OBIT: Shawnee County, KS; WILSON, Mrs. Mary, 1916 http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/shawnee/obits/wilsonm.txt From : "James Laird" To : KS-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject :[KS-FOOT]] Obit: WILSON; January 9, 1916; Shawnee Date : Wed, 9 Oct 2002 added to the archives: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 see copyright notice at end of file. =================================================== The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday January 9, 1916 Mrs. Mary Wilson Is Dead. For More Than 50 Years She Was Resident of Kansas, Settling Near Big Springs in Early Days. Mrs. Mary WILSON, for fifty years a resident of Kansas, died Friday night at her home in Bushong. She was 84 years old. With her husband Mrs. WILSON came to Kansas from West Virginia in 1867 and settled near Big Springs. The pioneer woman was the mother of a large family and she is survived by eight children. The body of Mrs. WILSON will be brought to Topeka to the home of a daughter, Mrs. E.W. RAKE, 406 Liberty street, and Tuesday taken to Big Springs for burial. Children surviving Mrs. WILSON are: Mrs. E.W. RAKE, Topeka; J.W. WILSON, Bushong; T.W. WILSON, Eskridge; A.E. WILSON, Big Springs; E.E. WILSON, Oroville, Cal.; Enoch WILSON, Allen, Wyo.; Mrs. Fred KATZER, Allen, Wyo., and Amos WILSON, of Olmita, Kan. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the KSGenWeb USGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.