Salinas Weekly Index Thursday, 3 May 1894 Over 100 Years Old -- Mrs. Henrietta WILSON, the grandmother of Mrs. James A. HORTON of Salinas, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John STEPHENS, in Mercer county, Illinois, March 28, 1894. The deceased was born in Maryland, September 8, 1893, and was consequently in the 101st year of her age at the time of her death. When quite young she was married to Noble GRIMES in Ohio, and shortly afterwards they moved to Indiana, where her husband died. A few years afterwards she married Allen WILSON and in 1835 they moved to Illinois. In 1854 her 2nd husband died. To her fist marriage were born 3 children, one of whom, Noble GRIMES, resides in Oregon and is nearly 75 years old. To the last union were born 7 children. A local paper states that Mrs. WILSON was the oldest person in Mercer county, Illinois, and perhaps the oldest Methodist in this world, she having belonged to that church over 80 years. She retained the use of her faculties in a marked degree to the last. Her sight was keen, her hearing good and memory excellent. The morning of her death she was up early and drank a cup of coffee. Shortly afterwards she asked to be helped to her bed where she died as peacefully as though she were going to sleep. Source: [email protected] Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser Member of Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society c/o The Dalles/Wasco County Public Library 722 Court Street The Dalles, Oregon 97058 http://community.gorge.net/genealogy [Note: new website address] Browse http://historysavers.com/orwasco/ recently updated information regarding Wasco County - Links are at the bottom of page The Dalles Chronicle http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/ http://searches.rootsweb.com/ "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson Incoming and Outgoing mail protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program