L. L. Wilson Dies Of Heart Attack
Death claimed Lewis L. Wilson, pioneer Routt county resident, Tuesday morning almost a year to the day after the death of his wife, Dora C. Wilson. A sudden heart attack was responsible for Mr. Wilson's death in much the same manner as Mrs. Wilson died. Mr. Wilson had continued to live in his Steamboat Springs home since his wife's death and had been in apparently good health until Tuesday morning when he complained to his housekeeper of feeling ill. Death came before he arose in the morning.
On Sunday afternoon he and his old friend, Mark Choate of Yampa,. and the latter's daughter, Mrs. Bruce Roup, had driven to Hahns Peak, where the men had spent considerable time in the earlier years and which neither of them had visited in many years. They enjoyed a picnic lunch and a long reminiscence of old times in the county.
Lewis L. Wilson was born at Round Grove, in Lawrence county, Missouri, on December 22, 1860, and was one of a family of 12 children. He came to Colorado in 1882, settling on a homestead in Egeria park about five miles below Yampa, where he made his home continuously until about three years ago when he sold to Dick Jones.
On October 25, 1888, he was married in Round Grove to Dora C. Spear, who then came west to share his life on the homestead. The couple had no children. Mr. Wilson was one of the county's most successful cattle raisers and one of the most progressive of its residents, always associated with any project for community betterment.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Bettie Phillips of Yampa and Mrs. Ellen Williams and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon from the Methodist church with Rev. C. P. Simpson in charge. It was Mr. Wilson's wish that services be as near like those of Mrs. Wilson as possible and that wish was carried out by his friends. The choir furnished special music and pallbearers were D. S. Gray, J. B. Gray, Wade Davis, Melvin Welty, Morris Pidcock and Dick Jones, all of Yampa. Burial will be in the Steamboat Springs cemetery.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Thursday, October 1, 1942.)
Death claimed Lewis L. Wilson, pioneer Routt county resident, Tuesday morning almost a year to the day after the death of his wife, Dora C. Wilson. A sudden heart attack was responsible for Mr. Wilson's death in much the same manner as Mrs. Wilson died. Mr. Wilson had continued to live in his Steamboat Springs home since his wife's death and had been in apparently good health until Tuesday morning when he complained to his housekeeper of feeling ill. Death came before he arose in the morning.
On Sunday afternoon he and his old friend, Mark Choate of Yampa,. and the latter's daughter, Mrs. Bruce Roup, had driven to Hahns Peak, where the men had spent considerable time in the earlier years and which neither of them had visited in many years. They enjoyed a picnic lunch and a long reminiscence of old times in the county.
Lewis L. Wilson was born at Round Grove, in Lawrence county, Missouri, on December 22, 1860, and was one of a family of 12 children. He came to Colorado in 1882, settling on a homestead in Egeria park about five miles below Yampa, where he made his home continuously until about three years ago when he sold to Dick Jones.
On October 25, 1888, he was married in Round Grove to Dora C. Spear, who then came west to share his life on the homestead. The couple had no children. Mr. Wilson was one of the county's most successful cattle raisers and one of the most progressive of its residents, always associated with any project for community betterment.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Bettie Phillips of Yampa and Mrs. Ellen Williams and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon from the Methodist church with Rev. C. P. Simpson in charge. It was Mr. Wilson's wish that services be as near like those of Mrs. Wilson as possible and that wish was carried out by his friends. The choir furnished special music and pallbearers were D. S. Gray, J. B. Gray, Wade Davis, Melvin Welty, Morris Pidcock and Dick Jones, all of Yampa. Burial will be in the Steamboat Springs cemetery.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Thursday, October 1, 1942.)
L. L. Wilson Dies Of Heart Attack
Death claimed Lewis L. Wilson, pioneer Routt county resident, Tuesday morning almost a year to the day after the death of his wife, Dora C. Wilson. A sudden heart attack was responsible for Mr. Wilson's death in much the same manner as Mrs. Wilson died. Mr. Wilson had continued to live in his Steamboat Springs home since his wife's death and had been in apparently good health until Tuesday morning when he complained to his housekeeper of feeling ill. Death came before he arose in the morning.
On Sunday afternoon he and his old friend, Mark Choate of Yampa,. and the latter's daughter, Mrs. Bruce Roup, had driven to Hahns Peak, where the men had spent considerable time in the earlier years and which neither of them had visited in many years. They enjoyed a picnic lunch and a long reminiscence of old times in the county.
Lewis L. Wilson was born at Round Grove, in Lawrence county, Missouri, on December 22, 1860, and was one of a family of 12 children. He came to Colorado in 1882, settling on a homestead in Egeria park about five miles below Yampa, where he made his home continuously until about three years ago when he sold to Dick Jones.
On October 25, 1888, he was married in Round Grove to Dora C. Spear, who then came west to share his life on the homestead. The couple had no children. Mr. Wilson was one of the county's most successful cattle raisers and one of the most progressive of its residents, always associated with any project for community betterment.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Bettie Phillips of Yampa and Mrs. Ellen Williams and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon from the Methodist church with Rev. C. P. Simpson in charge. It was Mr. Wilson's wish that services be as near like those of Mrs. Wilson as possible and that wish was carried out by his friends. The choir furnished special music and pallbearers were D. S. Gray, J. B. Gray, Wade Davis, Melvin Welty, Morris Pidcock and Dick Jones, all of Yampa. Burial will be in the Steamboat Springs cemetery.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Thursday, October 1, 1942.)
Death claimed Lewis L. Wilson, pioneer Routt county resident, Tuesday morning almost a year to the day after the death of his wife, Dora C. Wilson. A sudden heart attack was responsible for Mr. Wilson's death in much the same manner as Mrs. Wilson died. Mr. Wilson had continued to live in his Steamboat Springs home since his wife's death and had been in apparently good health until Tuesday morning when he complained to his housekeeper of feeling ill. Death came before he arose in the morning.
On Sunday afternoon he and his old friend, Mark Choate of Yampa,. and the latter's daughter, Mrs. Bruce Roup, had driven to Hahns Peak, where the men had spent considerable time in the earlier years and which neither of them had visited in many years. They enjoyed a picnic lunch and a long reminiscence of old times in the county.
Lewis L. Wilson was born at Round Grove, in Lawrence county, Missouri, on December 22, 1860, and was one of a family of 12 children. He came to Colorado in 1882, settling on a homestead in Egeria park about five miles below Yampa, where he made his home continuously until about three years ago when he sold to Dick Jones.
On October 25, 1888, he was married in Round Grove to Dora C. Spear, who then came west to share his life on the homestead. The couple had no children. Mr. Wilson was one of the county's most successful cattle raisers and one of the most progressive of its residents, always associated with any project for community betterment.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Bettie Phillips of Yampa and Mrs. Ellen Williams and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon from the Methodist church with Rev. C. P. Simpson in charge. It was Mr. Wilson's wish that services be as near like those of Mrs. Wilson as possible and that wish was carried out by his friends. The choir furnished special music and pallbearers were D. S. Gray, J. B. Gray, Wade Davis, Melvin Welty, Morris Pidcock and Dick Jones, all of Yampa. Burial will be in the Steamboat Springs cemetery.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Thursday, October 1, 1942.)
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