Napoleon B. Wilson

WILSON, TILTON, DITCH, OCONNOR, RUNDALL

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 12/21/2016 at 00:20:07

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette March 16, 1903

N.B. Wilson, one of the oldest and best known farmers in Linn county, died at his home in Rapids township, five miles from the city at 6 o'clock last Saturday evening. He had been ill for over a year, having been ailing since February 6, 1902, with heart trouble.
Mr. Wilson was a native of Baltimore county, Md., and was born September 22, 1840. He came to Iowa in 1855, coming direct to Cedar Rapids. He went from here to Muscatine where he remained for a few months and then returned to Cedar Rapids for permanent residence. He bought a farm a mile and a half from the present home and lived there for nine years. He then bought the farm which he continued to live on till his death. He was married May 27, 1869 to Miss Emma Tilton of Mt. Vernon, and with her four children survive--two sons and two daughters. They are mrs. William Ditch residing near the old home; Mrs. J. O'Connor of this city and Charles and Mendum at home. He also leaves two brothers and one sister--F.A. Wilson of Spring Grove township, W.B. Wilson near Huron, S.D., and Mrs. S.S. Rundall of Moville, Iowa.
The funeral will be held Tuesday from the house at 10:30 with services at the Evangelical church at Buffalo at 11 o'clock. The burial will be in Shiloh cemetery.

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