Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Wilson, Elizabeth Skinner 1919
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Payette Enterprise 11-20-1919
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, November 20, 1919

DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER

Mrs. Elizabeth (Skinner) Wilson
Mrs. Wilson will be better known as mother of Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson, with 
whom she has made her home all the later years of her life. She died at the 
same home last Sunday and was buried Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services were 
at the home conducted by Rev. Mr. Reed, members of the Rebecca Order acting 
as "pall-bearers." Neighbors and friends gathered in a large company to pay 
respects to her memory.

Mrs. Wilson was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1833. Two children were 
born of the union, Mrs. Hutchinson, as already noted, and Mr. John H. Wilson 
of Meadows. Mr. Wilson was down during the last days of his mother, and will 
be in Payette some time yet.

Her life is of exceptional interest to all who study the movements of people 
that have gathered here in America to Constitute the Land we love. She was 
bereaved of her husband after only a few years of married life, and when her 
son was grown to manhood he felt the call that has brought so many of the 
select of the world to our shores, and sought in America a new home for the 
family. After selecting a place to his liking, he went back to the land 
of "the Bonnie Thistle weed" and brot Mother and Sister to the new World. That 
was in 1883, seven years before Idaho became a state. The journey from Ogden 
to Meadows was in an emigrant wagon. They were in the Meadows Valley early 
enough to share the dangers of Indian savagery, and were fast friends and co-
workers with those who helped "win the west" from barbarism to the state of 
perfect security as we now know it.

A child of Scotland, she was of course a Presbyterian with that strong faith 
in a God who knows and orders things in the Earth, which faith has been the 
foundation of so many of the world's best enterprises. In that faith she lived 
and died and the message of her departed spirit is to our generation "Ask for 
the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein and ye shall find rest 
for your souls." 

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Note:  Burial at Riverside Cemetery. ch

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