Stephens County, Oklahoma
Obits
Obit: Gullett S. Wilson
AGED CITIZEN OF COUNTY
SUCCUMBS
Heart Attack Proves Fatal to Early Day Settler
of County Who Died
Last
Monday
G.S. Wilson, pioneer
citizen of the county, died
at the
home of a
son, Ed
Wilson east
of Comanche, Monday morning. He was 80 years of age and
had
suffered from some heart affection for many years. Mr.
Wilson, a former
Presbyterian
minister, moved to this
section from
Dallas almost 40
years ago,
and
located near
Tucker,
where he taught
school for some time. His wife died
about
25 years ago. Six sons and a brother survive. The
sons are
Sam Wilson,
Duncan; Bert Wilson, east of Duncan,
Ed Wilson, east of Comanche; Henry Wilson,
Ada; Bruce
Wilson, Duncan, and
Milton Wilson, Farmington, N.M. The brother is
Finis
Wilson, Russellville, Ark.
Funeral Services were
held at 2
o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, conducted
by Rev.
Boswell, with interment at Comanche cemetery.
Arrangements
were in charge of the
Beeson Grantham Funeral Home. Source:
Duncan Eagle
newspaper, Stephens Co
OK, March 17, 1932
Transcribed by
Sharon
Smith
State Pioneer Is
Buried at
Duncan
Duncan, Sept. 26,-Special-
Preston B. Thomasson, 75 years old, Oklahoma
pioneer
and resident of Stephens county since 1901, was buried here
Saturday. He died Thursday night at his home
southwest of Comanche, after
a sudden attack of acute
indigestion. Thomasson's first wife, Mrs. Fannie
Caldwell Thomasson, and two children, were burned to death
near Enid in a
prairie fire on Sept. 18, 1893.
Thomasson married Mrs. Susan Clites in
Enid in 1901.
She survives him. Two sons, Lynn of Marlow and Dr. E.
E. Thomasson of Hereford, Texas also survive.
Source:
Daily Oklahoman Sept.
27, 1931 Page 18
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