Obituaries:Alvin B. Wilson
Submitter:Carolyn P. Avery  JAN 2001
Source:West Carroll Gazette  6 Feb. 1941


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REUNION WITH FAMILY IS ENDED BY DEATH

Illness several months ago resulted in uniting Alvin B. Wilson,
54-year-old farmer of Forest community, with members of his family
who had neither seen nor heard from him since his disappearance
14 years ago, but his death Monday abruptly ended the reunion.

Wilson, who lived on the farm of E.C. Holms, revealed to the latter
shortly after he became ill that following the death of his wife in
1926, he had placed his three children in the care of a brother and 
departed from his home at Winona, Miss.  He gave the name of a brother
to whom Mr. Holms wrote, but who had died, Mr. Holms learned when 
recieving an answer from another brother. The stricken man was taken to 
Wionona, where he succumed several days after a reunion with his
children, now married, and a grandchild, of whose birth he had not
previously known.

He had resided in the Forest community more than eight years and 
was widely and favorably known throughout this area.