I purchased a large bag of 20th century photos for $15. Nineteen of the photos are members of the Williams and Sierk families. 


Walter Frank Williams.

Walter Frank Williams.

Harry Williams, brother of Walter Frank Williams.


Walter Frank Williams [and] Ada Oldham Williams 1911.

Ada Williams.

Marjorie Helen Williams [circa 1918-1919]

Eileen/Marj Williams.


Marjorie Helen Williams Sierk 1925.

Marjorie 12 yrs Rockford Nov. 1929


12 1/2 yrs, May 19, 1930 [Marjorie Williams].

Lawrence Arthur Sierk [and] Marjorie Helen Williams Sierk 1937.

Marjorie Sierk Helen Louise Sierk New Baby 1943

Marge, Louise, Linda 1945.

Louise & Marsha Sierk June 1949.

Helen Louise Sierk [and] Linda Joyce Sierk, June 1949.
Paula Schlueter Sierk and Helen Louis Sierk 1949.

Marsha Ann Sierk, Helen Louise Sierk, Linda Joyce Sierk.

Paula Schlueter Sierk, Marsha Ann Sierk Mather, Marjorie Helen Williams Sierk, Diane Elizabeth Mather.

Louise Sierk

Art & Paula Sierk.

I searched Ancestry Public Trees for Walter Frank Williams married to Ada Oldham and immediately found them. Walter was born on 25 May 1887 in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. He was married on 8 November 1918 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois to Ada Williams- unusual because the couple already had three children by that time. Ada Violet Oldham was born on 11 February 1892 in Colchester, McDonough County, Illinois. She died on 19 November 1941 in Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois. Walter died a few months later on 15 January 1942 in Moline. The couple had four children- Violet (1910), Eileen (1916), Marjorie (1917), and Karl (1928).

Walter's brother Harry Carl Williams was born ion 3 September 1891 in Illinois and died in November 1971.

Walter and Ada's daughter Marjorie Helen Williams was born on 29 October 1917 in Colchester, Illinois, and died on 14 September 2002. She was married to Lawrence Arthur Sierk. He was born on 6 November 1915 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and died on 25 February 1994 in Fortuna, Humboldt County, California. The couple lived in Tucson from 1949 to 1966 and operated a furniture store. 

Lawrence Sierk's father was Arthur Henry Sierk, born 7 December 1891 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and died on 1 December 1961 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Lawrence's mother was Paula Alma Schlueter, who was born on 16 August 1893 in Davenport, and died on 5 July 1971 in Coal Valley, Rock Island, Illinois.

Lawrence and Marjorie had three daughters- Linda, Helen Louise, and Marsha. Helen was born on 13 June 1943 and died on 8 February 2013. Daughter Linda married William Hart MacIntosh in Tucson in 1961.








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