Today I will continue my series on Evangelical woman who lived in the second half of 1800.In this story I will focus on a woman named Clara Belle Drisdale Williams. She lived from 1885 - 1994. Clara was born to sharecroppers Isaac and Carrie Melinda Moppins Drisdale in LaGrange, Texas.
Clara was first educated in a one-room country school house near LaGrange but in 1901 she entered Prairie View Normal and Independent College (now Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University), in Prairie View, Texas. She graduated from the Institution with a certificate in domestic arts, as its valedictorian in 1905. After graduation, she was the head of the Institution's sewing department before moving to El Paso, Texas.
In 1917, Clara married Jasper Williams, a pharmacist in El Paso. Together they ran a drugstore and became parents of three sons, Jasper, James and Charles.
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