1929;), Olive Williams Spent Several Days with her cousin Mrs. R.L. Vann.
Miss Olive Williams of Harrisburg, Pa., who spent several days with her cousin, Mrs. R. L. Vann, of Monticello street, left for New York City on Thursday, where she plans to continue her study of music. Miss Williams is a graduate of Howard University and taught for two years at State College in Orangeburg, S.C.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106343772/olive-williams-spent-several-days-with/?xid=637
[S5304] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 1930-06-19 - Miss Olive Williams To Give Recital, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1930-06-19;), Miss Olive Williams To Give Recital 1930-06-19.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/harrisburg-telegraph-miss-olive-williams/41559827/?xid=637
[S294] The Evening News - 25 Apr 1932 - Page 4, (Name: The Evening News; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 25 Apr 1932;), "Choral Concert".
Choral Concert

The third choral concert of the Community Choral Society, of which Mrs. Salome Sanders is director, will be given in Fahnestock Hall tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. The program will include a group of unaccompanied spirituals by the society. Miss Dorothy Curtis will sing an obligato solo, "The Inflammatus," from the Stabet Mater, by Rossini. The guest soloist will be Miss Olive Williams, a graduate of music of Howard University, who has also done graduate work at Columbia University, New York City. The accompanists will be Mrs. Helen Sweger Stone and Dewitt Waters. Tickets may be secured at the door or from the C. M. Sigler music store. Members will present their membership tickets.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88276196/olive-williams-howard-universitygrad/?xid=637
[S5301] Newspapers.com - The Evening News - 1932-04-26 - Announce Soloist for Choral Society Concert, (Name: The Evening News; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1932-04-26;), Announce Soloist for Choral Society Concert 1932-04-26.
# Announce Soloist for Choral Society Concert

Miss Olive J. Williams will be the piano soloist with the Community Choral Society at its concert in Fahnestock Hall Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock. Miss Williams is a graduate of Howard University Conservatory with the degree of Bachelor of Music and has done graduate work at Columbia University Conservatory. Her compositions for piano and voice have won her honors in the original composition contests held annually by the Columbia University music department.

Guarantors for the concert are: Mr. Gifford Pinchot, George A. Hoverter, William D. B. Ainey, Mrs. Ralph Baher, Miss Mary Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cameron, Mrs. Maud B. Coleman, Dr. Charles H. Crampton, Jr., R. B. Jeffers, Mrs. L. A. Liveright, C. Sylvester Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Vance C. McCormick, Donald McCormick, Kerry P. McCormick, James McCormick, Jr., Dr. A. Leslie Marshall, Miss Anna P. F. Orth, U. J. Neidigpole, Mrs. Salome Sanders, C. M. Sigler, Inc., Mrs. Harvey F. Smith, Carter Taylor, Mrs. M. H. Thomas, Mrs. David E. Tracy, J. H. Troup, G. Bernard Valentine, Miss Carrie M. Weiss, Miss Sarah E. Wierman.

Associate members are: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Adley, Charles Arp, Mrs. Sadie Beasley, Mrs. K. N. Berry, Walter Bessick, Miss Constance Biddleman, Mary Jane Ratts, Miss Alice Carter, Miss Audh Josell, Mrs. N. W. Bofnell, Dr. and Mrs. George W. Bowles, John E. Brown, Gustave H. Brunell, Harry Burton, Mrs. Lula P. Butler, Miss Alice Butler, Phil Cannon, Mrs. Grant Callahan, Miss Mary Cooper, Miss Jennie Cooper, William T. Cooper, Hess Cooper, John Coleman, Miss Dorothy L. Crouse, Mrs. Annabelle Day, James Dunhill, Herman W. Dunlop, Miss Ethel Edmonds, Mrs. Charles B. Erwin, Mrs. Mildred Fax, Edward Fox, Mrs. F. P. Gholson, Aaron W. Green, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Glover, Benjamin Gray, Mrs. J.O. A. Haegele, Mrs. Dizzie Hilton, Lester J. Hooper, Miss Dixie M. Hopple, Mrs. Rachel Hunter, Charles Hunter, Dr. George W. Dander, Mr. and Mrs. George V. Jacobs, Mrs. Ola James, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Jackson, Mrs. B. H. Jenkins, Miss Katherine Johnson, Miss Frances Johnson, Mr. Emma Jolly, Walter Jones, Miss Pauline Miller, Joseph Monroe, A. L. Lockhart, Mr. J. B. McAlister, Mr. Johnson Moore, Miss Margaret Moore, Miss India Nette, Mrs. W. J. Mitchell, Miss Helena Oxley, Miss Frances Phillips, Mrs. Ruth H. Primas, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Pyne, Miss Mary H. Robinson, Howard Rose, Charles Riley, Benjamin A. Rothlin, Mr. and Mrs. William Sample, J. E. Smith, Miss Harriett Smith, S. B. Smith, James Springers, William Springts, Mrs. H. W. Sneisgart, Mrs. Olivia Taylor, Mrs. Tillie Thompson, Mrs. Gardner Thomas, J. H. Troup, Jr., Charles Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Verme, Hoyce Williams, Mrs. Clara G. Williams, Mrs. Mamie Young, Mrs. Olive Touman.
Announce Soloist for Choral Society Concert
Miss Olive J. Williams will be the piano soloist with the Community Choral Society at its concert in Fahnestock Hall Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock. Miss Williams is a graduate of Howard University Conservatory with the degree of Bachelor of Music and has done graduate work at Columbia University Conservatory. Her compositions for piano and voice have won her honors in the original composition contests held annually by the Columbia University music department.

Guarantors for the concert are: Mr. Gifford Pinchot, George A. Hoverter, William D. B. Ainey, Mrs. Ralph Baher, Miss Mary Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cameron, Mrs. Maud B. Coleman, Dr. Charles H. Crampton, Jr., R. B. Jeffers, Mrs. L. A. Liveright, C. Sylvester Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Vance C. McCormick, Donald McCormick, Kerry P. McCormick, James McCormick, Jr., Dr. A. Leslie Marshall, Miss Anna P. F. Orth, U. J. Neidigpole, Mrs. Salome Sanders, C. M. Sigler, Inc., Mrs. Harvey F. Smith, Carter Taylor, Mrs. M. H. Thomas, Mrs. David E. Tracy, J. H. Troup, G. Bernard Valentine, Miss Carrie M. Weiss, Miss Sarah E. Wierman.

Associate members are: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Adley, Charles Arp, Mrs. Sadie Beasley, Mrs. K. N. Berry, Walter Bessick, Miss Constance Biddleman, Mary Jane Ratts, Miss Alice Carter, Miss Audh Josell, Mrs. N. W. Bofnell, Dr. and Mrs. George W. Bowles, John E. Brown, Gustave H. Brunell, Harry Burton, Mrs. Lula P. Butler, Miss Alice Butler, Phil Cannon, Mrs. Grant Callahan, Miss Mary Cooper, Miss Jennie Cooper, William T. Cooper, Hess Cooper, John Coleman, Miss Dorothy L. Crouse, Mrs. Annabelle Day, James Dunhill, Herman W. Dunlop, Miss Ethel Edmonds, Mrs. Charles B. Erwin, Mrs. Mildred Fax, Edward Fox, Mrs. F. P. Gholson, Aaron W. Green, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Glover, Benjamin Gray, Mrs. J.O. A. Haegele, Mrs. Dizzie Hilton, Lester J. Hooper, Miss Dixie M. Hopple, Mrs. Rachel Hunter, Charles Hunter, Dr. George W. Dander, Mr. and Mrs. George V. Jacobs, Mrs. Ola James, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Jackson, Mrs. B. H. Jenkins, Miss Katherine Johnson, Miss Frances Johnson, Mr. Emma Jolly, Walter Jones, Miss Pauline Miller, Joseph Monroe, A. L. Lockhart, Mr. J. B. McAlister, Mr. Johnson Moore, Miss Margaret Moore, Miss India Nette, Mrs. W. J. Mitchell, Miss Helena Oxley, Miss Frances Phillips, Mrs. Ruth H. Primas, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Pyne, Miss Mary H. Robinson, Howard Rose, Charles Riley, Benjamin A. Rothlin, Mr. and Mrs. William Sample, J. E. Smith, Miss Harriett Smith, S. B. Smith, James Springers, William Springts, Mrs. H. W. Sneisgart, Mrs. Olivia Taylor, Mrs. Tillie Thompson, Mrs. Gardner Thomas, J. H. Troup, Jr., Charles Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Verme, Hoyce Williams, Mrs. Clara G. Williams, Mrs. Mamie Young, Mrs. Olive Touman.
[S293] Newspapers.com - The Evening News - 28 Apr 1932 - Page 8, (Name: The Evening News; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 28 Apr 1932;), Mrs. Salome Sanders and Miss Olive Williams Give Concert_28 Apr 1932 28 Apr 1932.
# Program for Concert By Community Society

The program for the concert to be presented this evening by the Community Choral Society of Harrisburg at 8 o'clock at Fahnestock Hall will be under the direction of Mrs. Salome Sanders, and Miss Olive Williams, pianist, will be the guest soloist.

The program follows:

The opening group of selections by the society:

\- "Creation Hymn," Rachmaninoff;

\- "Estrellita," Ponce;

\- "By Babylon's Wave," Gounod.

Miss Williams' solo group:

\- Chorale, E Flat Minor, Franck;

\- "Spinning Song," Mendelssohn;

\- "Hark, Hark, The Lark," Schubert-Liszt.

The society's second group will include:

\- "When Thou Comest," (In flammatus, Stabat Mater), Rossini;

\- "Old Refrain," Kreisler;

\- "Vesper Bells" (Kamennoi-Ostrow), Rubinstein.

The second group of Miss Williams' selections will include:

\- Minstrels, Debussy;

\- "The Sea," Palmgren;

\- "Lullaby," Grainger.

The concluding group sung by the society will include two primitive, unaccompanied, undirected spontaneously harmonized Negro spirituals:

\- "My Lord, What a Morning,"

\- "Every Time I Feel the Spirit,"

and two modern Negro spirituals:

\- "Deep River"

\- "Dig My Grave."
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88275596/mrs-salome-sanders-and-miss-olive/?xid=637
[S5303] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Sunday Courier - 1932-05-01 - Very High praisNotable Performances by Community Choral Society-Olive Williams Plays Brilliantly, (Name: Harrisburg Sunday Courier; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1932-05-01;), Very High praisNotable Performances by Community Choral Society-Olive Williams Plays Brilliantly 1932-05-01.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/harrisburg-sunday-courier-very-high-prai/41558509/?xid=637
[S5275] Newspapers.com - Wilkes-Barre Times Leader - 27 Oct 1932 - Page 13, (Name: Wilkes-Barre Times Leader; Location: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Date: 27 Oct 1932;), To Appear At Central M.E. 27 Oct 1932.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/138674456/to-appear-at-central-me/?xid=637
[S5276] Newspapers.com - Shamokin News-Dispatch - 19 Apr 1933 - Page 13, (Name: Shamokin News-Dispatch; Location: Shamokin, Pennsylvania; Date: 19 Apr 1933;), Noted Colored Singers To Give Concert Here 19 Apr 1933.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/138675249/noted-colored-singers-to-give-concert/?xid=637
[S5273] Newspapers.com - Shamokin Daily News - 1933-04-20 - Peerless Octet To Attract Big Throng Tonight, (Name: Shamokin Daily News; Location: Shamokin, Pennsylvania; Date: 1933-04-20;), Peerless Octet To Attract Big Throng Tonight 1933-04-20.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/shamokin-daily-news-peerless-octet-to-at/138672116/?xid=637
[S5298] Standard-Speaker - 6 Jun 1933 - Page 7, (Name: Standard-Speaker; Location: Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Date: 6 Jun 1933;), CONCERT FRIDAY AT WEATHERLY: Peerless Company To Give Program At Salem Reformed Church Social Rooms.
CONCERT FRIDAY AT WEATHERLY: Peerless Company To Give Program At Salem Reformed Church Social Rooms.

The Peerless Concert Company will appear at the Salem Reformed church in Weatherly on Friday evening when a concert under the auspices of the young folks of the congregation will be given. The personnel of the company are: Mme. Adah J. Price and Miss Olive Williams, sopranos; Clarence E. Jacobs, bass; Cecil M. Andrews, baritone; Miss Grace Thompson, contralto and reader; Albert Thompson and Thomas R. Harris, tenors; Miss Frances V. Brock, pianist.

The program is as follows:

Part I

CANDLE-lighting TIME

A Southern sketch, by Olive Williams.

In a Kentucky cabin, immediately following Emancipation.

Characters:

\- Aunt Mandy - Mrs. A. J. Price.

\- Chloe, her daughter - Miss Frances V. Brock.

\- Jeimima, servant from the Big House - Miss Grace M. Thompson.

\- Lias, the houseman - Thomas R. Harris.

\- Sam and Joe, boys from neighboring plantation - Albert Thompson, Cecil Andrews.

\- Dinah, sewing girl from neighboring plantation - Miss Olive J. Williams.

\- Deacon Judson Lee - Clarence E. Jacobs.

The spirituals show the contribution made by the negro suffering in slavery.

Part II

(a) "Vilja" from "The Merry Widow," Lehar - The Company.

(b) "Homing," Del Riego - Thomas R. Harris.

(c) "Out of the Dusk," Lee - Mixed quartet.

(d) "Etude Artistique," Godard - Miss Frances V. Brock.

(e) "Soul of the Violin," anonymous - Miss Grace M. Thompson.

(f) "La Villanelle" (The Swallow), Eva Dell'Acqua - Miss Olive J. Williams.

(g) 1. "What from Vengeance," from "Lucia Di Lammermoor"; 2. "Perfect Day," Carrie Jacobs Bond; "Calliope," Barnum - Male quartet.

(h) "Mr. and Mrs. Thompson," Ansdale - Miss Frances V. Brock and Thomas R. Harris.

(i) "The Trumpeter," Dix - Clarence E. Jacobs.

(j) "The Italian Street Song," Victor Herbert - The Company.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/138822012/concert-friday-at-weatherly/?xid=637
[S5272] Newspapers.com - The News-Chronicle - 1933-10-06 - Peerless Concert Company Concert in Shippensburg, (Name: The News-Chronicle; Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1933-10-06;), Peerless Concert Company Concert in Shippensburg 1933-10-06.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-chronicle-peerless-concert-comp/138671678/?xid=637
[S5270] Newspapers.com - The Marion Star - 1933-10-31 - Colored Singers To Give Concert, (Name: The Marion Star; Location: Marion, Ohio; Date: 1933-10-31;), Colored Singers To Give Concert 1933-10-31.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-marion-star-colored-singers-to-give/138670820/?xid=637
[S5314] Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, Olive J. Williams (1935) ‘A Bright Day In Spring: A Poem’, Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, March, p. 77.

Bright Day in Spring

By OLIVE J WILLIAMS

I love a bright day in Spring

yellow sun on high brown hill

April toss of wind in the vale

or blue bird's loss

of a song on the wing

I love a bright day in Spring

https://books.google.com/books/content?id=zsIRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA77&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&bul=1&sig=ACfU3U3IZQqIhDklNh6Bj93YivjGMV518Q&ci=223%2C1031%2C454%2C287&edge=0
Details: Olive J. Williams. “Promise: A Poem.” Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, August 1935. Citation Text: Promise By OLIVE J WILLIAMS I’LL give thee stars plucked in the restless night, or cobweb lace spun by the moon's pale light I’ll give thee water filched from limpid stream, or fireflies drugged by weariness to dream.
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=zsIRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA233&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&bul=1&sig=ACfU3U1Z41jtC8RP67YHc3ORgGekG5Yt1A&ci=292%2C952%2C383%2C353&edge=0
Details: Olive J. Williams. “Request: A Poem.” Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, September 1935. zsIRAQAAMAAJ. Citation Text: Request By OLIVE J WILLIAMS TEACH me, wise one, thy golden song of silence, thy white melody of patience, for sharp stones tear my flesh, and skies scowl grey above, Teach me, wise one, thy songs!.
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=zsIRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA283&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&bul=1&sig=ACfU3U2hQEsCRAwolvfHhwlQ1KfQRLJEUg&ci=477%2C991%2C405%2C296&edge=0
[S5318] My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, King, Coretta Scott. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
My Life with human beings.

Black and white teachers lived together in a spirit of brotherhood in the dormitories provided by the school. The white people in Marion generally despised our northern teachers, whom they called radicals and "nigger lovers." They considered the school's integrated housing facilities scandalous, and the teachers were fairly isolated in the community. Of course, a few of the townspeople made friends with the teachers— there are some good people in every situation. The faculty at Lincoln was brave and dedicated, and the school had a strong tradition of service to humanity which was communicated to its students. I feel that the chance to go to such a school made a real difference in my life. Looking back now, so many things that happened to me when I was much younger seem to have been preparing me for my life with Martin. Going to the Lincoln School was one of the most important of these. It was quite a sacrifice for our parents to send Edythe and me, and later my brother Obie, to Lincoln. The tuition was four dollars and fifty cents a year for each of us, and that was a lot of money for them to pay. In addition, we had to board with a Negro family in Marion, because it was too far from home to walk. A farmer not only lost a helper when he sent his child away to school, he also had to raise the money for room and board. But there was no alternative. The nearest Negro high school was twenty miles away, and you had to furnish your own transportation. On the other hand, the white children in the area were bused in to Marion High School. My sister was the first child I knew in our immediate community to go to high school, though my father had attended Lincoln for one year in his own youth. By the time I was a Junior at Lincoln, the county agreed to provide some of the funds to transport black rural students to school. The parents also contributed. My father converted one of his trucks into a bus, and my mother drove the children from our area to and from school every day. After that time, I was able to live at home. Lincoln opened the world to me, especially the world of music. Miss Olive J. Williams of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a Howard University graduate, was our music teacher, and my ideal. She played the piano, sang, and taught music appreciation to all students from seventh grade on, and after they reached the tenth grade, she gave private instruction in voice. She also gave private piano lessons to those who could afford the small fee, and directed our three choruses. So outstanding were these singing groups that they performed such works as "Ballad for Americans" and The Messiah annually. We all had to learn to read music, and those who were particularly interested could go much further. I learned to play the Flutaphone and performed on it in school programs. Of course, I sang— I always sang. Miss Williams gave me my first formal voice lessons and I performed vocal solos, as well as sang solos with the choruses. I learned to play the beginning repertoire of all new pianists. Later, on my own, I learned to play hymns, gospel songs, and spirituals. When I was about fifteen, our church asked me to serve as choir director and pianist— we had a piano by that time— and I trained the Junior Choir. The young people of my age were a fine group, and there were some very good singers among them. We did special programs, and one of them was the origin of the format I used for my Freedom Concerts many years later. I would choose a song such as "Does Jesus Care" and write a narration to go with it. It would tell about some of the problems we as Christians face, and would ask whether anyone cares about us. "But Jesus does care. He cares when no one else seems to and our hearts are in despair." Then I would lead the singing of the song. At Lincoln High School, I was taught to play the trumpet by Frances Thomas who gave me free lessons on her trumpet.
http://archive.org/details/mylifewithmartin00kingrich
[S5271] The Daily Advocate, (Name: The Daily Advocate; Location: Greenville, Ohio; Date: 1942-04-14;), Negro Chorus Coming.
The public is invited to see and hear a Negro chorus of 23 young people from Marion, Alabama, at the Church of the Brethren Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The singers are high school students from 15 to 21 years of age, under the direction of Miss Olive J. Williams. They come from the only colored high school within a radius of 25 miles and are known as the Lincoln Chorus.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-advocate-negro-chorus-coming/138671031/?xid=637
[S5308] Newspapers.com - The Arcanum Times - 1942-04-16 - Lincoln Chorus Here, (Name: The Arcanum Times; Location: Arcanum, Ohio; Date: 1942-04-16;), Lincoln Chorus Here 1942-04-16.
The Lincoln Little Chorus of Lincoln School, Marion, Alabama, will sing at the Arcanum school this afternoon, Thursday, at 1:15. Mr. Cecil Thomas, a former teacher in the Arcanum schools, will accompany the group. From a senior chorus of fifty voices, Miss Olive Williams, music director at the Lincoln School has chosen twenty-two students who comprise the Lincoln Little Chorus. Their repertoire includes not only spirituals but folk songs of other lands, chorales, and madrigals. Two of the members have had considerable experience as soloists. An invitation is extended to the public to hear these boys and girls of the Lincoln School sing the finest in Negro music with depth and understanding. Hearing them, one cannot fail to appreciate the warmth and color which negro spirituals lend to our national folklore. The group will arrive at eleven o'clock today. Mr. Thomas has expressed a desire to meet again the many friends he has in Arcanum. Mr. Thomas was a Science and Mathematics teacher in the local school during the years 1939, and 1940.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arcanum-times-lincoln-chorus-here/138826241/?xid=637
[S295] Newspapers.com - The Evening News - 19 Dec 1944 - Page 20, (Name: The Evening News; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 19 Dec 1944;), Party for Servicemen_19 Dec 1944 19 Dec 1944.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88276686/party-for-servicemen19-dec-1944/?xid=637
[S5299] Newspapers.com - The Evening News - 1945-02-06 - Betty Lee's Social Diary, (Name: The Evening News; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1945-02-06;), Betty Lee's Social Diary 1945-02-06.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-news-betty-lees-social-diar/138822389/?xid=637
[S5302] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 1945-02-22 - Symphony Choir To Give Program, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1945-02-22;), Symphony Choir To Give Program 1945-02-22.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/harrisburg-telegraph-symphony-choir-to-g/138823387/?xid=637
[S5300] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 9 Nov 1945 - Page 10, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 9 Nov 1945;), Olive Williams Sings at Meeting 9 Nov 1945.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/138822949/olive-williams-sings-at-meeting/?xid=637
[S5274] Newspapers.com - Altoona Tribune - 1946-08-15 - Miss Olive J. Williams of Harrisburg Weekend Girl Scout Leader Workshop at Raccoon State Park, (Name: Altoona Tribune; Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania; Date: 1946-08-15;), Miss Olive J. Williams of Harrisburg Weekend Girl Scout Leader Workshop at Raccoon State Park 1946-08-15.
Miss Olive J. Williams of Harrisburg, a noted musician and intercultural group worker, will be a guest staff member at the "Weekend Workshop" planned for Girl Scout Leaders of Beaver County from August 16-18, at the established campsite in Raccoon State Park.

Miss Williams holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Howard University, Washington, D.C., has taken graduate study at Lebanon Valley College, a refresher course at Juilliard School of Music, New York City, and is now completing her Master's Degree at Columbia University. Additionally, she had private lessons with Emily Miller of New York, assistant to Oscar Saenger, and with Reginald Lunt, Minister of Music, Harrisburg.

For thirteen years, Miss Williams taught in the South in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. For ten years of this time, she was on the staff of the American Missionary Association in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, where she was an arranger, collector, and teacher of spirituals.

Miss Williams has toured with the Peerless Jubilee Company as music director and soprano soloist, with Lincoln Little Chorus as musical coach and director, and with the Susquehanna Singers as accompanist and coach.

Beaver County Scouts are looking forward with much enthusiasm to working with Miss Williams as she presents the real background of spirituals, teaches their proper value in world music, how and when they should be used, and conducts singing with the group.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/altoona-tribune-miss-olive-j-williams-o/138672470/?xid=637
[S5294] Newspapers.com - The Evening Sun - 1965-11-26 - Mrs. King To Appear At Coppin College, (Name: The Evening Sun; Location: Baltimore, Maryland; Date: 1965-11-26;), The Evening Sun. “Mrs. King To Appear At Coppin College.” November 26, 1965.
Mrs. King To Appear At Coppin College
Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., wife of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize-winner, will be presented in appearances at Coppin State College next Thursday and Friday.
On Thursday at 8.15 P.M. she will appear in a recital of songs from the freedom movement, and this will mark her first performance in Baltimore as a singer. On Friday morning at 11 A.M. she will lecture on her personal involvement in the movement.
Mrs. King, a soprano, has been heard in lectures and recitals in major cities throughout America. In 1959 she sang for audiences in India which included a performance at Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Music School in New Delhi.
She has received numerous citations among which are the Louise Waterman Wise Award in the area of peace and human relations, and the National Council of Negro Women's Annual Brotherhood Award.
For her recital, Mrs. King's accompanist will be Miss Olive J. Williams, a Baltimore public schools music teacher and former high school teacher of Mrs. King.
Both programs will be held in Pullen Gymnasium on the campus at 2500 West North Avenue and are open to the public without charge.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-sun-mrs-king-to-appear-at-c/138806140/?xid=637
[S4] Findagrave, (Location: Penbrook, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA; Date: 1885;), Olive Janice Williams Williams 6 May 1990.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128069413/olive-janice-williams
[S14] SOAL on Facebook, SOAL: Saving Our Ancestor's Legacy, (Location: https://fb.me/SavingOurAncestorsLegacy;), SOAL Facebook Page. SOAL Facebook Group. Grave Markers documented at Lincoln Cemetery. Burial Records digitized at Wesley Union Church by Rachael and Ezekiel Williams and Bhakti Williams Brown. https://fb.me/SavingOurAncestorsLegacy.
Information concerning burials in Harrisburg's Lincoln Cemetery by SOAL volunteers begining in 2021.
http://https/lincolncemetery.org
[S5317] Newspapers.com - The Baltimore Sun - 26 May 1990 - Page 10, (Name: The Baltimore Sun; Location: Baltimore, Maryland; Date: 26 May 1990;), Obituary for Olive J. Williams (Aged 84) 26 May 1990.
Olive J. Williams dies; music teacher was 84

A memorial service for Olive J. Williams, a retired music teacher and composer, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. James Episcopal Church, Lafayette and Arlington avenues.

Miss Williams, who was 84 and lived on The Alameda, died May 6 at Baltimore County General Hospital of a circulatory illness.

She retired about 20 years ago as a music teacher in the Baltimore schools. She had worked in the city schools since the mid-1950s and also taught voice and piano to private students.

Also, she had worked with private choirs and was a volunteer musical director at the Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church.

A student of Afro-American music, she wrote and arranged spirituals. Some of these pieces were included in a book of spirituals called "Look Away," and some were performed at the Douglas Memorial Community Church.

Born in Harrisburg, Pa., she was a 1927 graduate of Howard University, earned a master's degree in music at Columbia University and did graduate work at the Juilliard School and Pennsylvania State University.

After graduating from Howard, she taught at several Southern schools, including South Carolina State College, the Dorchester Academy in Tennessee [sic: Georgia], the Marion School in Alabama and the Fessenden Academy in Florida. Among her students at Marion was Coretta Scott King.

From 1944 until taking the teaching job in the Baltimore school system, she operated a music studio at the YMCA in Harrisburg.

Fond of travel, both in this country and abroad, she became known as Aunt Olive among foreign students at Morgan State University who were often guests in her home.

She was a member of the Wilson Park Improvement Association, the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Maryland Music Educators Association and the Music Educators National Conference.

Her survivors include a nephew, Scott W. Williams of Buffalo, N.Y.; and three grandnieces.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38293091/obituary-for-olive-j-williams-aged-84/?xid=637

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