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Hymnary: https://hymnary.org/person/Williams_ClaraTear Archive.org

Born 22 September 1858 near Painesville, Ohio.

Minister and evangelist in the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Born in a Methodist family, converted in 1871.

Worked as a schoolteacher in Ohio.

In 1882 and 1883, took part in revival meetings in Indiana and Michigan, with Mary DePew. She continued travelling for evangelistic work in the following years, visiting Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Between 1888 and 1894, she was an evangelist in the Lockport and Allegheny Conferences.

She was minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Middlefield, Ohio for a year from 1894.

In 1895, married William H. Williams (1855-1934), a lay preacher in the Methodist church. In the following twenty years, served as ministers in churches in Youngstown, Massillon, Pine Grove and Indiana, Pennsylvania.

1915 - moved to Houghton, New York, where Clara Williams continued to preach while William worked as a janitor in Houghton College.

Died 1 July 1937 in Houghton, New York.

When a new clock tower was dedicated at Allegheny Wesleyan College in 2013, Williams was one of the people whose legacy was honoured in the dedication ceremony.

Wrote hymns. Was a consulting editor for the 1900 hymnal Sacred Hymns and Tunes Designed for Use in the Wesleyan Methodist Connection. She was the only female members of the Committee who compiled this book.

Best known text is "Satisfied". Ralph E. Hudson "About 1875, I was helping in meetings in Troy, Ohio, where Professor R. E. Hudson conducted the singing, when, just before retiring one night, he asked me to write a song for a book he was preparing to publish. Before sleeping, I wrote "Satisfied." In the morning, he composed the music." Hymn was first published in 1881, in Gems of Gospel Song, a hymnbook compiled by Ralph E. Hudson, Elisha Hoffman and John Harrison Tenney. Recorded by George Beverley Shea Williams had met Shea in Houghton, New York, when he was 8 years old. Shea's father was working as an evangelist there. Shea's family later moved to Ottawa, Canada. When Shea began singing publicly as a teenager, "Satisfied" was one of his favourite songs.