Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Wilson, Benjamin Franklin 1911
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Payette Enterprise 11-16-1911
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, November 16, 1911

B. F. WILSON

Benjamin Franklin Wilson was born in 1852 near Youngstown, Ohio and with his 
parents moved to Mahaska county, Iowa, in a very early day. As a lad of twelve 
he went to Denver and spent three years freighting to and from Omaha, 
afterwards locating at Winterset, Iowa, where he grew to manhood and met and 
married Sylvia Ellen Wilson and located in Cherokee county, Iowa, near Aurelia 
on a homestead. Of this union five children were born, four of whom survive 
him, Mrs. C. A. Dobell of Corvallis, Oregon; E. C. Wilson of Mikado, Sak., 
Canada; Dr. C. E. Wilson, of Corvallis, Oregon; and Mrs. Chas. Shontz of 
Payette.

After an active career in the grain and stock business at Marcus where he as a 
charter member of the Masonic lodge at Anthon, Iowa, for over twenty years, 
the call of the prairie lured him to Canada where he lived until about one 
year ago when he was stricken by a partial stroke of paralysis. With his wife 
he then came to Payette where Mr. Wilson bought ten acres north of town in the 
hopes that the climate of this valley would aid in warding off the inevitable, 
but on Sunday morning, November 5th, a second stroke developed after a week's 
illness and he passed away November 14th. His mind was clear to the last; his 
unfaltering trust in Jesus the Christ and his repeated assertion that he had 
no fear to go helped those who are left to mourn a noble father and a faithful 
husband.

The funeral services were held at the Christian church on Tuesday afternoon at 
two thirty o'clock, the Rev. Smith of that church officiating and the remains 
were laid to rest in Riverside cemetery. 

Additional Comments:
Note: According to the Idaho Death Index, he was born 11-18-1852 and died 11-
14-1911. ch

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