Traer Star Clipper, Friday, February 5th, 1937 page 1
Mrs. West Wilson, 82, a member of one of the Traer community's most prominent pioneer families, died at 2:45 p. m. Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Cleland, at Capron, Illinois. She had been ill for seventeen weeks and in failing health about two years. The body was brought to Traer for a funeral service in the United Presbyterian church here Monday afternoon in charge of the Rev. B. M. Wallace, pastor, assisted by the Rev. O. B. Peters, pastor of Tranquillity Presbyterian church, southwest of town. Burial was in Buckingham cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson, whose maiden name was Agnes McCornack, was born September 16, 1851 near Galesburg, Illinois a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Kelly McCornack. She was the last survivor of seven children in the family, which came to Tama county during the Civil war. She married West W. Wilson, brother of "Tama Jim" Wilson, national secretary of agriculture under three presidents, in 1871 on Thanksgiving Day, Mr. Wilson founded in 1897 the W. W. Wilson & Son livestock commission firm at the union stock yards in Chicago, which during the last forty years has probably handled nearly forty million dollars' worth of livestock from Tama county alone, being a favorite connection for local shippers because of Mr. Wilson's former residence here. Mr. Wilson died August 6, 1923 after which the business was continued by other members of the family.
Mr. and Mrs. West Wilson were the parents of five children: Charles, of Chicago; Robert, who died in 1903; George, who died in infancy; Margaret, (Mrs. George Douglas Turner, of England, world - famous novelist whose latest book "The Law and the McLaughlin's," like her first Pulitzer prize novel , "The Able McLaughlin's," has its setting in the Tranquillity community where her girlhood was spent); and Ruth, wife of Kenneth Cleland, of Capron, Illinois, at whose home Mrs. Wilson died. She had made her home there for the last six years.
Accompanying the body here for the funeral service Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cleland, Charles Wilson, and son, Robert. The decedent was an aunt of W. G. McCornack and Mrs. R. J. Smith , of Traer, being a sister of their father, Robert McCornack. Other brothers and sisters, all likewise deceased were Peter and Knox McCornack, Mrs. Tom Whannel, Mrs. William McDowell and Margaret, died in girlhood.
Contributor: George (48419540)
Mrs. West Wilson, 82, a member of one of the Traer community's most prominent pioneer families, died at 2:45 p. m. Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Cleland, at Capron, Illinois. She had been ill for seventeen weeks and in failing health about two years. The body was brought to Traer for a funeral service in the United Presbyterian church here Monday afternoon in charge of the Rev. B. M. Wallace, pastor, assisted by the Rev. O. B. Peters, pastor of Tranquillity Presbyterian church, southwest of town. Burial was in Buckingham cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson, whose maiden name was Agnes McCornack, was born September 16, 1851 near Galesburg, Illinois a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Kelly McCornack. She was the last survivor of seven children in the family, which came to Tama county during the Civil war. She married West W. Wilson, brother of "Tama Jim" Wilson, national secretary of agriculture under three presidents, in 1871 on Thanksgiving Day, Mr. Wilson founded in 1897 the W. W. Wilson & Son livestock commission firm at the union stock yards in Chicago, which during the last forty years has probably handled nearly forty million dollars' worth of livestock from Tama county alone, being a favorite connection for local shippers because of Mr. Wilson's former residence here. Mr. Wilson died August 6, 1923 after which the business was continued by other members of the family.
Mr. and Mrs. West Wilson were the parents of five children: Charles, of Chicago; Robert, who died in 1903; George, who died in infancy; Margaret, (Mrs. George Douglas Turner, of England, world - famous novelist whose latest book "The Law and the McLaughlin's," like her first Pulitzer prize novel , "The Able McLaughlin's," has its setting in the Tranquillity community where her girlhood was spent); and Ruth, wife of Kenneth Cleland, of Capron, Illinois, at whose home Mrs. Wilson died. She had made her home there for the last six years.
Accompanying the body here for the funeral service Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cleland, Charles Wilson, and son, Robert. The decedent was an aunt of W. G. McCornack and Mrs. R. J. Smith , of Traer, being a sister of their father, Robert McCornack. Other brothers and sisters, all likewise deceased were Peter and Knox McCornack, Mrs. Tom Whannel, Mrs. William McDowell and Margaret, died in girlhood.
Contributor: George (48419540)
Traer Star Clipper, Friday, February 5th, 1937 page 1
Mrs. West Wilson, 82, a member of one of the Traer community's most prominent pioneer families, died at 2:45 p. m. Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Cleland, at Capron, Illinois. She had been ill for seventeen weeks and in failing health about two years. The body was brought to Traer for a funeral service in the United Presbyterian church here Monday afternoon in charge of the Rev. B. M. Wallace, pastor, assisted by the Rev. O. B. Peters, pastor of Tranquillity Presbyterian church, southwest of town. Burial was in Buckingham cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson, whose maiden name was Agnes McCornack, was born September 16, 1851 near Galesburg, Illinois a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Kelly McCornack. She was the last survivor of seven children in the family, which came to Tama county during the Civil war. She married West W. Wilson, brother of "Tama Jim" Wilson, national secretary of agriculture under three presidents, in 1871 on Thanksgiving Day, Mr. Wilson founded in 1897 the W. W. Wilson & Son livestock commission firm at the union stock yards in Chicago, which during the last forty years has probably handled nearly forty million dollars' worth of livestock from Tama county alone, being a favorite connection for local shippers because of Mr. Wilson's former residence here. Mr. Wilson died August 6, 1923 after which the business was continued by other members of the family.
Mr. and Mrs. West Wilson were the parents of five children: Charles, of Chicago; Robert, who died in 1903; George, who died in infancy; Margaret, (Mrs. George Douglas Turner, of England, world - famous novelist whose latest book "The Law and the McLaughlin's," like her first Pulitzer prize novel , "The Able McLaughlin's," has its setting in the Tranquillity community where her girlhood was spent); and Ruth, wife of Kenneth Cleland, of Capron, Illinois, at whose home Mrs. Wilson died. She had made her home there for the last six years.
Accompanying the body here for the funeral service Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cleland, Charles Wilson, and son, Robert. The decedent was an aunt of W. G. McCornack and Mrs. R. J. Smith , of Traer, being a sister of their father, Robert McCornack. Other brothers and sisters, all likewise deceased were Peter and Knox McCornack, Mrs. Tom Whannel, Mrs. William McDowell and Margaret, died in girlhood.
Contributor: George (48419540)
Mrs. West Wilson, 82, a member of one of the Traer community's most prominent pioneer families, died at 2:45 p. m. Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Cleland, at Capron, Illinois. She had been ill for seventeen weeks and in failing health about two years. The body was brought to Traer for a funeral service in the United Presbyterian church here Monday afternoon in charge of the Rev. B. M. Wallace, pastor, assisted by the Rev. O. B. Peters, pastor of Tranquillity Presbyterian church, southwest of town. Burial was in Buckingham cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson, whose maiden name was Agnes McCornack, was born September 16, 1851 near Galesburg, Illinois a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Kelly McCornack. She was the last survivor of seven children in the family, which came to Tama county during the Civil war. She married West W. Wilson, brother of "Tama Jim" Wilson, national secretary of agriculture under three presidents, in 1871 on Thanksgiving Day, Mr. Wilson founded in 1897 the W. W. Wilson & Son livestock commission firm at the union stock yards in Chicago, which during the last forty years has probably handled nearly forty million dollars' worth of livestock from Tama county alone, being a favorite connection for local shippers because of Mr. Wilson's former residence here. Mr. Wilson died August 6, 1923 after which the business was continued by other members of the family.
Mr. and Mrs. West Wilson were the parents of five children: Charles, of Chicago; Robert, who died in 1903; George, who died in infancy; Margaret, (Mrs. George Douglas Turner, of England, world - famous novelist whose latest book "The Law and the McLaughlin's," like her first Pulitzer prize novel , "The Able McLaughlin's," has its setting in the Tranquillity community where her girlhood was spent); and Ruth, wife of Kenneth Cleland, of Capron, Illinois, at whose home Mrs. Wilson died. She had made her home there for the last six years.
Accompanying the body here for the funeral service Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cleland, Charles Wilson, and son, Robert. The decedent was an aunt of W. G. McCornack and Mrs. R. J. Smith , of Traer, being a sister of their father, Robert McCornack. Other brothers and sisters, all likewise deceased were Peter and Knox McCornack, Mrs. Tom Whannel, Mrs. William McDowell and Margaret, died in girlhood.
Contributor: George (48419540)
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