Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Seth Homer Wilson  December 21 1888
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net December 23, 2002, 12:26 am

The Griffin Daily News. Griffin, Georgia, Saturday Morning, December 22, 1888

Death of S.H. Wilson
One of Spalding's Most Prominent Citizen's

This community was surprised and shocked yesterday
morning to learn of the death

of S.H. Wilson, which occurred about nine o'clock.
Pneumonia was the cause, the attack having come on
several days ago and turning at about twelve o'clock
Thursday night into congestion of the lungs. Mr.
Wilson had a long and severe attack of pneumonia
some time ago, from which he recovered with
difficulty.

Mr. Wilson was between 53 and 55 years old at the
time of death. He moved here from Albany some
fifteen years ago and has since lived on his large
and comfortable farm near the northeastern edge of
the city. By industry and good management, as well
as good fortune, he had amassed a fortune of
probably sixty thousand dollars, owning stocks and
bonds as well as large tracts of land in southeast
Georgia. He took out five thousand dollars life
insurance last August on the train between Griffin
and Albany, and may have had other insurance. He
leaves a wife and four children, as well as large
numbers of kinsmen and friends

to mourn his loss. A sister with a large family was
expected here last night to make her home in Griffin
and educate her children by his kindness.

Mr. Wilson was a plain and unostentatious man, whose
main endeavor was to do right. He was a faithful
member of the Baptist Church, and a devout
Christian. He was charitable in a high degree, and
the greatest praise that can be said over his grave
will simply be that the poor will miss him.

(Transcribed 12/22/02 Lynn Cunningham)

Note: At Oak Hill Cemetery, Spalding County,
Georgia: Wilson, Seth Homer, b. 15 Nov 1833, d. 21
Dec 1888 Wilson, Margaret Emma Walker, Wife of Seth
Homer Wilson, b. 7 Sept 1860, d. 8 June 1927
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