Charles Koffman Williams

January 31, 1862 – October 12, 1944

Ida L. Wilson Williams

December 17, 1866 – December 29, 1940

The Williams Family monument, titled “Vision,” in the Easton Cemetery in Easton, Pennsylvania, is a private commission created by sculptor Harry Lewis Raul and cast in 1908. 

Raul (October 2, 1883—May 27, 1960) was a native of Easton, who studied the classics first at Lafayette College, then transferred to study with noted artists in New York and Philadelphia. His work can be found throughout the cemetery and other places in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.  For a time, Raul had his own art studio and created public and private commissions.

An example of his public work, similar to the classically draped allegorical figure in the Williams Family monument, can be found in front of the Northampton County Courthouse created in 1912 and cast in 1913 to honor the sailors who died in the Maine and the soldiers and sailors who served and died in the Spanish-American War.

IN MEMORY OF

THE

MARTYS OF THE MAINE

AND THE SOLDIERS

SAILORS AND MARINES

OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

1898 – 1902

ERECTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

THE COUNTY OF NORHTAMPTON AND

COL. CHARLES WIKOFF CAMP NO 43

UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS

OF EASTON PENNSYLVANIA

DEDICATED JUNE 24, 1914