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Clarence H. Wilson Obituary

November 25, 2012 By Wade Leave a Comment

Clarence Wilson aged about 75 years dropped dead suddenly in the Inavale Pool Hall last evening, death attributed to a heart attack.

Clarence H. Wilson was born in Frederick County, Virginia, February 14, 1855, and died at Inavale, July 15, 1930 age 75 years.

He came to Nebraska as a young man in September, 1877, and purchased the farm six miles north Inavale where he spent the remainder of his life, living continuously on this place for more than half a century. When he came here, there was no railway town nearer than Hastings, and the country was yet undeveloped.

Mr. Wilson was eminently fitted by temperament and physical hardihood for pioneer life, and it was men like him who made the wilderness into a garden. In the hardships and privations incident to the life of a pioneer he developed a keen sympathy of mutual understanding of his neighbors and friends.

He was united in marriage to Amanda E. Brooks, February 6, 1887, and three children came to bless their home, Raymond, Gladys and Chester.

He took his bride to the home he had prepared and for more than thirty years they shared the joys and sorrows of pioneer life and rearing their children. Mrs. Wilson’s death on May 2, 1917 was the first shadow that fell on their happy home and was a blow from which he never recovered.

Mr. Wilson was not only a pioneer in this community but was in many respects the founder of this neighborhood. It was largely through his efforts and those of his good wife that the New Virginia Church was organized and later the building erected.

His passing marks the end of the original settlers in the New Virginia neighborhood, he being the last of that group who came from Virginia in the seventies.

Funeral services were held in the home and at the New Virginia Church.

Filed Under: Family History, Wilson Tagged With: Clarence Wilson, Newspaper Clipping, Obituary

1910 Census – Catherton Precinct, Webster County, Nebraska (page 10)

May 1, 2011 By Wade Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Family History, Payne, Skjelver, Wilson Tagged With: Ada Skjelver, Albert Skjelver, Census, Clarence Wilson, Ella (Skjelver) Brooks, Francis E. "Ed" Payne, Marie Christina (Skjelver) Erickson, Otto Skjelver Jr., Otto Skjelver Sr., Wilella (Payne) Wilson

1900 Census – Catherton Township, Webster County, Nebraska (page 8)

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Filed Under: Family History, Wilson Tagged With: Adelle "Della" (Wilson) Bean, Census, Clarence Wilson, Conley M. "CM" Wilson, Don V. Wilson, Grace Wilson, John C. Wilson, Johnson B. Wisecarver, Lula Wilson, Mary C. (Wisecarver) Wilson, Roy C. Wilson

1880 Census – Inavale Precinct, Webster County, Nebraska (page 3)

May 1, 2011 By Wade Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Family History, Wilson Tagged With: Census, Clarence Wilson, Conley M. "CM" Wilson, Daisy (Wilson) Duval, Elizabeth Wilson, Fred Lambrecht, Henry Lambrecht, John C. Wilson, John Claude Wilson, Louise (Pruessner) Lambrecht, Mary C. (Wisecarver) Wilson

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