Original Dawes enrollee #2611 for the Choctaw Nation.
Rafe married Blanche Williamson on April 12, 1934 in Sevier County, Arkansas.
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OBITUARY
Valliant, July 2 - Special: Final rites were held at the First Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Raphael L. Wilson, 38 years old, who died Friday at a hospital in Talihina.
Rev. James Paul, Methodist pastor, officiated. Pallbearers included O. W. Cecil, John Scroggins, Ulis Terry, S.V. Hackworth, C. L. Clarkson and Jim Stroud. Rev. Paul was assisted by Dr. R. T. Blackburn, Durant.
For the last two years Wilson had been an assistant in the office of the field clerk for Choctaw Indians at Hugo.
He is the son of the late R. F. Wilson, who was among the most prominent members of the Choctaw tribe. He also served as a member of the State Board of Agriculture soon after Oklahoma was made a state.
Wilson is survived by his wife (Blanche "Williamson" Wilson), son, Raphael Jackson Wilson; his mother, Mrs. R. F. Wilson; two brothers, Green Wilson and Waldo Wilson both of Valliant; two sisters, Mrs. Toru Herndon and Mrs. Ellenor Floyd.
---from McCurtain Gazette, Idabel, Oklahoma p.5 col.5, Wednesday July 3, 1940
Rafe married Blanche Williamson on April 12, 1934 in Sevier County, Arkansas.
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OBITUARY
Valliant, July 2 - Special: Final rites were held at the First Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Raphael L. Wilson, 38 years old, who died Friday at a hospital in Talihina.
Rev. James Paul, Methodist pastor, officiated. Pallbearers included O. W. Cecil, John Scroggins, Ulis Terry, S.V. Hackworth, C. L. Clarkson and Jim Stroud. Rev. Paul was assisted by Dr. R. T. Blackburn, Durant.
For the last two years Wilson had been an assistant in the office of the field clerk for Choctaw Indians at Hugo.
He is the son of the late R. F. Wilson, who was among the most prominent members of the Choctaw tribe. He also served as a member of the State Board of Agriculture soon after Oklahoma was made a state.
Wilson is survived by his wife (Blanche "Williamson" Wilson), son, Raphael Jackson Wilson; his mother, Mrs. R. F. Wilson; two brothers, Green Wilson and Waldo Wilson both of Valliant; two sisters, Mrs. Toru Herndon and Mrs. Ellenor Floyd.
---from McCurtain Gazette, Idabel, Oklahoma p.5 col.5, Wednesday July 3, 1940
Original Dawes enrollee #2611 for the Choctaw Nation.
Rafe married Blanche Williamson on April 12, 1934 in Sevier County, Arkansas.
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OBITUARY
Valliant, July 2 - Special: Final rites were held at the First Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Raphael L. Wilson, 38 years old, who died Friday at a hospital in Talihina.
Rev. James Paul, Methodist pastor, officiated. Pallbearers included O. W. Cecil, John Scroggins, Ulis Terry, S.V. Hackworth, C. L. Clarkson and Jim Stroud. Rev. Paul was assisted by Dr. R. T. Blackburn, Durant.
For the last two years Wilson had been an assistant in the office of the field clerk for Choctaw Indians at Hugo.
He is the son of the late R. F. Wilson, who was among the most prominent members of the Choctaw tribe. He also served as a member of the State Board of Agriculture soon after Oklahoma was made a state.
Wilson is survived by his wife (Blanche "Williamson" Wilson), son, Raphael Jackson Wilson; his mother, Mrs. R. F. Wilson; two brothers, Green Wilson and Waldo Wilson both of Valliant; two sisters, Mrs. Toru Herndon and Mrs. Ellenor Floyd.
---from McCurtain Gazette, Idabel, Oklahoma p.5 col.5, Wednesday July 3, 1940
Rafe married Blanche Williamson on April 12, 1934 in Sevier County, Arkansas.
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OBITUARY
Valliant, July 2 - Special: Final rites were held at the First Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Raphael L. Wilson, 38 years old, who died Friday at a hospital in Talihina.
Rev. James Paul, Methodist pastor, officiated. Pallbearers included O. W. Cecil, John Scroggins, Ulis Terry, S.V. Hackworth, C. L. Clarkson and Jim Stroud. Rev. Paul was assisted by Dr. R. T. Blackburn, Durant.
For the last two years Wilson had been an assistant in the office of the field clerk for Choctaw Indians at Hugo.
He is the son of the late R. F. Wilson, who was among the most prominent members of the Choctaw tribe. He also served as a member of the State Board of Agriculture soon after Oklahoma was made a state.
Wilson is survived by his wife (Blanche "Williamson" Wilson), son, Raphael Jackson Wilson; his mother, Mrs. R. F. Wilson; two brothers, Green Wilson and Waldo Wilson both of Valliant; two sisters, Mrs. Toru Herndon and Mrs. Ellenor Floyd.
---from McCurtain Gazette, Idabel, Oklahoma p.5 col.5, Wednesday July 3, 1940
