IDA E. WILSON, PIONEER IDAHO RESIDENT, DIES

 

Mrs. Ida E. Wilson, 86, of 4814 Camas street, a pioneer Idaho resident, died Thursday afternoon in a Boise nursing home.

Mrs. Wilson was born Oct. 8, 1866, at Murphysboro, Ill. She and her husband, the late Mr. R.B. Wilson, moved to Silver City in 1897 and Mr. Wilson was principal of the Silver City school for several years. The couple moved in 1900 to Emmett, where he was head of the school system and served several terms in the Idaho legislature from Gem county. She moved to Boise in 1940.

She was a member of the German Lutheran church.

Surviving are one son, Glenn G. Wilson of Yakima, Wash.; five daughters, Mrs. Ruth Hall of Boise, Mrs. Leota Bachman of Anchorage, Alaska, Mrs. Ina Faulkner of Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Blanche Gipson of Union, Ore., and Mrs. Billee Cameron of Yakima, Wash.; one brother, Grant Will of DeSoto, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Huffman of Carbondale, Ill., and Miss
Nora Will of DeSoto, Ill., and 10 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Relyea chapel is arranging services.
 

DEATH CLAIMS EARLY SETTLER
 

Robert B. Wilson, 78, Former Schoolman, Legislator Succumbs

Robert B. Wilson, 78, Gem county's first county clerk and three-term member of the state legislature, died Monday morning at a Boise hospital following a brief illness. He had been a resident of Boise the past six years, making his home at 217 Myrtle street.

He was a resident of Emmett for 43 years, from 1899 to 1942. He came to Idaho following his marriage at Valparaiso,I nd., to Ida Elizabeth Will, who survives him. He taught school at Silver City in 1898, and moved to Emmett to become superintendent of schools there. Later he took up a homestead near Emmett and was for many years a prominent fruit grower of that district.

Mr. Wilson was born Dec. 27, 1869, at Murphysboro, Ill. He was graduated from law school at Valparaiso, Ind., college.
Surviving, besides his wife, are one son, Glenn Wilson, of Tucson, Ariz.; five daughters, Mrs. Ruth Hall, Mrs. Leota Bachman, and Mrs. Billee Cameron, all of Boise; Mrs. Ina Faulkner of Spokane, and Mrs. Blanche Gipson of Union, Ore., and nine grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters, Frances Wilson of Corvallis, Ore., and Grace Wilson of San Francisco.

Services will be arranged by the McBratney-Fowler chapel.

Idaho Statesman, Boise  Idaho  September 14, 1948