This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilson, Griffin, Yowell, Howard, Engleke, Waterman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4314 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. April 9, 1908. "Death of James M. Wilson".-- On Thursday April 2, 1908, at 12:30 p.m., occurred the death of J. M. Wilson, well known in Sidney and Fremont county. Mr. Wilson was a strong appearing man and his death was a great surprise to many. Only a few weeks ago he was about the streets at his usual calling and apparently well, excepting a slight cough. But it seems that he was afflicted by a disease he was unconscious of, and when once he gave up to his illness his affliction, Bright's disease, was in an alarming state. All that the best medical skill, and loving care and tender nursing could accomplish seemed of no avail, and after a short illness he succumbed to the call of the great grim reaper. Mr. Wilson was born in the state of Illinois March 4, 1846, coming to Fremont county in the year 1865, residing here for about three years then going west, and the greater part of his life he spent in Colorado and on the Pacific Slope. He returned to Sidney about three years ago to aid in caring for his aged parents,and was a most kind and son to them in their declining years. Mr. Wilson was a man of kindly and loving disposition, loving little children, by whom he was a general favorite, and will not only be greatly misssed by hosts of friends and acquaintances but especially by his children friends. James M. Wilson was the son of T. J. Wilson and wife, now late deceased, of Sidney, Ia. Was born in Schuyler county, Illinois, March 4, 1846, died at Sidney, Iowa, April 2, 1908. He was married in the year 1872 to Emma Griffin and to this union was born three sons, Ralph, Thomas and Howard now residing in the West. He is survived by his sons, a father, T. J. Wilson, and brothers and sisters as folllows: Mrs. Manzella Yowell, Mrs. A. J. Howard, Fred B. Wilson, John P. Wilson, T. I. Wilson, Servanion Wilson, Mrs. E. A. Engleke and Mrs. G. M. Waterman. The funeral ceremonies were conducted by Rev W. Shipman of the Sidney M. E. church and interment in the Sidney cemetery.