HARRISON COUNTY MISSOURI BIOGRAPHIES
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JOSEPH WEBB.

died near Mount Moriah December 4, 1913, in his ninety-fourth year. He had been a resident of Harrison County more than fifty-seven years. At the age of fourteen he rode horseback from Wayne County, Pennsylvania, to Missouri. he was a prominent Mason and at one time was one of the largest land owners in the county.

Transcribed From:
HISTORY OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI
EDITED BY: WALTER WILLIAMS
ASSISTED BY: ADVISORY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
COPYRIGHT: 1915
submitted by: Melody Beery

LOTTIE WILSON.

Lottie deprived herself of luxuries but provided them for others. In her early life she taught school. She was independent in character and vigorous in mind and body She drove her own car and carried a revolver for her protection.

At age 86 she fell at her home south of Ridgeway and broke a hip She recovered from the injury enough to sit up, but her interest in life lapsed and she failed steadily toward the last. She was born April 16. 1857, and died October 6, 1943 Her body was cremated and the ashes were put in the Missouri River in North Kansas City, Missouri. "Lottie's" parents, Almon Ford Wilson and Emeline Stein "'Leonard" Wilson came to Missouri from Vermont as a young family. Her four sisters were Laura, born and died in Vermont; Jessie Clara, died young; Velmer Eldora married James Atterberry, children, Victor and Frank, Ida Emetine married Andrew Robertson, children. Joseph Earl and Jennie. Her two brothers were Almon Ford Jr., never married; and Frank David married Permelia Porter Gillispie, had 11 children.
[source: Harrison County Bicentennial History 1976].

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