Rites held for Mrs. Charles V. Wilson
Funeral services were held Feb. 24 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel in Cortez for Mrs. Charles V. Wilson, mother of Buck Wilson, Bluff, who passed away in that city on Feb. 22.
Mrs. Wilson, born in 1886 in Smith Center, Kan. travelled from Oklahoma in 1913 driving a covered wagon with her four children while her husband drove a herd of wild horses. The Wilsons settled in the Zuni Mountain Area of New Mexico, later moving to Dry Valley, north of Monticello. They homesteaded in Urado, Utah where they lived for 12 years. Mrs. Wilson had lived the past 33 years in Colorado. Her husband, who passed away in 1951, worked on the first road up Comb Wash hill.
Surviving are five children – Mrs. Elmer Martin, Cortez; Mrs. Martin Barnes, Waynoka, Okla.; John Wilson, Prescott, Ariz.; Clayton Wilson, Cortez; and Lonie (Buck) Wilson, Bluff. Also surviving are 16 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren.
For more photos and stories about Minnie Pearl Wilson, go to clmroots Blog.
https://clmroots.blogspot.com/2019/06/finding-pearls-obituary.html
Rites held for Mrs. Charles V. Wilson
Funeral services were held Feb. 24 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel in Cortez for Mrs. Charles V. Wilson, mother of Buck Wilson, Bluff, who passed away in that city on Feb. 22.
Mrs. Wilson, born in 1886 in Smith Center, Kan. travelled from Oklahoma in 1913 driving a covered wagon with her four children while her husband drove a herd of wild horses. The Wilsons settled in the Zuni Mountain Area of New Mexico, later moving to Dry Valley, north of Monticello. They homesteaded in Urado, Utah where they lived for 12 years. Mrs. Wilson had lived the past 33 years in Colorado. Her husband, who passed away in 1951, worked on the first road up Comb Wash hill.
Surviving are five children – Mrs. Elmer Martin, Cortez; Mrs. Martin Barnes, Waynoka, Okla.; John Wilson, Prescott, Ariz.; Clayton Wilson, Cortez; and Lonie (Buck) Wilson, Bluff. Also surviving are 16 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren.
For more photos and stories about Minnie Pearl Wilson, go to clmroots Blog.
https://clmroots.blogspot.com/2019/06/finding-pearls-obituary.html
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