Obit of Wilson, W W - McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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::Greenwood Cemetery--Paris TX 

Obituary: W. W. Wilson

Dated: Hand dated July 5, 1924

Newspaper: McCurtain County, Oklahoma newspaper                  

= FORMER TRIBAL OFFICER DEAD AT FORT TOWSON=                          

W.W. WILSON WEALTHY CHOCTAW INDIAN,         

FORMER MEMBER OF GOVERNOR'S STAFF BURIED WEDNESDAY    

W. W. Wilson, 67 years old, life time resident of the Fort Towson 
section and long prominent in the affairs of the Choctaw Indians, 
died at his home at Fort Towson, west of here early Tuesday morning.    

He had been ill for several months with a complication of diseases 
and the end was not unexpected.    

Mr. Wilson was on of the most widely known and influential men in 
that section. He was a quarter blood Choctaw.  He served as treasurer 
of the Choctaw tribe in 1895-96 and was a member of the Choctaw 
senate from what was then Towson county for several years.  At one 
time he was a candidate for principal chief of the Choctaws; he was a 
colonel on Governor Williams Staff from 1915 to 1919.    

Mr. Wilson also was one of the wealthiest men in Choctaw county.  For 
many years he and John Wilson, a brother, were the most extensive 
cattle raisers in southeastern Oklahoma.  They disposed of their 
interests in 1905.  Wilson was in the mercantile business at 
Doaksville and later Fort Towson for many years.     

He was the first president of the Choctaw Exchange bank of Hugo which 
later merged with the First National bank.     

At one time he was interested in six banks.     

Wilson was reared near the site of the present town of Fort Towson, 
where he lived all his life.    

He was married three times, three children by his second marriage are 
dead.  He is survived by his third wife, two children, a grandson and 
a brother, Rafe Wilson of Valliant, Okla.    

His body was taken to Paris, Texas, Wednesday morning for interment 
in beautiful Greenwood Cemetery.
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