John Wilson Jr . died at his home in Wright county last Sunday, of heart disease. He was brought to Traer Monday, a short service was held at the United Presbyterian church, attended by a large crowd of sympathizing friends, and the body was borne to Buckingham cemetery. John Wilson Jr. was the third son and sixth child of John Wilson's family of fourteen. He was about forty-three years of age. He was a child when the family came to the United States. John was a jolly, generous fellow, who put off the cares of money making and properly getting just as long as he could. He matured late and was but a good-natured boy after he was twenty-five, and indeed until he discovered Mary, his wife, who is left with her two boys to stand alone in the trials or life without John's strong hand to help. John enlisted in the first Iowa cavalry when Mr. Lincoln kept repeating his call for troops. He had an illness and a hospital experience that he never got over. He told while he lived that the doctor came one morning and left medicine for twenty-four hours. The boys in his ward were all very sick and only raised up to get medicine. They arranged with the attendant to just take, the whole at once and not bother the nurse or be bothered by him. They did so. All the others died before the doctor came around again John has not been a well man since he returned from the service.
Contributor: George (48419540)
John Wilson Jr . died at his home in Wright county last Sunday, of heart disease. He was brought to Traer Monday, a short service was held at the United Presbyterian church, attended by a large crowd of sympathizing friends, and the body was borne to Buckingham cemetery. John Wilson Jr. was the third son and sixth child of John Wilson's family of fourteen. He was about forty-three years of age. He was a child when the family came to the United States. John was a jolly, generous fellow, who put off the cares of money making and properly getting just as long as he could. He matured late and was but a good-natured boy after he was twenty-five, and indeed until he discovered Mary, his wife, who is left with her two boys to stand alone in the trials or life without John's strong hand to help. John enlisted in the first Iowa cavalry when Mr. Lincoln kept repeating his call for troops. He had an illness and a hospital experience that he never got over. He told while he lived that the doctor came one morning and left medicine for twenty-four hours. The boys in his ward were all very sick and only raised up to get medicine. They arranged with the attendant to just take, the whole at once and not bother the nurse or be bothered by him. They did so. All the others died before the doctor came around again John has not been a well man since he returned from the service.
Contributor: George (48419540)
Gravesite Details
John was a veteran of the Civil War, serving with Company M., 1st Iowa Cavalry.
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James "Tama Jim" Wilson
1835–1920
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Peter J. Wilson
1836–1887
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Flora Wilson
1838–1935
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Jean Lusk Wilson Smith
1840–1919
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Janette W Wilson Sloss
1842–1924
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Andrew C. Wilson
1847–1878
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West W. Wilson
1848–1923
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Agnes Wilson
1849–1871
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David Wilson
1851–1897
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Elizabeth Wilson Edwards
1854–1938
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Sara Wilson McWhirter
1856–1940
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Allan Ramsay Wilson
1858–1910
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