Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wilson, Riley N. 1906
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The Ionia Weekly Standard, Friday, July 6, 1906

When the late Riley N. Wilson was a resident of Sebewa he was a deputy under 
Sheriff Wm. Toan and was counted as a brave officer. His bravery came near 
causing his death 20 years ago.  Walter Dann lived on a farm near Sebewa 
Corners and Riley Wilson was ordered to take possession of the wheat which 
Dann was threshing.  News of this reached Dann and he sent word to Wilson that 
if he touched his wheat he never would leave the farm alive. Knowing Dann to 
be a desperate fellow, Wilson armed himself with a 38-caliber gun and walked 
up to the wheat.  He had no sooner loaded a bag on his shoulder than Dann 
fired.  Then Wilson fired and the two men emptied the five chambers of their 
revolvers at each other.  The men who were working around the machine were 
horrified at the duel and lost no time in getting out of range.  When it was 
all over both men lay upon the ground within reaching distance of each other.  
Both were alive, but one man had 2 bullets in him and the other had 3.  It was 
feared both would die, but Dann lived to serve a term in prison, and was 
finally pardoned.  Riley Wilson was never the athlete that he was before the 
shooting and he carried at least one of the bullets when they laid him in his 
grave last week at Ionia.


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