Late
Mrs. Margaret Wilson
Passing Away of Well Known
and Estimable Lady
On Wednesay, the 3rd inst, there
died quite suddenly, a lady, at one time known to every resident of
Simcoe, Mrs. Margaret Wilson, widow of Dr. John Wilson, first mayor of the
Town of Simcoe, and for years among its foremost citizens.
Mrs. Wilson suffered from a slight
paralytic stoke last winter at her home in Detroit, but recovered
sufficiently to come to Simcoe, where she has since resided with her
eldest daughter, Mrs. W. E. Tisdale.
She was able to be up and about
the house until the day before her death, when a second stroke had a
sudden fatal termination.
Deceased was the daughter of Mr.
James Hunter, and was born in the village of Vienna, something like 72
years ago. She came to Simcoe as a child, when her fath and uncle, Mr.
William B. Hunter, embarked in the mercantile business here.
In Simcoe she married Dr. John
Wilson, forty-eight years ago, and here her children were born. Later the
family moved to Detroit, where Dr. Wilson carried on the practice of his
profession until his death four and a half years ago.
Four of their six children
survive: Mrs. W. E. Tisdale of Simcoe, Miss Margaret Wilson of Detroit,
Dr. W. L. Wilson of St. Joseph, Mich., and Mr. Douglas Wilson of
Cleveland, O.
During the years of her residence
in Simcoe, Mrs. Wilson was, as a girl, one of the town's favorite
daughters; when she grew to womanhood no one was more universally beloved.
She untiring in her labors for the church of her choice, and as the wife
of a man who was a number of times reeve of the Village of Simcoe, and
four times Mayor of the Town of Simcoe, she was foremost in all movements
of a charitable nature
The bodies of Dr. Wilson and his
life's companion lie side by side in the family plot in Oakwood
Cemetery, of which beautiful city of the dead he was one of the
invorporators.
