Last week. in his 95th year. this man whom thousands came to revere as "Uncle Bert" Williams came to the close of this life. and left a city much better because he came to live among us. El Paso. in 1894. was celebrated as a wide open frontier town. A year after the arrival of the young immigrant. a gunfight in the old Acme Saloon brought an end to the career of the notorious John Wesley Hardin. If young "Bertie" Williams was aware of such happenings. they seemed to touch his early years but little. for he moved in far different circles. His late father had been an Anglican minister. and he had come to El Paso t) live with his uncle. a Methodist minister.
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