C. H. Wiltsie 1849-1914

WILTSIE, BRIGGS, KEMP, MACK, PRIOR

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/12/2011 at 23:27:43

C. D.[H.] Wiltsie Dead
Passed Away at His Home on Lincoln Street This Morning
Resident of This City 12 Years
Has Been Seriously Sick for Sometime Past – Injury to Foot Causes Blood Poisoning
C. H. Wiltsie, for twelve years a well known resident of this city, passed away at his home on Lincoln street at eight o’clock this morning. Mr. Wiltsie has not been in the best of health for some time past, but was working, until he received an injury to his foot some six weeks ago. From this injury blood poisoning set in and he has been lingering at death’s door for the past three weeks. Three times the sons and daughters have been called home, thinking the time was close at hand.

Mr. Wiltsie was born in Canada in May sixty-five years ago and moved from there to Iowa. He was united in marriage to Arvilla Briggs at Sabula, forty-two years ago last November, and to this union there are nine children still living, most of them married, and living away from this city.

Mr. Wiltsie was a very active member of the M.B.A. lodge, of which he was secretary. He was also a member of the M.W.A. lodge of this city. He has always taken a great interest in lodge work and has many close friends in their ranks. He was a great reader, and always took a great interest in all public matters. While taking no active part in these things he was always posted on current events.

The funeral services are to be held from the home on Thursday at 2 o’clock, the Rev. G. F. Whitfield officiating.

The deceased leaves a wife and three daughters, Mrs. B. F. Kemp of Independence, Mrs. E. M. Mack and Miss Neva Wiltsie of this city, and five sons, C. D. Wiltsie of California, D. F. Wiltsie of Waterloo, R. D. Wiltsie of Des Moines and H. D. Wiltsie of Grinnell, to mourn a father’s death. M. J. Briggs of Waterloo, a brother of Mrs. Wiltsie, and Mrs. B. L. Prior, a sister, of Independence, were here attending the funeral services. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, January 7, 1914)