Iola company’s storied history recalled

For more than a century, a good many of Iola’s dead have entered into their eternal rest beneath the shade of a granite marker hand-crafted by an employee of Williams Monuments. Williams remains one of the oldest small businesses in the state.
In 1906, Charles E. Williams Sr. purchased Palmer Marble & Granite Works at 214 West St. He called his establishment Williams Monumental and Marble Works. After three years, Williams moved the monument shop to 301 S. Washington Ave.
In 1936, he sold half of the Washington Avenue lot and built a new shop on the remaining half, at…

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