Source: The Brimfield News, May 9, 1918
Mr. James Willson, well known and highly respected years ago in Elmwood and the neighborhood east of it, was brought here last Monday to be laid to rest for his final rest by the side of his wife in the Walker Cemetery east of Soutport.
Mr. Willson was a native of the state of Vermont and had reached the advance age of 79. About the year 1858 he went to California. He passed through where Denver stands when there were only three houses there, to give premise of the great city that was to be. About the close of the Civil War he made his return to the east by a long ocean voyage broken by the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama. He landed in New York and afterward came to Illinois, settling in Brimfield. May 16, 1871, he married Miss Florence E. Pulsipher who died Nov. 5, 1902. Their only child died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Willson made their home in Chicago for several years while he traveled for a sewing machine company. Quitting the work, he bought a farm near Southport, which he sold after his wife’s death and went to Florida. Returning in a few years, he bought the farm now owned and occupied by Carl Gibbs. Some four years ago, he went to Ithaca, Mich., with Harlan Gibbs and family. Mrs. Gibbs had been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Willson in her childhood. She bore the name of Gertrude Willson until her marriage.
After three years in Michigan, Mr. Willson went last winter to Virginia whence he came north to be with his only sister in Lima, New York, where he died April 25, 1918. Funeral services were held there, and a brief service was held by Rev. BY George in Kilpatrick’s funeral chapel Monday, April 29, attended by a number of old neighbors and especially the relatives of Mrs. Willson, and by Mrs. Gibbs who had come from her Michigan home to be present at this service, and go to the quiet country cemetery to drop the tear of affection up on the graves where those who were so good to her be side by side.
Note: Gertrude Willson Gibbs, adopted daughter is buried in San Diego, California, memorial #82974518.
Mr. James Willson, well known and highly respected years ago in Elmwood and the neighborhood east of it, was brought here last Monday to be laid to rest for his final rest by the side of his wife in the Walker Cemetery east of Soutport.
Mr. Willson was a native of the state of Vermont and had reached the advance age of 79. About the year 1858 he went to California. He passed through where Denver stands when there were only three houses there, to give premise of the great city that was to be. About the close of the Civil War he made his return to the east by a long ocean voyage broken by the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama. He landed in New York and afterward came to Illinois, settling in Brimfield. May 16, 1871, he married Miss Florence E. Pulsipher who died Nov. 5, 1902. Their only child died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Willson made their home in Chicago for several years while he traveled for a sewing machine company. Quitting the work, he bought a farm near Southport, which he sold after his wife’s death and went to Florida. Returning in a few years, he bought the farm now owned and occupied by Carl Gibbs. Some four years ago, he went to Ithaca, Mich., with Harlan Gibbs and family. Mrs. Gibbs had been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Willson in her childhood. She bore the name of Gertrude Willson until her marriage.
After three years in Michigan, Mr. Willson went last winter to Virginia whence he came north to be with his only sister in Lima, New York, where he died April 25, 1918. Funeral services were held there, and a brief service was held by Rev. BY George in Kilpatrick’s funeral chapel Monday, April 29, attended by a number of old neighbors and especially the relatives of Mrs. Willson, and by Mrs. Gibbs who had come from her Michigan home to be present at this service, and go to the quiet country cemetery to drop the tear of affection up on the graves where those who were so good to her be side by side.
Note: Gertrude Willson Gibbs, adopted daughter is buried in San Diego, California, memorial #82974518.
Source: The Brimfield News, May 9, 1918
Mr. James Willson, well known and highly respected years ago in Elmwood and the neighborhood east of it, was brought here last Monday to be laid to rest for his final rest by the side of his wife in the Walker Cemetery east of Soutport.
Mr. Willson was a native of the state of Vermont and had reached the advance age of 79. About the year 1858 he went to California. He passed through where Denver stands when there were only three houses there, to give premise of the great city that was to be. About the close of the Civil War he made his return to the east by a long ocean voyage broken by the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama. He landed in New York and afterward came to Illinois, settling in Brimfield. May 16, 1871, he married Miss Florence E. Pulsipher who died Nov. 5, 1902. Their only child died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Willson made their home in Chicago for several years while he traveled for a sewing machine company. Quitting the work, he bought a farm near Southport, which he sold after his wife’s death and went to Florida. Returning in a few years, he bought the farm now owned and occupied by Carl Gibbs. Some four years ago, he went to Ithaca, Mich., with Harlan Gibbs and family. Mrs. Gibbs had been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Willson in her childhood. She bore the name of Gertrude Willson until her marriage.
After three years in Michigan, Mr. Willson went last winter to Virginia whence he came north to be with his only sister in Lima, New York, where he died April 25, 1918. Funeral services were held there, and a brief service was held by Rev. BY George in Kilpatrick’s funeral chapel Monday, April 29, attended by a number of old neighbors and especially the relatives of Mrs. Willson, and by Mrs. Gibbs who had come from her Michigan home to be present at this service, and go to the quiet country cemetery to drop the tear of affection up on the graves where those who were so good to her be side by side.
Note: Gertrude Willson Gibbs, adopted daughter is buried in San Diego, California, memorial #82974518.
Mr. James Willson, well known and highly respected years ago in Elmwood and the neighborhood east of it, was brought here last Monday to be laid to rest for his final rest by the side of his wife in the Walker Cemetery east of Soutport.
Mr. Willson was a native of the state of Vermont and had reached the advance age of 79. About the year 1858 he went to California. He passed through where Denver stands when there were only three houses there, to give premise of the great city that was to be. About the close of the Civil War he made his return to the east by a long ocean voyage broken by the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama. He landed in New York and afterward came to Illinois, settling in Brimfield. May 16, 1871, he married Miss Florence E. Pulsipher who died Nov. 5, 1902. Their only child died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Willson made their home in Chicago for several years while he traveled for a sewing machine company. Quitting the work, he bought a farm near Southport, which he sold after his wife’s death and went to Florida. Returning in a few years, he bought the farm now owned and occupied by Carl Gibbs. Some four years ago, he went to Ithaca, Mich., with Harlan Gibbs and family. Mrs. Gibbs had been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Willson in her childhood. She bore the name of Gertrude Willson until her marriage.
After three years in Michigan, Mr. Willson went last winter to Virginia whence he came north to be with his only sister in Lima, New York, where he died April 25, 1918. Funeral services were held there, and a brief service was held by Rev. BY George in Kilpatrick’s funeral chapel Monday, April 29, attended by a number of old neighbors and especially the relatives of Mrs. Willson, and by Mrs. Gibbs who had come from her Michigan home to be present at this service, and go to the quiet country cemetery to drop the tear of affection up on the graves where those who were so good to her be side by side.
Note: Gertrude Willson Gibbs, adopted daughter is buried in San Diego, California, memorial #82974518.
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